The 20th century was a dynamic period for the theatrical arts in China. Booming urban theater, the interaction between c......more

This book provides a conceptual and global overview of the field of Surrealist studies. Methodologically, the companion ......more

Volume 6 (2016) is an open issue with an emphasis on Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Iceland). F......more

In the past 20 years, there has been a remarkable upsurge of interest in Futurism in most countries formerly situated ea......more

Lists more than 4,800 European and 400 Australian, South African, and Japanese artists who worked from 1800 to 1990, and......more

Documenting the extraordinary breadth of architectural production by American artist Tony Smith (1912-1980), this compre......more

The first biography of Nikolay Punin, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of his life in the context of Russian po......more

This companion comprises essays that analyze interactions between art and global imperial relationships from 1800 to Wor......more

This companion contains new and innovative writing on Irish art and its history, from c. 1800 to the present day. This b......more

Written by an impressive group of international scholars, this collection’s ten essays explore key issues and forms of d......more

The ninth volume of the International Yearbook of Futurism Studies is dedicated to Russian Futurism and gathers ten stud......more

Futurism Studies in its canonical form has followed in the steps of Marinetti’s concept of Futurisme mondial, according ......more

English-language translation of a major work by French philosopher Eric Alliez, in which he offers a new perspective on ......more

Conceiving the City is an innovative study of the ways in which a generation of late-Victorian novelists, poets, painter......more

The book brings forth original revisions of the theories of the avant-garde, the works of the avant-garde, the idea of t......more

With the words ’A new manifestation of art was ... expected, necessary, inevitable, ’ Jean Moréas announced the advent o......more

Modernism and the Museum proposes an entirely new way of looking at the evolution of Modernist art and literature in the......more

G. Roger Denson brings singular insight to Thomas McEvilley’s writings. As an art writer he has explored similar territo......more

The 21st century’s first major academic reassessment of Impressionism, providing a new generation of scholars with a com......more

Uniquely covering literary, visual and performative expressions of culture, this volume aims to correlate the conjunctio......more

Signs of Change: Transformations of Christian Traditions and their Representation in the Arts, 1000-2000 focuses on the ......more

Correspondence, travel writing, diary writing, painting, scrapbooking, curating, collecting and house interiors allowed ......more

August Strindberg and Visual Culture addresses the multiplicity of Strindberg s artistic and literary output. The book c......more

How are love and emotion embodied in material form? Love Objects explores the emotional potency of things, addressing ho......more

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Was there experimental cinema behind the Iron Curtain? What forms did experiments with film take in state-socialist East......more

Inspired by newly discovered antiquities of the ancient world exhibited in the museums of Europe and celebrated in the i......more

A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework explores the ways specialists and institutions in the fine arts, c......more

Focusing on Latvia, (between 1905 and 1940), Suzanne Pourchier-Plasseraud, has chosen a nation without an ancient state ......more

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The Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Art details the history of contemporary art through a chronology, an introduct......more

Art and Science in Word and Image explores how discovery and innovation have functioned inter-dependently across art, li......more

Where Is My Home? is a biography of Mark Antokolski (1843-1902), one of the leading innovative sculptors in Russian and ......more

In recent decades, special effects have become a major new area of research in cinema studies. For the most part, they h......more

Wyndham Lewis was both a serious proponent and forthright critic of modernism. His assault upon his contemporaries fores......more

Suffrage and the Arts re-establishes the central role that artistic women and men-from jewellers, portrait painters, emb......more

In addition to being a major twentieth-century author, John Dos Passos painted, principally in watercolor, throughout hi......more

This volume demonstrates the significance middlebrow writing had for the dissemination of new concepts of gender to wide......more

Transforming Type examines kinetic or moving type in a range of fields including film credits, television idents, intera......more

This book demonstrates that numerous prominent artists in every period of the modern era were expressing spiritual inter......more

This book demonstrates that numerous prominent artists in every period of the modern era were expressing spiritual inter......more

Intersections, Innovations, Institutions: A Reader in Singapore Modern Art is the second of two volumes of readers which......more

This edited volume explores the dialogue between art and music with that of mystical currents at the turn of the twentie......more

Television before TV rethinks the history of interwar television by exploring the medium’s numerous demonstrations organ......more

One of Hyperallergic’s Top Ten Art Books for 2021 Approximately 300 daily and weekly newspapers flourished in New York b......more

Why has jewellery and body adornment often been marginalized in studies of modernist art and design? This study explores......more

Born near the Tuscan province of Lucca in 1815, Domenico Brucciani became the most important and prolific maker of plast......more

Scandinavian design is still seen as democratic, functional and simple, its products exemplifying the same characteristi......more

Notions of crisis have long charged the study of the European avant-garde and modernism, reflecting the often turbulent ......more

The 20th century was a dynamic period for the theatrical arts in China. The four volumes of A History of Chinese Theatre......more

This book traces the emergence of modernism in art in South Asia by exploring the work of the iconic artist George Keyt.......more

The first comprehensive assessment of Degas s legacy to be published in over two decades, Perspectives on Degas unites ......more

The tension between social reform photography and photojournalism is examined through this study of the life and work of......more

In Alois Riegl in Vienna 1875-1905: An Institutional Biography, Diana Cordileone applies standard methods of cultural an......more

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A fresh contribution to the ongoing debate between Kunstwissenschaft (scientific study of art) and Kunstgeschichte (art ......more

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Providing a comprehensive interdisciplinary assessment, and with a particular focus on expressions of tension and anxiet......more

Walter Pater’s European Imagination addresses Pater’s literary cosmopolitanism as the first in-depth study of his fictio......more

Critical facsimile edition making crucial modernist texts available for the first time since 1931 Restores a rare but hi......more

Since the late nineteenth century, art museums have played crucial social, political, and economic roles throughout Lati......more

This collection provides a transnational, interdisciplinary perspective on artistic responses to war from 1914 to the pr......more

The Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemen s club with a singular remit - to exhibit me......more

Wassily Kandinsky, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, and Joseph Beuys were the leading artists of their generations to recogni......more

The first monograph to analyze the Surrealist gesture of photographic appropriation, this study examines "found" photogr......more

Numerous American women artists built successful professional careers in the mid-twentieth century while confronting cha......more

This book deals with the work of twentieth-century women artists and literary authors from Portugal, Brazil and Portugue......more

Art historian and critic Steven Henry Madoff offers a contemporary reframing of modernist art and the way it presages in......more

Attention is fundamental to how we experience reality, and yet this notion has been understood and practised in very dif......more

The aim of this book is to provide an account of modernist painting that follows on from the aesthetic theory of Theodor......more

This study offers a radically new perspective on Dutch Neorealism, one that emphasizes the role of film as an apparatus,......more

This study examines the role played by regional cultures in modern art and visual culture in Central Europe between 1918......more

Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon: Perspectives in a Global World seeks to dissect and interrogate the nature of......more

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In this in-depth analysis, Peter Muir argues that Gordon Matta-Clark s Conical Intersect (1975) is emblematic of Henri ......more