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Offers approachable, clear and original accounts of French thinkers who specialise in visual theory, with connections explained and explicated between chapters; looks at those thinkers who have been neglected in the Anglo-American world thereby expanding and diversifying the perception that readers have -- .

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Originally published in hardcover: New York: Random House, 2008.

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For Naked City, his first collection, Weegee cruised the streets of 1940s New York in the wee hours in search of the sensational. Lewd, louche, licentious but always brimming with life (except when brimming with death), Weegee's photographs have endured decades of modern art criticism and are again enjoying a much-deserved cult revival.

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In this collection of interviews, artists from various disciplines and in various stages of their careers discuss how they balance their art with the practical aspects of earning a living.

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An exploration of Scandinavian literature and art. It guides us through the most startling works created by the writers and artists of Scandinavia over the past two centuries. It helps readers gain fresh perspectives on canonical giants such as Soren Kierkegaard, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Edvard Munch, Knut Hamsun, and Ingmar Bergman.

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A generous selection of forthright essays on art and artists. Hughes tackles the lives and works of over 80 artists, from the old masters to our contemporaries, exploring their achievement (or lack of it) and how they altered the history of art for better or worse.

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Melbourne writer, critic and teacher A A Phillips coined the term 'the cultural cringe' to describe an Australian tendency to identify our literature and art as inferior to work produced overseas. This work includes his essay on the cringe with two of his other essays on Australian culture, and with additional biographical and critical material.

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Features new research and original contributions to modern and contemporary art and architectural history and theory by distinguished scholars in field.

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This collection of essays investigates the effects of mobility and place on a range of photographic archives and explores their potential for cross-disciplinary dialogue.

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Discusses uses of photography in the context of art practice, and relates them to wider cultural debates. Focusing on conceptual and political projects between 1970 and the turn of the century, it draws parallels between issues discussed in theory and those displayed visually in practice. -- .

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Discusses uses of photography in the context of art practice, and relates them to wider cultural debates. Focusing on conceptual and political projects between 1970 and the turn of the century, it draws parallels between issues discussed in theory and those displayed visually in practice. -- .

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This publication maps out key moments in the history of environmentalist photography, while also examining contemporary examples of artistic practice.

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Emphasizing the mediums reception among several Chinese constituencies, this book explores photographys impact within new discourses on science, as well its effects in social life, visual modernity and the media during Chinas transition from imperial to republican government.

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The aesthetic pleasures of today's popular visual culture - sentimental, violent, vulgar, spectacular, humorous, and many more - are roundly criticised and condemned in elite discourse, but this book shows that they are perennial in nature and an intrinsic part of what it is to be human.

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Portraiture occupies a central position in the history of Western art. It has been the most popular genre of painting and has been crucial to the construction and articulation of individualism. This volume provides an introduction to the major issues in the history of portraiture.