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Heavily revised version of the author's thesis (2013--Courtauld Institute of Art) under the title: Peredvizhniki, or the Wanderers: the social history of an artists' movement in later nineteenth-century Russia.

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This book is a study of the art of the Kwoma of the Sepik River region of New Guinea and how people in this society understand their art as a cultural phenomenon, including its origins in the spirit world.

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Through the use of case examples and careful examination, this book presents the first interdisciplinary essay collection on the study of art crime, and its effect on all aspects of the art world.

Looks at the way contemporary Western artists negotiate death, both as personal experience and in the wider community. This book discusses and moves beyond the 'spectacle of death' in work by artists such as Damien Hirst to see how mortality brings us face to face with profound ethical issues.

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Art and Design in 1960s New York explores the mutual influence of fine art and graphic design in Manhattan during the long decade of the 1960s.

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This book explores the relationship between art and various disciplines of knowledge from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day.

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This book explores the relationship between art and various disciplines of knowledge from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day.

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Takes the neglected role of humour in art. This book looks back to comic masters such as Hogarth and Daumier and to Dada, Surrealism and Pop Art, asking what makes us laugh and why. It explores the use of comedy in art from satire and irony to pun, parody and black and bawdy humour.

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This volume offers responses to the view that migration is disruptive of national heritage. It investigates the empathy and mediation migratory aesthetics provide, re-evaluates the cultural understanding of borders and transnationalism and presents an overview of migration terminology for use by art historians and museums.

Talks about the work of 20th-century artists, from Hans Bellmer through to Nobuyoshi Araki, from Robert Mapplethorpe to Annie Sprinkle, and from Hermann Nitsch to Paul McCarthy. Here, the author argues that some works, regardless of their 'high art' context, remain deeply problematic, whilst others are both groundbreaking and liberating.

Contemporary artists in Pakistan have revived and reinvented miniature painting: a traditional artform which had faded under the colonial influence of the British, and is gaining ground as a medium for a new generation of artists to challenge the world around them. This title offers a look at this contemporary art movement.

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Contemporary art is incresingly concerned with swaying the opinions of its viewier. To do so, the art employs various strategies to convey a political message. This book provides readers with the tools to decode and appreciate political art, a crucial and understudied direction in post-war art.

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Art and Public History: Approaches, Opportunities, and Challenges provides public history practitioners and academics with useful guidance on how art can be integrated into public history initiatives, through critical discussion of tools, strategies, and technologies that contribute to collaboration and engagement across a variety of platforms.

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This comparative study of Africa's visual and performing arts concentrates on their geographical, material and gendered diversity, and focuses on the relation of these arts to African religion. The author attempts an understanding of these issues which challenges Western interpretations.

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Concentrating on scholarship over the past four decades, this multidisciplinary approach to representation considers conceptual issues about representation and applies different theories to various arts.

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