Mara-Johanna Kφlmel explores the profound impact of digital technologies on the field of sculpture since the 1950s. When artists create their works using AI, custom software, or prototyping technologies, how should we be rethinking the concept of sc...More info...
The artistic, cultural, and institutional exchanges between West and East Germany and the United States during the Cold War. Throughout the Cold War era, a sustained and intense dialogue developed between both the West and East German and...More info...
Based on Soviet narratology, this book offers a genealogy of spatial, user-centric story design and its current applications as a counternarrative to agonal games, classical novels and cinema. It will appeal to performance art, game design, interact...More info...
From the acclaimed author of American Comics and Jewish Comedy comes a sweeping and entertaining narrative that details the rise and enduring grip of horror in American literature, cinema, and, ultimately, culture-from the taut, terrifying stories o...More info...
An engrossing history of how Western philosophers have theorized the ugly from ancient times to the present day. Why has our preoccupation with concepts, standards, and theories of the beautiful not resulted in a correspondingly compreh...More info...
An engrossing history of how Western philosophers have theorized the ugly from ancient times to the present day. Why has our preoccupation with concepts, standards, and theories of the beautiful not resulted in a correspondingly compreh...More info...
Unlock the secrets of human anatomy through this engaging, richly illustrated guide that makes drawing the human form accessible, inspiring, and fun.The Secrets of Artistic Anatomy transforms the complex world of human anatomy...More info...
A new theoretical approach to the concept of immersive experiences in relation to space, site and atmosphere. Site-Reliant Immersive Experiences offers a new theoretical approach to the concept of immersive experiences in relatio...More info...
Brings together the views of architects, artists, critics, historians, and philosophers to explore how beauty can again become an integral part of discussions about architecture. Beauty in Architecture brings...More info...
Examining modern art vandalism across Europe and North America from 1970 to 2020, this book offers the first comprehensive sociological analysis of this phenomenon.Drawing on perspectives from directors, curators, security personnel, legal...More info...
Offering a novel conceptual methodology where Jungian psychology is used to analyse Jungs own architecture, this book offers an innovative reading of Jungs Bollingen Tower in order to explore a Jungian sense of place, situating it within a wider...More info...
Suppose that you could travel back in time to a Melbourne city street from 150 years ago or even longer. What might meet your eye that has eluded historys gaze? Shutter City presents city street views spanning the hurly-burly decades of t...More info...
Early Photography in Colonial Australia explores the origins of the photographic culture that continues to shape how we see the world. From its mid-nineteenth-century beginnings photography was more than just a new technology it was deep...More info...
(Pub. Date: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Publisher: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111694061)
As a multifaceted and intermedial phenomenon, poetry in the digital age not only demands a rethinking and expansion of the traditional paradigms of literary studies but also attracts increasing attention from other humanities. This interdisciplin...More info...
This volume explores issues of repair, maintenance, sustenance, and adaptation within the context of interior design and its histories.The contributions to this volume celebrate critical analysis of past and present work...More info...
This volume explores issues of repair, maintenance, sustenance, and adaptation within the context of interior design and its histories.The contributions to this volume celebrate critical analysis of past and present work...More info...
On the specificity and generality, materiality and immateriality, production and reproduction of artistic labor.Artistic Labour Now sheds light on the specificity of artistic labour in view of an increasingly globalized and digi...More info...
Series: Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture
(Pub. Date: 14-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of Delaware Press, ISBN-13: 9781644533635)
Inglorious Artists traces the origins of the image of the starving artist to late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France, where practicing and aspiring visual artists mobilized the emerging genre of graphic satire to publish hundreds of sat...More info...
Series: Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture
(Pub. Date: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Publisher: University of Delaware Press, ISBN-13: 9781644533642)
Inglorious Artists traces the origins of the image of the starving artist to late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France, where practicing and aspiring visual artists mobilized the emerging genre of graphic satire to publish hundreds...More info...
This volume delves into the complex topic of race relations in 1980s Britain by examining the concept of whiteness and how it was portrayed visually in popular art and mass media. ...More info...
The Last Spirits of Manhattan transports readers to 1956 Manhattan, where the glamorous and eerie collide in a narrative as intricate as the city itself. At the heart of the novel is Carolyn, a spirited young woman who flees her mundane Midwest life...More info...
(Pub. Date: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9781639734283)
From renowned geographer James Cheshire, a four-color tour through a forgotten collection of maps that shaped over 200 years of Western history. From renowned geographer James Cheshire, a four-color tour through a forgotten colle...More info...
