The Arts books

An authoritative overview of the personal, professional, cultural, political and religious contexts in which Hensel...  Read More >>

Now updated, this authoritative text offers a clear guide to masonry structures, without using complex mathematics....  Read More >>

The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories...  Read More >>

This Element compares the 1951 Festival of Britain with the 2022 Unboxed Festival to explore both continuities and...  Read More >>

Ibn ʿArabī (d. 1240) believed there is one Sharia for humans and another for minerals. This Element rethinks what...  Read More >>

An explanation of network theory's (the study of the way elements in a network interact) application to film and...  Read More >>

This encyclopedia examines famous and influential depictions of angels, demons, and demigods in film, television,...  Read More >>

Castro’s intimate, small-scale works confront the disenfranchisement of racial and gender minorities Through paintings,...  Read More >>

An explanation of Deleuze’s cinema books that fleshes out a structuralist “method” applicable to film and media...  Read More >>

Analyzes the relationship between Charles Manson, music, and 1960's counterculture.  Read More >>

On the evening of 26 January 1926, inventor John Logie Baird held a public demonstration in his workspace on London’s...  Read More >>

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From Hannover to Los Angeles - The eventful life of an artist, author and visionary. Käte Steinitz (1889-1975)...  Read More >>

Going behind the scenes of the travelling fair – exploring its design, atmosphere, people, and processes – in order...  Read More >>

This book explores how contemporary craftspeople, artists and other creatives identifying as LGBTQ+ use craft materials...  Read More >>

This entirely new collection of essays picks up from the 2005 Latin American Fashion Reader to explore ideas of...  Read More >>

Featuring contributions from renowned scholars, curators and creatives, this edited collection re-evaluates British...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of the revitalization and relaunch of luxury brands, using the Swiss watch industry as a case...  Read More >>

Guided by 20 ""figures of interest,"" 70 contemporary artists chart the history and mythology of New Mexico and...  Read More >>

A minute-by-minute analysis of Anisia Uzeyman’s and Saul Williams’ film, Neptune Frost (2021) to explore its themes...  Read More >>

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A lively celebration and feminist reevaluation of Angela Lansbury’s career, personal life, and myriad achievements—and...  Read More >>

P-Funk keyboardist Daniel Bedrosian brings to life the epoch-making year that saw the release of three major P-Funk...  Read More >>

Identifies the parallels and resonances between Christopher Nolan’s cinema and the works of philosopher Paul Ricoeur...  Read More >>

Studies Tame Impala’s psychedelic album Currents (2015) as both an example of a cultural shift in music production...  Read More >>