Performing punctuation

A transdisciplinary collection raising awareness of the limiting effects of the dominance of English language and vociferous use of punctuation. How can English language punctuation discard its domineering and strident overcoat to enable a greater diversity of readers, listeners, performers, writ...

Pictures as language

Christopher Walter's research on Byzantine art emphasises the significance of iconography, as the Byzantines believed pictures could convey messages. This collection of Walter’s essays explores the way in which images were used in manuscripts, for ecclesiological purposes, to instruct on liturgy,...

Hieronymus bosch

This book unveils Bosch's religious insights in late triptychs, revealing his artistry. It connects his work to hagiography, Devotio moderna, and medieval hermeneutics. The analysis covers other paintings and influences, offering a deeper understanding of Bosch's religiosity and genius.

The form of meaning / the meaning of form vol. 1

Irving Lavin's two-volume collection spans Late Antiquity to 20th-century art, covering Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, 16th-century, Baroque, and Modern Art. Notable works are on Late Antique architecture and North African mosaics, Italian Renaissance, and 20th-century art like Picasso's pr...

Romanesque art, vol. ii

These two volumes of Professor Sauerländer's studies on Romanesque art, complement his works on Gothic art. The studies revolve around themes such as structures, classification, geography, and the development of Romanesque art in Italy and the Holy Roman Empire, providing an updated perspective o...

Studies in the layout, buildings and art in stone of early irish monasteries

Michael Herity's essays focus on Early Christian Ireland (400-700). The collection explores monasteries, hermitages, their layouts, cross-carved slabs, and pilgrimages, and discusses the development of ideas based on Françoise Henry's work and insular Chi-rho crosses.

Studies in burgundian romanesque sculpture, volume ii

Romanesque sculpture in Burgundy, a crucial part of 11th and 12th-century European history, reflects the region's economic growth and monastic influence. Neil Stratford, a renowned expert, compiles two volumes of his studies on this topic, including lesser-known monuments and new insights. Vol.I:...

The decorative arts of europe & the islamic east

This book offers a unique introduction to European and Near Eastern art and culture from the Renaissance onwards, exploring the exchange of artistic ideas between Europe and the Islamic world. The essays highlight the mutual influence between these two cultures and emphasize their shared classica...

Byzantium, eastern christendom and islam vol. ii

These two volumes explore the role of visual arts and architecture in the cultural exchange between medieval Christian and Muslim societies in the eastern Mediterranean. The focus is on Egypt, Syria and Palestine. Vol. I covers Byzantine and Egyptian Christian art, while Vol. II studies Syrian Ch...

Studies in persian art, volume ii

This second volume of Basil Robinson's Studies concentrates on Persian manuscript illumination, beginning with six studies of artists who worked in this medium. There then follows twenty-two studies of individual manuscripts, from the fourteenth century onwards.

Dark film, blood money

A thought-provoking interpretation of neo-noir filmmaking, from the 1970s to the 2020s, through the lens of the economic, encompassing issues of trust, professionalism, race, artistic influence, and the relation between business and family. 14 b&w illus.

Forget-me-not, iran

Facing hardship, enduring pain, losing all – such things are a bitter pill to swallow for anyone. For those devoted to the life of the spirit, cruel misfortune – even violent opposition – are familiar stages of the journey of life. Walking a spiritual path in a material world is rarely an easy ex...

African luxury

Moving far beyond predominant views of Africa as a place to be 'saved', and even more recent celebratory formulations of it as 'rising', African Luxury: Aesthetics and Politics highlights and critically interrogates the visual and material cultures of lavish and luxurious consumption already pres...

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...

The poetics of poetry film

The first book of its kind, it classifies the different types of poetry film, shedding light on the fast-growing genre and citing works from poetry filmmakers worldwide. A ground-breaking industry bible for anyone interested in poetry, digital media, filmmaking, art and creative writing as well a...

Reframing consciousness

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. ...

The politics of belonging in algerian art

This book examines how Algerian artist Denis Martinez, particularly through 7 murs revisités (1989), drew on Amazigh art and other marginalized visual forms to articulate alternative forms of belonging in postcolonial Algeria. By integrating these traditions into modern painting, Martinez challen...

New world objects of knowledge

With contributions from a renowned set of scholars, New World Objects of Knowledge delves into the hidden histories of forty of the New World’s most iconic artifacts, from the Inca mummy to Darwin’s hummingbirds. This volume is richly illustrated with photos and sketches from the archives and mus...

