(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526191649)
This groundbreaking book highlights a generation of women who made art as a way of defining a culture of experimental thought and practice, against the backdrop of the French womens movement or Mouvement de Lib้ration des Femmes (197081) -- ....More info...
Although scholarship on how Islamic art is studied, collected, and exhibited is on the rise, less attention has been paid to how the fields various commitments relate to pedagogical and curating practices. Bridging the gap between theory and practic...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300273489)
Gladys Hynes (18881958) was a pioneering figure whose life and work embody the complex currents of the first half of the 20th century Though largely forgotten today, Gladys Hynes (18881958) was a pioneering artist whose life and w...More info...
This richly illustrated volume presents an accessible history of Chinese silk art. Combining an expansive perspective with systematic analysis and engaging prosecomplemented by extensive color imagery...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487560805)
Why do we keep returning to the Weimar Republic as a focal point for queer and trans histories, and why are images so crucial to our understanding of this period? This volume brings together research from disciplines including history, art history...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691277820)
How a once-forgotten Dutch painter inspired generations of artists, writers, and filmmakersJohannes Vermeer (16321675) is one of the most beloved painters in the world. But when an enterprising French journalist and art critic set...More info...
Combining history, theory, case studies and practical guidance, this book offers a critical introduction to interdisciplinary production in the arts and cultural industries. Combining history, theory, case studies and practical guid...More info...
Combining history, theory, case studies and practical guidance, this book offers a critical introduction to interdisciplinary production in the arts and cultural industries.Taking a production studies approach, the book examines how arts an...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478038764)
Considering race as form across literature, theory, painting, and photography, C้cile Bishops Forms of Blackness explores the formal devices that make Blackness both visible and recognizable. In keeping with Black Francophone theorists like Glissant...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478033837)
Considering race as form across literature, theory, painting, and photography, C้cile Bishops Forms of Blackness explores the formal devices that make Blackness both visible and recognizable. In keeping with Black Francophone theorists like Glissant...More info...
A fresh look at Vincent van Goghs iconic Sunflowers paintings, their context, and what they reveal about the artist and his creative process Vincent van Goghs (18531890) Sunflowers paintings are among the worlds most recognizable works of art. Cen...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300243840)
An essential volume in the history of dance and its critical literature The French dance criticism of the Russian ้migr้ Andr้ Levinson (18871933) set a new standard for the genre by regaling readers with a heady mix of formalist acumen, h...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252089534)
Buzz Busbys move to Washington, D.C., in 1951 helped launch bluegrass in the nations capital while the intensity of his mandolin playing drew raves for its unrelenting pace and innovative style. His high lonesome singing rivaled that of Bill Monro...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252049873)
Buzz Busbys move to Washington, D.C., in 1951 helped launch bluegrass in the nations capital while the intensity of his mandolin playing drew raves for its unrelenting pace and innovative style. His high lonesome singing rivaled that of Bill Monro...More info...
Gary Hume RA (b.1962) is one of the foremost British painters of the last 40 years. In this new book, Martin Gayford explores the evolution of the artists oeuvre and examines the opportunities and dilemmas that helped to shape Humes singular pathw...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300282740)
A groundbreaking study of woven images in the medieval Mongol Yuan Empire and their enduring effect on Chinese and East Asian art East Asias Yuan Empire (12711368), led by the nomadic Mongol people and Qubilai Khan (12151294), was marked by cross-...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198273)
The book explores the full catalogue of the films produced by the Empire Marketing Board, General Post Office and Crown Film Units between 1930 and 1952. It identifies themes which both reflect the sponsors demands and the anxieties of the time as w...More info...
