"Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries, beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending wit…
How is it that one can be connected to a vast worldwide network of other people and places via digital technologies and yet also be completely alone? The author tackles this philosophical question by exploring how contemporary technologies are changing group formations and affil…
"The established narrative of art history is traditionally narrated through national or cultural lenses that focus on specific artistic practices characteristic of a given nation or culture: bronze in ancient China, architecture in ancient Rome, or oil painting in early modern E…
"The aesthetic pleasures of today's popular visual culture - sentimental, violent, vulgar, spectacular, humorous, and many more - are roundly criticised and condemned in elite discourse, but this book shows that they are perennial in nature and an intrinsic part of what it is to…
In both politics and art in recent decades, there has been a dramatic shift in emphasis on representation of identity. Liberal ideals of universality and individuality have given way to a concern with the visibility and recognition of underrepresented groups. Modernist and postm…
Looking at monuments, murals, computer games, recycling campaigns, children's books, and other visual artifacts, The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures reassesses communism's historical and cultural legacy.
Contemporary Issues in Art Education by Yvonne Gaudelius and Peg Speirs is a collection of essays that are framed around social issues, art, and teaching. Using an issues-based approach, the authors provide a valuable resource for teaching issues-based content, especially as the…
Originally presented as the author's thesis, University of Birmingham, 1972. Bibliography: p. 139-146. Includes index.
"Essays, conversations, and artist portfolios confront questions at the intersection of race, institutional life, and representation. Controversies involving race and the art world are often discussed in terms of diversity and representation--as if having the right representativ…
The waning of the century-old modernist movement in the arts has called forth an astonishing array of artistic and critical responses.
Résumé éditeur : "Current art world statistics demonstrate that the fight for gender and race equality in the art world is far from over: only sixteen percent of this year's Venice Biennale artists were female; only fourteen percent of the work displayed at MoMA in 2016 was by n…
