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An alchemy of living culture : collected writings on double edge theatre
Klein, Stacy
Methuen Drama
, 2025
; English
; 273 Pages
"A selection of Stacy Klein's writings for and about Double Edge Theatre - a feminist ensemble and artist-run organisation founded in the US in the 1980s. It captures the theatrical
and cultural practice to have come out of the theatre company and showcases its dedication to collective artistic creativity, cultural survival and sustained, equitable
organization-building. Featuring interviews, artists' statements, essays and speeches, as well as an introduction that situates the material in the wider theatre-making scene, the
volume as a whole captures the democratic spirit and boundary-pushing forms that the theatre company have championed"-- Provided by publisher
Klein, Stacy
Methuen Drama
, 2025
; English
; 273 Pages
"A selection of Stacy Klein's writings for and about Double Edge Theatre - a feminist ensemble and artist-run organisation founded in the US in the 1980s. It captures the theatrical
and cultural practice to have come out of the theatre company and showcases its dedication to collective artistic creativity, cultural survival and sustained, equitable
organization-building. Featuring interviews, artists' statements, essays and speeches, as well as an introduction that situates the material in the wider theatre-making scene, the
volume as a whole captures the democratic spirit and boundary-pushing forms that the theatre company have championed"-- Provided by publisher
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Hospital aesthetics: disability, medicine, activism
Cachia, Amanda
Manchester University Press
, 2025
; English
; 242 Pages
This book argues that contemporary disabled artists are offering a new hospital aesthetics, where artists are taking health and care into their own hands and body-minds. Disabled artists are contributing to a type of disability activism that can simultaneously improve mainstream bioethics and ableist museum and gallery culture.
Cachia, Amanda
Manchester University Press
, 2025
; English
; 242 Pages
This book argues that contemporary disabled artists are offering a new hospital aesthetics, where artists are taking health and care into their own hands and body-minds. Disabled artists are contributing to a type of disability activism that can simultaneously improve mainstream bioethics and ableist museum and gallery culture.
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Counter Print The alternative art press in Britain after 1970
Horne, Victoria
Manchester University Press
, 2025
; English
; 352 Pages
The history of contemporary art is also a history of its newsletters, manifestos, magazines, pamphlets and journals. Those periodical publications do not simply communicate or record ideas but have worked in multiple ways to shape art’s practices, histories and communities. As a new generation of artists, activists and scholars seek to uncover the histories of alternative publishing and artistic networks, this book gathers original archival discoveries while offering methodologies for studying and thinking with those artefacts. Through case studies it tells the story of an independent media culture of artists, critics and historians operating on the edges of mainstream institutions. It examines the queer, feminist, Black and transnational communities that reshaped Britain’s cultural landscape through groundbreaking publications including Black Phoenix, Bazaar, Artscribe, Spare Rib, Mukti, Feminist Arts News and Urban Fox Press, and tracks changes to an expanding field of post-digital publishing through Inventory, e-flux and The White Pube. As the first essay collection to focus on the UK’s periodical art press and the ways we study it, Counter Print offers readers an alternative route into contemporary art after 1970; one that is defiantly collaborative, border crossing and disruptive
Horne, Victoria
Manchester University Press
, 2025
; English
; 352 Pages
The history of contemporary art is also a history of its newsletters, manifestos, magazines, pamphlets and journals. Those periodical publications do not simply communicate or record ideas but have worked in multiple ways to shape art’s practices, histories and communities. As a new generation of artists, activists and scholars seek to uncover the histories of alternative publishing and artistic networks, this book gathers original archival discoveries while offering methodologies for studying and thinking with those artefacts. Through case studies it tells the story of an independent media culture of artists, critics and historians operating on the edges of mainstream institutions. It examines the queer, feminist, Black and transnational communities that reshaped Britain’s cultural landscape through groundbreaking publications including Black Phoenix, Bazaar, Artscribe, Spare Rib, Mukti, Feminist Arts News and Urban Fox Press, and tracks changes to an expanding field of post-digital publishing through Inventory, e-flux and The White Pube. As the first essay collection to focus on the UK’s periodical art press and the ways we study it, Counter Print offers readers an alternative route into contemporary art after 1970; one that is defiantly collaborative, border crossing and disruptive
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Classical taste in the architectural world of Thomas Jefferson
Jordan, Alley Marie
Bloomsbury Academic
, 2025
; English
; 225 Pages
Reaching beyond politics and law, this book focuses on Thomas Jefferson as an aesthetic classicist.
