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Bridging the gap
This volume contains papers and posters presented at the conference Bridging the Gap: Synergies between Art History and Conservation, which was held at the National Museum, Oslo, 23–24 November 2023, organised by the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Conservation Section in collabo...
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European paintings 15th-18th century
This richly illustrated volume brings together papers from the international conference Copying, Replicating & Emulating Paintings in the 15th–18th Century, inspired by the Bosch & Bruegel: Four Paintings Magnified project. Hosted by CATS in Copenhagen, the conference featured contributio...
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Soft paint and the care of paintings
Bronken investigates the phenomenon of soft and dripping paint found in 20th-century oil paintings – a challenge for both the conservator and curator. The constituents of the paint used by various 20th-century artists are examined together with particular artists’ working habits and the locations...
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Paint research in building conservation
A collection of papers highlighting architectural paint research as a vital tool in understanding and conserving historic interiors with a focus on new methodologies, case studies, and practical applications.
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Retouching of art on paper
This volume focuses on interventive retouching in paper conservation—the practice of visually reintegrating lost or damaged media directly on original artworks. It explores the ethical challenges of such interventions, including issues of reversibility, authenticity, and visual integrity. While n...
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Pollutants in the museum environment
For centuries the world's art and artifacts have been brought into museums and collections in an attempt to preserve them and the cultural history they represent. Yet it has become apparent only with the benefit of hindsight and, increasingly, with today's technological advances, that the environ...
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Climate for collections
This volume presents key papers from international conference Climate for Collections: Standards and Uncertainties. Marking the Doerner Institut's 75th anniversary, the event addressed pressing questions around environmental standards for cultural heritage collections in the face of climate chang...
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Sources and serendipity
Drawing from manuscripts, diaries, pigments, and artworks, contributors critically assess historical sources against modern analytical findings. Topics range from 15th-century Romanian illumination to Whistler’s memory drawing and 19th-century Persian ceramics, offering insights into artistic met...
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Studying unmade, unseen, and unreleased film and television
A compendium to the study of unmade, unseen, and unreleased film and television, with case studies, definitions, indications for further reading, and details of methodological and theoretical approaches. A foundational text it also contains new discoveries and perspectives and is a key reference ...
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Ancient egypt
Become an ancient Egyptian coloring artist!Embark on a colorful journey to reveal a hidden Egypt! Explore Egyptian gods, animals, hieroglyphs, designs, and more as you color the elaborate artwork, revealing vibrant details while learning unusual Egyptology facts and coloring tips along the way.Le...
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Tutankhamun
Make Tutankhamun your own! Embellish and add your personal touch to the black-and-white line drawings to transform them into a unique colorful artwork, to frame and display in your home. Use your imagination to color, or follow the coloring tips and suggestions accompanying each art panel, includ...
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Crete in transition
This work presents a classification system and absolute chronology for black-gloss wares from Crete, establishing the first local and regional ceramic sequences during the period from 600 to 400 B.C.
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Global culture after gombrich
The volume presents essays by 10 eminent historians of art and culture provoked by the work of Ernst Gombrich. The collection shows Gombrich’s concerns to have initiated lines of enquiry that spread beyond Europe and across the globe, and makes a vital contribution to the contemporary debate arou...
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Crafted with pride
This collection explores queer craft and the material cultures of LGBTQ+ activism in Britain since the 1980s. It includes contributions from academics, artists, activists, curators, and heritage professionals. The first book of its kind, it weaves together an important web connecting queerness, c...
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The sanctuary of demeter and kore: the terracotta sculpture
The fifth part of the Corinth volume dedicated to the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore publishes the large-scale terracotta sculpture found in the sanctuary. Extending from the late 7th through the 4th century B.C., the sculpture consists of fragments from 132 to as many as 147 statues, from half- t...
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Hunters, heroes, kings
This monograph considers the painted frieze on the facade of Tomb II at Vergina (ca. 330-280 B.C.) as a visual document that offers vital evidence for the public self-stylings of Macedonian royalty in the era surrounding the reign of Alexander the Great.
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Funerary sculpture
Funerary Sculpture is the first volume on sculpture from the Agora in over 50 years, bringing together all the sculpted funerary monuments of the Athenian Agora, Classical through Roman periods, which were discovered during excavation from 1931 through 2009.
