I B Tauris imprint: 1139 books
Little Emperors and Material Girls
Sex and Youth in Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
China is the world's fastest-growing economic powerhouse. Everybody knows this. But behind the headlines a once-in-a-generation sexual and cultural revolution is taking place - all in the bars, cafes and streets of China's growing mega-cities. Welcome to this new China. Writer and journalist Jemimah...
Queering Sexualities in Turkey
Gay Men, Male Prostitutes and the City
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Despite its some of its more liberal and democratic characteristics – when compared to many other countries in the Middle East – the more conservative elements within Turkish politics and society have made gains over the past decades. As a result, like many others in the region, Turkish society...
Building Stalinism
The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Today the 80-mile-long Moscow Canal is a source of leisure for Muscovites, a conduit for tourists and provides the city with more than 60% of its potable water. Yet the past looms heavy over these quotidian activities: the canal was built by Gulag inmates at the height of Stalinism and thousands died...
Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe
Film Cultures and Histories
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The continued interest in the social and cultural life of the former Warsaw pact countries – looking at but also beyond their socialist pasts – encompasses a desire to know more about their national cinemas. Yet, despite the increasing consumption of films from these countries – via DVD, VOD...
Strolling Through Rome
The Definitive Walking Guide to the Eternal City
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Rome, the Eternal City - birthplace of western civilisation and soul of the ancient world - has a history that stretches back two thousand five hundred years. It is also one of the most-visited places in the world, but where does one begin to delve into two millennia of history, culture, art and architecture,...
The Art of the Sacred
An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Art and Belief
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2006
The field of 'art and religion' is fast becoming one of the most dynamic areas of religious studies. Uniquely, The Art of the Sacred explores the relationship between religion and the visual arts - and vice versa - within Christianity and other major religious traditions. It identifies and describes...
Encounters with the Ottoman Miniature
Contemporary Readings of an Imperial Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
The dominant form of Ottoman pictorial art until the eighteenth century, miniatures have traditionally been studied as reflecting the socio-historical contexts, aesthetic concerns and artistic tastes of the era within which they were produced. Begüm Özden F?rat proposes instead a radical re-reading...
The Origins of Visual Culture in the Islamic World
Aesthetics, Art and Architecture in Early Islam
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
In tenth-century Iraq, a group of Arab intellectuals and scholars known as the Ikhwan al-Safa began to make their intellectual mark on the society around them. A mysterious organisation, the identities of its members have never been clear. But its contribution to the philosophy, art and culture of...
by Kerstin Mey
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
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 'obscene' shift with societies' shifting mores, and our responses to explicit or disturbing material...
The Family of Man Revisited
Photography in a Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
The Family of Man is the most widely seen exhibition in the history of photography. The book of the exhibition, still in print, is also the most commercially successful photobook ever published. First shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955, the exhibition travelled throughout the United...
Art as Organism
Biology and the Evolution of the Digital Image
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2015
What if modernism had been characterised by evolving, interconnected and multi-sensory images – rather than by the monolithic objects often described by its artists and theorists? In this groundbreaking book, Charissa Terranova unearths a forgotten narrative of modernism, which charts the influence...
Concentrationary Memories
Totalitarian Terror and Cultural Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human. This book shows how the unacknowledged legacy of a totalitarian mentality...
Time to Play
Action and Interaction in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
'Play art' or interactive art is becoming a central concept in the contemporary art world, disrupting the traditional role of passive observance usually assumed by audiences, allowing them active participation. The work of 'play' artists - from Carsten Höller's 'Test Site' at the Tate Modern to Gabriel...
Black Artists in British Art
A History Since the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Black artists have been making major contributions to the British art scene for decades, since at least the middle of the 20th century. Sometimes, these artists - with backgrounds in the countries of Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia - were regarded and embraced as British practitioners of note...