Jefferson embraced the influence of antiquity through his adoption of classical architecture in his Virginia residences, in order to establish Rome as an ancestor to America. In a time of significant political and cultural change, he aligned himself with a Greco-Romano legacy that represented knowledge, power and art. Alley Marie Jordan studies the architectural and landscape spaces of Jefferson's classical taste, which include the villas of Monticello and Poplar Forest, as well as the University of Virginia. An examination of these places exposes his deeply entrenched views of the importance of classics in Virginia, and reveals them as expressions of admiration of classical antiquity.
Seeking to uncover an underexplored side of his character, Jordan deconstructs his identity through a classical lens and illustrates his influence on American culture, as well as his desire to reform it via the classics. By dislodging Jefferson from American politics, this study redefines his worldview and motivations for inventing an American virtue based on Horace's utile dulci. Although his participation in acquiring classical taste was not unique for his time, he did accomplish a unique aim with classicism: the blending of the American landscape with classical culture to create a 'new' American virtue.
Jordan, Alley Marie
Bloomsbury Academic
, 2025
; English
; 225 Pages
Reaching beyond politics and law, this book focuses on Thomas Jefferson as an aesthetic classicist.
Jefferson embraced the influence of antiquity through his adoption of classical architecture in his Virginia residences, in order to establish Rome as an ancestor to America. In a time of significant political and cultural change, he aligned himself with a Greco-Romano legacy that represented knowledge, power and art. Alley Marie Jordan studies the architectural and landscape spaces of Jefferson's classical taste, which include the villas of Monticello and Poplar Forest, as well as the University of Virginia. An examination of these places exposes his deeply entrenched views of the importance of classics in Virginia, and reveals them as expressions of admiration of classical antiquity.
Seeking to uncover an underexplored side of his character, Jordan deconstructs his identity through a classical lens and illustrates his influence on American culture, as well as his desire to reform it via the classics. By dislodging Jefferson from American politics, this study redefines his worldview and motivations for inventing an American virtue based on Horace's utile dulci. Although his participation in acquiring classical taste was not unique for his time, he did accomplish a unique aim with classicism: the blending of the American landscape with classical culture to create a 'new' American virtue.
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Aranda-Alvarado, Rocío
University of California Press
, 2025
; English
; 432 Pages
A curated selection of key texts and artists' voices exploring US Latinx art and art history from the 1960s to the present.
A Handbook of Latinx Art is the first anthology to explore the rich, deep, and often overlooked contributions that Latinx artists have made to art in the United States. Drawn from wide-ranging sources, this volume includes texts by artists, critics, and scholars from the 1960s to the present that reflect the diversity of the Latinx experience across the nation, from the West Coast and the Mexican border to New York, Miami, and the Midwest.
The anthology features essential writings by Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, and Central American artists to highlight how visionaries of diverse immigrant groups negotiate issues of participation and belonging, material, style, and community in their own voices. These intersectional essays cut across region, gender, race, and class to lay out a complex emerging field that reckons with different histories, geographies, and political engagements and, ultimately, underscores the importance of Latinx artists to the history of American art.
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Aranda-Alvarado, Rocío
University of California Press
, 2025
; English
; 432 Pages
A curated selection of key texts and artists' voices exploring US Latinx art and art history from the 1960s to the present.
A Handbook of Latinx Art is the first anthology to explore the rich, deep, and often overlooked contributions that Latinx artists have made to art in the United States. Drawn from wide-ranging sources, this volume includes texts by artists, critics, and scholars from the 1960s to the present that reflect the diversity of the Latinx experience across the nation, from the West Coast and the Mexican border to New York, Miami, and the Midwest.
The anthology features essential writings by Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, and Central American artists to highlight how visionaries of diverse immigrant groups negotiate issues of participation and belonging, material, style, and community in their own voices. These intersectional essays cut across region, gender, race, and class to lay out a complex emerging field that reckons with different histories, geographies, and political engagements and, ultimately, underscores the importance of Latinx artists to the history of American art.
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The forger's creed : reinventing art history in early modern China
Park, J. P.
University of California Press
, 2025
; English
; 236 Pages
The first in-depth look at the history and legacies of forgeries in Chinese art.
In 1634, scholar-official Zhang Taijie (b. ca. 1588) published a book titled A Record of Treasured Paintings (C. Baohui lu), presenting an extensive catalogue of a purportedly vast painting collection he claimed to have built. However, the entire book is Zhang's meticulously crafted forgery
he even forged paintings to match the documentation, and profited from trading them. Furthermore, the book intriguingly mirrors unfounded art-historical claims of its time. Prominent figures like Dong Qichang (1555–1636) made entirely fabricated arguments to assert legitimate lineages in Chinese art, designed to create a fictionalized history shaped by preferred beliefs rather than reality.
