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

Made in Brazil: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth-century Brazilian popular music. The volume consist …

Much recent economic work on the music industry has been focused on the impact of technology on demand, with predictions being made of digital copyright infringement leading to the demise of the indu …

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 …

Is Landscape . . . ? surveys multiple and myriad definitions of landscape. Rather than seeking a singular or essential understanding of the term, the collection postulates that landscape might be bet …

New York City was the site of a remarkable cultural and artistic renaissance during the 1950s and ”60s. In the first monograph to treat all five major poets of the New York School-John Ashbery, Barb …

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 …

Video art emerged as an art form that from the 1960s and onwards challenged the concept of art – hence, art historical practices. From the perspective of artists, critics, and scholars engaged with t …

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 …

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 …