Visual Arts

Drawing on contributions from Canada, England and Utrecht this book illustrates the transforming effect of creatively applied thinking to social problems – both for those living with social issues and professionals working with them...

Drawing on contributions from Canada, England and Utrecht this book illustrates the transforming effect of creatively applied thinking to social problems – both for those living with social issues and professionals working with them...

Based on interviews with more than 75 mid-career artists, Time, Space, and Process: Becoming and Artist in the Contemporary World assesses the methods and approaches used by highly successful artists in their artistic practice...

This collection of brief but insightful essays examines a wide variety of unique but related issues: the relationship between natural and artistic beauty; the genius of Da Vinci and Nicholas Poussin; the influence of femininity on European art; the importance of good criticism; art as a social pheno..

This collection of brief but insightful essays examines a wide variety of unique but related issues: the relationship between natural and artistic beauty; the genius of Da Vinci and Nicholas Poussin; the influence of femininity on European art; the importance of good criticism; art as a social pheno..

National Galleries looks at national art museums globally and considers how – as pieces of architecture, curated spaces and collections of artworks – they entangle art and nation. Are national galleries different from other kinds of art gallery or museum? What value is there for the nation in a coll..

National Galleries looks at national art museums globally and considers how – as pieces of architecture, curated spaces and collections of artworks – they entangle art and nation. Are national galleries different from other kinds of art gallery or museum? What value is there for the nation in a coll..

Distinguished American and European scholars, curators and artists discuss the issues concerning the representation and commemoration of slavery, as brought into sharp focus by the 2007 bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade...

Recently there have been a number of texts on images of pain by authors such as Elaine Scarry, George Roeder, Susan Sontag, Ulrich Baer, Georges Didi-Huberman, and Giorgio Agamben. In this volume, contributors add to the discussion on images of pain by providing thoughtful scholarly accounts of repr..

Recently there have been a number of texts on images of pain by authors such as Elaine Scarry, George Roeder, Susan Sontag, Ulrich Baer, Georges Didi-Huberman, and Giorgio Agamben. In this volume, contributors add to the discussion on images of pain by providing thoughtful scholarly accounts of repr..

This book examines how contemporary psychoanalytic theory provides insight into understanding the psychological sources of modern art...

The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts is a major collection of new writings on research in the creative and performing arts by leading authorities from around the world...