Memory art in the contemporary world

Memory Art in the Contemporary World deals with the ever-expanding field of transnational memory art, which has emerged from a political need to come to terms with traumatic historical pasts, from the Holocaust to apartheid, colonialism, state terror and civil war. The book focuses on the work of...

John wonnacott

In this first major study of the work of the painter John Wonnacott (b.1940), Charles Saumarez Smith has surveyed a body of work produced at a tangent to the orthodoxies of modernism. Exploring the artist's formative experiences at the Slade, which connected him with artists such as Frank Auerbac...

Leave to remain

Art and photography have played a key role in capturing and reflecting on the conditions for the Brexit referendum. Illustrated by a range of work by artists including Cornelia Parker, Wolfgang Tillmans, David Shrigley, Tacita Dean and Jeremy Deller as well as the satirists Cold War Steve and Led...

Modern architecture in a post-modern era

The history of modern architecture has been well covered in the classical surveys of Sigfried Giedion, Kenneth Frampton, William Curtis, Alan Colquhoun, and others who traced the developments of this major movement that dominated the architectural landscape of the 20th century until the beginning...

Dennis creffield

Hugely admired by artists and writers from Henri Cartier Bresson to the Booker prize winner Howard Jacobson, the extraordinary life and work of painter Dennis Creffield (1931-2018) are explored in this, the first major monograph on the artist. The narrative traces the artist's 'Dickensian' upbrin...

Kurt jackson's sea

Kurt Jackson's Sea captures the beauty of the artist's constantly evolving relationship with one of nature's most challenging subjects.

Visions of heaven

This major new study by internationally renowned scholar Martin Kemp is the first book to consider the impact of Dante's vision of divine light on visual artists of the Renaissance and Baroque.

The master builder

The Master Builder: William Butterfield and his Times is both a comprehensive compendium of the works of one of the most important architects of the 19th century and a portrait of the age in which they appeared. 

Henley halebrown

Henley Halebrown are multi-award-winning architects based in London, producing architecture that takes account of the way people actually use buildings and how they affect our sense of well-being. With insightful essays by founding director and architectural writer Simon Henley, this book highlig...

Art auctions

This accessible new book offers a fresh view of art auctions, exploring their multifaceted role in today’s international art market and their transformation into spectacular theatres of the contemporary art world. From glittering black-tie events to the anonymity of the digital realm, auctions st...

The urban design process

This useful guide sets out clearly the urban-design process in practice, from initial site analysis through consultation, design development, and design delivery across a range of scales within the built environment.

Library of light

Structured around four thematic essays – Political Light, Mediating Light, Performance Light and Absent Light – this book develops our understanding of light as a creative medium and its impact on our cultural history and examines the role that light plays in the new frontiers of art, design and ...

Jacqueline humphries

Over the last three decades, Jacqueline Humphries (b.1960) has, through an innovative painterly process, challenged the limits of abstraction. She has produced a body of work that reaches beyond modernism, Abstract Expressionism, and abstraction as we know it.Multi-layered in application, Humphri...

Mary newcomb

This beautiful new book, compiled by the artist's daughter and grandson, reveals Mary Newcomb as an acute observer of her surroundings, reproducing her copious sketches alongside more finished paintings and short diary extracts to draw out the many themes which preoccupied her throughout her care...

Paul huxley

Paul Huxley RA (b.1938) has enjoyed a distinguished career both as a painter and a teacher. Huxley's fascinating artistic life, expertly surveyed by Jeremy Lewison, is at last given the attention that it deserves in this, the first monograph on the artist. Huxley's early interest in abstraction c...

Here we are, home at last

Nithurst by Adam Richards Architects is a much-lauded, multi-award-winning house designed by the architect for his family, and situated in the picturesque South Downs National Park. The building intentionally feels both ancient and contemporary and the character of the house is informed by Renais...

