Playing with Possibilities sits at the heart of all creative endeavours. This collection brings together thinkers and writers to explore the potential of play to shape who we are and the worlds we live in, asking us to celebrate fanciful approaches to living.
Art as Adventure
This title gathers insights from artists and art historians about journeys to places and methods of practice that challenge perceived taxonomies. It offers various perspectives on how artist-travelers have embraced and contextualized the experiences encountered on their travels.
Kam Women Artisans of China
Deep in southwestern China, in a village called Dimen, live several women who are masters of many cultural arts. Lee’s study presents an opportunity to learn from the past long lost in Western tradition and experience ancient culture transforming under the pressure of technology.
Spanish Royal Patronage 1412-1804
Portraits have a long history in royal courts as a way of communicating the monarch’s status, rulership, and even piety. This anthology places such art works studied in the context of their commission, production, and display, with a specific focus on Spain.
Art and Future
This publication examines the future of art in a changing world. In particular, contributors discuss the agency of art in conditions of ecological threats to the natural world, to climate change and the effects of globalisation, neoliberal economics and mass tourism.
The contributions here offer new insights into aspects of Russian émigré culture already known to scholarship, but also detail new facets of the phenomenon, highlighting the significance of places of seemingly secondary importance such as Prague, Istanbul and India.
This is the first book to contextualize the collaborations between museums and public art through a range of essays marked by their coherence of topical focus, written by leading and emerging scholars and artists, and represents a major contribution to the field of art history.
Paravano investigates the issue of multilingualism in the Caroline age through the lens of Richard Brome’s theatre. She analyses Brome’s multilingual representation of early modern London between 1625 and 1642, a multilingual and cosmopolitan city.
The contributions here are the product of papers presented at a conference, and cover a broad spectrum of subjects such as indigeneity, music, song and identity, politics, national reconciliation, education, product development and national development.
Dao Entrepreneurship
Thornquist presents an artistic and aesthetic perspective on auteur-driven entrepreneurial management that is overlooked in traditional organizational analysis. He builds on this through an exploration of Bergsonian ontology and Daoism methodology.
Dealing with Authorship
This title examines the multiple ways in which the progressive (self-) fashioning of authors and filmmakers interacts with the public sphere, generating authorial postures and arousing attention. It analyses the works of both canonical and non-canonical authors and filmmakers.
This volume discusses pressing issues in contemporary artistic education and culture. It explores how artistic education preserves national traditions, contributes to international integration, and navigates the challenges of the 21st century.
Italian Architects and Builders in the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey
This collection covers a complex cultural and political geography spanning from the Danubian principalities to Anatolia and the Aegean region. It explores a rich transcultural field of encounters and interactions, analysed on the basis of hitherto uncovered archival materials.
Psoni shows the importance of, and the various roles played by, the feminine figure in the work of both W.B. Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos, highlighting the essential role assumed by the gynocentric mythology permeating the work of the two poets.
This volume challenges established knowledge in Dance Studies, exploring how dance can affect change and politics. It ‘undisciplines’ academic thinking, creating alternative modes for perceiving and making through choreographic practices, somatics, and critical dance pedagogies.
Following Forms, Following Functions
The contributions here are devoted to the analysis of the relationship between form and function, two concepts that have played, and continue to play, an important role in several disciplines, from philosophical reflection to theoretical biology.
Representing Africa in the Motherland and the Diaspora
This publication gathers scholars from Africa, Europe and the USA to explore the representation of Africa in the performing arts and cinema. It represents an extended dialogue between African scholars and artists about the challenges of representing themselves and their societies
Colonial Self-Fashioning in British India, c. 1785-1845
De Silva considers the ways in which British residents in India represented their lives through visual material, and reveals that the position of the British population in the country in the 19th century was often more nuanced than often assumed.
Bringing together specialists from various backgrounds, this book establishes, and then analyses, the interrelation between series and dependence by focusing on two aspects of their connection: the overconsumption of TV series, and the production devices that lead to it.
Contemporary Art and Community Altruism in Oaxaca
Pyatt relates a longitudinal participant observation and analysis of the behaviour of the Oaxacan art community in Mexico, focusing on the cultural production, interaction and collective action of its members as an integrated sector of civil society.
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