The Arts books

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 >>

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Hip Hop Pedagogy is the first reference work to cover the theory, history, research methodologies,...  Read More >>

This study offers a historicization of the 2010s in British theatre with a focus on the representation of systemic...  Read More >>

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

An invaluable resource for readers seeking to understand the history and practice of folk music and song across...  Read More >>

Mohri makes noise from the invisible, drawing sound out of nothingness through her carefully constructed and recorded...  Read More >>

This volume explores the notion of a heteroglobal approach to understand global circulation of performance. This...  Read More >>

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 >>

Reflects on the dark rise and fall of an ambitious rock music collective in the upper Midwest. Matthew Pitt's...  Read More >>

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 >>

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

""In a world grappling with the need to shift away from fast fashion's wasteful practices, this thought-provoking...  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 >>