The Arts books

A collection of five new, English-language translations of works by prominent and award-winning, female playwrights...  Read More >>

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Discusses how Mazzy Star become a call and response dream pop act that blended surrealism, sixties psychedelia,...  Read More >>

Stiff Little Fingers' 1979 debut album Inflammable Material was a product of, and response to, the turbulent era...  Read More >>

In Drawing Class: Cats, learn to draw 60 adorable cats-both domestic and wild-with easy step-by-step instructions,...  Read More >>

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An accessible, invaluable, expert-in-your-pocket field guide to outdoor photography from renowned photographer Chris...  Read More >>

Learn to draw people with confidence using Quick Start Drawing Beginner People, a tear-out art pad filled with traceable...  Read More >>

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In Draw Like a Mangaka: Anatomy, bestselling author Marcel Kühn provides a complete visual guide to drawing the...  Read More >>

As an African American woman in the first half of the twentieth century, Price's contribution to art music was highly...  Read More >>

A remarkably open-hearted, clear-eyed memoir of the '90s alternative era by the bassist of Hole and The Smashing...  Read More >>

World's fairs are among the most significant modern phenomena. Between 1893 and 1915, classical and Egyptian architecture...  Read More >>

""Anyone that's a Robert Mitchum fan: Man! You've got to find this book by Mitchum's brother, John...a hilarious...  Read More >>

The book explains how comfort is ultimately the result of a conversation between people and their environments....  Read More >>

Using interviews with over 40 Kurdish women artists, this book focuses on the cultural and intellectual activities...  Read More >>

An exploration of Soviet physical culture in film and other visual media, examining how the unique Soviet 'gaze'...  Read More >>

Examines the elusive nature, behaviour, and cultural significance of viruses and viral phenomena and explores the...  Read More >>

A historical study of Latin American modernism, foregrounding Quito, Ecuador as a point of encounter between local...  Read More >>

A critical investigation of the 1960s Fun Palace that focuses on its ambitious cultural agenda and emphasises the...  Read More >>

Explores films and filmmaking through the thoughts and poetics of filmmakers themselves, drawing on primary sources...  Read More >>

The first academic study on the Fashion Calendar (1941-2014) and its contribution to American fashion.  Read More >>

A critical assessment by leading scholars on the relationship between music and the life’s work of Stanley Cavell....  Read More >>

Establishes geosonics as a new, interdisciplinary approach to looking at media across human instruments, bodies...  Read More >>

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