Allegory in byzantium

This book is about major early Byzantine works of art such as the ivory Cathedra of Ravenna, the Purple Codex of Rossano, and the Cypriot silver plates of the life of David held in Nicosia and New York. It brings a novel and innovative approach to the art of Constantinople in the 6th and 7th cent...

Georges braque’s post-cubism masterpieces

The book features a group of 32 works by Georges Braque made after his cubist period. They are accompanied by new texts on the subject by Professor Frederic Montegu. All the works illustrated were painted between 1920 and 1960. It showcases the vision of a collector focusing on one of the artist’...

Imagining byzantium

With the rise of nationalism in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th century, the reception of Byzantium gained new facets and dimensions. In this volume some light will be shed on the different ways in which »Byzantium« was used in constructing new national narratives, and how i...

The church of the nativity in bethlehem

The decorative programme of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem dates back to the third quarter of the twelfth century, and represents a unique testimony of its time, in its historical, theological, and art-historical aspects.

Figures of presence and absence

An introduction to the dispute about religious art conducted in France from the beginning of the sixteenth century until the end of the eighteenth century. The debate involved not only Catholic and Protestant theologians, but also lay writers who tried to replace dogmatic Christianity with the ‘r...

In neuem glanz. with new splendour.

This exhibition catalogue provides insight into the spectacular conservation of this masterpiece from the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. The Crucified Thief fragment, by the "Master of Flémalle", shines in new splendour. The book documents the spectacular results of the restoration, and describes an...

The medieval church art collection

The collection of medieval church art at the University Museum of Bergen is among the finest in Europe. Most of the objects came from churches along Norway’s west coast, but their style, techniques and iconography reflect the cultural connections that tied these lands to other areas surrounding t...

Aquamanilien

In this multi-award-winning study, Joanna Olchawa sheds light on the extraordinary utensil type known as aquamanile, watering vessels for the hand washing rite. The detailed research not only on Christian, but also on Islamic works leads to a new view of the bronze utensils of the Middle Ages.

The lady with the phoenix crown

The undisturbed tomb of Li Chui who had died in AD 736, a descendant of emperor Gaozu, was excavated in Xi’an in 2001. A German-Chinese team restored the intricate grave furnishings, and this richly illustrated book presents the results of the restoration to a wider English-speaking public, provi...

The smiling angel

The so-called Smiling Angel is the acknowledged star attraction of the Regensburg Cathedral. What makes the angel laugh so lustily? The question arises with a good reason, and it arouses people’s curiosity as to the story behind this life-size stone statue, which is about 730 years old.

Der tassilo-liutpirc-kelch aus dem stift kremsmünster

Kremsmünster Abbey houses one of the most precious liturgical vessels of the early Middle Ages: a lavishly decorated and magnificently inscribed communion chalice. This illustrated book provides for the first time a comprehensive descriptive and pictorial documentation of the chalice.

Jewellery of princely kiev

In the capital of Kievan Rus’, princely Kiev, almost 70 medieval hoards containing gold and silver jewellery of the ruling dynasty and the Christian Church have been discovered to date. This book provides a complete picture of the three largest of these hoards discovered in Kiev, and traces the h...

King ludwig i´s gallery of beauties

The gallery of beautiful women, painted by Joseph Karl Stieler for King Ludwig I, still exerts an unusual fascination for visitors to Munich’s Schloss Nymphenburg. All 36 paintings are reproduced here in colour; the catalogue includes details of the history of the individual portraits and the per...

Occidentalism in egypt

A nuanced study of the struggle for modern identity in Egypt through artTher is no shortage of depictions of Arabs from the Western world. But what about Europeans? How are they perceived and understood in the Arab world? Focusing on visual culture, Occidentalism in Egypt sets out to establish a ...

Etruscans in berlin

Works of art by the Etruscans, the legendary people from central Italy, have been on display again at the Altes Museum in Berlin since 2010. The richly illustrated accompanying book gives a vivid overview of Etruscan culture and presents remarkable objects from the Berlin Collection of Classical ...

Cappenberg - der kopf, das kloster und seine stifter

The so-called Cappenberger Barbarossakopf is one of the most famous and well-known monuments of 12th century art. This book sheds new light on the importance of Cappenberg for the spread of the Premonstratensians, but above all it explains the origin, function and significance of the Cappenberg h...

Ancient egyptian statues

A fascinating, richly illustrated study of the role and significance of ancient statues in Egyptian history and beliefWhy do ancient Egyptian statues so often have their noses, hands, or genitals broken? Although the Late Antiquity period appears to have been one of the major moments of large-sca...

