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A collection of essays by the controversial and popular Australian art and architecture scholar, Joan Kerr. It is a history of changing attitudes to Australian art and architecture as well as a record of her remarkable career.

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This is the first anthology to chronicle the global critical reception of Aboriginal art since the early 1980s, when the art world began to understand it as contemporary art.

An English translation of a book on modern aesthetics that clarifies a distinctively plebeian Japanese sensibility based on a unique category of taste, iki. The work anticipates directions in post-war thought, structuralism in particular, through its opposition of high and low culture.

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Long before virtual reality captured the imagination, holography provided artists with a new, challenging, three-dimensional medium. Its very immateriality demanded that artists approach its illusions in unforseen and inventive ways.

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A groundbreaking comparison of two contemporary Asian art cultures. This discipline develops theoretical perspectives on genealogies of modernity, and the twin phenomena of globalisation and transnational artistic identity.

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Celebrate's Barbara Campbell's recent retrospective at the University of Sydney. Over the last few years Campbell has become one of Australia's most respected and challenging performance artists. This book contains essays celebrating her retrospective by seven prominent art theory and art history writers including Joan Kerr.

In this collection, outstanding historians and theorists explore the representation of heterosexual masculinity embodied in modernist art.

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Scrutinises the intellectual and institutional foundations of cultural studies and puts forward the provocative thesis that cultural studies has become part of the academy it has so regularly critised.

Illuminates a set of crucial themes in contemporary critical theory and cultural studies - representation, visual technology, mass media, and modernity.

Critically examines the art historical orthodoxies which have dominated Australian art.

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Author deals with modernism and the post-modern sublime and the role of the avant-gardes legitimation and narrative authority, republicanism and totalitarianism.

"As the Modernist dream of a world purged of archaic decor and ornamentaion recedes, we should remember that the diet of a raw, unmediated universe has always unsettled Homo sapiens. This book looks at some of these mediations."

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This collection of essays investigates the co-existence of very old forms of thought - belief in ghosts, magic, spirits - and contemporary culture. Refracted through highly technologised societies, magic manifests itself in surprising ways and through a diverse range of practices.

This collection offers a comprehensive coverage of the debates surrounding Dennis O'Rourkes controversial film, "The Good Woman of Bangkok". It brings newspaper and journal reviews together and theoretical essays focusing on the film.

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Provides an abundance of understandings, approaches, correctives and challenges to scholars not only in animation studies but in film studies, indeed to disciplines across the spectrum. The 16 essays composing the collection engage with post-World War II film animation in Japan and the US.

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The principal aim of this book is to bring together in one publication those writings on clothes and fashion by Roland Barthes, which have yet to be translated into English.

Comprised of three essays written by Baudrillard in the lead-up to, during and after the military clash in the Gulf in 1992, this book is a penetrating and provocative analysis of the unfolding drama using the author's well concepts of simulation and the hyperreal.