Rivals and Conspirators
This history exposes the rivalry and conflict behind Paris’s rise as the “modern art centre.” It reveals how the most powerful Salons were not the avant-garde, and how a welcoming internationalism gave way to nationalist xenophobia.
Robert Serumaga and the Golden Age of Uganda’s Theatre (1968-1978)
This is the first complete examination of playwright Robert Serumaga’s work and the Golden Age of Uganda’s theatre (1968-1978). It is a study of a theatre of commitment, dissidence, and survival, born under the unrelenting glare of severe, scorching censorship.
Rock Art of the Qsur and ‘Amour Mountains, Algeria
Artists leave some of their bodies in their art. This book studies the embodied intentionality in the works of artists from Algeria’s Qsur and ‘Amour mountains, revealing the sensations and emotions they inscribed into immersive installations and intricate labyrinthine forms.
Romanesque Art and Craftsmanship in Central Europe, 900-1300
This book reviews the embellishing cloister arts of the Romanesque period, discussing work in textiles, ivory, wood, metals, and manuscripts. Illustrations stress common themes, placing these objects of art in their historical and spiritual contexts.
This volume examines past and contemporary Maghrebean texts to explore what it means to be Maghrebean. Scholars focus on the importance of poetics in (re)making roots and (re)tracing routes, mapping the history, art, and literature of the Maghreb region.
Round Heads
The Central Sahara is the world’s greatest “museum” of rock art, but its thousands of prehistoric images have been described and classified, not interpreted. Using interdisciplinary studies, this book proposes new ways to research the art and the societies that created it.
Britishness is a challenging term to define. This volume enhances our understanding of modern national identity by exploring historical ideas of Britishness through essays on literature, philosophy, music, art, and design, revealing its rich forging.
Ruminations, Peregrinations, and Regenerations
A critical approach to Doctor Who, this book examines the famous science fiction show as a cultural artifact. It explores the show’s dialogue with politics, religion, and culture, as well as the peculiarities of its audience response.
Ruptures in the Western Empire
This book investigates the representation of white female captives in Moorish thralldom in Western cinema. It deconstructs how these stories were used for imperialist ambitions and, by rereading this visual culture, gives voice to the stereotyped “other”.
Ruskin’s Struggle for Coherence
The ten essays collected here address the coherence in Ruskin’s multi-disciplinary works. Using interdisciplinary approaches, they explore the “polygon” of his thought and what he called “The Mystery of Life and Its Arts.”
Russian Classical Literature Today
This book explores the struggle for Russia’s literary canon. It reveals how contemporary culture reworks the classics while resisting political and economic pressures, showing how a new canon is forged.
Russian Émigré Culture
This volume offers a collection of critical articles reflecting current perspectives on Russian émigré culture. Scholars shed new light on cultural diplomacy, literature, art, and music, documenting the diversity and impact of this movement on European life.
Sacramental Theology and the Decoration of Baptismal Fonts
Altvater looks at three areas of concern around baptism as a sacrament—incarnation, initiation, and baptism within the Church—and the images that embody that religious discussion. She argues baptismal fonts were necessary to the liturgical life of the medieval Christian.
Salome
Though her name means “peaceful,” Salome is linked to the beheading of John the Baptist. This history describes how the myth of Salome was created through art, literature, and music, and how her image as evil varied according to prevailing cultural myths surrounding women.
Since films like Trainspotting, Scottish cinema has gained an international profile. This is the first collection of essays to examine the new films, filmmakers, and images of Scottishness, setting a new agenda for the study of Scotland on screen.
Searching for America
These essays explore American paintings, prints, sculpture, and architecture from diverse, multidisciplinary points of view. From traditional analysis to post-modernist deconstruction, these critical works represent the multicultural identities of America.
These essays analyse the influences that shaped fictional selves on the early modern English stage. Specialists discuss plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson, revealing the stage self as a site of rich historical and discursive forces beyond the theatre.
Semiotics and Visual Communication II
This book explores the Culture of Seduction, defining it not as sexual enticement, but as a mechanism of attraction and appeal. In an increasingly hyper-real world, this force has powerful agency in communication, advertising, fashion, and packaging design.
This anthology offers readers a greater appreciation of the thought-provoking, informative and compelling subject of the human senses and related sensuous trajectories. It will be of particular value to those interested in aesthetics and the arts.
Sensorium
This book reconfigures art and philosophy by returning to an older meaning of aesthetics: our capacity to receive sensations. Following Deleuze and Lyotard, it frames artists as experimenters with the sensible who extend our perceptual interface with the world.