The concept of 'happiness' is central to most civilized cultures. This volume investigates the many ways in which Western art has visualized the concept from the early Middle Ages …
This anthology explores the ways in which theatre and performance functions at the interstices of contemporary local and global networks. Theatre and performance occurs in time and …
Octavio Paz (Mexico, 1914-1998) was one of the foremost poets and essayists of the twentieth century. Read in translations into many of the world's languages, Paz received numerous …
This study examines not only the objects and processes that make up the artworlds of human history, but also the social and cultural circumstances, the historicised contexts that …
Cover Up the Dirty Parts! takes on directly not only questions regarding the relationship between government funding for the arts and political censorship, but also deeper …
How can we "e;know"e;? What does "e;knowledge"e; mean? These were the fundamental questions of epistemology in the 17th century. In response to continental …
Richard Dadd is a trickster, a pre-post-modern enigma wrapped in a Shakespearean Midsummer Night's Dream; an Elizabethan Puck living in a smothering Victorian insane asylum, …
The essays in this collection, which were written by European and North American specialists, position intermediality as a praxis of interpretative analysis in order to show how …
Common Threads explores ideas of artistic identity and memory contained within the narrated stories of ten textile artists. It reveals how individuals bring a sense of linearity to …
"e;Arthur Danto is a philosopher with a system, whose much discussed aesthetic theory cannot be understood adequately without grasping how it is embedded in his analysis of …
