The arts: general topics

For sociologists, making, distributing, and using art and cultural products constitute social practices, yet, sociologists disagree on how to investigate these practices.

First published in 1983, Cybernetics of Art uses the methodology and concepts of cybernetics to explore art and the creative process.

This fully revised and updated third edition offers students and artists valuable insights into traditional color theory and its practical application using today's cutting-edge technology.

Transcultural Theater outlines the idea of a transcultural theater as enabling an approximation to and an interaction with the foreign and the alien.

This fully revised and updated third edition offers students and artists valuable insights into traditional color theory and its practical application using today's cutting-edge technology.

Transcultural Theater outlines the idea of a transcultural theater as enabling an approximation to and an interaction with the foreign and the alien.

There is significant academic interest in the field of art and neurological disorders.

This book deals with issues related to undernutrition and anaemia in India.

En el marco de los debates sobre memoria y materialidad en la era digital, esta investigación se pregunta por los futuros posibles del arte de los medios, introduciendo la 'ecología de prácticas' como una herramienta de pensamiento a través de la cual reconocer y explicar un terreno de divergencias y pluralidades.

Foreword by Roxane GayDebbie Millman brings herDesign Matterspodcast, about how the most creative people in the world create their lives, to the page with this excellent interview anthology.

Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists, sculptors, and priests.

Drawing on a rich legacy of pictorial evidence, Images of Childhood examines historical constructions of childhood and how they reinforce or challenge the prevailing view of childhood as a state of innocence.

Drawing on a rich legacy of pictorial evidence, Images of Childhood examines historical constructions of childhood and how they reinforce or challenge the prevailing view of childhood as a state of innocence.

Este libro reúne escritos sobre la voz, la escritura y el decir en los que Ixiar Rozas ha trabajado desde hace años.

This innovative book takes the concept of translation beyond its traditional boundaries, adding to the growing body of literature which challenges the idea of translation as a primarily linguistic transfer.

Food in the Caribbean reflects both the best and worst of the Caribbean's history.

Eating junk food and fast food is a great all-American passion.

Aesthetics: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments is a teaching-focused resource, which highlights the contributions that imaginative scenarios-paradoxes, puzzles, and thought experiments alike-have made to the development of contemporary analytic aesthetics.

Aesthetics: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments is a teaching-focused resource, which highlights the contributions that imaginative scenarios-paradoxes, puzzles, and thought experiments alike-have made to the development of contemporary analytic aesthetics.

Through the lens of African emerging economies, this text examines empirical studies and the related practices of agritourism.

How artists created an aesthetic of "e;positive barbarism"e; in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bombIn Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the massive devastation of World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb.

Kurt Cobain and Ian Curtis.

Design thinking is the core creative process for any designer; this book explores and explains this apparently mysterious design ability.

100 sumptuously produced essays by Britain's leading art critic, US born, Richard Dorment.

Becoming a Writer' remains evergreen decades after it was first written.

Combining the ethical clarity of Jonathan Safran Foers Eating Animals with the disquieting vision of Alan Weissmans bestseller The World Without Us, a thought-provoking, entertaining exploration of a future where animal consumption is a thing of the past.

This book explores the historical and cultural significance of comics in languages other than English, examining the geographic and linguistic spheres which these comics inhabit and their contributions to comic studies and academia.

Ono examines cross-cultural artistic exchange between the West and Japan from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century.

Ono examines cross-cultural artistic exchange between the West and Japan from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century.

This book reveals the secrets of a mysterious and artistic trade.

Les phénomènes d'emprunt, de citation, de détournement jouent un rôle crucial dans la culture contemporaine.

This edited volume discusses images that bleed, speak, cry, move, and behave in ways we usually attribute to living creatures.

Laugh together as you create your own positacular and specmarkable affirmation words with this fun flip flap book.

Jamais le nombre de ceux qui se destinent à la scène n’a été aussi grand que de nos jours.

ARTE Y DEMOCRACIA nace como resultado de la decisión de los artistas, que en enero de 2022 formaban parte del Consejo de Administración de VEGAP, de convocar un encuentro público para tratar el papel que hoy en día juega el hecho artístico en las sociedades abiertas.

How the medieval study of ancient bronzes influenced the production of knowledge and the making of things in East Asia.

A new examination of the history of ceramic art, spanning ancient to modern times, emphasizing its traditions, materials, and methods of makingConcise but comprehensive, Ceramic Art brings together the voices of art historians, conservators, and artists to tell the history of making art from fired clay.

This timely book explores the transitional experiences of undergraduates in minority groups studying at university and how arts methods and practices can play an important role in facilitating these transitions.

From fragile, corporate-controlled supply chains breaking down, to millions of already hyper-exploited farmworkers risking their lives in the fields without basic personal protective equipment, the COVID-19 pandemic made it painfully obvious that US agriculture does not work.

From fragile, corporate-controlled supply chains breaking down, to millions of already hyper-exploited farmworkers risking their lives in the fields without basic personal protective equipment, the COVID-19 pandemic made it painfully obvious that US agriculture does not work.

This reference work covers the cuisine and foodways of India in all their diversity and complexity, including regions, personalities, street foods, communities and topics that have been often neglected.

This book analyses the intersections between contemporary art and environmental activism in Indonesia.

This reference work covers the cuisine and foodways of India in all their diversity and complexity, including regions, personalities, street foods, communities and topics that have been often neglected.

Cookbooks.

This book critically examines contemporary health and wellness culture through the lens of personalization, genetification and functional foods.

This book critically examines contemporary health and wellness culture through the lens of personalization, genetification and functional foods.

Cookbooks.

A medievalist and defender of the notion of Christian philosophy, Etienne Gilson had a lifelong interest in the philosophy of art.