The shared history of the World Heritage site Patan and the Institute of Conservation, University of Applied Arts Vienna, goes back 15 years now. Annual on-site campaigns under the leadership of Gabriela Krist facilitated the conservation, documentat...More info...
In a world longing for certainty and clear-cut answers, The Museum of Doubt makes a powerful case for doubt, vulnerability, and complexity as driving forces of both science and citizenshipIn a world longing for certainty and clear-cut...More info...
Charles Lenny Lunn, nonspeaking autistic poet and painter, came into the world on June 2, 1990, in London, England. Not using speech like other children, he spent years hiding in his imaginary universe and thinking about a truly just space in stark c...More info...
Book title positions optional romance in the AAA game as a central object of analysis. Based on the close analysis of some of the most commercially and culturally significant games of the last 30 years like Grand Theft Auto IV (2008), the M...More info...
In an era where digital devices increasingly mediate our perception of reality, this book explores the tension between the richness of direct sensory experience and the allure of the screen. It examines how our growing dependence on virtual spaces...More info...
This volume seeks to reframe French Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot (1841-95) in the history of art via a focus on the spaces and people that informed her work and thereb...More info...
Contemporary Far-Right Culture offers a comprehensive overview of the varied manifestations of todays far-right culture. It examines how far-right extremists operate in the spaces they inhabit, exploring the key elements, characteristics,...More info...
Contemporary Far-Right Culture offers a comprehensive overview of the varied manifestations of todays far-right culture. Contemporary Far-Right Culture offers a comprehensive overview of the varied manifestations of...More info...
Sharpen your red colored pencils! The Guillermo del Toro Coloring Book takes you on a journey through each of the fan-favorite directors major films, from Cronos to Frankenstein with over 70 gorgeous illustrations....More info...
No city shaped the modern world quite like London a powerhouse of trade, finance and empire, the centre of global influence in the nineteenth century. But beyond the familiar stories of power and politics, its true life played out in the stre...More info...
Step inside the astonishing world of art forgery, where masterpieces are faked, fortunes are made, and almost no one is who they seem. Art Fraud reveals the true stories behind some of the greatest scams in art history, where con artists...More info...
(Pub. Date: 09-Oct-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198909750)
An illuminating exploration of the relationship between the restitution of looted art, global status, and the international construction of national cultural heritage. An illuminating exploration of the relationship between the restit...More info...
Clover Press is proud to present the next amazing artist in our series, with The Marvel Art of Michael Allred! Michael Allreds illustrious career includes nearly 30 years of Marvel comics masterworks. His breathless output includes timeless...More info...
(Pub. Date: 09-Oct-2025, Calendar, Publisher: Galison, ISBN-13: 9780735384804)
WALL CALENDAR Introducing Galisons Michael Storrings Classic 12 x 12 Wall Calendar featuring enchanting artwork by Michael Storrings. Designed to brighten your days and inspire your year, this calendar showcases the whimsical and vibrant illustra...More info...
This volume examines the growth of high-end literary pornographic productions that took place towards the final quarter of the nineteenth century and were largely published on the continent where control of production was lax. These publications w...More info...
This volume details scientific pornography during the long nineteenth century. Though there is little overlap between pornography and sexual science currently, in the past pornographers played up scientific credentials to reassure readers. ...More info...
The four-volume set provides a compendium of rare primary sources focusing on pornography in nineteenth-century Britain for students and scholars alike. These sources can be used individually and in combination to historicise the emergence of pornog...More info...
Selections from the extraordinary Studio Museum in Harlem Collection, accompanying the highly anticipated opening of the institutions first-ever purpose-built museum...More info...
The perfect gift for dad, mom, grandpa, grandma, brother, sister, or best friend, My First 18 Years is the full-color international bestselling series of books that takes you on a trip down memory lane using movi...More info...
Series: Surrealisms: the International Society for the Study of Surrealism Book Series
(Pub. Date: 07-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517917784)
An examination of surrealisms unofficial ethnography of marginalized subjectivities In interwar Paris, the encounter between surrealism and the nascent discipline of ethnology led to an intellectual project now known as ethnogr...More info...
This enchanting coloring book is filled with dreamy and magical scenes from the Land of Oz!Trouble is brewing as the Wicked Witch of the West plots to assert her control over the Land of Oz! This exquisitely illustrated coloring book i...More info...
Series: Surrealisms: the International Society for the Study of Surrealism Book Series
(Pub. Date: 07-Oct-2025, Hardback, Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517917777)
The Persistence of Masks considers the ethnographic dimension of the surrealist movement in its formative years, showing how surrealists used the figures of the mask, the veil, the hand, and the hat to radically reconceive the subject. Revealing sur...More info...