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Corinthian conventionalizing pottery
This book provides a full and comprehensive study of Corinthian Conventionalizing pottery found during the American School's excavations at ancient Corinth.
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Performing collaboration in solo performance
Includes the full-length performance score of A Duet Without You, an original piece of collaboratively devised theatre by performance artist and scholar Chloé Déchery and her collaborators Karen Christopher, Pedro Inês, Simone Kenyon, Martin Langthorne, Tom Parkinson, Michael Pinchbeck and Debora...
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Vernacular theatre
A practical description of six intergenerational projects developed during a ten-year period. Over the course of the book the author develops his argument for a form of civic drama that is accessible to all but rigorous in process. Based on work made with citizens of London and Hiroshima. 13 col....
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Shaping global cultures through screenwriting
A powerful testament to the impact of an international collection of female screenwriters, this is a celebration of the women writers who use their artistic lens to educate and empower others. It brings long-overdue attention to the vital role women take in shaping the global cultural landscape. ...
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Becoming a visually reflective practitioner
Considers how self-study using arts-based methods can enable purposeful reflection toward understanding and envisioning professional practice. Presents a self-study model highlighting arts-based methods for examining areas of professional practice: professional identities, work cultures, change a...
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Dystopian and utopian impulses in art making
Explores a variety of artistic responses to contemporary global crises including climate emergency, global and local inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic. Focuses on how artistic production is adapting and offers a series of artistic, curatorial considerations and pedagogical proposals for the ...
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Digital embodiment and the arts
A timely examination of the use of emerging technologies in the arts in recent decades, from the first wave of Virtual Reality through to the current use of Mixed, Augmented and Extended Realities. It highlights the necessity of understanding technological experiences through the assumption that ...
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Gee vaucher
This book situates and critically assesses the substantial body of work created by Gee Vaucher within a lineage of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art history, including radical art production of the 1970s, political protest and street art and punk design, as well as cultural, socio-economic,...
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Art and design in 1960s new york
Art and Design in 1960s New York explores the mutual influence of fine art and graphic design in Manhattan during the long decade of the 1960s.
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Abnormal peripheries
This book traces the early history of performance art in the former Czechoslovakia, which developed in the 1960s and 1970s amid the Prague Spring and the subsequent Normalization period marked by censorship, prosecution, and state pressure on artists. Drawing on Czech and Slovak scholarship, as w...
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Caribbean eco-aesthetics
This edited volume reframes the Caribbean as a paradigm of ecological resilience and creativity by bringing together the voices of contemporary artists and scholars who are at the forefront of environmental activism in the region and across its diasporas.
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Marks she made
This book explores the remarkable life of Begum Samru (c. 1750–1836), a North Indian ruler who rose from courtesan to sovereign, using art and architecture to navigate power in early modern India. Through her story, the book reveals how women defied gender norms to shape public and political sphe...
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Visual arts and medicine in early modern europe and beyond
This book establishes novel points of connection between European art and medicine in early modernity, opening up new perspectives on the material, social, and theoretical basis of each discipline.
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Unlimited action
Extremity might suggest violence, pornography, criminality, misanthropy, danger, recklessness, eccentricity or obscurantism. How has art exceeded its own example through performance art? How have artists used performance to question and overextend the limits of form in the 1970s? And with what ef...
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The 'do-it-yourself' artwork
Spanning a range of practices including kinetic art, happenings, environments, performance, installations, relational and new media art from the 1950s to the present, this critical anthology sheds light on the history and specificity of artworks that only come to life when you – the viewer - are ...
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Art as worldmaking
This collection is a response to Alex Potts’s provocative 2013 book Experiments in modern realism. Twenty essays by leading art historians explore Pott’s recasting of realism, providing a new understanding of artworks dating from the eighth to twenty-first centuries and challenging established th...
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Albrecht dürer’s material world
This highly illustrated catalogue presents new essays on Albrecht Dürer, focusing on an understudied aspect of his practice: the material worlds of manufacture, design and trade.
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Mummified
Mummified explores the curious, unsettling and controversial cases of mummies held in French and British museums. From powdered mummies eaten as medicine to mummies unrolled in public, dissected for racial studies and DNA-tested in modern laboratories, there is a lot more to these ancient remains...
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There is no soundtrack
There is no soundtrack amplifies new and radical audio-visual relationships in experimental media art. It addresses the lack of diversity in the study of art, media and sound through careful audition of marginalised voices that speak of race, gender, sexuality, indigeneity, colonialism, nationali...
