Jo Spence 
Cultural Sniping [PDF ebook] 

This book explores Symbolist artists“ fascination with ancient Greek art and myth, and how the erotic played a major role in this. For a brief period at the end of the 19th century the Symbolist mov …

Spinning the Child examines music for children on records, radio and television by assessing how ideals of entertainment, education, ‘the child’ and ‘the family’ have been communicated through folk m …

"The Early History of the Scottish Union Question" by way of George W. T. Omond delves into the historical context and complexities surrounding the Scottish Union at some stage in the late …

First Published in 1998. This book is the first resource guide to published materials on Scott Joplin and encompasses a wide variety of items having to do with the man, his Iife, his music, and his i …

Identifying the stage as a primary site for erotic display, these essays take eroticism in Renaissance culture as a paradigm for issues of sexuality and identity in early modern culture. Contributors …

Stanislavski: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the life, thought and impact of Konstantin Stanislavski. Regarded by many as a great innovator of twentieth century theatre, this book exa …

In Aesthetics and Material Beauty, Jennifer A. Mc Mahon develops a new aesthetic theory she terms Critical Aesthetic Realism – taking Kantian aesthetics as a starting point and drawing upon contempor …

Existentialism; Urbanism; Aporia; Deontic; Tabula Rasa; Hyperspace; Heterotopia; Metareality; Structuralism… What does it all mean? The unique language used in architectural theory – both in speech a …

In The Rise and Fall of American Art, 1940s-1980s, Catherine Dossin challenges the now-mythic perception of New York as the undisputed center of the art world between the end of World War II and the …

This book offers a range of views on spolia and appropriation in art and architecture from fourth-century Rome to the late twentieth century. Using case studies from different historical moments and …