Ananda K. Coomaraswamy 
Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought? [EPUB ebook] 
The Traditional View of Art, Revised Edition with Previously Author’s Unpublished Notes

This book analyses the way that HIV/AIDS is often narrativised and represented in contemporary world cultures, as well as the different strategies of remembrance deployed by different (sub)cultural g …

Siena is often referred to as the ”City of the Virgin” and the ”City of the Palio”. The special devotion of the Sienese to the Virgin began in the thirteenth century and in times of danger the Si …

Originally published in 1999, this volume of essays arises from the first biennial Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain conference, held at the University of hull in July 1997. Like the conference, th …

Through the systematic analysis of data from music rehearsals, lessons, and performances, this book develops a new conceptual framework for studying cognitive processes in musical activity. Grounding …

This book offers a reassessment of how ‘matter’ – in the context of art history, criticism, and architecture – pursued a radical definition of ‘multiplicity’, against the dominant and hierarchical te …

The portrait has historically been understood as an artistic representation of a human subject. Its purpose was to provide a visual or psychological likenesses or an expression of personal, familial …

Introduction Part I: Caste, Community and performance

A ritual performance of Kerala, Vayala Vasudevan Pillai

The Patuas of Bengal, Makbul Islam

Bards and goddesses: The …

This book on Stephen Willats pulls together key strands of his practice and threads them through histories of British cybernetics, experimental art, and urban design. For Willats, a cluster of concep …

Art, Borders and Belonging: On Home and Migration investigates how three associated concepts-house, home and homeland-are represented in contemporary global art. The volume brings together essays whi …

Today”s many popular aesthetic pleasures have a very long history. Paul Duncum considers the historical critical discourses, and socio-political issues raised by aesthetic pleasures in fifteen thema …