(Paperback)

An illustrated short- story, coloring book, and journal for anyone who feels.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

A journey through the history, culture and mean streets of Naples by the acclaimed bestselling author of Midnight in Sicily and M.

(Hardback)

A study of the changes in the style of Guercino and of related 17th century Italian painters.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

Duplessis provides a historical introduction to surrealism and examines its techniques and its use in poetry, painting, architecture, and theatre.

(Paperback)

These sixteen illustrated essays present an important revision of surrealism by focusing on the works of women surrealists and their strategies to assert positions as creative subjects within a movement that regarded woman primarily as an object of masculine desire or fear.

(Hardback)

Surrealist sabotage and the war on work is an art historical study devoted to international surrealisms critique of wage labour between 1920 and 1980. Topics such as automatism, artworks across media, radical publications and social interventions are examined in relation to the movements ongoing demand for non-alienated work.

(Paperback)

During her sixty-five-year career, Susie Cooper introduced more than 4,500 ceramic patterns and shapes, versatile and influential designers the industry has ever seen. This title charts her progress from the creation of patterns for Gray's Pottery in the 1920s, to running her own Susie Cooper Productions from the 1930s to the 1950s.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

Deals with Precisionism and its ten leading practitioners: George Ault, Peter Blume, Ralston Crawford, Charles Demuth, Preston Dickinson, O. Louis Guglielmi, Louis Lozowick, Morton L. Schamberg, Charles Sheeler and Niles Spencer. Each artist is the subject of a chapter with a biographical sketch.

(Paperback)

Combines aesthetic and cultural insights with a variety of illustrations to make a statement about Chinese art and society.

(Hardback)

What happens when you touch or enter an artwork instead of looking at it As artists since the 1950s have increasingly sought to involve viewers more actively in their artworks, this critical anthology sheds light on the nature of these new forms of participation and their historical, social and political significance. -- .

(Paperback)

Spanning a range of practices including kinetic art, happenings, environments, performance, installations, relational and new media art from the 1950s to the present, this critical anthology sheds light on the history and specificity of artworks that only come to life when you - the viewer - are invited to 'do it yourself.' -- .

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

Marit K. Munson explores ancient artwork with standard archaeological approaches to material culture, framed by theoretical insights of disciplines such as art history and psychology. She demonstrates how archaeological methods, combined with theoretical insights from other disciplines, open up new avenues for understanding of past peoples.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

Frenzy - the most flagrant and political form of madness - is the madness of warrior-heroes, kings, scolds, and the possessed. Integrating art history with cultural studies, political history, and the history of medicine, this study examines its representation and interpretation in art.

(Hardback)

`The art of poverty` is the first book in English to analyse depictions of beggars in sixteenth-century European art. It develops a striking thesis, arguing that such images largely conformed to two paradoxical, though complimentary, traditions: the one ironising, the other idealising. -- .

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

(Hardback)