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During his lifetime the late Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza acquired a collection of over fifty drawings - largely of set and costume designs - reflecting the theatre of the first half of the twentieth century, and particularly the ballet, during what was surely its most exciting and innovative period. Tw... More

"Issues in Art and Design Teaching" draws together a range of issues for trainee and newly qualified teachers of art and design. The collection encourages students and teachers to consider and reflect on issues in order that they can make reasoned and informed judgements about their teaching of art ... More

"Interpretation and Construction "examines the interpretation of intentional human behavior, focusing primarily on issues in art, law, and everyday speech. The centerpiece of the book is the examination of two large-scale views about the nature of interpretation: historicism and constructivism. Hist... More

"Contemporary Feminist Theatre" is a major evaluation of the theatrical forms feminism has taken from 1968 up until today. Lizbeth Goodman provides an important and much-needed analysis of the development of feminist theatre in different cultures and on several continents. A stunningly comprehensive... More

This generously illustrated book is a comprehensive survey of the arts in Britain from 1945. Uniquely, it also reveals the cultural and social setting in which the writers, musicians, architects and artists of the age have worked.This generously illustrated book is a comprehensive survey of the arts... More

Exploring emerging artistic responses to a world enveloped by the information networks, in "Network Art "an international group of leading theorists and artists investigate how the Internet, in the form of websites, mailing lists, installations and performance, has been used by artists to develop ar... More

Today we know companies such as Gateway, Federal Express, and Virgin Atlantic Airlines as market leaders, but once upon a time, they were "challenger brands." While scores of books explore the business side of world-class branding, untit now, no book as addressed the critical role that graphic desig... More

"Will be a 'must read' for anyone studying performance art or the art and culture of Southern California. . . . Cheng is a brilliant and original thinker and. . . writes with a lively, engaged and engaging poetic style through which she attempts to enact the very passion and performativity that she ... More

"From Petipa to Balanchine" addresses an important, though vastly understudied aspect of Russian modernism--the importance of the art of the past. The work more specifically discusses the development of a classical revival in Russian ballet (1880 to the middle of the 20th century) and its relation t... More

Following in the methodological footsteps of his prize-winning "Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society", " "Richard Wendorf's new book on British art in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is an experiment in cultural history, combining the analysis of specific artistic objects with an expl... More

As many observers have noted, the world is becoming increasingly visually mediated, with the rise of computers and the internet being central factors in the emergence of new tools and conventions. Exploring the social structure of visuality, this volume contains a collection of essays by internation... More

How did the rise of metropolitan art institutions influence modernism and the modernization of art in England? This volume explores the artist as creator, notions of class and taste, and the power of institutions to affect creativity and artistic expression. Topics discussed include the radicalism o... More

In this text Stanley Aronowitz describes the conditions for a revival of the U.S. radical movement. How, he asks, has conservatism staged such a remarkable recovery since the turbulent 1960's?In "The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism," Stanley Aronowitz asks the question, "Is there anything l... More

In his intriguing new book, David Goldblatt examines what he calls "the complex logic of ventriloquism" and its relationship with art, philosophy and the artistic process. In the conversational exchange between ventriloquist and dummy, Goldblatt recognizes a speaking in other voices, illusion withou... More

In his intriguing new book, David Goldblatt examines what he calls "the complex logic of ventriloquism" and its relationship with art, philosophy and the artistic process. In the conversational exchange between ventriloquist and dummy, Goldblatt recognizes a speaking in other voices, illusion withou... More