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How does contemporary art subvert the role of the artist/author

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This definitive text explores the complex relationship between participation in the arts and participation in politics in America. Political science and arts management students, as well as arts advocates, will find that this text provides a clear picture of participation in the arts and politics in America.

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A student introduction to the methods and techniques of studying Design History

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A student introduction to the methods and techniques of studying Design History

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This is the first English-language study of the legendary French art historian Georges Didi-Huberman. With clear discussions of Didi-Huberman's ideas and arguments, this book offers an excellent introduction to one of the most influential critical thinkers writing today. -- .

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Examines the twists and turns of the contesting terms of virtuality and indexicality in contemporary cultural theory in relation to history, trauma, sexuality, textuality, anxiety, simulated lives, code, digital cinema, science fiction, and contemporary art.

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An investigation of artists' responses to historical trauma, this book asks how such work can help to confront, disturb and transform the past. -- .

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This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art. It seeks to complicate the traditional model of ekphrasis as a form of paragone (competition), and proposes a more reciprocal model that involves an encounter or exchange between word and image. -- .

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Despite the recent "global turn" in contemporary art, ethnic arts remain on the fringes of mainstream gallery, museum and biennial exhibitions.

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Four decades of feminist art history have prompted a radical rethinking of the discipline. This volume asks how feminism's interventions and propositions are relevant to contemporary scholarship today.

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Part of "The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Cultural Theory" series, this book offers an examination of Foucault's reflections on visual art. It traces his thought as it engages with the work of visual artists from the seventeenth century to the contemporary period.

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Part of "The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Cultural Theory" series, this book offers an examination of Foucault's reflections on visual art. It traces his thought as it engages with the work of visual artists from the seventeenth century to the contemporary period.

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Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential and revolutionary philosophers of the 20th century. Francis Bacon was widely regarded as one of the most radical painters of the 20th century. This book presents a deep engagement with Bacon's work and the nature of art.

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Continuities in artistic form from the fourteenth century in Italy to the present are examined, with emphasis on two overriding tendencies: (1) the formalization of visual representations and their interpretations, and (2) the association of the formality with extreme individualism in the Western world.

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What happens to sound, in the form of art, music and noise, once it enters the art gallery

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This cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to gesture offers new explorations of how gesture/s and feminism/s have animated one another in feminist and interdisciplinary artistic practice from the 1960s onwards.

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Best known as an activist and practicing psychiatrist, Guattari's work is increasingly understood as both eerily prescient and vital in the context of contemporary culture. This title presents a rehabilitation of one of the twentieth century's most engaged and engaging cultural philosophers.

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Synthesises current critical thinking on art and war with primary interview material collected by the authors with artists of contemporary war art.

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A critique of immersive aesthetics in the arts, with particular emphasis placed upon sound and new media art.