Visual Arts

Conservation Issues in Modern and Contemporary Murals

Edited By: Tom Learner, Mercedes Sanchez-Pons, Will Shank

£62.99

This volume is a forum for conservators, scientists, artists, and heritage managers on the complex task of preserving our changing heritage. It unites theoretical reflections, scientific studies, and the vital experiences of all partners involved.

Women Framing Hair

Serial Strategies in Contemporary Art

By: Heather Hanna

£47.99

This book explores the complex motif of hair in the work of five contemporary women artists. It investigates why hair is such a resonant site of meaning, exploring its history as a marker of identity, beauty, and power, and its darker side representing trauma.

Adaptations

Some Journeys from Words to Visuals

Edited By: Anugamini Rai, Shri Krishan Rai

£41.99

This book explores the journey of written text to the screen, focusing on cinematic adaptations of Indian and international literary works. It engages with issues like ‘fidelity’ and ‘intertextuality’ in the works of Tagore, Satyajit Ray, and others.

Art and Money

Edited By: Peter Stupples, Jane Venis

£41.99

Art and money are both given symbolic value, turning a simple object into a commodity. These essays examine this complex relationship across different cultures and historical periods, from Renaissance Italy to contemporary Pop Art.

British Pop Art and Postmodernism

By: Justyna Stępień

£41.99

British Pop Art was a central part of social change in the Sixties. Drawing from postmodern thought, this book critically examines the movement's mass-produced aesthetics, confirming its relevance to current debates on art and culture.

British Pop Art was a central part of social change in the Sixties. Drawing from postmodern thought, this book critically examines the movement’s mass-produced aesthetics, confirming its relevance to current debates on art and culture.

Useless Beauty

Flowers and Australian Art

By: Ann Elias

£52.99

The story of Australian art is not just landscape. Useless Beauty puts flowers front and centre, exploring how major artists like Margaret Preston and Sidney Nolan used blossoms to define identity and bring a psychological dimension to the everyday.

Photography and Cinema

50 Years of Chris Marker’s La Jetée

Edited By: Teresa M. Flores, Joana Cunha Leal, Margarida Medeiros

£52.99

Visionary filmmaker and photographer Chris Marker blurred the lines between the still and moving image. This volume explores this fusion through his masterpiece La Jetée, analyzing its profound and lasting influence on art and cinema.

Eloquent Design

Essays on the Rhetorics of Vision

By: Lisa A. Baird

£41.99

From cave to computer, Eloquent Design explores ancient image-making as a basis for understanding the modern uses of image-texts in New Media. It proposes a generative method called “Rhetorical Vision” for creating innovative image-texts.

Shifting Paradigms in Culture

A Study of Three Plays by Jean Genet—The Maids, The Balcony and The Blacks

By: Payal Nagpal

£41.99

This book frees Jean Genet’s plays from the overpowering Sartrean perspective, revealing the hidden spaces of the prison and brothel. It traverses challenging issues—the ghettoized existence of social discards and others rotting on the margins.

The Art of the Real

Visual Studies and New Materialisms

Edited By: Roger Rothman, Ian Verstegen

£41.99

Art of the Real registers the materialist turn in contemporary visual studies. As scholars move beyond post-structuralist theory, this is the first book to treat the new materialism for its meta-theoretical commitments, ontology, and political implications.

Hermeneutics of Megaliths

By: Costas Maritsas

£41.99

This book offers a provocative new interpretation of megaliths, arguing they mark humanity's transition from natural selection to civilization. It reveals their original purpose as scenes for primordial theatrical performance and explores sites from Stonehenge to Gobekli Tepe.

This book offers a provocative new interpretation of megaliths, arguing they mark humanity’s transition from natural selection to civilization. It reveals their original purpose as scenes for primordial theatrical performance and explores sites from Stonehenge to Gobekli Tepe.

Sketches from My Boyhood by Justinus Kerner

Edited By: Harold B. Segel

£47.99

Romantic poet Justinus Kerner’s Sketches from My Boyhood is a vivid, charming, and entertaining narrative of growing up in Württemberg. Set against the ever-present reality of the French Revolution, it is a gem of 19th-century autobiographical writing.

Bodies of Desire and Bodies in Distress

The Golden Age of Italian Cult Cinema 1970-1985

By: Xavier Mendik

£39.99

Explore the golden age of 1970s Italian cult cinema. This book considers the social and political factors that spawned a decade of stylish films dominated by extreme sexuality and violence, profiling icons like Dario Argento and genres from giallo to sex comedy.

European Theories in Former Yugoslavia

Trans-theory Relations between Global and Local Discourses

Edited By: Zarko Cvejić, Andrija Filipović, Miško Šuvaković

£47.99

Theories are not directly transferred from the centre to the margins, but are borrowed, translated, and reinterpreted. Posed from the perspective of former Yugoslavia, this book explores the tense relationship between original theories and their transformed perspectives.

We Speak a Different Tongue

Maverick Voices and Modernity 1890–1939

Edited By: Yoonjoung Choi, Anthony Patterson

£47.99

This collection challenges the privileging of modernism, focusing instead on modernity. It foregrounds marginalised writers—from H.G. Wells to Djuna Barnes—who responded to the era's tensions with innovations distinct from modernist experimentation.

This collection challenges the privileging of modernism, focusing instead on modernity. It foregrounds marginalised writers—from H.G. Wells to Djuna Barnes—who responded to the era’s tensions with innovations distinct from modernist experimentation.

Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Literature and Drama

Edited By: René Agostini, Madelena Gonzalez

£52.99

What is the value of art in an age of corporatized knowledge? This volume explores the crucial intersection of aesthetics and ideology. Through a wide range of international examples, these essays argue that the arts are fundamental to any progress in society.

A New Gaze

Women Creators of Film and Television in Democratic Spain

Edited By: Concepción Cascajosa Virino

£47.99

This book examines the work of professional women in Spanish film and television since the arrival of democracy. Focusing on well-known names while rescuing others from oblivion, it analyzes their contributions and challenges through essays and interviews.

The Sides of the North

An Anthology in Honor of Professor Yona Pinson

Edited By: Tamar Cholcman, Assaf Pinkus

£47.99

In tribute to Yona Pinson’s extensive work on Northern Renaissance art, this volume offers new insights from leading scholars. It covers a broad spectrum of topics, genres, and media, from Bosch to gender, and an overview of contemporary art scholarship.

Magical Suspension

The Movies as a Fun Experience

By: James Combs

£47.99

This book argues that movies appealed because they were fun. It examines the magic, myth, and memory that made films so enjoyable, and considers their significance as a cultural movement that has changed our lives. After all, the whole world is watching.

On the Edge of the Panel

Essays on Comics Criticism

Edited By: Julio Cañero, Esther Claudio

£52.99

This collection of essays explores comics as a bridge between pictorial and literary expression. The book reflects on the medium's cultural and historical dimensions, focusing on its unique formal tools, its origins, and its most influential authors.

This collection of essays explores comics as a bridge between pictorial and literary expression. The book reflects on the medium’s cultural and historical dimensions, focusing on its unique formal tools, its origins, and its most influential authors.

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