Sue Clayton & Kodwo Eshun 
Post-Punk Then and Now [EPUB ebook] 

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 …

‘Operetta: A Theatrical History’ is considered the classic history of this important musical theater form. Traubner”s book, first published in 1983, is still recognized as the key history of the peo …

First published in 2001. The North East of Brazil is renowned for its rich and vibrant popular culture. The region”s festivals, music, poetry and popular religious rituals have attracted increasing …

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 …

Though Bartolomeo Scappi”s Opera (1570), the first illustrated cookbook, is well known to historians of food, up to now there has been no study of its illustrations, unique in printed books through …

The whole of Marx”s project confronts the narrow concerns of political philosophy by embedding it in social philosophy and a certain understanding of the aesthetic. From those of aesthetic productio …

The notion of aesthetic illusion relates to a number of art forms and media. Defined as a pleasurable mental state that emerges during the reception of texts and artefacts, it amounts to the reader” …

From the late eighteenth century until about 1840, schoolgirls in the British Isles and the United States created embroidered map samplers and even silk globes. Hundreds of British maps were made and …

From Pliny to Petrarch to Pope-Hennessy and beyond, many have understood the obvious connection between portraiture and commemorative practice. This book expands and nuances our understanding of Rena …

Based on meticulous archival research, Dennis M. Read”s study offers the most accurate and thorough account to date of the engraver, editor, and arts enthusiast R. H. Cromek. Though he is best known …