Christopher Bigsby 
Contemporary American Playwrights [PDF ebook] 

Eighteenth-century women told their life stories through making. With its compelling stories of women »s material experiences and practices, Material Lives offers a new perspective on eighteenth-cent …

The story of "The Adventures of Captain John Patterson" takes the reader on an exciting journey into unknown territories. It tells the story of Captain John Patterson’s exciting adventures …

A compelling biographical study of a leading twentieth-century British artist,  »Graham Sutherland: Life, Work and Ideas » offers new insight into how he and his paintings developed. In the culminati …

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular  »moment » in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing o …

Hilton Kramer, well known as perhaps the most perceptive, courageous, and influential art critic in America, is also the founder and co-editor (with Roger Kimball) of The New Criterion. This comprehe …

Illuminated manuscripts are among the most beautiful, precious and mysterious works of Western art. Before the printing press was invented, books were produced by hand and their illustration using br …

What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration – part dialogue, part voyage – with the video installations of Finnish ar …

One of ‘The Eight’—a major group in the history of American painting—John Sloan was also an illustrator and cartoonist. Sloan kept an almost daily diary for eight years, for the most part to entertai …

The general aim of this volume is to investigate the nature of the relation between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation. In particular, it is concerned with the character and intimacy of …

Now in its second edition, this volume is an accessible introduction to the history of art. Using an international range of examples, it provides the reader with a toolkit of concepts, ideas and meth …