While Disability Studies has become more diversified in recent years, contemporary debates still favour the Northern Hemisphere, ignoring the lived experience of disabled people in much of the global South....More info...
This accessible, foundational volume explores how modern art developed around the world by comparing contexts and artistic production in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa from circa 1850 through the 1960s....More info...
This study traces the theories and artistic practices that articulated American experimental video through its key works and events, art critical discourse, as well as the politics of its funding and distribution during the 1970s into the 1980s, foc...More info...
Establishing a missed link between the work of Piero Manzoni and Hιlio Oiticica and their respective cultural contexts, this book sheds new light on overlooked aspects of these two artists practices, particularly focusing on the shift from painting...More info...
As the first volume of a two-volume set on traditional Chinese art, this book outlines the history of Chinese art spanning several millennia....More info...
As the second volume of a two-volume set on Chinese art theory, this book introduces the typology of Chinese art and expands on the aesthetic and artistic theories of Chinese traditional art....More info...
This edited volume de-familiarizes European conceptions of artistry and thinks its history anew. It represents a rethinking on a global stage of some of the most fundamental assumptions in what were once arguably helpful methodological tools in art...More info...
This book spotlights art works and art performances whose common denominator is the theme of (self-)representation of persons in the female category in scenes of love and sexuality....More info...
This study examines caricatures as they appeared within popular Parisian magazines in mid-nineteenth century France at the time of the 1867 Worlds Fair....More info...
In this volume Social Circus is explored in depth by three Circus Studies scholars working with the aim of creating new ways of engaging with the field. Lavers, Burtt, and Bochud investigate the way that Social Circus transforms in response to its i...More info...
This is the first in-depth analysis of Ming palace eunuchs place in the social history of Chinese art, examining the intricate intersections of art, politics, and palace eunuchs in the Ming dynasty....More info...
In The Psychoanalysis of Aesthetic Experience: Self, Relationship and Culture, George Hagman eloquently provides an overview of ideas regarding the aesthetic foundation of human experience and the way in which this aesthetic perspective can shed lig...More info...
Aesthetics and the City engages aesthetics to explore the role of the city in urban experience. Drawing on diverse theories and global case studies, this edited collection examines how aesthetics relates to how cities and urban spaces are perceived,...More info...
Bringing together artists, curators, activists, academics, managers, and educators from around the world, this anthology examines the notion of ethics within socially engaged art. This collection is an ideal text for interdisciplinary courses that p...More info...
This book concerns the urgency of thinking and acting in response to climate change through art and education. Events of Art and Education in Post-climate Times will be helpful for students studying art, education, environment and sustainability, an...More info...
Writing Borderless Histories of Art is an aspirational, historical, and critical project that offers a fundamental rethinking of the relationship of humans to the rest of nature. Its multilayered approach will appeal to art historians, archaeologist...More info...
This book examines Candomblιs material culture and its relationship with the evolving cultural politics of Brazil. It employs artefacts as analytical tools to trace the emergence of a diasporic consciousness....More info...
Kinaesthetic Empathy, Ethics and Care develops a philosophy of dance that highlights the psychological, aesthetic and ethical significance of dancer-viewer interaction in the moment of performance....More info...
This edited volume highlights the historical, philosophical and theoretical legacies of pedagogical art and examines its connections with various forms of activism and institutional transformation....More info...
