Artwashing the Past: Context Matters contributes to the wider discussion about the appropriate due diligence process that should be conducted prior to the acquisition of cultural objects.
This is a historical and anthropological study of the myth of the werewolf aimed at reflecting on the metamorphoses of evil and understanding the long evolution of a mythical structure.
This is a historical and anthropological study of the myth of the werewolf aimed at reflecting on the metamorphoses of evil and understanding the long evolution of a mythical structure.
Artwashing the Past: Context Matters contributes to the wider discussion about the appropriate due diligence process that should be conducted prior to the acquisition of cultural objects.
The book reviews scientific facts about the emergence of the universe and the planet, and talks about the role of a large number of scientists in reaching important scientific discoveries that changed the history of the world and our understanding of the nature around us.
This book brings together a selection of articles that have been published throughout a series of special issues of the journal Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies that originally focused on the so-called 'ethnographic turn' in contemporary arts.
Abstrakte Bilder mit ihrer häufig deutungsoffenen Bildsprache erschweren nicht nur Betrachter*innen den Zugang, sondern auch die kunstwissenschaftliche Interpretation.
Las diversas implicaciones que tiene hoy el tema de la imagen, en sus sucesivas transformaciones de las posibilidades tecnológicas de producción, circulación y recepción, así como la riqueza y complejidad que adquieren los lenguajes y las técnicas artísticas, encuentran en la fotografía una particular y fecunda condición, que dinamiza problemas tanto de estética como de psicología del arte o, en términos generales, cuestiones sobre la historia del arte y su estatuto contemporáneo.
Looking at the dark history of Italian fashion by focusing on the impact of 1930s Fascism, this is the second edition of Eugenia Paulicelli's classic text.
Post-digital art suggests a form of embodiment of digital technologies that unfolds in physical space through hands-on material approaches, and even the repurposing of older analogue media.
An Artistic Autoethnography on the Public Fetus explores artistic work with the iconic image of the fetus and the personal consequences of the image by analyzing the so-called public fetus within a feminist approach.
This edited volume, written by historians of art and visual culture who are working in the field of animal studies, seeks to understand how our ways of positioning (and ex-positioning) animals have separated us from the other-than-human animals that are an integral part of our interconnected world.
Republics and empires provides transnational perspectives on the significance of Italy to American art and visual culture and the impact of the United States on Italian art and popular culture.
This volume features new research on Russia's historic relationship with Asia and the ways it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative and performing arts and architecture from the mid-eighteenth century to the first two decades of Soviet rule.
This book identifies and theorises mess in contemporary performance and argues that mess offers a site from which subjects might mobilise and find agency, even as the complexity (and indeed messiness) of everyday life conditions and contains.
