Art Forms books

The first monograph to analyze the Surrealist gesture of photographic appropriation, this study examines ""found""...  Read More >>

This book argues that today’s professoriate has become increasingly theatrical, largely as a result of neoliberal...  Read More >>

This volume proposes a contextualized multimodal framework that brings together storytelling practitioners’ and...  Read More >>

Decadent Aesthetics and the Acrobat in the French Fin de siècle explores the myth of the sad clown as an allegory...  Read More >>

This work is dedicated to CMOS based imaging with the emphasis on the noise modeling, characterization and optimization...  Read More >>

The Dancing God charts the sensational and historic journey of de-provincialising and popularising Hindu dance in...  Read More >>

Stunts of Late Nineteenth Century New York: Aestheticised Precarity, Endangered Liveness examines the emergence...  Read More >>

Preaching the Blues: Black Feminist Performance in Lynching Plays examines several lynching plays to foreground...  Read More >>

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This book explores how four contemporary artists—Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Robert Gober, and Damien Hirst—pursue...  Read More >>

After the Long Silence offers a ground-breaking, meticulously researched criticism of Brazilian contemporary performance...  Read More >>

Shine allures and awakens desire. As a phenomenon of perception shiny things and materials fascinate and tantalize....  Read More >>

This study investigates and analyses the presence of Greek and Roman antiquity in 21st-century video games, using...  Read More >>

This book is an exploration of how art—specifically paintings in the European manner—can be mobilized to make knowledge...  Read More >>

Ceramics and Modernity in Japan offers a set of critical perspectives on the creation, patronage, circulation, and...  Read More >>

Through a series of case studies, this book explores the role of live animals on the stage, from the early modern...  Read More >>

Offers an expanded, pictorial review of the history of painting in Oregon from 1859-1959. The book expands the focus...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics is a volume of critical essays on the most important questions faced...  Read More >>

A lively and thorough telling of one of Australia’s greatest front page scandals, involving key figures of the nation’s...  Read More >>

Over a decade's worth of M Kitchell's writing on film. The collection includes the novella Paul Garrior in Jacques...  Read More >>

Discover the amazing Gelli® plate—a revolutionary printmaking surface that makes it easy to produce one-of-a-kind...  Read More >>

Finalist for The Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society...  Read More >>

Jacomena Maybeck, a legendary Berkeley potter, was one of the thirty-two women Pam Valois portrayed in her best-selling...  Read More >>

With Impression, Soleil Levant, exhibited in 1874, Claude Monet (1840-1926) took part in the creation of the Impressionism...  Read More >>

Raphael (1483-1520), the Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, was a genius in and ahead of his...  Read More >>