Das taufbecken von siena // the baptismal font from siena

Donatello's ‘Putto with Tambourine’ (1429) is the starting point of this book, focusing on the plaster model of the baptismal font of Siena, over five and a half metres high, from the collection of the Gipsformerei, cast for the Berlin museums in the course of a major casting project in the 1870s...

Glass along the silk road from 200 bc to ad 1000

Since Antiquity, the ‘Silk Road’ was a network for commercial and cultural exchange, criss-crossing the Asian continent, connecting eastern and south-eastern Asia to the Mediterranean world via maritime and overland routes. Goods travelled in both directions; glass is an excellent example for a t...

Art from your core

A holistic guide to finding and cultivating the art that you alone were born to make. Through a series of exercises, artists peel away the cultural and psychological obstacles to building a resonant life, and dig deeply into their own unique identities and experiences to unearth and intensify the...

Let's talk about critique

Explores the tradition of critique in art and design education. It contextualizes current practices and suggests ways to have more open, inclusive and dynamic classroom conversations about art and design. The centerpiece is a collection of alternative critique approaches developed by experienced ...

Bringing modernity home

Bringing Modernity Home offers a retrospective view of the development of popular taste and the beginnings of a new phase in the rise of the consumer society in the post Second World War period.

The return of twin peaks

Franck Boulègue's latest book about David Lynch and Mark Frost's famous television series focuses on the eighteen new episodes directed by Lynch for season 3, screened in 2017. Analyses the season with special importance given to readings from an intertextual, ontological and spiritual perspectiv...

Bergson and durational performance

Explores the possibility of an alternative experience of time, one that is closer to the pure duration described by philosopher Henri Bergson. Contributes to contemporary performance analysis, philosophy and Bergson studies and examines aspects of immersive and participatory performance, ritual a...

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...

Leigh bowery

A deep dive into the practice of performance artist Leigh Bowery that reveals the fullness of his extravagant range. Explores how his performative costuming and live art have influenced visual culture and the expanded field of performance studies as well as fashion. With a Foreword from Boy Georg...

Into the story 2

Following the first collection of story drama structures, Into the Story 2: More Stories! More Drama! presents a well-argued approach to the value of children’s picture books as a way to look at contemporary issues of social justice while building connections that promote a literacy that is multi...

Studies in the decorative arts of the muslim world

Of the twelve articles from Ernst Grube’s research on various aspects of art in the Muslim world published in this volume, six are concerned with pottery, one deals with Ilkhanid stucco work as represented in the mausoleum of the Shaykh Muhammad ibn Bakran, near Isfahan, and four deal with the d...

Franklin furnace and the spirit of the avant-garde

Franklin Furnace is a renowned New York-based arts organization that preserves, documents and presents works of avant-garde art by emerging artists. This book shows its comprehensive history from conception to the present. It intersperses first-person narratives with readings by artists and schol...

Studies in byzantine, islamic and near eastern silk weaving

This volume complements Anna Muthesius' previous works, emphasizing the selection patterns in acquiring silks by secular and ecclesiastical bodies. It highlights the continuous flourishing of Mediterranean/Near Eastern silk trade, the role of Caucasian silk routes, and the impact on Byzantine and...

Jan van eyck and portugal's 'illustrious generation' vol. ii

This book explores Jan Van Eyck's diplomatic role and patronage by Portugal and Burgundy. It identifies new portraits and delves into Arthurian and chivalric themes. It posits a second diplomatic mission in 1437 and discusses late Van Eyck commissions in historical context.

Studies in medieval art and interpretation

Cahn's diverse interests in Romanesque art from the 11th and 12th centuries, including sculpture, painting and book illumination, are displayed in this collection. Themes include the relationship between art and Biblical exegesis, Cistercian art, art's role in expressing beliefs, the depiction of...

Romanesque art, vol. i

These two volumes bring together Professor Sauerländer's papers on Romanesque art, covering themes like structures, classification, geography, and its development in Italy and the Empire. Early studies are updated with references to recent literature, and a comprehensive index is included.

Studies in medieval irish metalwork

This book showcases the excellence of early-medieval Irish fine metalwork, a pinnacle in European decorative arts. Masterpieces of goldsmith's art, both personal ornaments and items for religious use, from the 7th to the 10th centuries, are featured. Recent discoveries and international exhibitio...

