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Art Theory as Visual Epistemology

Edited By: Harald Klinke

£39.99

"What is knowledge?" is as much a philosophic question as "What is an image?" Visual epistemology is a new research field exploring this link. This publication gathers approaches by distinguished authors to outline this territory and investigate how images create knowledge.

“What is knowledge?” is as much a philosophic question as “What is an image?” Visual epistemology is a new research field exploring this link. This publication gathers approaches by distinguished authors to outline this territory and investigate how images create knowledge.

Academics, Pompiers, Official Artists and the Arrière-garde

Defining Modern and Traditional in France, 1900-1960

Edited By: Natalie Adamson, Toby Norris

£39.99

This collection of essays challenges the modernist slant of 20th-century art history. It investigates the complex relationship both innovative and conservative artists had with tradition, re-evaluating artists pushed to the margins by polemical descriptors.

“The Wandering Life I Led”

Essays on Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin and Early Modern Women’s Border Crossings

Edited By: Susan Shifrin

£39.99

International scholars explore the literary, visual, and theatrical representations of Hortense Mancini. Her transgressions of geographical, gendered, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries enhance our understanding of early modern women and cultural formation.

Brechtian Theatre of Contradictions

Providing Moral Strength under Conditions of Dictatorship

Edited By: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

£39.99

An opponent of the GDR's totalitarian regime, director Heinz-Uwe Haus used theatre to provide moral strength and survive dictatorship. This book collects his work to alert the present about a past too easily misrepresented, hushed up, and forgotten.

An opponent of the GDR’s totalitarian regime, director Heinz-Uwe Haus used theatre to provide moral strength and survive dictatorship. This book collects his work to alert the present about a past too easily misrepresented, hushed up, and forgotten.

Experiments in Freedom

Explorations of Identity in New South African Drama

By: Anton Krueger

£39.99

Experiments in Freedom examines identity in recent South African plays. It explores how drama can represent and transform identity through gender, nationalism, ethnicity, and race in a society grappling with the politics of its past.

Photographing Papua

Representation, Colonial Encounters and Imaging in the Public Domain

Edited By: Max Quanchi

£39.99

This innovative study argues that Papua was created as a place through mass-produced photographs. It switches attention from rare prints to thousands of images in early media, exploring colonialism, representation, and the birth of photo-journalism.

Traveller Friends

Edited By: Paul Harrison, Micheal Ó'hAodha

£39.99

The Travellers depicted in this book were essential agents in their own depiction. Paul Harrison’s arresting photos show a “hidden Ireland” relegated to the societal margins. They haunt the viewer and interrogate what it means to be human.

Britain and Italy in the Long Eighteenth Century

Literary and Art Theories

Edited By: Rosamaria Loretelli, Frank O’Gorman

£39.99

These essays explore the literature, aesthetics, music, and art of the long eighteenth century, with a focus on cultural transfers between Britain and Italy. Collectively, they pave the way for new interpretations of the era's cultural history.

Performing Adaptations

Essays and Conversations on the Theory and Practice of Adaptation

Edited By: Michelle MacArthur, Lydia Wilkinson, Keren Zaiontz

£39.99

This collection of essays and interviews assesses adaptation from the under-explored perspective of live performance. Gutsy scholars and artists demonstrate how adaptation can test and speak back to dominant models of creation, production, and analysis.

Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 3

Making Space, Rethinking Drama and Theatre in Africa

Edited By: Kene Igweonu, Osita Okagbue

£39.99

This collection demonstrates the advances adopted by African theatre practitioners in tackling challenges like colonialism and globalisation. The essays re-conceptualise notions of drama and theatre, exploring space and challenging orthodoxy in evolving contexts.

Arts and Terror

Edited By: Vladimir L. Marchenkov

£39.99

From classical tragedy to post-9/11, these essays explore terror as a perennial theme in the arts—a thread woven into the fabric of artistic expression and life itself.

Agnolo Bronzino

Medici Court Artist in Context

Edited By: Andrea M. Gáldy

£39.99

An international assembly of scholars advances modern perceptions of Florentine artist Agnolo Bronzino. This volume applies fresh research not only to his well-known portraits, but also to frescoes and tapestries, addressing nudity, sexuality, and satire.

Italian Film Directors in the New Millennium

Edited By: William Hope

£39.99

This collection of essays examines new millennium Italian cinema, from established masters like Nanni Moretti to new directors like Paolo Sorrentino. Their films reveal an Italy of converging social and political forces where individuals struggle for self-realization.

The Glory of the Garden

Regional Theatre and the Arts Council 1984-2009

Edited By: Kate Dorney, Ros Merkin

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The Glory of the Garden examines regional theatre, a constant source of anxiety and pride. It moves the debate beyond the cliché of crisis to examine the politics and policy of making performance outside London, combining essays with case studies.

Art as “Night”

An Art-Theological Treatise

By: Gavin Keeney

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Art as “Night” proposes a type of dark, a-historical knowledge crossing painting from Velázquez to Richter and Kiefer. It argues for a non-discursive form of intellection embodied in the work of art—a pure visual and moral agency lost since the Baroque era.

Enacting Nationhood

Identity, Ideology and the Theatre, 1855-99

Edited By: Scott R. Irelan

£39.99

This collection of essays explores constructions of “We the People” during the mid-to-late nineteenth century. It interrogates pro- and anti-enslavement nationalism, partisanship, and armed conflict through dramatic literature and live performance.

Celluloid Saviours

Angels and Reform Politics in Hollywood Film

By: Emily Caston

£39.99

In "film blanc," a spirit helps a hero reform. This book traces the genre from *It's a Wonderful Life* to *The Truman Show*, linking its history to the rise and fall of American liberal thought.

In “film blanc,” a spirit helps a hero reform. This book traces the genre from *It’s a Wonderful Life* to *The Truman Show*, linking its history to the rise and fall of American liberal thought.

Marcel Duchamp and Eroticism

Edited By: Marc Decimo

£39.99

While Marcel Duchamp judged eroticism a vital dynamic in his creation, his work has never been viewed through that spy hole. Researchers from all over the world now "lift the veil" on DADA, Surrealism, and more. The eye, designed to admire, can never really open wide enough.

While Marcel Duchamp judged eroticism a vital dynamic in his creation, his work has never been viewed through that spy hole. Researchers from all over the world now “lift the veil” on DADA, Surrealism, and more. The eye, designed to admire, can never really open wide enough.

The Conformists

Creativity and Decadence in the Bulgarian Cinema 1945-89

By: Evgenija Garbolevsky

£39.99

Explore the paradoxes of Bulgarian cinema under Communist rule. This work reveals why intellectuals chose loyalty to the state-controlled film industry over rebellion, challenging the view of Eastern Bloc art as propaganda by showing its parallels with the West.

Happiness or Its Absence in Art

Edited By: William Barcham, Ronit Milano

£39.99

This volume investigates how Western art has visualized happiness from the Middle Ages to the present. Essays explore the concept within gender, religion, and politics, offering new interpretations of happiness—or its explicit absence.