Art & Architecture 13

Explicit material is more widely available in the internet age than ever before, yet the concept of 'obscenity' remains as difficult to pin down as it is to approach without bias: notions of what is……続きを見る

A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgment When buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences? In Ugliness and Judgment, Timothy Hyde ……続きを見る

Sabotage is the deliberate disruption of a dominant system, be it political, military or economic. Yet in recent decades, sabotage has also become an artistic strategy most notably in Latin America.……続きを見る

Snapshots taken by American soldiers of Iraqi prisoners stripped naked, humiliated and tortured, shocked the worldin 2004. But, as Private Pictures reveals, far from this beinga phenomenon of the di……続きを見る

Working Aesthetics is about the relationship between art and work under contemporary capitalism. Whilst labour used to be regarded as an unattractive subject for art, the proximity of work to everyd……続きを見る

La Revolución mexicana también ocurrió en las artes plásticas. Si la revuelta popular produjo hondos cambios en el campo y las ciudades, la renovada actividad de muralistas, pintores y grabadores du……続きを見る

This is the first book to focus on Helhesten (The Hell-Horse), an avant-garde artists’ collective active during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and one of the few tangible connections between radical……続きを見る

Las grandes ciudades son las verdaderas propulsoras del crecimiento económico y de la creatividad en el mundo, por encima de estados y fronteras. Barcelona no ha parado de escalar posiciones y de af……続きを見る

This is the first comprehensive English-language study of East Asian art history in a transnational context, and challenges the existing geographic, temporal, and generic paradigms that currently fr……続きを見る

The essays in this book chart how women’s profound and turbulent experiences of migration have been articulated in writing, photography, art and film. As a whole, the volume gives an impression of a……続きを見る

A Syrian filmmaker's haunting record of his time in Lebanon's Palestinian refugee camps In 1980, Syrian filmmaker Mohammad Malas traveled to Lebanon to film a documentary of interviews with Palestin……続きを見る

World renowned artist, TED Prize winner, Oscar nominee, and one of Time's 100 most influential people of 2018, JR is a contemporary art superstar. In 2018, he brought his legendary photo truck to Sa……続きを見る

**'A great book' Elif Shafak, Observer 'Phenomenal' Guardian** In this remarkable collection of essays, Siri Hustvedt confirms her reputation as one of our most important contemporary writers, bring……続きを見る

Seize the day in the name of art. This creative call to arms from the mind of Neil Gaiman combines his extraordinary words with deft and striking illustrations by Chris Riddell. 'Like a bedtime stor……続きを見る

From all-day opening hours to President Trump; from the first Red Nose Day to Brexit... The last 30 years has seen some momentous - and not so momentous - events. 6 Prime Ministers, 7 General Electi……続きを見る

'However bad the day's news, there'll still be a Matt cartoon the morning after, and we'll still laugh - he's a genius!' Jeremy Vine 'Always topical and achingly funny' Jilly Cooper From the (some s……続きを見る

The best of the best! Award-winning cartoonist Matt looks back at the last 12 months in his own hilariously entertaining style - the perfect Christmas gift for everyone! 'Matt is an Adorable Genius'……続きを見る

In 2008, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon acquired a painting called The Flight into Egypt which was attributed to the French artist Nicolas Poussin. Thought to have been painted in 1657, the painti……続きを見る

Der Ton wird aggressiver, auch in der populären Musik: Die Texte werden hasserfüllter, die Musik martialischer. Jens Balzer sieht hier eine klare Parallele zur politischen Debatten-Unkultur. Wie kau……続きを見る

This book offers a compelling study of contemporary developments in European migration studies and the representation of migration in the arts and cultural institutions. It introduces scholars and s……続きを見る

No matter how bad the news, the weather, your daily commute or the state of the economy, Matt always manages to put a smile on the world... From sporting triumphs and disasters to hapless public fig……続きを見る

The War On Syria Conspiracy Theory or Truth? Is there really more to it than meets the eye? America's war on Syria has drawn international attention worldwide and has brought this nation a lot of ba……続きを見る

In the 1980s, the Ontario Board of Censors began to subject media artists’ work to the same cuts, bans, and warning labels as commercial film. Ruling Out Art reveals what happens when art and law in……続きを見る

Working in 1970s Italy, a group of artistsーnamely Ugo La Pietra, Maurizio Nannucci, Francesco Somaini, Mauro Staccioli, Franco Summa, and Franco Vaccariーsought new spaces to create and exhibit art……続きを見る

This book reinterprets Wifredo Lam’s work with particular attention to its political implications, focusing on how these implications emerge from the artist’s critical engagement with 20th-century a……続きを見る

In engaging with the full range of 'the arts', contributors to this volume consider the relationship between law, justice, the ethical and the aesthetic. Art continually informs the ethics of a lega……続きを見る

This book investigates the Casa de Montejo and considers the role of the building’s Plateresque façade as a form of visual rhetoric that conveyed ideas about the individual and communal cultural ide……続きを見る

Matt is without doubt 'that rare thing - a daily cartoonist who never fails' The Times No matter what is happening in the world - from Brexit to bad weather, bemusing politics (on both sides of the ……続きを見る

Shortlisted for the 2020 Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize Winner of the 2019 Art Journal Prize from the College Art Association What is the role of pleasure and pain i……続きを見る

The Caribbean has been traditionally associated with externally devised mappings and categories, thus appearing as a passive entity to be consumed and categorized. Challenging these forces and repre……続きを見る