While presenting the first comprehensive exploration of various forgery practices in early modern China—fabricated texts, forged paintings, and fictitious art history—The Forger's Creed examines the cultural, social, and genealogical desires, anxieties, and tensions prevalent in early modern China. Through thorough scrutiny of the historical irregularities introduced by these forgeries, J. P. Park highlights a peculiar and paradoxical phenomenon wherein forgeries transform into legitimate materials across Chinese history.
Park, J. P.
University of California Press
, 2025
; English
; 236 Pages
The first in-depth look at the history and legacies of forgeries in Chinese art.
In 1634, scholar-official Zhang Taijie (b. ca. 1588) published a book titled A Record of Treasured Paintings (C. Baohui lu), presenting an extensive catalogue of a purportedly vast painting collection he claimed to have built. However, the entire book is Zhang's meticulously crafted forgery
he even forged paintings to match the documentation, and profited from trading them. Furthermore, the book intriguingly mirrors unfounded art-historical claims of its time. Prominent figures like Dong Qichang (1555–1636) made entirely fabricated arguments to assert legitimate lineages in Chinese art, designed to create a fictionalized history shaped by preferred beliefs rather than reality.
While presenting the first comprehensive exploration of various forgery practices in early modern China—fabricated texts, forged paintings, and fictitious art history—The Forger's Creed examines the cultural, social, and genealogical desires, anxieties, and tensions prevalent in early modern China. Through thorough scrutiny of the historical irregularities introduced by these forgeries, J. P. Park highlights a peculiar and paradoxical phenomenon wherein forgeries transform into legitimate materials across Chinese history.
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Negotiating civic life: literature, film, politics
Shapiro, Michael J.
Edinburgh University Press
, 2025
; English
; 208 Pages
Focused both thematically and methodologically on diverse aspects of civic life, this book elucidates the mentalities and forces involved in the way individuals and collectives negotiate ways of being in common. The chapters feature critical interventions into the civic lives of grief, of things, of Blackness, and of trans identity.
With an emphasis on the historiographic contributions of literature, film, objects and embodied memories of events, Shapiro's textual analyses treat the way artistic genres supply the critical thinking needed to encourage a more egalitarian and convivial life world.
Shapiro, Michael J.
Edinburgh University Press
, 2025
; English
; 208 Pages
Focused both thematically and methodologically on diverse aspects of civic life, this book elucidates the mentalities and forces involved in the way individuals and collectives negotiate ways of being in common. The chapters feature critical interventions into the civic lives of grief, of things, of Blackness, and of trans identity.
With an emphasis on the historiographic contributions of literature, film, objects and embodied memories of events, Shapiro's textual analyses treat the way artistic genres supply the critical thinking needed to encourage a more egalitarian and convivial life world.
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Art against authoritarianism in Southwest Asia and North Africa
Tunali, Tijen; Wessels, Josepha Ivanka
I.B. Tauris
, 2025
; English
; 209 Pages
Over the past decade, there has been a burgeoning interest in the realm of art activism within the Southwest Asia and North Africa region, shedding light on the political implications of aesthetic representation. Nevertheless, a critical inquiry into how political aesthetics can formulate both discernible and imperceptible resistance strategies in response to resurging authoritarianism and counter-revolution after the 2011 uprisings in the region remains conspicuously absent.
This book delves into a comprehensive examination of diverse art forms, ranging from street art and cinema to performance art, as well as music and theatre, scrutinizing the manifestations of aesthetic resilience at the epicentre of the political resistance against oppression and authoritarianism in Sudan, Iran, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon, Yemen and Syria. The editors employ a multifaceted approach to investigate artistic activism, encompassing analysis of visibility, ephemerality, and speech within the public sphere, the establishment and perpetuation of collective transnational solidarities, the portrayal of suppressed identities and narratives, and the innovation of alternative mechanisms for producing and disseminating art.
Tunali, Tijen; Wessels, Josepha Ivanka
I.B. Tauris
, 2025
; English
; 209 Pages
Over the past decade, there has been a burgeoning interest in the realm of art activism within the Southwest Asia and North Africa region, shedding light on the political implications of aesthetic representation. Nevertheless, a critical inquiry into how political aesthetics can formulate both discernible and imperceptible resistance strategies in response to resurging authoritarianism and counter-revolution after the 2011 uprisings in the region remains conspicuously absent.
This book delves into a comprehensive examination of diverse art forms, ranging from street art and cinema to performance art, as well as music and theatre, scrutinizing the manifestations of aesthetic resilience at the epicentre of the political resistance against oppression and authoritarianism in Sudan, Iran, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon, Yemen and Syria. The editors employ a multifaceted approach to investigate artistic activism, encompassing analysis of visibility, ephemerality, and speech within the public sphere, the establishment and perpetuation of collective transnational solidarities, the portrayal of suppressed identities and narratives, and the innovation of alternative mechanisms for producing and disseminating art.
