The Arts: treatments and subjects

Tenacious Solidarity features essays and new writings from 2014 to 2018.

This title sets out to write new transnational South Asian art histories - to make visible histories of artworks that remain marginalised within the discipline of art history.

Communicology is Vilem Flusser's first thesis on his concepts of technical images and technical imagination.

Windows for the world explores the display and reception of nineteenth-century British stained glass in a secular exhibition context.

Images increasingly saturate our world, making present to us what is distant or obscure.

What do we really mean when we call something "e;graphic"e;?

This book addresses late-Soviet and post-Soviet art in Armenia in the context of turbulent transformations from the late 1980s to 2004.

The Great Exhibition, 1851: A Sourcebook is the first anthology of its kind.

Windows for the world explores the display and reception of nineteenth-century British stained glass in a secular exhibition context.

This book addresses late-Soviet and post-Soviet art in Armenia in the context of turbulent transformations from the late 1980s to 2004.

Utilizing as few words as possible, but presenting a tremendous variety and volume of illustrations, this all-in-one guide details the fundamentals of drawing in its various phases and fields.

The remarkable popularity of political likenesses in the Victorian period is the central theme of this book, which explores how politicians and publishers exploited new visual technology to appeal to a broad public.

This is the first comprehensive study of bodily images in Dada.

';With a moonless sky this early morning, it is eerily dark out here, and I can feel the weight of the hot and humid South Florida air.

Madchester may have been born at the Hacienda in the summer of 1988, but the city had been in creative ferment for almost a decade prior to the rise of acid house.

What is critique?

A series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum.

Mother of the Lamb tells the remarkable story of a Byzantine image that emerged from the losing side of the Crusades.

Although written from a Lutheran religious tradition, the invitation and reach of They Are Us: Lutherans and Immigration, Second Edition is broad and inclusive.

Chic, sophisticated, seductive and enigmatic, the Parisienne possesses a je ne sais quoi that makes her difficult to define.

This book offers an innovative account of manliness in Britain between 1760 and 1900.

The synthetic proposition examines the impact of Civil Rights, Black Power, the student, feminist and sexual-liberty movements on conceptualism and its legacies in the United States between the late 1960s and the 1990s.

This book constitutes the first comprehensive history of the network of women who worked at the heart of the English Arts and Crafts movement from the 1870s to the 1930s.

Asians make up the largest and most dispersed people of the world, and Christians make up a sizable proportion of this demographic.

This is the first book to focus on James Bond's relationship to the playboy ideal through the sixties and beyond.

Taking a cue from revisionist scholarship on early modern vernacular architectures and their relationship to the classical canon, this book rehabilitates the reputations of a representative if misunderstood building typology - the eighteenth-century brick terraced house - and the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and plasterers responsible for its design and construction.

Echoing Joseph Paxton's question at the close of the Great Exhibition, 'What is to become of the Crystal Palace?

Missiologists and theologians do not often talk to each other, which has resulted in increased ignorance of each others questions and concerns about how to do theology in ways that effectively serve the Churchs mission.

In this expansive and provocative new work, Michael Dango theorizes how aesthetic style manages crisis-and why taking crisis seriously means taking aesthetics seriously.

Mechanistic dehumanization occurs when human beings are objectified and exploited as a means to an end, comparable to expendable components of a machine.

What are the archives of gay and lesbian leather histories, and how have contemporary artists mined these archives to create a queer politics of the present?

The world of work is tightly entwined with the world of things.

This new study examines how nineteenth-century industrial Lancashire became a leading national and international art centre.

Crossley argues that music is a form of social interaction, interwoven in the fabric of society and in constant interplay with its other threads.

Comedy is a brutal business.

Zygmunt Bauman was one of the most important social theorists of recent decades.

Looking beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary social interactions, The Moral Power of Money investigates the forces of power and morality at play, particularly among the poor.

Christianity Made in India: From Apostle Thomas to Mother Teresa discusses the indigenization of Christianity in the Indian context.

Over the last three decades, a new generation of conceptual artists has come to the fore in the Arab Middle East.

This is the first book to explore the global influence of Maoism on modern and contemporary art.

Around the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish writers and artists across Europe began depicting fellow Jews as savages or "e;primitive"e; tribesmen.

This is the first book to focus on James Bond's relationship to the playboy ideal through the sixties and beyond.

What does it mean to look?

In The Missional Leader, consultants Alan J.

In The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going, Ryan P.

Dinosaurs have really long and complex names; but surely, they have nicknames.

Crossley argues that music is a form of social interaction, interwoven in the fabric of society and in constant interplay with its other threads.

The legendary poet and boxer Arthur Cravan, a fleeting figure on the periphery of early twentieth-century European avant-gardism, is frequently invoked as proto-Dada and Surrealist exemplar.

Here's a cool introduction to the sea world that your child will definitely love!

Engendering an avant-garde is the first book to comprehensively examine the origins of Vancouver photo-conceptualism in its regional context between 1968 and 1990.