A circumpolar landscape

A Circumpolar Landscape demonstrates that Canadian and Scandinavian landscape painting reaches far beyond national identity and a preoccupation with Eurocentrism. This study brings together the work of Emily Carr, the Canadian Group of Seven, Anna Boberg, and Gustaf Fjaestad among others, with ea...

Plundering beauty

Arthur Tompkins presents examples of art crimes from wars through history, including the Fourth Crusade, the Napoleonic era, the Second World War and modern-day conflicts in Yugoslavia and Iraq.

Women artists in the reign of catherine the great

Catherine the Great’s audacious power grab in 1762 marked a watershed in imperial Russian history. During a momentous 34-year reign, her rapacious vision and intellectual curiosity led to vast territorial expansion, cultural advancement, and civic, educational and social reform. In this pioneerin...

A bakhtinian approach to the visual arts

First book to develop methodology for transposing Bakhtin’s thought to visual art. Achieved via transpositional theories from S Langer, N Bryson, Vygotsky, P Florensky, P Rawson, Baxandall and Deleuze. Bakhtin’s insights applied to Giotto, Riemenschneider Velasquez, Cezanne, Picasso, Rauschenberg...

Make the dream real

El Vez performances present a powerful message of social justice and inclusion in changing US and social contextsMake the Dream Real interrogates how artist Robert Lopez playful engagements as El Vez hold the United States to its egalitarian promises, voicing and enacting a just, richly inclusive...

The future of humanity (third edition)

Humanity now stands at a crossroads in the history of human civilization, the author, from the perspective of sublating Eastern and Western cultures and civilizations, proposes the concepts of “Global Civilization”and “Great Civilization,” explains their significance and discusses practical appro...

Inclusive musical theatre

Inclusive Musical Theatre is a comprehensive guide that presents a research-backed curriculum and strategies for creating an inclusive and accessible musical theatre rehearsal and performance process at the high school level.

Hyper-imaging

The book addresses the changes in how images behave, how they circulate and affect knowledge, subjectivity, and public exchange. It tackles the urgency that, from social media algorithms to user behaviors, from metadata architectures to interface logics, images today shape, prompt, and govern res...

Embodying the artificial

Embodying the artificial explores dance creation with generative AI and other technologies. Drawing on ethnographic research, it examines the kinesthetic, ontological, and ethical dimensions of human–AI co-creation, offering frameworks for choreographers to engage critically and creatively with i...

Space in the image

Space in the Image is an intercontinental, interdisciplinary book exploring how still and moving images shape our experience of cities. At the intersection of architecture and digital media, it questions how representation and experience evolve in urban life amid rapid urbanization and digital im...

Multimodal comics

Multimodality is of increasing relevance to daily life. Comics are a unique and informative site to study this concept, as they rely on complex interactions between word and image. This collection brings together leading international research, developing comics theory and speaking to additional ...

Cutting up books

Explores writing as experiment and destruction as discovery. Blending theory, art, and practice, it introduces textrapolation: a cut-up method that reimagines creativity, authorship, and knowledge-making in the age of artificial unintelligence. Encourages intellectual play, intuition, and embodie...

The workless

This book contests the hegemonic discourse around 'worklessness' - and dominant definitions of what we recognize as 'work'. It argues the current 'crisis' in economic inactivity is merely the latest in a long line of moral panics that have exaggerated the scale of 'worklessness' while denying the...

Punk & the animal

This book explores synergies, crossovers, and alignments of punk thinking in terms of the animal. It includes contributions from leaders of the punk movement, chapters by artists, scholars of visual and popular culture, animal studies specialists, and others in artistic and art-affiliated discipl...

Alternative futures

Herzogenrath’s collection confronts us with a fantastic oscillation between utopia and dystopia. It presents us with the essence of what it means to engage in artistic research – in fact, research tout court: the desire to get away from a present perceived as deficient, if not disastrous, and loo...

