The Arts books

This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera, redefining it as method not genre, and recontextualising...  Read More >>

This book presents a cultural history of Promethean Horror in the modern age, tracing the rise of a sub-genre of...  Read More >>

This book tells the story of graphic designers in Milan from the 1930s to the 1960s. Focusing on design education,...  Read More >>

Threads of globalization is an interdisciplinary volume that brings fashion-specific garments, motifs, materials,...  Read More >>

In modern times of political confusion, when Leftist agendas and struggles often collapse or become appropriated...  Read More >>

This book explores how literature, theatre and music revive the dead to explore the dynamics of grief and mourning....  Read More >>

Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped...  Read More >>

This volume explores John Ford's preoccupations throughout his long career, showing how he attempted to come to...  Read More >>

This book studies the ways in which three fields of creative activity inspired by the medieval musical performance,...  Read More >>

Utilising an architectural lens, this book illustrates how development instigates interest in the past and in the...  Read More >>

This book presents for the first time a coherent analysis of the British Isles as an imperial setting understood...  Read More >>

The stock theatrical character Pierrot is an enduring figure in French visual art, where he emerges at the intersection...  Read More >>

This book explores the relationship between peacebuilding and dance, including insights dance provides on key debates...  Read More >>

This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers...  Read More >>

This collection explores what Roland Barthes termed the 'autobiographical turn' in art, literature and critical...  Read More >>

This book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeare's play The Merchant...  Read More >>

This collection of essays considers the significance of graveyards in Gothic literature, film, television and video...  Read More >>

This book explores contemporary German and Austrian cinema and the trend away from ""cinema of consensus"" toward...  Read More >>

A compelling visual record of the final days of the Confederate statues on Monument Avenue, Richmond VA, by photographer...  Read More >>

Useful Art explores how art can be a tool for activism and resistance against neoliberalism. Highlighting projects...  Read More >>

Showing the ways in which Ndebele women in South Africa engage tradition-based art to navigate identity, history...  Read More >>

How can music mediation foster social cohesion and dialogue? A critical exploration of its social-transformative...  Read More >>

Choosing Architecture traces the history of arguments about architecture in the West via analyses of key documents...  Read More >>

The first volume of a classic account of 5,000 years of Indian art The Art of Indian Asia is a unique work of scholarship...  Read More >>

Introduces a new way of understanding influence, reception, and adaptation via the work of Italy’s most famous modern...  Read More >>