Simon Charsley & Laxmi N. Kadekar 
Performers and Their Arts [EPUB ebook] 
Folk, Popular and Classical Genres in a Changing India

The creative life is not easy. From the outside it can seem romantic and exciting, but in fact it is a unique journey filled with doubts and dreams and complex challenges that most people never imagi …

This book provides original grounds for integrating the bodily, somatic senses into our understanding of how we make and engage with visual art. Rosalyn Driscoll, a visual artist who spent years maki …

This book offers a reassessment of how ‘matter’ – in the context of art history, criticism, and architecture – pursued a radical definition of ‘multiplicity’, against the dominant and hierarchical te …

To what extent does locality influence contemporary art? Can any particular artistic practices be defined as uniquely Cypriot? And does art from Cyprus transcend Western boundaries once it enters the …

Conservators and other museum professionals face a large number of issues involving the mechanical behavior of materials, including questions on craquelure, restoring physically damaged objects, art …

This book explores the nature of Britain-based artists’ engagement with the transformations of their environment since the early days of the Industrial Revolution. At a time of pressing ecological co …

This book is the first full-length study dedicated to French women Orientalist artists. Mary Kelly has gathered primary documentation relating to seventy-two women artists whose works of art can be p …

Originally published in 1947, The Vertical Man explores a form of Indian sculpture largely ignored in other studies, with a focus on two kinds of sculpture from the province of Bihar. The book provid …

A radically urgent intervention, An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre: 1900 — 1950 uncovers the hidden Black history of this most influential of artforms. Drawing on lost archive …