Lombard legacy

John Mitchell's study at San Vincenzo al Volturno monastery examines the role of visual culture in early medieval Europe. The volume discusses Italy's cultural impact on Europe and explores San Vincenzo's artistic culture, including the use of script in the monastery's physical structure and its ...

L'art monumental en normandie et dans l'europe du nord-ouest, 800-1200

Maylis Baylé, historian and art historian, explores Romanesque monumental art, the interaction between sculpture and other art forms, and medieval architectural techniques. Her analytical method reveals connections between regions and provides a new perspective on Romanesque art.

Further studies in romanesque sculpture

Professor Zarnecki's influential work in English Romanesque sculpture reinterprets familiar landmarks. This volume compiles 22 papers focusing on exhibitions, links between Normandy and England, English Romanesque sculpture, iconography, the Eadwine Psalter, and Norman and English art around 1180.

Chester art

This book will serve as an invaluable research tool for students and scholars with an interest in art relating to early drama, as well as those whose interests lie more in local art history, specifically that of Chester.

Macedonian treasures (russian language edition)

This guide to the Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aigai - in Imathia, Central Macedonia - takes the reader step by step on the tour of this particularly spare and austere, yet simultaneously atmospheric, exhibition of the treasures from these tombs. Impressive photographs accompany historical inform...

Studies in byzantine and islamic silk weaving

Anna Muthesius compiles her 20 years of research on Byzantine silks (400-1200 AD) into one volume. This collection addresses economic, cultural, and artistic aspects of medieval silk production and its influence on various regions.

Studies in italian art

This collection covers diverse art historical topics, including connoisseurship, patronage, workshop methods, and the interplay of form and meaning. Topics include the Brancacci Chapel mural decoration by Masaccio, Masolino, and Filippino Lippi, accompanied by numerous illustrations, some previou...

Studies in carolingian manuscripts

Florentine Mutherich, an expert in Carolingian illuminated manuscripts, presents a selection of her studies, exploring aspects of Carolingian book illumination. Topics include court schools, monastic and episcopal schools and different manuscript types including Bibles, Gospel books, Psalters and...

Art and archaeology of antiquity volume iv

These four volumes showcase Cornelius Vermeule's essential contributions to Graeco-Roman art studies over five decades. Covering Mycenaean to Byzantine art, with a focus on Greek and Roman sculpture during the Roman Empire. Studies presented were published in periodicals between 1953 and 1995, ea...

Studies in early tuscan painting

Professor van Os's 20 years of work on Tuscan painting, particularly the Sienese school, is showcased in this volume. It includes his significant contributions to the period leading to the Renaissance in Florence and Siena, addressing methodology, iconography, and individual Sienese painters. Som...

National archaeological museum, athens (chinese language edition)

A guide to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, providing information about all the collections with emphasis on how they are displayed in the Museum. Illustrations of representative works which demonstrate the quality and value of exhibits in the largest, most important museum in Greece...

The art of painting in ancient greece (greek language edition)

This innovative look at ancient Greek painting combines a standard comprehensive survey of the material record – wall paintings, painted panels, or slabs – with an in-depth exploration of the ways in which the people of Ancient Greece appreciated this demanding art. Plantzos looks at techniques, ...

Anglo-saxon textual illustration

Illustrations and major decoration of sixteen Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, fully described and indexed, are reproduced here in 454 photographs, many for the first time.

Rocks, paper, memory

This catalogue documents an exhibition at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology of watercolor paintings by American artist Wendy Artin and selected objects from the Museum's permanent collections. Wendy Artin has been working for over a decade on a series of watercolors of ancient Greek and Roman scul...

A manual of egyptian pottery

The first comprehensive guide to Egyptian pottery from earliest (Fayum A) to modern day. Invaluable to students and experienced field archaeologists. In paperback, and in spiral-bound versions that are designed especially for the field and lab. Quick identification guides, extensive introductions...

Roman sculpture in context

This volume tackles a pressing issue in Roman art history: that many sculptures conventionally used in our scholarship and teaching lack adequate information about their find locations. Through case studies, the book illustrates ways to contextualize ancient objects.

Roman glass

Explores the evolution of Roman glassworking (1st century B.C. to 6th century A.D.) influenced by social attitudes and historical events like slavery, wars, and plagues. The narrative intertwines with the role of glassware in daily Roman life. Special appendices cover ancient glassmaking technolo...

Second chance

This volume comprises selected articles from Professor Ridgway's extensive body of work on Greek sculpture, organized chronologically to showcase her evolving views. Most of these articles were published in foreign journals and have been updated with end-of-book notes.