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Timed out
Addresses the 'global turn' in art history by way of the transnational Carribbean, 'Timed Out' is a comprehensive study of the art of the Atlantic world in relation to the mainstream history of art.
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Otherwise
A crucial resource for specialists and students seeking to enrich their understanding of the relationship between gender politics and visual culture.
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Kitsch!
From bottle gardens, batman and the bachelor pad to garden gnomes and monogamy spray, this book uses a range of objects to explore the meanings and uses of kitsch. An accessible, comprehensive introduction for students and informed readers, it adds to debates on taste in cultural theory and socio...
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Art history
Art History: A critical introduction to its methods provides a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within art history. Offering a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to post-colonialism, the book provides a sense of art history’s own history as a discipline from its e...
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Hot metal
Hot Metal focuses on the experience of Australian print-workers between the 1960s and 1980s, concentrating on labour, production, design and culture in the context of deindustrialisation.
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Gender, artwork and the global imperative
A theoretically astute overview of key developments in art and its contexts since the 1990s
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Russian orientalism in a global context
This volume features new research by an international group of scholars on Russia’s historic relationship with Asia and the ways in which it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative, and performing arts and architecture from the mid-eighteenth century to the first two decades of Sovie...
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The political aesthetics of the armenian avant-garde
Sheds light on artistic production and the emergence of contemporary art in Armenia from the ruins of the socialist utopian project and the failure to realise the romanticised consumerism of the capitalist West.
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Painting dublin, 1886–1949
This book explores artists’ visualisations of Dublin during a key period of the city’s political and social history. Based on close and contextual readings of original paintings and prints, along with new archival research, it shows how artists in Ireland creatively responded to the urban environ...
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Community arts education
Global perspectives on the transverse, boundary-blurring possibilities of community arts education. Invoking ‘transversality’ as an overarching theoretical framework and a methodological structure, 55 contributors from sixteen countries offer studies and practical cases exploring the complexities...
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Drawing
Despite recent technological changes that have digitized many forms of artistic creation, the practice of drawing, in the traditional sense, has remained constant. However, many publications about this subject rely on discipline-dependent distinctions to discuss the activity’s function. Drawing: ...
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Cinemas of the other
Updated collections of recent interviews with filmmakers whose works represent trends in the film industries of Central Asia and the Middle East, these two new geospecific editions expand upon the earlier volume Cinemas of the Other: A Personal Journey with Film-Makers from the Middle East and Ce...
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World film locations: hong kong
Far more than a simple collection of movie locations, this book delivers a rare glimpse into the history of film production practices in Hong Kong. The rapid development of Hong Kong has occasioned the demolition of buildings and landscapes of historic significance, but film acts as a repository ...
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Kira o'reilly
Artist Kira O'Reilly's works use the uncertain boundaries of bodies to ask what kind of societies become possible in collaborations across species, organisms and bodies. She explores these questions through sustained and experimental engagements with politics, biopolitics, change and the complex ...
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Joshua sofaer
With a mixture of intellect, humour, and striking design, Joshua Sofaer: Performance | Objects | Participation analyses the artist’s oeuvre in the contexts of liveness, visual art and participatory practices. Sample Chapter
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Conservation legacies of the florence flood of 1966
Papers from an important conference marking the 40th anniversary of the catastrophic flooding of Florence in November 1966 and the efforts of the international conservation community in recovering the damaged art works, books and monuments.
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Narrative painting in nineteenth-century europe
How do pictures tell stories? This ground-breaking book analyses visual narrative in nineteenth-century history and genre paintings across Europe. It reveals how artists constructed plots via objects, managing the tension between narrative and style and prompting viewers to weave their own tales.
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Imitating nature
A study of how non-remnant animal representations in natural history museums mediate extinction, construct exhibition narratives and reshape understandings of non-human life through case studies spanning contemporary museums and digital media.
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Multiple and one
This book examines queer and trans* global art practices through creolization, opacity and curatorial knowledge-making, offering decolonising approaches to art history across transcultural contexts from South Florida to Europe, the Americas and east Asia.
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Live art, scotland and the curation of culture
This book offers a critical history of live art in Scotland, tracing how artists, curators and organisations have created the infrastructures that support interdisciplinary and experimental performance across three decades of cultural change.
