Images of Conflict
Striking aerial views of war and its scarred landscapes are the focus of this unique book. For the first time, military historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists explore the history and technology of military aerial photography to reassess the landscapes of conflict.
American Museums and the Persuasive Impulse
More than just collections, museums are powerful engines of persuasion. This book reveals how their contents and displays influence visitors as effectively as any speech or advertisement, uncovering their profound cultural roles and power.
These essays engage with the connection between aesthetics and radical politics. Moving beyond Marxist approaches, they explore culture from other radical positions—anarchist, autonomist, and ecological—revealing an exhilarating break with earlier cultural critique.
This collection of essays explores the enduring afterlife of medieval art and architecture. It examines how medieval works were preserved, restored, and appropriated from the 16th to 20th centuries to shape modern political, religious, and cultural practices.
John Guare’s Theatre
John Guare’s aesthetic principle: a play must be grounded in reality; only then can it soar. This study explores his dramas, which soar by interrupting action, mixing genres, and taking hairpin turns to explore the American heritage and Dream.
The popular view that “everyone can be creative” is a fashionable nonsense. But so was the old idea that creativity is only for a select few. This book shows an alternative way to understand creative thinking that will change how we see imagination and innovation.
These essays examine the elusive dream of the Irish and Irish Americans. From 19th-century emigrants to contemporary artists, this study explores the conflicted visions of a people striving to come to terms with what it means to be Irish.
“Celebrating Confusion”
This study explores the challenging work of Frank McGuinness. Combining cultural, political, and theatrical analysis, it charts his development and makes the case for him as the most significant Irish playwright of his generation.
Evolution and I discusses and sheds light on human knowledge and evolution from a range of perspectives including morals and ethics, sex and gender, religion, artificial intelligence, and microorganisms, with often surprising conclusions illuminating who we are as humans.
Images of the City takes readers on a journey through urban landscapes across centuries and borders. These essays offer a truly interdisciplinary perspective on the city, providing essential reading for cityphiles everywhere.
From Word to Canvas
This innovative collection of essays examines how women artists and writers use myth to explore feminine identity. Spanning literature, performance, and visual art, these global contributions reveal a powerful “feminine gaze” that gives myths new force.
The Public’s Open to Us All
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.
Making Meaning, Making Money
The arts are at the heart of policy discussions, but as culture is justified by its commercial value, is its intrinsic worth at risk? Leading thinkers debate the directions cultural policy should take in the future. For artists and policy makers.
Cosimo I de’ Medici as Collector
Antiquity collections were manifestations of power. This study explores the collection of Cosimo I de’ Medici, using unpublished sources to reconstruct its display and reveal the political aims behind one of the major princely collections of its time.
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.
The Apothecary’s Chest
This collection of essays explores the intertwined notions of magic, science, and superstition in figures like the apothecary, alchemist, and shaman. Topics range from the mystical traits of mundane materials to the origins of the occult and the modern poet.
Architecture and Royal Presence
This book offers an interpretation of Spanish architectural patronage in Naples. Focusing on architects Domenico Fontana and his son Giulio Cesare, it shows how Naples participated in the imperial program and explains the delayed flowering of its Baroque architecture.
Papers from the First and Second Postgraduate Forums in Byzantine Studies
This provocative, wide-ranging collection of essays sheds new light on controversial facets of Byzantine history, religion, literature, and art. Sailing to Byzantium is a must for students and academics of one of history’s most fascinating civilizations.
Telling Stories
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?
Friends and Foes Volume I
What constitutes friendship? What challenges, duties and pleasures does it entail? This volume of philosophical and cultural essays offers an illuminating investigation of the relationship between friendship and conflict, exploring its compelling ambiguities.