Commentaries on roman art

Richard Brilliant's work revolutionised the study of Roman art, tracing its connections to Greek art. This collection is divided into three sections: portraits, Roman adaptation of Greek models, and symbolic aspects of Roman art, including Jewish symbolism and Greek myths.

The ties that bind

The Ties That Bind presents a fascinating study of a dozen cross-class family papers from Tebtunis, an ancient village formerly located in lower Egypt. Dating to the second century AD, this unique documentation provides a rare opportunity to explore how local elites under Roman rule exploited the...

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.

Narrating the catastrophe

This book guides readers through unfamiliar textual landscapes where 'being' is defined as an act rather than a form. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur's notion of intersubjective narrative identity as well as the catastrophe theory of Gilles Deleuze, Jac Saorsa creates an alternative perspective from whic...

Narrating the catastrophe

This book guides readers through unfamiliar textual landscapes where 'being' is defined as an act rather than a form. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur's notion of intersubjective narrative identity as well as the catastrophe theory of Gilles Deleuze, Jac Saorsa creates an alternative perspective from whic...

Presence passing

A visual exploration of decay, impermanence, and loss, manifest in structures and objects that are left behind, the spirit of this collection is one of evocation, inviting us to conjure meanings from the images, to wonder what each of us will leave behind, as presence passes and absence overtakes.

The problem of assessment in art and design

With its inevitable dependency on the essential, and often contested, nature of art, the subject of assessment or evaluation in art and design education remains a matter of continuing controversy. This collection of essays examines the principal issues as they relate to the main phases of formal ...

Drawing as a way of knowing in art and science

Gemma Anderson’s Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science introduces tested ways in which drawing as a research practice can enhance morphological insight, specifically within the natural sciences, mathematics and art.

Rosebud sleds and horses' heads

Dorothy’s ruby slippers. Michael Myers’s mask. Marilyn Monroe’s billowy white dress. Indiana Jones’s trusty hat. These objects are icons of popular culture synonymous with the films they appear in, and, at long last, a book has come along that sorts and chronicles fifty of them. Rosebud Sleds an...

What's next?

By paying tribute to matter, materiality and materialisation, the examples of contemporary art assembled in What’s Next? Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art challenge the social, cultural and ethical norms that prevailed in the twentieth century. This significant frontier of contemporary culture...

World film locations: washington d.c.

World Film Locations: Washington, D.C., collects essays and articles about Washington film history and locations. Featuring explorations of carefully chosen film scenes and key historical periods, the book examines themes, directors and depictions and is illustrated with evocative movie stills, c...

Cavell's ontology of film

Cavell’s Ontology of Film presents ten essays that reflect on The World Viewed, Stanley Cavell’s now seminal film-philosophical book from 1971, and project its concepts and ideas into our future.

Superman: the movie

From the film’s record-breaking budgets to the enmity between director and producers, the story behind the making of Superman is inherently dramatic. Marking 40 years since the film’s commercial release, the book presents original interview transcripts with the cast and crew that, when read toget...

Sargent to basquiat

The catalogue of an exhibition in 2016 at the Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont. Includes work by John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, Wassily Kandinsky, Jean Dubuffet, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Henry Moore, Andy Warhol, Howard Hodgkin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pablo Picasso, C...

Punk! las américas edition

A critical refashioning of punk to suggest it emerges from within the long-term historical experience of las Américas in all their plurality. A collage-like juxtaposition of punk perspectives from across the entire hemisphere and via divergent contributions. 71 b/w illus.   PUNK! Las Américas E...

Studies in the art of china and south-east asia, volume ii

Volume 2 of Professor Sullivan's collected essays covers Chinese art evolution from traditional to 20th-century European influence, exploring conflicts between tradition and Marxism. Its topics include South-East Asian art and the influence of Chinese porcelain, highlighting regional uniqueness a...

Contemporary art and ecological transformation in east and southeast asia

This volume explores how contemporary art in East and Southeast Asia addresses ecological crises, through artistic interventions that inspire environmental consciousness, social justice, and sustainable futures.

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...

Anglo-saxon books and their readers

This collection of essays addresses the concerns of Anglo-Saxon manuscript studies today, which have been given new energy by the publication of Helmut Gneuss's Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts. .

Necropolis of gonur

Gonur was the most important city in the kingdom of Margiana, Turkmenistan. The cemetery contained c3,000 tombs, dating from the end of 3rd to beginning of 2nd millennium BC; it is the largest necropolis of the period to have been excavated. Contains results of the excavations, and anthropologica...