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Enid marx’s material modern
This book reassesses Enid Marx’s patterns as sites of queer history, imperial modernity and material innovation, offering an archival and contextual study of her designs within interwar British culture, craft networks and racialised constructions of the ‘primitive’.
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The birth of the work of art
Ragnar Josephson’s The Birth of the Work of Art places the sketch at the heart of creativity, tracing how artworks emerge through vision, revision, and transformation. Published in English for the first time, it offers a groundbreaking theory of artistic process, accompanied by new essays on its ...
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Making our own art history
This book traces how Feminist Arts News shaped the women’s art movement by documenting and producing feminist cultural politics, drawing on archival research to explore its role as a decentralised network for artistic, political and intellectual exchange.
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Shaping nineteenth-century art history
This volume gathers twenty-eight essays that reassess nineteenth-century art, criticism and historiography, reflecting Elizabeth Prettejohn’s influence and offering a state-of-the-field account grounded in close looking, interdisciplinary analysis and renewed attention to visual and material prac...
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Ford madox brown
This original book explores the thinking behind Brown’s murals in Manchester Town Hall. It argues that Brown was the most innovative artist in Victorian Britain and that he used this public commission to contest the liberal model of British history favoured by the Manchester Corporation.
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Nextgen collectors and the art market
An incisive survey from bestselling art-market commentator Georgina Adam of the changing landscape of art collecting as a younger generation of collectors disrupts the status quo. Drawing on new interviews with collectors and art-market specialists internationally, Adam examines how changes in co...
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The rise and rise of the private art museum
The Rise and Rise of the Private Art Museum critically examines the growth of private museums in the 21st century, their impact on public institutions and what the future might look like. It is essential reading for museum professionals, art collectors, critics and cultural commentators and anyon...
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Critical filmmaking
An interdisciplinary exploration of critical filmmaking as creative practice research from current and former editors of audio visual journals, examining the journals, platforms, peer review systems, and institutional frameworks that have enabled moving-image work to emerge as a recognised mode o...
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Secretary to the people
Chronicling the evolution of Sheryl Oring’s ongoing project I Wish to Say. Since 2004, Oring has set up a public office to type dictated messages to the US president. Recording how analog communication fosters civic engagement in a digital age. Highlighting intersection of art, democracy and acti...
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Studies in iconography, volume 46 (2025)
"Studies in Iconography" is an annual journal hosted by the Index of Medieval Art and published in partnership with Medieval Institute Publications. It presents innovative work on the meaning of images from the medieval world broadly construed, between the fourth century to the year 1600.
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Attic red figure cups
A scholarly catalogue of Attic red-figure cups in the Penn Museum, part of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum series. Features detailed entries on ~40 vessels, with attributions, comparanda, provenance, bibliography, and illustrative drawings and photographs.
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Studies in iconography, volume 37 (2016)
"Studies in Iconography" is an annual journal hosted by the Index of Medieval Art and published in partnership with Medieval Institute Publications. It presents innovative work on the meaning of images from the medieval world broadly construed, between the fourth century to the year 1600.
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Studies in iconography, volume 45 (2024)
"Studies in Iconography" is an annual journal hosted by the Index of Medieval Art and published in partnership with Medieval Institute Publications. It presents innovative work on the meaning of images from the medieval world broadly construed, between the fourth century to the year 1600.
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Handwriting of the twentieth century
The history of formal calligraphy has been thoroughly documented, and the demise of what people see as beautiful handwriting is frequently deplored, but the details of the teaching of this skill during this century have gone almost unrecorded. Everyday handwriting is ephemeral and school books so...
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Screening europe in australasia
This book’s treatment of the extensive circulation of European silent features and stars in Australasia reveals the vibrant transnationalism of silent film before the rise of Hollywood, and frames the emergence of art house cinema in the 1920s.
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Modulation
This book redefines what an image is—not a fixed representation, but a field of variation. Tracing media from perspective to AI, it shows how images are shaped by continuous tuning and adjustment. A bold theory of the image as modulation across history and technology.
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The b&c kinematograph company and british cinema
This book sheds new light on the under-researched period of early British cinema through a history of the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company in the years 1908-1916, when it became one of Britain’s leading film producers. The book provides an account of its films and personalities, and exp...
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Modernism on the nile
Analyzing the modernist art movement that arose in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, Alex Dika Seggerman reveals how the visual arts were part of a multifaceted transnational modernism. While the work of diverse, major Egyptian artists during this era may ha...
