The Arts books

A history of the formation of modern film studies in Britain, revealing how the collaborative work of Paddy Whannel...  Read More >>

This book argues that the first step towards adaptive and resilient futures is making a fuller spectrum of the complexity...  Read More >>

Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht's significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential...  Read More >>

Ibsen in Context identifies thirty different contexts for understanding Ibsen's life and career at home, and considers...  Read More >>

Introducing readers to the broad socio-cultural contexts that shaped Chekhov's works and legacy, this insightful...  Read More >>

This monograph traces the first century of Gothic ivory sculpture (1230–1330) through a panoply of new sources,...  Read More >>

Teller's new photographic diary offers an inside look into his artistic renewal, which he credits to his wife and...  Read More >>

Like Eliot's ""hollow men"" of the poem, Cenci's sculptures are helplessly and hopelessly unmoored from both time...  Read More >>

On Uzbekistan's solar furnace, a beacon of modernist infrastructure, and its potential role in shaping the country's...  Read More >>

Recounting the genesis and production of the 2nd Art Quadriennale in Mussolini's Rome, with works by Marino Marini,...  Read More >>

In celebration of 50 up-and-coming Italian artists of the 21st century The theme of Rome's 18th Art Quadriennale,...  Read More >>

Explores the impact of portable video recording technology on the development of activism produced by different...  Read More >>

This insightful volume on the culture of hair through human history and around the globe has been updated and revised...  Read More >>

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John Masouri's definitive portrait of reggae's most uncompromising and radical star, Peter Tosh, is given the Omnibus...  Read More >>

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Gripping archive images of the 4x4 pioneer presented in a fresh and stylish design  Read More >>

Charting 100 years of cruising the ocean waves, in rich colour photographs  Read More >>

Through the frame of Zoom, this collection of essays examines the rapid emergence of videoconferencing in everyday...  Read More >>

The first study of the translations of Andy Warhol's writing and ideas, Translating Warhol reveals how translation...  Read More >>

The first book-length study of South African composer and choral director, Mzilikazi Khumalo, and his role within...  Read More >>

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This book brings to life the efforts of Mura Dehn to record, analyse and champion the development of jazz dance...  Read More >>

This book traces the legacy of the man who preserved The Sleeping Beauty's original nineteenth-century choreography...  Read More >>

The closest fans will get to an autobiography of Freddie Mercury. Freestone's timeless memoir offers a touching...  Read More >>