Art & Visual Culture

Including over 100 illustrations from mainstream film to independent film, video art, performance and the visual arts, this important and original book is the first to exclusively explore how technology has affected artist's abilities and forms to express themselves...

Including over 100 illustrations from mainstream film to independent film, video art, performance and the visual arts, this important and original book is the first to exclusively explore how technology has affected artist's abilities and forms to express themselves...

Employing a wide range of approaches from various disciplines, contributors to this volume explore the diverse ways in which European art and cultural practice from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries confronted, interpreted, represented and evoked the realm of the sensual. Collectively..

Employing a wide range of approaches from various disciplines, contributors to this volume explore the diverse ways in which European art and cultural practice from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries confronted, interpreted, represented and evoked the realm of the sensual. Collectively..

Focusing on three celebrated northern European still life painters, Jan Brueghel, Daniel Seghers, and Jan Davidsz. de Heem, this book examines the emergence of the first garland painting in 1607-1608, and its subsequent transformation into a widely collected type of devotional image, curiosity, and ..

Explicitly interdisciplinary in approach, this collection opens up a critical discourse on sexuality and visual culture in early modern Italy. 'Sex acts' is interpreted broadly, from the acting out, or performing, of one's (or another's) sex to sexual activity, including what might be considered pec..

Explicitly interdisciplinary in approach, this collection opens up a critical discourse on sexuality and visual culture in early modern Italy. 'Sex acts' is interpreted broadly, from the acting out, or performing, of one's (or another's) sex to sexual activity, including what might be considered pec..

The essays in this interdisciplinary collection draw on visual art, theatre, music, history and literature, in sacred and secular contexts, to explore the cultural fashioning of sexualities in early modern Italy. Approaching the topic from the point of view of both visual and auditory media, the ess..

The essays in this interdisciplinary collection draw on visual art, theatre, music, history and literature, in sacred and secular contexts, to explore the cultural fashioning of sexualities in early modern Italy. Approaching the topic from the point of view of both visual and auditory media, the ess..

How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age? Andre Lepecki surveys a decade of visual art and experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of ‘performance’ in the twenty first century – not just as an aesthetic category but al..

Through examinations of internationally-renowned architects, Bradbury demonstrates that Sir John Soane’s influence has been truly international in the pre-modern era, reaching throughout the British Isles and beyond to North America and even colonial Australia. Through his inclusion of select, detai..

Through examinations of internationally-renowned architects, Bradbury demonstrates that Sir John Soane’s influence has been truly international in the pre-modern era, reaching throughout the British Isles and beyond to North America and even colonial Australia. Through his inclusion of select, detai..