Suwalska-Kolecka Anna Suwalska-Kolecka & Penier Izabella Penier 
Art, Ethics and Provocation [PDF ebook] 

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 …

Mozart »s piano sonatas are among the most familiar of his works and stand alongside those of Haydn and Beethoven as staples of the pianist »s repertoire. In this study, John Irving looks at a wide s …

In the second edition of The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation, David Whitley updates his 2008 book to reflect recent developments in Disney and Disney-Pixar animation such as the apocalyptic tale o …

Through its exploration of the intersections between the culture of the wool broadcloth industry and the literature of the early modern period, this study contributes to the expanding field of materi …

From the Rust Belt to Silicon Valley, the intersection between architecture and industry has provided a rich and evolving source for historians of architecture. In a historical context, industrial ar …

While written sources on the history of Greece have been studied extensively, no systematic attempt has been made to examine photography as an important cultural and material process. This is surpris …

Dedicated to the late Gerard Béhague (1937-2005), whose pioneering work in Latin American music, popular culture, and performance studies contributed extensively to ethnomusicological discourse in th …

Presenting the latest research in the area, this volume explores the fundamental concept of qupai 曲牌, melodic models upon which most traditional Chinese instrumental music (and some vocal music) is b …

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 …

Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century ’Gothic’ villa and garden beside the River Thames, is an autobiographical site, where we ca …