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‘In this reality, ‘ the figure said, ‘I survived.’ Anna looked, horrified, at the figure before her. It couldn»t be – it just couldn»t be! She was still asleep! But no, Tania Worlock stood before h …

This book uncovers how we make meaning of abstraction, both historically and in present times, and examines abstract images as a visual language. The contributors demonstrate that abstraction is not …

In 1479, the Venetian painter Gentile Bellini arrived at the Ottoman court in Istanbul, where he produced his celebrated portrait of Sultan Mehmed II. An important moment of cultural diplomacy, this …

This book is the first major study that explores the intrinsic connection between music and myth, as Nietzsche conceived of it in The Birth of Tragedy (1872), in three great works of modern literatur …

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 …

This book examines British collectors of so-called Persian art (a broad umbrella term then covering a large portion of Islamic art) in the late 19th century, including ceramics, metalwork, carpe …

"The Evolution of Sinn Fein" by Robert Mitchell. Henry provides a comprehensive assessment of Sinn Fein’s transforming journey, from its inception as a modern movement to its current positi …

First Published in 1984. This is the second volume in a series on musicology and related areas edited by F. Joseph Smith. Deciphering the specific social characteristics of music has long lagged behi …

Born in South Carolina, White spent his childhood as a lead boy for traveling blind bluesmen. In the early »30s he moved to New York and became a popular blues star, then introduced folk-blues to a …

This groundbreaking survey of significant work and ideas focuses on imagemakers who have pushed beyond the boundaries of photography as a window on our material world. Through interviews with mo …