The Arts: General & Reference books

Keith Swanwick‘s approach to music education is characterised by concern for musical and wider artistic processes,...  Read More >>

Through an exploration of the unique Polish tradition of child commemoration, this book raises issues beyond the...  Read More >>

In Aesthetic Expertise, Ole Martin Skilleås explains what aesthetic expertise is, what it’s used for, how it manifests...  Read More >>

For four decades, Vivienne Silver-Brody has collected photographs of Palestine/Eretz Israel taken from the nineteenth...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on the highly debated topic of theatrical translation, one brought on by a renewed interest...  Read More >>

The fourteen articles in this volume bring together some of the latest research on the cultural, intellectual and...  Read More >>

This book discusses the centrality of identity politics to theatre and performance studies. The essays pose questions...  Read More >>

Employing an innovative range of materials from written sources to artworks, material objects, heritage sites and...  Read More >>

The first full-career survey of the idiosyncratic life and work of Ray Johnson, a collagist, performance artist,...  Read More >>

This book sheds new light on one of the most important artworks of the early Italian Renaissance, Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s...  Read More >>

Richly illustrated with colourful, quirky rag rugs (also known as hooked rugs), this delightful book examines Winifred...  Read More >>

This book will help facilitate successful leadership transition in museums and arts organizations.  Read More >>

This book provides a pioneering and provocative exploration of the rich synergies between adaptation studies and...  Read More >>

The articles in this volume are a representative selection of the best scholarly writing on Purcell's music. The...  Read More >>

Leonard Bernstein: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography and research guide on this popular...  Read More >>

Through archival documents, pictorial and historical accounts, literature, and correspondence, as well as cultural...  Read More >>

This volume explores the means and motives for the distribution of music during the Renaissance. The selected essays...  Read More >>

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Through a combination of interpretive literary criticism, art historical analysis and cultural and intellectual...  Read More >>

This book centres on four Portuguese artists’ journeys between Portugal and Britain and aims at rethinking the cultural...  Read More >>

From Aesthetes in Africa to the cultural history of the teapot, this collection addresses the topic of ""eclectic""...  Read More >>

The volume brings together key interdisciplinary perspectives and global case studies to uncover the joint trajectories...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores ways in which islands in the north of England and Scotland...  Read More >>

This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the production of Victorian art autograph replicas, a painting’s subsequent...  Read More >>

""The Prelude, William Wordsworth's masterful autobiographical work, composed in blank verse, is generally considered...  Read More >>