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Musica ficta is the practice of sharpening or flattening certain notes to avoid awkward intervals in medieval and Renaissance music. This collection gathers Margaret Bent”s influential writings on t …

Public Value speaks to our time – to the role that museums can play in creating civil societies, to the challenges involved in using limited assets strategically, to the demand for results that make …

Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656), a major figure of the Golden Age of British music, was arguably the greatest of all Welsh-born composers. Living through one of the most revolutionary periods in British h …

The Sister Chapel (1974-78) was an important collaborative installation that materialized at the height of the women‘s art movement. Conceived as a nonhierarchical, secular commemoration of female ro …

Siena is often referred to as the ”City of the Virgin” and the ”City of the Palio”. The special devotion of the Sienese to the Virgin began in the thirteenth century and in times of danger the Si …

When thinking about the Mediterranean, Fernand Braudel”s haunting words resound like an echo of the sea and its millenary history. From Prehistory until today, the Mediterranean has been setting, wi …

This title was first published in 2000. This is an interdisciplinary and international collection on aesthetics with contributions from artists and philosophers and the range of thinkers about art in …

The first book to focus specifically on the late German artist Christoph Schlingensief”s theatre work, it subversively merges art, politics and everyday life to imbue his productions both inside and …

WINNER OF A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD 2018 In the early twentieth century, Marguerite Zorach and Georgiana Brown Harbeson were at the forefront of the modern embroidery movement in the …

 Art Since the ’80s, a new series from Reaktion Books, seeks to offer compelling surveys of popular themes in contemporary art. In the first book in the series, Gill Perry reveals how the house …