Art & Architecture 6

Nerven am Rande des Weltzusammenbruchs. 100 Jahre DADA DADA: Waren das nicht schräge Verkleidungen, schrille Happenings, provokanter Nonsens, kurz: viel Lärm gegen das Nichts einer Kultur, die den E……続きを見る

This book presents an historical account of media and catastrophe that engages with theories of biopolitics in the work of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri and others. ……続きを見る

Art/Museums takes the study of international relations to the art museum. It seeks to persuade those who study international relations to take art/museums seriously and museum studies to take up the……続きを見る

Popular music, today, has supposedly collapsed into a 'retromania' which, according to leading critic Simon Reynolds, has brought a 'slow and steady fading of the artistic imperative to be original.……続きを見る

As a recording device, photography plays a unique role in how we remember places and events that happened there. This includes recording events as they happen, or recording places where something oc……続きを見る

Through a series of provocative conversations, Frederick Luis Aldama and Herbert Lindenberger, who have written widely on literature, film, music, and art, locate a place for the discomforting and t……続きを見る

Mit der geplanten Übernahme von Emil G. Bührles Gemäldesammlung durch das Kunsthaus Zürich prangt der Name des Waffenlieferanten Nazideutschlands auf einer wichtigen öffentlichen Kulturinstitution. ……続きを見る

Meet Jesus as a gay man of today in a contemporary city with The Passion of Christ: A Gay Vision. In stunning new images, the modern Christ figure is jeered by fundamentalists, tortured by Marine lo……続きを見る

What is the relation of art to the practice of radical politics today? Strike Artexplores this question through the historical lens of Occupy, an event that had artists at its core. Precarious, inde……続きを見る

“Johnson emphasizes the rarity of truly visionary artists . . . his approach is unfailingly generous. . . . Genuinely revealing.” ーPublishers Weekly From celebrated journalist and historian Paul Jo……続きを見る

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“Somewhere between Garrison Keillor’s idyllic-sweet Lake Wobegon and the narrow-mindedness of Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street lies the reality of small-town life. This is where Michael Perry lives.” ー……続きを見る

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One of our great essayists and journalistsーthe Dean of American Rock Critics, Robert Christgauーtakes us on a heady tour through his life and times in this vividly atmospheric and visceral memoir t……続きを見る

“A modern classic of courage and excitement.” ーThe New Yorker • The source for the iconic prison-escape film starring Steve McQueen Henri Charrière, nicknamed "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo o……続きを見る

The sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture Belle starring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, and Matthew Goodeーa stunning story of the first mix……続きを見る

Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, National Book Award in Nonfiction A New York Times Book Review “The Year in Reading” Selection All wars are fought twice, the first time on the……続きを見る

This early work by William Morris was originally published in 1899 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. William Morris was born in London, England in 1834. Arguabl……続きを見る

First published in 1988. This book shows how censorship as a set of institutions, practices and discourses was involved in the struggle over the nature of cinema in the early twentieth century. It a……続きを見る

Over the past 50 years, the subject of garden history has been firmly established as an academic discipline. While many have explored what was created in gardens throughout history, the reasons as t……続きを見る

Bridget Rose Dugdale was a debutante before the Queen of England in 1958. Her father was an executive with Lloyd's of London and her mother was a wealthy woman whose family grew rich on cotton. Rose……続きを見る

2017 American Book Award Winner from the Before Columbus Foundation In 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City took the lives of 146 workers, most of them young immigrant wo……続きを見る

Une fiche de référence sur Lettre de Sibérie, un chef-d'oeuvre de Chris Marker. Initié par l'association France-U.R.S.S. comme un film de commande, soucieux de transmettre une certaine vision de l'U……続きを見る

The Ghent Altarpiece or Adoration of the Mystic Lamb is a 15th century polyptych painted by Hubert and Jan Van Eyck. One of its twenty panels was stolen from St. Bavon Cathedral in Ghent on the nigh……続きを見る

Thomas Nast (1840–1902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephan……続きを見る

During the Cold War, culture became another weapon in America’s battle against communism. Part of that effort in cultural diplomacy included a program to arrange the exhibition of hundreds of Americ……続きを見る

Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, th……続きを見る

This first-of-its-kind compendium unites perspectives from artists, scholars, arts educators, policymakers, and activists to investigate the complex system of values surrounding artistic-educational……続きを見る

Landscapes showcases the development and practice of John Berger's unique way of seeing. Here he surveys the aesthetic landscapes that have informed, challenged and nourished his understanding of th……続きを見る