Series: Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198297)
Cinematic Ethnography proposes an interdisciplinary approach to theories and practices that reside within the fertile zone where anthropology and filmmaking intersect. -- ....More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198198)
This cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to gesture offers new explorations of how gesture/s and feminism/s have animated one another in feminist and interdisciplinary artistic practice from the 1960s onwards. -- ....More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198136)
This book presents examination of queer and feminist alternative art spaces in Canada and the United States from the late-1960s to the present. It explores how queer and feminist artists have responded to the institutions and histories they have inh...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198105)
The sound of difference examines how diversity work takes shape in a cultural sector deeply implicated in hierarchies of class, structures of whiteness, and legacies of imperialism. -- ....More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198181)
This collection investigates the methodological problem of how to see, or read, art that references literature through a series of object-focused chapters on post-1960 artworks. Variously eccentric, playful, reverential and procedural, the diverse r...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198167)
This book contributes new perspectives on the identity of the industrial designer, particularly from a gendered perspective, through a critical interrogation of the heroic male designer. It explores the professionalisation of industrial design in...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198174)
The first major study of Britains pioneering graphic satirist, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (18441925), the first staff political cartoonist on a daily newspaper in Britain, and the first of his kind to be knighted. -- ....More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198143)
Becoming couture explains how post-war Italian fashion reinvented itself through the persuasive strategies of intermediaries in Italy and the United States, beyond the myth of Giovanni Battista Giorgini and the Sala Bianca. -- ....More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487570811)
Digital Combat reconsiders the cultural canon of Eastern European film through the lens of Russias ongoing war against Ukraine, exploring how filmmakers respond to violence, displacement, and the politics of memory in both traditional cinema and new...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198280)
This book charts emergent geographical imaginaries of the Arctic in twenty-first century cultural production from literature and cinema to comics, hip hop, and cartography. It is a timely intervention into circumpolar studies at a time when Indigen...More info...
This book looks at the fundamental question of why we take pleasure in art through a relatively new perspective of neuroaesthetics and explores the close links between cognitive and affective processes used in understanding art and science....More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198174)
The first major study of Britains pioneering graphic satirist, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (18441925), the first staff political cartoonist on a daily newspaper in Britain, and the first of his kind to be knighted. -- ....More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago, ISBN-13: 9780300288537)
A showcase of two hundred of the Art Institute of Chicagos iconic works from around the world and across human time From ancient Roman statuary and Chinese ceramics to medieval metalwork and contemporary paintings, Highlights of...More info...
Kevin Salatino, Mel Becker Solomon, Charlotte Healy, Margaret Holben Ellis, Stephen Mack, Christa Noel Robbins, Robert Storr, Ludo van Halem
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago, ISBN-13: 9780300288544)
A career-spanning look at Willem de Koonings singular drawing practice Known for his dynamic blend of drawing and painting, Willem de Kooning (19041997) did not believe in a distinction between the two mediums. In a career spanning seven decades, h...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300282740)
A groundbreaking study of woven images in the medieval Mongol Yuan Empire and their enduring effect on Chinese and East Asian art East Asias Yuan Empire (12711368), led by the nomadic Mongol people and Qubilai Khan (12151294), was marked by cross-...More info...
Gary Hume RA (b.1962) is one of the foremost British painters of the last 40 years. In this new book, Martin Gayford explores the evolution of the artists oeuvre and examines the opportunities and dilemmas that helped to shape Humes singular pathw...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252049873)
Buzz Busbys move to Washington, D.C., in 1951 helped launch bluegrass in the nations capital while the intensity of his mandolin playing drew raves for its unrelenting pace and innovative style. His high lonesome singing rivaled that of Bill Monro...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252089534)
Buzz Busbys move to Washington, D.C., in 1951 helped launch bluegrass in the nations capital while the intensity of his mandolin playing drew raves for its unrelenting pace and innovative style. His high lonesome singing rivaled that of Bill Monro...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300243840)
An essential volume in the history of dance and its critical literature The French dance criticism of the Russian ้migr้ Andr้ Levinson (18871933) set a new standard for the genre by regaling readers with a heady mix of formalist acumen, h...More info...
A fresh look at Vincent van Goghs iconic Sunflowers paintings, their context, and what they reveal about the artist and his creative process Vincent van Goghs (18531890) Sunflowers paintings are among the worlds most recognizable works of art. Cen...More info...
