Art Forms books

This Element compares the 1951 Festival of Britain with the 2022 Unboxed Festival to explore both continuities and...  Read More >>

The world's leading expert reveals how making and consuming art improves our health, makes us happier and can even...  Read More >>

The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories...  Read More >>

This book presents a systematic discussion of the history of Chinese printing technology, encompassing the origins...  Read More >>

The first English-language introduction to the documentary cinema of Arlette Pacquit, a revered storyteller of Martinican...  Read More >>

Visualizing the collective imagination of Palestinian and Arab filmmakers across 75 years of exile, dispossession...  Read More >>

With hundreds of sticky curiosities ready to beautify your junk journal or collage, this book is the perfect companion...  Read More >>

This book explores how contemporary craftspeople, artists and other creatives identifying as LGBTQ+ use craft materials...  Read More >>

This Element compares the 1951 Festival of Britain with the 2022 Unboxed Festival to explore both continuities and...  Read More >>

The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories...  Read More >>

The Ends of Art Studies explores the goals and limitations of fin de siècle art studies (Kunstwissenschaft) as a...  Read More >>

Shaped by his childhood experiences in Japan and his study of Mono-ha, Ha Chong-hyun's career underscores the twin...  Read More >>

This book explores how contemporary craftspeople, artists and other creatives identifying as LGBTQ+ use craft materials...  Read More >>

A definitive and comprehensive study of drawing, now entirely revised.  Read More >>

The ultimate guide to creating gorgeous mixed-media art with gel plates!  Read More >>

You've bought the album, you've been to the Eras Tour, now it's time to adorn your body with art inspired by your...  Read More >>

This study focusses on the moment in the history of modern art, during the 1950s when sculptors and architects began...  Read More >>

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One of the classic texts on Picasso, republished with full illustration as originally conceived. By one of the seminal...  Read More >>

When looking at a painting of the Madonna with the Christ Child, do you know why Jesus is clutching a goldfinch?...  Read More >>

Examining musical instrument destruction through an ecological and intermedial lens Musical instruments are typically...  Read More >>

In Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression, Jacob Engelberg calls for a bisexual reimagining of queer film studies, using...  Read More >>

Make learning to draw creepy and cute! It’s time for a twist on super sweet drawing tutorials with Creepy Cute Doodles....  Read More >>

This book analyzes gesture, ritual, and performance in flamenco and tauromaquia - the extended definition of bullfighting...  Read More >>

An intricately inked nature escape. A decade on from Secret Garden, the global colouring phenomenon is back with...  Read More >>