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Hardcover : $29.95 Buy	Flower Power The Meaning of Flowers in Art, 1500-2000 Anna Pavord, Andrew Moore, and Christopher Garibaldi Philip Wilson Publishers The book brings together a wide variety of ravishing illustrations of the cut flower in the history of European fine and decorative art since 1500. The...

Hardcover : $87.00 Buy	Drapery Classicism and Barbarism in Visual Culture Gen Doy I.B. Tauris In this fascinating and accessible book, Gen Doy investigates the hitherto neglected meanings of drapery and the draped body in visual culture. The baroque and...

Hardcover : $94.00 Buy	Breaking the Disciplines Reconceptions in Culture, Knowledge and Art Edited by Martin L. Davies and Marsha Meskimmon I.B. Tauris This is a truly original and pioneering contribution to critical theory and aesthetics across disciplines.

Hardcover : $35.00 Buy	The History of Hair Fashion and Fantasy Down the Ages Robin Bryer Philip Wilson Publishers Hair, and its association with art and fashion, has until now been a sadly neglected subject. This book provides a fascinating study of the history of hair,...

Trade Paperback : $41.00 Buy	Sounding the Event Escapades in Dialogue and Matters of Art, Nature and Time Yve Lomax I.B. Tauris What constitutes an event? Propelled by this question, Sounding the Event encounters a variety of theories and a host of issues that have implications for not...

Trade Paperback : $33.00 Buy	Art Beyond Representation The Performative Power of the Image Barbara Bolt I.B. Tauris Refuting the assumption that art is a representational practice, Bolt's striking argument engages with the work of Heidegger, Deleuze and Guattari, C.S.Peirce...

Hardcover : $22.00 Buy	The Culture of Craft Peter Dormer Manchester University Press Dormer presents a series of lively, clearly argued discussions about the relevance of handicraft in a world whose aesthetics and design are largely determined...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Art and Science Art and... Series Siân Ede I.B. Tauris While demonstrating how science is affecting the creation and interpretation of contemporary art, this book proposes that artistic insights are as important on...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Art and Advertising Art and... Series Joan Gibbons I.B. Tauris Art and advertising are often seen as potential enemies, with the one being free from commercial concerns and the other dependent upon them. In this clearly...

Trade Paperback : $31.00 Buy	Reading Art, Reading Irigaray The Politics of Art by Women Hilary Robinson I.B. Tauris Feminist theorist Luce Irigaray's influential work in philosophy, gender, linguistics and psychoanalysis is now well established and widely discussed. Taught...

Trade Paperback : $27.00 Buy	Art and Laughter Art and... Series Sheri Klein I.B. Tauris This is the first book to take seriously (though not too seriously) the surprisingly neglected role of humour in art. Art and Laughter looks back to comic...

Trade Paperback : $27.00 Buy	Art and Obscenity Art and... Series Kerstin Mey I.B. Tauris Explicit material is more widely available in the internet age than ever before, yet the concept of "obscenity" remains as difficult to pin down as it is to...

Trade Paperback : $27.00 Buy	Art and War Art and... Series Laura Brandon I.B. Tauris This is a truly encyclopaedic survey of artists’ responses -- both "official" and personal -- to "the horrors of war." Art and War reveals the sheer diversity...

Hardcover : $94.00 Buy	Fragonard's Playful Paintings Visual Games in Rococo Art Critical Perspectives in Art History Jennifer D. Milam Manchester University Press Fragonard’s playful paintings is the first critical analysis of the function of play as an artistic concept and visual experience in Rococo art. The art of...

Hardcover : $52.00 Buy	Engaged with the Arts Writings from the Frontline John Tusa I.B. Tauris John Tusa, celebrated broadcaster and journalist, and Managing Director of London's Barbican Centre for the arts, has written this selection of passionately...

Trade Paperback : $32.50 Buy	Aftershock The Ethics of Contemporary Transgressive Art Kieran Cashell I.B. Tauris This provocative book subjects contemporary transgressive art to a rigorous ethical exploration. Accused by the tabloid press of setting out to "shock",...

Trade Paperback : $31.00 Buy	The Sacred and the Feminine Imagination and Sexual Difference New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts Edited by Griselda Pollock and Victoria Turvey-Sauron I.B. Tauris NEW SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts Series Editor: Griselda Pollock This timely new series, with eminent art historian and...

Trade Paperback : $31.00 Buy	Conceptual Odysseys Passages to Cultural Analysis New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts Edited by Griselda Pollock I.B. Tauris The "theoretical turn" within the arts and humanities in the 1970's and 1980's has, for many, had its day, with work produced under its rubric all too often...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Bringing Modernity Home Writings on Popular Design and Material Culture Studies in Design Judy Attfield Manchester University Press Bringing Modernity Home offers a retrospective view of the development of popular taste and the beginnings of a new phase in the rise of the consumer society...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Politics and Paintings at the Venice Biennale 1948-64 Italy and the 'Idea of Europe' Critical Perspectives in Art History Nancy Jachec Manchester University Press Although cultural exchanges were named within the Council of Europe in the mid- 1950's as being second only in importance to the military as a tool for...

Trade Paperback : $29.00 Buy	Contemporary Art and Memory Images of Recollection and Remembrance Joan Gibbons I.B. Tauris This is the first accessible survey book to explore the subject of memory as it appears in multiple guises in contemporary art. Highly readable and approached...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	The Art of Poverty Irony and Ideal in Sixteenth-Century Beggar Imagery Tom Nichols Manchester University Press The Art of Poverty is the first book in English to analyze depictions of beggars in 16th-century European art. Featuring works from Germany, the Low Countries,...

Trade Paperback : $26.00 Buy	Deleuze Reframed Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts Contemporary Thinkers Reframed Damian Sutton and David Martin-Jones I.B. Tauris Are your students baffled by Baudrillard? Dazed by Deleuze? Confused by Kristeva? Other beginners’ guides can feel as impenetrable as the original texts to...

Trade Paperback : $26.00 Buy	Lacan Reframed Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts Contemporary Thinkers Reframed Steven Levine I.B. Tauris Are your students baffled by Baudrillard? Dazed by Deleuze? Confused by Kristeva? Other beginners’ guides can feel as impenetrable as the original texts to...

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