Visual Arts – Page 15 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Art and Destruction

Edited By: Jennifer Walden

£39.99

Most writing on art is about creation. This volume addresses its relationship with destruction. It brings together distinct areas for enquiry, from artists whose making is driven by breaking down matter to unique approaches to representing mass destruction.

Africa and Beyond

Arts and Sustainable Development

Edited By: Patrick J. Ebewo, Mzo Sirayi, Ingrid Stevens

£54.99

This volume challenges the view that consigns the arts to the periphery of social life. It presents insightful perspectives that ascribe agency to creative products in human development and is highly recommended for specialists and the public at large.

Hypermodern Documentary Discourse in Cinema

By: Jarmo Valkola

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This book explores hypermodern documentary discourse through audiovisual analysis. Drawing on philosopher Gilles Lipovetsky, it provides a new understanding of the theoretical and aesthetic qualities of hypermodern documentaries within film and media studies.

Thematizations of the Goddess in South Asian Cinema

Edited By: Anway Mukhopadhyay, Shouvik Narayan Hore

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This collection presents cross-disciplinary explorations of the Goddess in South Asian cinema. Analyzing films from across South Asia, including India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, it highlights regional and cultural differences and commonalities in the representation of the divine.

Gothic Legacies

Four Centuries of Tradition and Innovation in Art and Architecture

Edited By: Laura Cleaver, Ayla Lepine

£44.99

Gothic art and architecture were reinterpreted in diverse ways from the sixteenth century onwards. These essays explore what “Gothic” meant across different periods and cultures, and how it was used to shape personal, national, and international identities.

Global History, Visual Culture and Itinerancies

Changes and Continuities

Edited By: Francisco José Díaz Marcilla, Jorge Tomás García, Yvette Sobral dos Santos

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This chronologically ambitious book investigates globalization from Roman times to the present. It argues that itinerant agents carry cultural baggage, transporting and transmitting it to create interconnections and produce active changes in global history.

Telling Stories

Countering Narrative in Art, Theory and Film

Edited By: Jane Tormey, Gillian Whiteley

£39.99

Trespassing disciplines to bind practice and theory, this collection addresses the contemporary preoccupation with narrative. It considers how visual and performative encounters in photography, film, and objects can contribute to thinking and ask: how might they tell theories?

The Cinematographic Activities of Charles Rider Noble and John Mackenzie in the Balkans (Volume One)

By: Peter Ivanov Kardjilov

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In the early 20th century, two Britons filmed the first “living pictures” in the Balkans. This book delves into this under-researched period, examining over 1,200 sources to reveal the secrets its early history still holds for lovers of the ‘Seventh Art’.

Art in Literature, Literature in Art in 19th Century France

By: Emilie Sitzia

£44.99

In 19th-century France, painting asserted its independence from literature as art's influence on authors grew. This investigation reveals their complex relationship through case studies of David, Hugo, Van Gogh, and Balzac, shedding new light on both fields.

In 19th-century France, painting asserted its independence from literature as art’s influence on authors grew. This investigation reveals their complex relationship through case studies of David, Hugo, Van Gogh, and Balzac, shedding new light on both fields.

Film and Literary Modernism

By: Robert P. McParland

£44.99

International scholars explore the connections between film, modernist literature, and the arts. Essays highlight cinema's impact on writers like T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, and on directors from Charlie Chaplin to Alfred Hitchcock.

International scholars explore the connections between film, modernist literature, and the arts. Essays highlight cinema’s impact on writers like T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, and on directors from Charlie Chaplin to Alfred Hitchcock.

Post-Dictatorship Argentinian Cinema as a Renarration of Collective Memory

The Spectrum of Absence

By: Carla Grosman, Lilen Gillet

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This book reflects on Argentinean cinema's role in constructing social memory. In the post-dictatorship decade, as institutions fostered forgetting the trauma of military repression, non-hegemonic cinema (1985-1996) became a symbolic mediation for a negotiated, poetic truth.

This book reflects on Argentinean cinema’s role in constructing social memory. In the post-dictatorship decade, as institutions fostered forgetting the trauma of military repression, non-hegemonic cinema (1985-1996) became a symbolic mediation for a negotiated, poetic truth.

Contemporary Southeast Asian Performance

Transnational Perspectives

Edited By: Matthew Isaac Cohen, Laura Noszlopy

£39.99

This volume offers vital insights into recent developments in Southeast Asian performance. Global communications have inspired novel collaborations, with contemporary artists increasingly working beyond the traditional boundaries of nation and discourses of identity.

Gender Studies and Indo-Canadian Literature

Edited By: Mateti Prabhakar

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This book explores the victimization of women in Canadian and Indian fiction. Using feminist literary criticism, it debates issues of gender, feminism, and eco-feminism, showing literature's power to transform contemporary gender relations.

This book explores the victimization of women in Canadian and Indian fiction. Using feminist literary criticism, it debates issues of gender, feminism, and eco-feminism, showing literature’s power to transform contemporary gender relations.

The Public’s Open to Us All

Essays on Women and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England

Edited By: Laura Engel

£44.99

These essays explore how women in 18th-century England used performance to negotiate the public world. As the first actresses, playwrights, and entrepreneurs emerged, they redefined femininity, challenged traditional roles, and shaped cultural imagination.

Out of the Stream

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Mural Painting

Edited By: Luís Urbano Afonso, Vítor Serrão

£34.99

This book reveals the vitality of Medieval & Renaissance murals from Europe's periphery, focusing on the link between image, audience, and daily life. From Denmark to Portugal, these studies offer new perspectives on art from Giotto to anonymous painters.

This book reveals the vitality of Medieval & Renaissance murals from Europe’s periphery, focusing on the link between image, audience, and daily life. From Denmark to Portugal, these studies offer new perspectives on art from Giotto to anonymous painters.

Individual Spirituality in Post-nonclassical Arts Education

Edited By: Olga Oleksyuk

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Ukrainian researchers in arts education present a new model of post-nonclassical knowledge for professional artistic education. This volume offers new pathways for Ukraine's cultural development and will be useful to researchers, educationalists, and students.

Ukrainian researchers in arts education present a new model of post-nonclassical knowledge for professional artistic education. This volume offers new pathways for Ukraine’s cultural development and will be useful to researchers, educationalists, and students.

Joseph Wright, Esq. Painter and Gentleman

By: Andrew Graciano

£34.99

Andrew Graciano’s study re-evaluates Joseph Wright’s career, connecting his art to contemporary science, industry, and economics. Graciano reveals Wright as an intellectual painter and a gentleman whose social standing has been ignored by scholars.

Images and Objects in Ritual Practices in Medieval and Early Modern Northern and Central Europe

Edited By: Krista Kodres, Anu Mänd

£49.99

This collection of essays explores the role of images and objects in the ritual practices of late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. The volume focuses on symbolic communication in Northern and Central Europe, including overlooked regions like Scandinavia and Poland.

Daydream Sequences in Hollywood Cinema since 1947

By: Michael Cribbs

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Daydreams reveal a protagonist’s hopes, fears, and desires. But what do they truly mean for Hollywood cinema? This study investigates fantasy scenes to uncover the key functions daydreams serve from cinematic, thematic, psychological, and ideological perspectives.

Placing the Origins of the Buddha

An Island, Its People, and an Orientalist Odyssey

By: Bhadrajee S. Hewage

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For two centuries, the Buddha’s origin story has been accepted as fact. But is it built on a flawed foundation? This book exposes the stunning inconsistencies in the evidence, demanding a radical rethinking of early Buddhism’s true beginnings.