Criticism & Theory

Romani is one of Britain's oldest and most established minority languages. Brought to the country by Romani immigrants from continental Europe in the sixteenth century or even earlier, it was spoken in its old, inflected form as a family and community...

In this interdisciplinary anthology, essays study the relationship between the imagination and images both material and mental. Through case studies on a diverse array of topics including photography, film, sports, theater, and anthropology, contributors...

This book examines the interconnections between art, phenomenology, and cognitive studies. Contributors question the binary oppositions generally drawn between visuality and agency, sensing and thinking, phenomenal art and politics, phenomenology and...

From Edison's invention of the phonograph through contemporary field recording and sound installation, artists have become attracted to those domains against which music has always defined itself: noise, silence, and environmental sound. Christoph Cox...

In 2008, anthropologist Matti Bunzl was given rare access to observe the curatorial department of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. For five months, he sat with the institution's staff, witnessing firsthand what truly goes on behind the scenes at a...

A catalogue inspired by the tradition of Latin American literature and authors such as Jorge Amado, Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The unique storytelling tradition which characterizes Latin American literature has influenced...

Spanning time and space from late Victorian Britain and Ireland to postwar America and Latin America, Late Imperial Culture maps crucial regions in the terrain of imperial cultural practices including theater, film, photography, fiction, autobiography,...

In literature and the visual arts, zero degree represents a neutral aesthetic situated in response to and outside of the dominant cultural order. Starting from Roland Barthes' 1953 book Writing Degree Zero, this volume examines the historical,...

These 12 essays reanimate the dialogue between interdisciplinary scholars and practicing artists that originally gave birth to visual culture as a field of study. A new translation of Nancy's essay, 'The Image: Mimesis and Methexis', reveals how Nancy's...

In "American Silences", Joseph Anthony Ward offers a unique analysis of the use and effects of silence in modern American realistic art. Beginning with the nineteenth-century literature that laid the foundation for silence in art, he moves to a...

This book advances an enactivist theory of aesthetics through the study of inscrutable artworks that challenge us to think because we do not know what to think about them. John M. Carvalho presents detailed analyses a four artworks that share this unique...

A leading scholar of the Russian avant-garde reevaluates its most iconic artist Kazimir Malewicz (Malevich; 1879-1935) is undoubtedly one of the most significant artists of the 20th century, famed for his Suprematist works such as the so-called "Black...

With the emerging dominance of digital technology, the time is ripe to reconsider the nature of the image. Some say that there is no longer a phenomenal image, only disembodied information (0-1) waiting to be configured. For photography, this implies...

This book is the first full-length volume to offer a comprehensive introduction to the English spoken in Britain's oldest overseas colony, and, since 1949, Canada's youngest province. Within North America, Newfoundland and Labrador English is a highly...

First published in Spanish in 2010, Art beyond Itself is Nestor Garcia Canclini's deft assessment of contemporary art. The renowned cultural critic suggests that, ideally, art is the place of imminence, the place where we glimpse something just about to...

Global financial crisis, global environmental crisis -- what connects them? Stuart Sim claims they are both symptoms of the end of modernity, the cultural system that has prevailed in the West from the Enlightenment onwards. In this provocative book, Sim...

Culture and Power in Cultural Studies is a collection of John Storey's best and most significant contributions to the field of cultural studies, spanning 25 years. Covering a variety of topics, all chapters share a common focus on culture and power and...

This is the first dictionary dedicated to the work of Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007). It explains and contextualises more than a hundred key concepts, terms, influences and topics within his thought. An essential reference for students and scholars of...

While traditionally the novel has been seen as tracking the development of the nation state, Schoene queries if globalisation might currently be prompting the emergence of a new sub-genre of the novel that is adept at imagining global community. The book...

A critical introduction to Slavoj Zizek's key areas of interest in politics.About the AuthorMatthew Sharpe lectures in philosophy and psychoanalytic studies at Deakin University. He has published Slavoj Zizek: A Little Piece of the Real and is co-editor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733957953Author Antoinette LaFargeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Doppelhouse PressPublisher Doppelhouse PressWeight(grams) 152g

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In this wide-ranging and original account of Modernism, Michael Levenson draws on more than twenty years of research and a career-long fascination with the movement, its participants, and the period during which it thrived. Seeking a more subtle...

This study explores the relationship between synesthesia--the experience of a sensation in one perceptual domain triggering a sensation in another perceptual domain--and the arts (including painting, photography, music and literature). Its aim is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262027595Author Spyros PapapetrosFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 203mm * 27mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995455023Author Eric AlliezFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Urbanomic Media LtdPublisher Urbanomic Media Ltd

Exploring the central elements of Aztec culture, including the cosmos, religion, kingship, warfare, sacrifice and the natural world, in essays by leading Mexican, European and American scholars, and containing specially commissioned illustrations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823006014Author Alfred WernerFormat PaperbackPage Count 87Imprint Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.Publisher Watson-Guptill Publications

Because theories of visual perception have traditionally concentrated on form, artists have generally dealt with the problem of color through their own observation and intuition. In Color Harmonies, Augusto Garau systematically investigates the role of...

This book explores how psychoanalytic ideas and thinking enhance our understanding and engagement with the creative arts and contemporary life. Many of us love to read poetry and novels and enjoy the performing arts. All of us take part in contemporary...

This book explores how psychoanalytic ideas and thinking enhance our understanding and engagement with the creative arts and contemporary life. Many of us love to read poetry and novels and enjoy the performing arts. All of us take part in contemporary...

What is the relationship between the Holy Trinity and social media? How do hashtags influence us? Why are we so inclined to use filters? Why do we treat digital images differently than analogue ones? Art history offers a beginning of answers. ...

Slow Looking can lead to unexpected and huge rewards. In Book One - Learning to Look Robert Cumming shares his own slow discovery of the pleasures of looking and aesthetic experience, and in so doing encourages you to explore art through your own eyes...

Erstmalig wird in diesem Buch Renoirs Auseinandersetzung mit Mode und Textilien untersucht, um einen neuen Zugang zum zunächst gefeierten und im 20. Jahrhundert unter Kitschverdacht geratenen Künstler zu eröffnen. In der bildwissenschaftlichen Analyse...

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Art as a communicative practice This publication presents and documents 16 years of artistic teaching and research at the Department of Art and Communicative Practice at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. It illustrates the specific approach to...

Brought to you by Penguin.A moving, eye-opening journey through the world of contemporary art from one of the most innovative voices in the fieldAt a moment in which working as a professional artist is an increasingly unattainable luxury, art criticism...

A rich, thought-provoking collection of essays, critiques and interviews from the influential author of Ain't I a Woman and All About Love‘If one could make a people lose touch with their capacity to create, lose sight of their will and their power to...

Has postmodernism really changed the way the artist relates to their art and environment? Addressing the delicate entanglements between the ethical and the material, this book explores how ethics have figured in the generation of art and images in the...

The art of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) is usually viewed as quite distinct from Surrealism, a movement which the artist himself displayed some hostility towards. However, Rauschenberg had a very positive reception among Surrealists, particularly...