Designwise

DesignWISE introduces a 360-degree, regenerative approach to design development. Bringing together designers, thinkers and changemakers and moving beyond linear processes, combining design thinking, systemic leadership, and earth-based wisdom traditions to foster reflection, intentional action an...

The examined illness

A philosophical memoir of illness, treatment, and recovery full of pain, suffering, humor, and reflections on how to live well during the ordeal of cancer and trials of a stem cell transplant. Being a patient is part of being alive; sooner or later most of us go through it. 

Systems play

Systems Play reveals how contemporary art and design use play to navigate complexity and uncertainty in interconnected systems. Through vivid case studies, it showcases how contemporary artists expand perception and offer blueprints for a more adaptable and humane world. 49 col. illus.

Fat performance

Fat Performance is the first published edited collection dedicated to fat performance. The text connects materials from across scholarship on fat performance and provides the readership with routes into this area of artistic practice and scholarly enquiry.

Media imaginaries

This collection of new work by international scholars on media imaginaries explores the concept as a tool for reflection. Authors empirically and conceptually examine media imaginaries as multiform, providing space for dialogue on themes of political-social imaginaries, cultural-technological ima...

Screening the transition

Screening the Transition examines how Spanish cinema produced in the years immediately following Franco’s death articulated—through its narratives and characterizations—the social and cultural challenges encountered during the country’s transition to democracy. These films reflect emergent post-d...

Helmbrechts walk, 1998–2003

Helmbrechts Walk, 1998-2003 is a memorial testament to the forced march of 580 female Jewish prisoners at the end of the Second World War. This work is a visual representation of the 225 miles that the prisoners were forced to march from the camp in Germany into the occupied portion of Czechoslov...

Principles and techniques of radiological protection

This book describes the regulatory context for radiological protection as well as the conceptual and mathematical tools used to address issues that arise in complying with applicable legislation, regulations and guidance. An essential text for postgraduate students and radiation protection profes...

International school librarianship

Jacques presents a collection of essays on the essential themes of International School Libraries, written by experienced and award-winning librarians. Each chapter uses a narrative style to unpack an important issue or practice, then explores it through theory and vignette. Joyous and profession...

Decolonial media imaginaries

A bold inquiry into media imaginaries and imaginaries-work as tools of decolonial resistance, worldmaking, and collective futurity. DMI pivots away from the digital, technological, and sublime imaginaries created in the service of global capitalism to foreground the potential viability and genera...

Through the prism of the senses

This book is a vital contribution to discussions surrounding research creation and the body in relation to digital media, highlighting the ways in which new technologies confront the sensate, somatic body.

Turkic epics and the nation builders' ideal man

Focusing on two foundational Turkic epics, the Kyrgyz Manas and the Anatolian Köroğlu, this study offers a comparative analysis of masculine ideals and generational authority and the uses to which they were put by nation-builders and rebels.

Women and ghosts in eighteenth-century england

Women and Ghosts in Eighteenth-Century England provides an exploration of eighteenth-century hauntings in the words of the women who experienced them. These female narratives of ghostly experiences formed the foundations for the psychical research that continues today.

Sporting systems and social harm

The book provides a critical, evidence-led account of how sport fails to deliver many of its promised social benefits, how it produces predictable social harms, and what policymakers, regulators, and sport leaders can do about it.

Climate change and the future of boston

An in-depth analysis of the climate impacts facing Boston and the city’s efforts to mitigate and adapt to a changing climate.

Enabling data

Through a story, a model, and a data manifesto, this book challenges the reader to rethink how enabling data can add real value to an organisation.

The anti-social contract

Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in the northernmost part of Mongolia, this ethnography reveals an everyday universe where uncertain relations are as much internally cultivated in indigenous Mongolian perceptions of social relatedness, as it is externally confronted ...

