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Syracuse, City of Legends
A Glory of Sicily
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Dubbed 'the greatest Greek city and the most beautiful of them all' by Cicero, Syracuse also boasts the richest history of anywhere in Sicily. Syracuse, City of Legends - the first modern historical guide to the city - explores Syracuse's place within the island and the wider Mediterranean and reveals...
On Video Games
The Visual Politics of Race, Gender and Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Video games are a defining part of mass visual culture. Today over half of all American households own a dedicated game console and gaming industry profits trump those of the film industry worldwide. In this book, Soraya Murray moves past the technical discussions of games and offers a fresh and incisive...
Monochrome
Darkness and Light in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
The monochrome – a single colour of paint applied over the entirety of a canvas – remains one of the more contentious modernist artistic inventions. But whilst the manufacture of these 'pictures of nothing' was ostensibly straightforward, their subsequent theorisation has been anything but.
Land Matters
Landscape Photography, Culture and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2011
In this major work on landscape photography, extensively illustrated in colour and black & white, Liz Wells is concerned with the ways in which photographers engage with issues about land, its representation and idealisation. She demonstrates how the visual interpretation of land as landscape...
Governing Britain
Power, Politics and the Prime Minister
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Number Ten Downing Street and the Cabinet Office are at the apex of power in British government, but relatively little is known about the day to day functioning of these great institutions of state. With an unprecedented level of access, and wide-ranging interviews from former ministers, senior civil...
Mysteries of the Gobi
Searching for Wild Camels and Lost Cities in the Heart of Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
The Gobi is the largest, coldest and driest desert in Asia. Its shifting sands conceal ancient cities, 3,000-year-old mummies, dinosaur bones and areas where no man has set foot. It is also the last place on earth where the wild Bactrian camel clings to survival, its fragile habitat threatened by...
The Women Who Built the Ottoman World
Female Patronage and the Architectural Legacy of Gulnus Sultan
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Ottoman Empire remained the grandest and most powerful of Middle Eastern empires. One hitherto overlooked aspect of the Empire's remarkable cultural legacy was the role of powerful women – often the head of the harem, or wives or mothers of sultans....
Practice as Research
Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Practice-led research is a burgeoning area across the creative arts, with studio-based doctorates frequently favoured over traditional research. Yet until now there has been little published guidance for students embarking on such research. Designed specifically as a research training tool, the book...
Sabotage Art
Politics and Iconoclasm in Contemporary Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
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. In Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Argentina, artists are producing radical, unruly or even...
Hyperdrawing
Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
In this book authors and artists come together to explore the potential of what drawing in contemporary art theory and practice might become.
In this follow-up to 2007's Drawing Now: Between the Lines of Contemporary Art, Phil Sawdon and Russell Marshall, directors of TRACEY, curate contemporary...
Buraimi
The Struggle for Power, Influence and Oil in Arabia
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Buraimi is an oasis in an otherwise bleak desert on the border between Oman and the UAE. In the early twentieth century, it shot to notoriety as oil brought the world's attention to this corner of the Arabian Peninsula, and the ensuing battle over energy resources between regional and global superpowers...
The Cyrus Cylinder
The Great Persian Edict from Babylon
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Some historical artefacts are destined forever to alter how the ancient world is perceived. The unearthing in today's Iraq (in 1879) of a clay cylinder-shaped decree from Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, stands in the same tradition of game-changing discoveries from antiquity...
by Mark Woolmer
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
The Phoenicians present a tantalizing face to the ancient historian. Latin sources suggest they once had an extensive literature of history, law, philosophy and religion; but all now is lost. Offering new insights based on recent archaeological discoveries in their heartland of modern-day Lebanon,...
The Dead City
Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Cities are imagined not just as utopias, but also as ruins. In literature, film, art and popular culture, urban landscapes have been submerged by floods, razed by alien invaders, abandoned by fearful inhabitants and consumed in fire. The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination...