The Arts books

Portrait Cultures of the Early Modern Cardinal addresses questions surrounding the production, collection, and status...  Read More >>

On the complex interrelations between individuals and technological systems within the context of our progressively...  Read More >>

This collection examines Southeast Asia's cinematic development throughout the latter part of the 20th century,...  Read More >>

This book deals with film enactments and representations of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains,...  Read More >>

This book examines the monsters and sinister creatures that spawn from folk horror, Gothic fiction, and from various...  Read More >>

Michael Tutton investigates the representation of building processes and materials through an examination of paintings,...  Read More >>

In Cinema's Baroque Flesh, Saige Walton draws on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to argue for a distinct...  Read More >>

The hegemonic meaning of depression as a universal mental illness embodied by an individualized subject is propped...  Read More >>

Hands on Film is a comprehensive study of the representations and on-screen uses of the human limb, spanning the...  Read More >>

In the 21st century horror television has spread across the digital TV landscape, garnering mainstream appeal. Located...  Read More >>

Rossella Catanese brings in avant-garde artists and their manifestos to show how painters and other artists turned...  Read More >>

While acknowledging the problematic consideration of the autobiographical nature of filmmaking, this book explores...  Read More >>

Early modern views of nature and the earth upended the depiction of land. This volume historicizes the contingency...  Read More >>

Made up of both material and symbolic elements, the urban space is always dynamic and transitional; it brings together...  Read More >>

This book offers sustained, interdisciplinary reflections on performative methods, variously known as Reconstruction,...  Read More >>

This collection brings together art historians, museum professionals, conservators, and conservation scientists...  Read More >>

Sonic Time Machines presents a striking new approach to theorising sound that investigates its split existence:...  Read More >>

Anabel Thomas investigates an unfinished commission for a fresco by Francesco di Bartolomeo Alfei in 1454, through...  Read More >>

This richly illustrated book is the first to showcase famous and obscure lutenists, professional musicians and amateurs,...  Read More >>

In this colourfully illustrated book, Rose Walker surveys Spanish and Portuguese art and architecture from the time...  Read More >>

This book offers a close look at how directors such as Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Max Ophüls made use...  Read More >>

The essays in this monograph appraoch The Velislav Bible, one of the most beautiful medieval Bohemian manuscripts,...  Read More >>

The Portuguese Restoration of 1640 ended the dynastic union of Portugal and Spain. This book pioneers in reconstructing...  Read More >>

Capitalism and Culture brings together Henry Giroux's most urgent writings, arguing that culture - far from being...  Read More >>

There has never been a book written on the subject of the Berlin Philharmonic during the Third Reich, in any language....  Read More >>