24 bars to kill

Contrary to persistent depictions of an ethnically and economically homogeneous Japan, “ghetto” or “gangsta” J-hop music gives voice to the suffering, deprivation, and social exclusion experienced by many modern Japanese. 24 Bars to Kill gives a fascinating ethnographic account of this music as w...

Planting seeds of knowledge

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, agricultural practices and rural livelihoods were challenged by changes such as commercialization, intensified global trade, and rapid urbanization. Planting Seeds of Knowledge studies the relationship between these agricultural changes and kn...

Coproducing europe

By focusing on regional film markets in Thessasloniki, Sarajevo, and Tbilisi, Coproduction Europe uses comparative ethnography to look beyond the economic nature of film coproductions to explore their role in Europeanisation, memories of the Cold War, and preconstructed political agendas.

One sound, two worlds

Through extensive archival research and conversations with renowned publicists, musicians and insiders, author Michael Rauhut examines more than fifty texts to give an in-depth overview of the historical development of blues music in East and West Germany during the postwar period.

The subject of sovereignty

Exploring the themes of nature, race, and the divine, this book identifies the more realistic alternative in the “relational subject”: a subject that is inseparable from the global field of relations through which it emerges and yet distinct from that field because it lives a life that no one els...

Foreigners in their own country

Paying close attention to how people speak about themselves and their acceptance and rejection by others, this book provides an intimate account of the challenges faced by the millions of people in France—and throughout Western Europe—who fully participate in the life of their country but are oft...

Pepsi and the pill

With the reintroduction of many important debates surrounding reproductive rights, migration and nationalism, Pepsi and the Pill brings to the fore examples and critical historical and media analysis of British and French films in the popular culture and political discourses of 1960s Western Europe.

Life with durham cathedral

An ethnographic account of daily life in Durham Cathedral, this book examines the processes of negotiation and change between a community and their cathedral.

End game

Focusing on major shifts in East Germany leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall, End Game accounts for everyday life from the autumn of 1989 to the first free elections in March of 1990. With an understanding of the events of 1989 as a citizens’ movement as a whole, the volume contextualizes the ...

Cryptopolitics

Focusing on African societies, Crypolitics brings together empirically grounded studies of digital media to draw out the significance of hidden information, double meanings, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages in negotiations of power relations.

Regulation, compliance and ethics in law firms

This second edition has been updated to reflect the replacement of the SRA Handbook with the new regulatory toolkit, the SRA Standards and Regulations, in order to help lawyers acknowledge and develop strategies to accommodate risk management, regulatory and legal compliance and ethical values in...

The origins of german self-cultivation

Informing current debate about the future of the humanities, this volume focuses discussions on the Bildung’s original German context using a multi-disciplinary perspective root out the interesting ways that Bildung continues to shape our understanding of self-formation.

Categories in context

Despite the wealth of empirical research into the interrelationships of gender and labor available, little is known about the forms of classification and categorization shaping these social phenomena. Categories in Context enriches our understanding of how cognitive categories such as status, law...

Audiences of nazism

Innovating against the considerable gap in research surrounding historical media reception within Nazi Germany, Audiences of Nazism finds sources of actual audience responses to critically engage with the Third Reich’s media production legacy.

Migration and health

Despite the centrality of migration in our contemporary world, scholarship on mobility and health frequently separates migrants according to legal status, country of origin, destination, or health concern. Yet people on the move and health systems face challenges and opportunities that transcend ...

Monetising the dividual self

Combining theoretical discussions with shorter case studies, this book offers an anthropological exploration of the emergence in Malaysia of lifestyle bloggers. It tracks the transformation of personal blogs, which attracted readers with spontaneous, authentic accounts of everyday life, into life...

Moving frames

Through an intermedial approach combining studies on cinema and photography, Moving Frames addresses precise historical moments uniquely in a German context. Across films both in and outside the canon, this volume tackles those specific historical moments experienced in media forms to gauge the c...

