This accessible, foundational volume explores how modern art developed around the world by comparing contexts and artistic production in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa from circa 1850 through the 1960s....Daugiau...
This study traces the theories and artistic practices that articulated American experimental video through its key works and events, art critical discourse, as well as the politics of its funding and distribution during the 1970s into the 1980s, foc...Daugiau...
This is the first in-depth analysis of Ming palace eunuchs place in the social history of Chinese art, examining the intricate intersections of art, politics, and palace eunuchs in the Ming dynasty....Daugiau...
Bringing together artists, curators, activists, academics, managers, and educators from around the world, this anthology examines the notion of ethics within socially engaged art. This collection is an ideal text for interdisciplinary courses that p...Daugiau...
Writing Borderless Histories of Art is an aspirational, historical, and critical project that offers a fundamental rethinking of the relationship of humans to the rest of nature. Its multilayered approach will appeal to art historians, archaeologist...Daugiau...
This book explores the relationship between artistic and sociological narratives, considering the ways in which artistic narratives in their different forms can be both subjects of sociological observation and tools for the sociological analysis of...Daugiau...
First published in 1978, Artists and People examines formal attempts by arts administrators to set up schemes for artists to work in community contexts. The experience of creative artists who have taken up residencies in schools, libraries and art c...Daugiau...
This book examines the work of Henry Ossawa Tanner, Meta Warrick Fuller, and F. Holland Day in relation to modernism during the turn of the century....Daugiau...
This study demonstrates the significance of using contemporary art in scholarly debates about cultural aspects of skin, in particular whiteness as a phenomenon that is both overly visible and invisible....Daugiau...
This study examines third- and fourth-century portraits of married Christians and associated images, reading them as visual rhetoric in early Christian conversations about marriage and celibacy, and recovering lay perspectives underrepresented in li...Daugiau...
The second in a two-volume series that explores the interplay between social transformation and visual culture in contemporary China, this book examines the profound changes in the cityscapes, visual regimes, and visual technologies that shape the a...Daugiau...
Examining how writers and musicians respond to attempts to define and categorize inequality in moral terms, Culture, the Arts and Inequality: American Artists and Social Justice analyses the writers and artists who challenge the moral categories thr...Daugiau...
Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both culture and cultural studies for their ambivalence and transgressive nature. This volume aims to recuperate the living image, t...Daugiau...
This book offers a new, dynamic and ecological perspective to analyse the process of performance art, namely, what occurs during the unfolding of a piece, exploring the essence of its happening through the forces at play....Daugiau...
Artists, Cosmopolitanism, and the Civic Imagination unpacks the political agency of artists by looking at artists as moral, reflexive, and political agents....Daugiau...