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Busby Berkeley at Warner Bros. : ideology and utopia in the Hollywood musical
Phillips, James; Vernallis, Carol (Series Editors); Rogers, Holly (Series Editors); Perrott, Lisa (Series Editors)
Bloomsbury Academic
, 2025
; English
; 257 Pages
Busby Berkeley's big-production numbers are emblematic of the Hollywood dream factory.
Exploring the tensions between escapism and ideological over-coding in the Warner Bros. musical, this book tracks the ways in which Berkeley created spectacles that are both critical and complacent in relation to the society that produced and received them.
Berkeley carried into his images of utopia the assembly plant, the misogyny, the fascism and racism of his day, but his collaboration with the filmmakers (Enright, Bacon and LeRoy) into whose narratives his numbers were spliced likewise involved taking care to draw a line between spectacle and the everyday. The book makes the case that the Warner Bros. musical, with its attention to the specificity and containment of the aesthetic dimension, has corrective lessons to impart for the aestheticiz
Phillips, James; Vernallis, Carol (Series Editors); Rogers, Holly (Series Editors); Perrott, Lisa (Series Editors)
Bloomsbury Academic
, 2025
; English
; 257 Pages
Busby Berkeley's big-production numbers are emblematic of the Hollywood dream factory.
Exploring the tensions between escapism and ideological over-coding in the Warner Bros. musical, this book tracks the ways in which Berkeley created spectacles that are both critical and complacent in relation to the society that produced and received them.
Berkeley carried into his images of utopia the assembly plant, the misogyny, the fascism and racism of his day, but his collaboration with the filmmakers (Enright, Bacon and LeRoy) into whose narratives his numbers were spliced likewise involved taking care to draw a line between spectacle and the everyday. The book makes the case that the Warner Bros. musical, with its attention to the specificity and containment of the aesthetic dimension, has corrective lessons to impart for the aestheticiz
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Koerner, Joseph Leo
Princeton University Press
, 2025
; English
; 409 Pages
An art historical epic for dangerous times
What do artworks look like in extreme cases of collective experience? What signals do artists send when enemies are at the city walls and the rule of law breaks down, or when a tyrant suspends the law to attack from inside? Art in a State of Siege tells the story of three compelling images created in dangerous moments and the people who experienced them—from Philip II of Spain to Carl Schmitt—whose panicked gaze turned artworks into omens.
Acclaimed art historian Joseph Koerner reaches back to the eve of iconoclasm and religious warfare to explore the most elusive painting ever painted. In Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Delights, enemies are everywhere: Jews and Ottomans at the gates, witches and heretics at home, sins overtaking the mind. Following a paper trail leading from Bosch's time to World War II, Koerner considers a monumental self-portrait painted by Max Beckmann in 1927. Created when Germany was often governed by emergency decree, this image brazenly claimed to decide Europe's future—until the Nazis deemed it to be a threat to the German people. For South African artist William Kentridge, Beckmann exemplified "art in a state of siege." Koerner shows how his work served as beacon during South Africa's racialist apartheid rule and inspired Kentridge's breakthrough animations of drawings being made, erased, and remade.
Spanning half a millennium but urgent today, Art in a State of Siege reveals how, in dire straits, art becomes the currency of last resort.
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Koerner, Joseph Leo
Princeton University Press
, 2025
; English
; 409 Pages
An art historical epic for dangerous times
What do artworks look like in extreme cases of collective experience? What signals do artists send when enemies are at the city walls and the rule of law breaks down, or when a tyrant suspends the law to attack from inside? Art in a State of Siege tells the story of three compelling images created in dangerous moments and the people who experienced them—from Philip II of Spain to Carl Schmitt—whose panicked gaze turned artworks into omens.
Acclaimed art historian Joseph Koerner reaches back to the eve of iconoclasm and religious warfare to explore the most elusive painting ever painted. In Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Delights, enemies are everywhere: Jews and Ottomans at the gates, witches and heretics at home, sins overtaking the mind. Following a paper trail leading from Bosch's time to World War II, Koerner considers a monumental self-portrait painted by Max Beckmann in 1927. Created when Germany was often governed by emergency decree, this image brazenly claimed to decide Europe's future—until the Nazis deemed it to be a threat to the German people. For South African artist William Kentridge, Beckmann exemplified "art in a state of siege." Koerner shows how his work served as beacon during South Africa's racialist apartheid rule and inspired Kentridge's breakthrough animations of drawings being made, erased, and remade.
Spanning half a millennium but urgent today, Art in a State of Siege reveals how, in dire straits, art becomes the currency of last resort.