Of life and health

An anthropological study of the health system of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, Of Life and Health develops a cultural and epistemological lexicon of Dagara life by examining its religious, ritual, and artistic expressions, and gives a holistic account of the Dagar...

Pacific realities

In the context of dramatic changes and processes of “glocalization” across the Pacific region, and avoiding conventional “local-global” dichotomies, this volume explores the new and multifaceted forms of resistance and resilience through which communities attempt to regain their original social, ...

Military politics

Bringing together new research by leading scholars, this volume rethinks the role played by militaries in politics. The volume introduces new theories of military politics, arguing against the inherited theories and practices of civil-military relations, and presents rich new data on senior offic...

Food connections

Food Connections follows the movement of food from its production sites in West Africa to its final spaces of consumption in Europe. It is an ethnographic study of economic and social life amongst a close-knit community of food producers, traders andconsumers and a wide range of small intermediar...

Names and naming in early modern germany

This volume offers a coherent and interdisciplinary approach to a wide variety of early modern subjects centered on onomastics, the study of names. Leading scholars in the field seek to explore the dynamics and impact of this naming (or renaming) process in a variety of contexts: social, artistic...

Creativity and academic activism

Prominent cultural studies scholars from around the world reflect on their institution-building triumphs and setbacks in an era of university managerialism, marketization, and globalization.

Crisis and transformation in china's hong kong

Banana bending

Cdm and sustainable development in china

Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol that was created in the third Conference of Parties in 1997. This book examines the current status and characteristics of CDM projects in developing countries. Secondly, it clarifies ways to adjust the differences in concer...

A phenomenology of trumpism

This thought-provoking book spans historical periods, cultures, and continents to prompt reflection on rhetoric, politics and the enduring challenges of democracy. Revisiting Classical thought, it offers a lens through which to examine the early ideals of democratic governance, social and cultura...

Regulating new media in africa

A collection of research on digital media regulatory interventions across Africa, an area that has largely been overlooked in the literature. It considers a range of perspectives from scholars within and outside Africa on the subject, providing a compendium on digital media regulation on the cont...

Art is the evidence

The practical research guide explores art as both the process of inquiry and the evidence it generates. Universal access across disciplines is encouraged. Artistic intelligence and its sustained personal contributions to human understanding offers a timely complement to science and the exponentia...

Directory of world cinema: central asia

The book follows the format of other DIRECTORIES OF WORLD CINEMA in the presentation of film credits, synopsis and a short critique of key films from each of the Central Asian republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.

Amplifying theatrical horizons

Drawing on scholarship in theatre studies, economics, philosophy, and performance practice, the book develops the Wasteful Theatre Equation, distinguishing waste as surplus that amplifies experience rather than squandered loss.

Youth, power, performance

Draws on over twenty years of scholarship during Diane Conrad's academic career in applied theatre research with systemically marginalized youth in high schools, in a youth jail and with street-involved youth. Explores strategies for engaging youth, the potential for youth empowerment and applied...

Bernhard lang

A critical guide and introduction to the work of Austrian composer Bernhard Lang (b. 1957) - one of Europe’s foremost leading practitioners in contemporary music. It traces the phenomenon of repetition as it works in and through Lang’s oeuvre and investigates his use of textual quotation and musi...

Call me by your name

Enthusiastically received since its 2017 release, Luca Guadagnino's film Call Me by Your Name tells the love story between seventeen-year-old Elio and graduate student Oliver. This edited collection explores how the film speaks powerfully to questions of contemporary sexual identity and romance. ...

Stone

This volume of collected essays, theoretical articles, case-studies, artistic texts and artwork portfolios aims to open a field of thought in which stone is not questioned as a materia prima of artistic work, but rather as a carrier of information.

Shaping citizenship through talk radio

This is a book about how to have an inclusive, reflective and civil national conversation and whether the mass media can contribute to meaningful public debate. In this year-long study of the BBC’s national phone-in show before the 2024 British general election we see the public expressing its mo...