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Conservation of design
An exploration of the challenges of preserving design objects in contemporary museum practice, where objects ranging from prototypes to digital media present new problems for conservators.
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Lesbian bones
Looking at practices of Polish lesbian artists, this book theorises queer women’s presence in Polish art at intersections with archives, history, literature, and affect across time, and proposes lesbian mutual legibility as method.
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Animal drag
This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to Animal Drag – a critical and conscious performance of animality – through chapters that trot, squawk, slither, and crawl through analyses. Each chapter illuminates how Animal Drag, through its social and material interruptions, critiques multiple...
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Propositions for studio inquiry
Examining art studios as a way of thinking through a cross-Canada journey into over 100 painters’ studios. Drawn from ways artists described their process, the studio is presented as an active ecosystem wherein artmaking is emergent, performative, generative, material, speculative, messy and in d...
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Studio potters
This book celebrates and catalogues the Bell Collection of British studio pottery and is an important resource for all those interested in 20th-century ceramics. The collection is centred on the pioneering work of Bernard Leach and his followers.
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Performance in the museum
Based on original research including interviews with art professionals, Performance in the Museum provides a unique and fresh perspective on the museum's role in the development of performance art.
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The art institution of tomorrow
The Art Institution of Tomorrow is a unique manifesto for raising the standard of institutional practices across the world. It suggests that existing art institutions are not equipped to deal with the radical social, economic and environmental change we are living through and engage with advancem...
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The valuation of fine art and design
The Valuation of Fine Art and Design provides a detailed analysis of the art and science of valuation, focussing on the process of assigning monetary values to artworks. The book sets out to educate art-world stakeholders in the nuances of pricing in the broadest sense. Construction of appropriat...
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Christopher wood
The first fully illustrated account of the life and work of English painter Christopher Wood (1901-30), this authoritative work, which includes over 150 images, provides extensive visual analysis of individual paintings, set designs and drawings.
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Albrecht dürer's afterlife
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) enjoyed European-wide fame during his lifetime. Dürer was not only a brilliant painter, but also a pioneering printmaker, experimental draughtsman, book publisher, first German art theoretician and amateur poet. His art was avidly collected, repeatedly copied in diverse...
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Revisiting modern british art
As the twenty-first century unfolds, notions of our cultural past and how our history has influenced our present shift almost daily. Within this, accepted artistic trajectories are being questioned and new connections made. In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking publication, experts in their ...
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Art on the blockchain
The development of blockchain technology over the last decade has had a far-reaching impact on the creation, ownership and trading of artwork, especially digital art. In an accessibly written text aimed at a broad audience of art-world readers, Valérie C. Whitacre demonstrates how the blockchain ...
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The art fair story
In just half a century of growth, the art fair industry has transformed the art market. Now, for the first time, art market journalist Melanie Gerlis tells the story of art fairs' rapid ascent and reflects on their uncertain future. From the first post-war European art fairs built on the imperial...
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Enriching the v&a
By 1862, just a decade after its launch as a study collection for art and design, the Victoria and Albert Museum had become a reference resource for collectors, scholars and art-market experts. Enriching the V&A, the final volume in a trilogy of books on the museum’s 19th-century his...
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Philanthropy in the arts
Arts philanthropy is at a crucial moment: many arts organisations are facing a financial crisis, the 2020-21 Covid-19 pandemic exposed the fragility of existing funding structures, and various social initiatives and causes have thrown renewed focus on how the arts are funded. Around the world, a ...
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Ai art and the stakes for art criticism
In an era when AI-generated images flood our screens and algorithms shape our visual culture, how do we critically evaluate art made by machines? Nora N. Khan's study cuts through the hype and mystification surrounding AI art to explore the field’s stakes for art criticism. The book attempts to m...
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Vermeer and the art of love
Vermeer and the Art of Love is about the emotions evoked in those elegant interiors in which a young woman may be writing a letter to her absent beloved or playing a virginal in the presence of an admirer. But it is also about the love we sense in the painter’s attentiveness to every detail withi...
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Ai and the art market
AI and the Art Market is the first book to offer an approachable introduction to AI for art-market professionals, considering AI’s impact on and possible applications within the art world, whether as a business tool or as an artistic medium. The two primary topics of how AI is affecting the art m...
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