Kathleen Davis Niendorff, Lu Ann Barrow, Karen Pope, Ginger Henry Geyer, Cheryl Vogel, James Housefield, David B. Barrow
Series: Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781648433580)
The tenor of my paintings is usually joyful and celebratory with rare expressions of sorrow or even shadows, Lu Ann Barrow wrote in her artists statement. Represented for many years by the respected Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden in Da...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Other book format, Publisher: Insight Editions, ISBN-13: 9798337402369)
Transform your space with the Vintage Cottage Wall Collage Kit, a captivating collection of cozy art prints that add a touch of charm and whimsy to any space. Transform any blank wall into a rustic retreat with the Vintage Cottage Wall Co...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198167)
This book contributes new perspectives on the identity of the industrial designer, particularly from a gendered perspective, through a critical interrogation of the heroic male designer. It explores the professionalisation of industrial design in...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198181)
This collection investigates the methodological problem of how to see, or read, art that references literature through a series of object-focused chapters on post-1960 artworks. Variously eccentric, playful, reverential and procedural, the diverse r...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198105)
The sound of difference examines how diversity work takes shape in a cultural sector deeply implicated in hierarchies of class, structures of whiteness, and legacies of imperialism. -- ....More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198136)
This book presents examination of queer and feminist alternative art spaces in Canada and the United States from the late-1960s to the present. It explores how queer and feminist artists have responded to the institutions and histories they have inh...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198198)
This cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to gesture offers new explorations of how gesture/s and feminism/s have animated one another in feminist and interdisciplinary artistic practice from the 1960s onwards. -- ....More info...
Series: Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198297)
Cinematic Ethnography proposes an interdisciplinary approach to theories and practices that reside within the fertile zone where anthropology and filmmaking intersect. -- ....More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198273)
The book explores the full catalogue of the films produced by the Empire Marketing Board, General Post Office and Crown Film Units between 1930 and 1952. It identifies themes which both reflect the sponsors demands and the anxieties of the time as w...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Other book format, Publisher: Insight Editions, ISBN-13: 9798337402352)
Transform your space with the Vintage Castle Wall Collage Kit, a captivating collection of enchanting art prints that add a touch of fantasy and artistry to any space. Transform any blank wall into a fantasy-inspired haven with the Vintag...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478033837)
Considering race as form across literature, theory, painting, and photography, C้cile Bishops Forms of Blackness explores the formal devices that make Blackness both visible and recognizable. In keeping with Black Francophone theorists like Glissant...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478038764)
Considering race as form across literature, theory, painting, and photography, C้cile Bishops Forms of Blackness explores the formal devices that make Blackness both visible and recognizable. In keeping with Black Francophone theorists like Glissant...More info...
Seแn Hemingway, Dorothy Abramitis, Alexis Belis, Federico Car๒, Giorgios Gavalas, Elizabeth Hendrix, Joseph Alexander MacGillivray
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, ISBN-13: 9781588397973)
A comprehensive collection of early Cycladic antiquities presented through an unprecedented partnership between Greece and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Created more than four millennia ago in an archipelago in the Aegean Sea, the...More info...
Published to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the Worshipful Company of Weavers, this richly illustrated book is a tribute to the creativity, resourcefulness, and passion behind weaving in Britain today. Visiting a wide range of makers, from handl...More info...
This richly illustrated volume presents an accessible history of Chinese silk art. Combining an expansive perspective with systematic analysis and engaging prosecomplemented by extensive color imagery...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300273489)
Gladys Hynes (18881958) was a pioneering figure whose life and work embody the complex currents of the first half of the 20th century Though largely forgotten today, Gladys Hynes (18881958) was a pioneering artist whose life and w...More info...
