Art & Visual Culture

Few phenomena are as formative of our experience of the visual world as displays of suffering. But what does it mean to have an ethical experience of disturbing or traumatizing images? Engaging with a wide range of visual media--from painting, theatre, and sculpture, to photography, film, and video-..

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Excavating the Medieval Image..

Analyzing works by choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since the early 1990s, this is the only book in English to study recent European contemporary dance and how this new age of choreographers are exhausting the concept of movement...

Analyzing works by choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since the early 1990s, this is the only book in English to study recent European contemporary dance and how this new age of choreographers are exhausting the concept of movement...

In recent years, there has been increasing scholarly interest in the history of museums, academies and major exhibitions. There has been, however, little sustained interest in the histories of alternative exhibitions. The present volume contextualizes eleven case studies to advance overarching theme..

Taking the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas episodes as a focal point, this study examines how visual representations of two of the most compelling and related Christian stories engaged with changing devotional and cultural ideals in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. By reuniting their visual exampl..

Taking the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas episodes as a focal point, this study examines how visual representations of two of the most compelling and related Christian stories engaged with changing devotional and cultural ideals in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. By reuniting their visual exampl..

Analyzing the decorative programmes of the most opulent European palaces of the time, Margaretha Lagerlöf investigates how meaning was conveyed through display and visual effects. She explores the visual meaning inherent in the scheme of spatial relations; in effects of scale, perspective, lighting,..

A long-needed corrective and alternative view of Western art history that discusses the extent to which art has been distorted, in every period, by sexual bias...

13 diverse essays illuminating the state of feminist art criticism...

Interdisciplinary in scope, this book constitutes the first overview of the development of early modern papal funeral apparati, the temporary decorations used during the funeral masses in St Peter’s. Drawing from a range of unpublished sources, the author shows how the papal apparati functioned with..