I imprint: 1291 books
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...
Tolstoy and his Disciples
The History of a Radical International Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
In the last thirty years of his life, Leo Tolstoy developed a moral philosophy that embraced pacifism, vegetarianism, the renunciation of private property, and a refusal to comply with the state. The transformation in his outlook led to his excommunication by the Orthodox Church, and the breakdown...
The Voice of England in the East
Stratford Canning and Diplomacy with the Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
In the age of the Great Powers, with Russia and France at war, and the Ottoman Empire at the height of its influence and majesty, the British diplomat Stratford Canning arrived in Constantinople. The cousin of George Canning, he would be Britain's representative in the power politics of the Middle...
America's Forgotten Middle East Initiative
The King-Crane Commission of 1919
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Sent to the Middle East by Woodrow Wilson to ascertain the viability of self-determination in the disintegrating Ottoman Empire, the King-Crane Commission of 1919 was America's first foray into the region. The commission's controversial recommendations included the rejection of the idea of a Jewish...
Iranian Jews in Israel
Between Persian Cultural Identity and Israeli Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Recent, post-revolutionary Iranian cinema has of course gained the attention of international audiences who have been struck by its powerful, poetic and often explicitly political explorations. Yet mainstream, pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema, with a history stretching back to the early twentieth...