The Greatest Sculptor in the World. Adored in Swedenforgotten elsewhere. Canovas unknown counterpart. Flesh and blood, rest and movement. Caricature as an artistic expression and a means of survival. The laborer and the courtier. The arti...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: New York Review Books, ISBN-13: 9781681379593)
Pour over the letters, sent and unsent, by the one and only Eve Babitz--queen of the witty, gossipy, and thoroughly engrossing missive. Babitzs famous friends and lovers--Joan Didion, Joseph Heller, Annie Leibovitz, Paul Ruscha, Ann Rice, Steve Mar...More info...
Although scholarship on how Islamic art is studied, collected, and exhibited is on the rise, less attention has been paid to how the fields various commitments relate to pedagogical and curating practices. Bridging the gap between theory and practic...More info...
The official retrospective for controversial erotic historical drama Caligula, written by Gore Vidal and directed by Tinto Brass.Tracing Caligulas difficult production and the various cuts released, from the 1979 cut distributed by produc...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526191649)
This groundbreaking book highlights a generation of women who made art as a way of defining a culture of experimental thought and practice, against the backdrop of the French womens movement or Mouvement de Lib้ration des Femmes (197081) -- ....More info...
Ilka Kressner, Ana Marํa Mutis, Ana Marํa Mutis, Elizabeth Marcela Pettinaroli, Ilka Kressner, Elizabeth Marcela Pettinaroli, Josu้ Chavajay Quincaํn, Giovanna Montenegro, Katja Cecchetti-Higgins, Alejandra Olarte...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813954516)
Reframing traditional conceptions of ecology Ecologies of Resistance brings together fourteen groundbreaking studies on Latin American and Latinx writing, visual and performing arts, film, and activism that propose alternatives to prevaili...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Bookmark, Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781835628621)
Pack of 10 foiled bookmarks, printed on both sides, with a silky ribbon and featuring a Bookshelves design by Marianne North. FSC-certified....More info...
Ilka Kressner, Ana Marํa Mutis, Ana Marํa Mutis, Elizabeth Marcela Pettinaroli, Ilka Kressner, Elizabeth Marcela Pettinaroli, Josu้ Chavajay Quincaํn, Giovanna Montenegro, Katja Cecchetti-Higgins, Alejandra Olarte...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813954523)
Reframing traditional conceptions of ecology Ecologies of Resistance brings together fourteen groundbreaking studies on Latin American and Latinx writing, visual and performing arts, film, and activism that propose alternatives to prevaili...More info...
Combining history, theory, case studies and practical guidance, this book offers a critical introduction to interdisciplinary production in the arts and cultural industries.Taking a production studies approach, the book examines how arts an...More info...
Combining history, theory, case studies and practical guidance, this book offers a critical introduction to interdisciplinary production in the arts and cultural industries. Combining history, theory, case studies and practical guid...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691277820)
How a once-forgotten Dutch painter inspired generations of artists, writers, and filmmakersJohannes Vermeer (16321675) is one of the most beloved painters in the world. But when an enterprising French journalist and art critic set...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487560805)
Why do we keep returning to the Weimar Republic as a focal point for queer and trans histories, and why are images so crucial to our understanding of this period? This volume brings together research from disciplines including history, art history...More info...
Most Anticipated Books of 2025 Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, W Magazine, The Millions Best Books of Spring 2025 Oprah Daily, Town & Country Sharp, elegant and eye-opening . . . a crucial toolbox fo...More info...
Forget about imperfection and find the fun in making a mess. This is a journal that lets you embrace your inner Stitch! Take a page from Stitchs book, with creative journaling ideas that encourage a little destruction and a whole lot of i...More info...
This collection brings together three interrelated volumes by Michael Fried, one of the most influential and distinguished scholars currently at work in the humanities...More info...
Coastal Scenes in Watercolour comprises 10 seaside tutorials, from ships in a harbour and fishing nets on a beach, to clifftop seabirds and a wetland estuary....More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Bookmark, Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781835628614)
Pack of 10 foiled bookmarks, printed on both sides, with a silky ribbon and featuring a Bookshelves design by Marianne North. FSC-certified....More info...
