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Art Practice in a Digital Culture
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 99.95In this unique book artists, art historians, art theorists and curators of new media reflect on the idea of art as research and how it has changed practice. Intrinsic to the volume is an investigation of the advances in creative practice made possible via artists engaging directly with technology or via collaborative partnerships between practitioners... more...
Performance and Authenticity in the Arts
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 26.00These essays investigate the complex and developing interaction between performance and authenticity in the arts. more...
Digital Encounters
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95Digital Encounters is a cross media study of digital moving images in animation, cinema, games, and installation art. In a world increasingly marked by proliferating technologies, the way we encounter and understand these story-worlds, game spaces and art works reveals aspects of the ways in which we organize and decode the vast amount of visual... more...
Something to Say
Leapfrog Press 2011; US$ 14.95The fusion of art and politics in America: Twelve creative forces discuss Art in the service of social justice. more...
Cultivating the Habit of Art in Education and Therapy
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95The constituency for education and therapy in the arts is rapidly expanding beyond the conventional school and clinical settings to include the wider community. In Cultivating the Arts in Education and Therapy , Malcolm Ross integrates traditional Chinese Five Element Theory, also known as The Five Phases of Change, with contemporary Western psychological... more...
British Social Realism in the Arts since 1940
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00This is the first book of its kind to look across disciplines at this vital aspect of British art, literature and culture. It brings the various intertwined histories of social realism into historical perspective, and argues that this sometimes marginalized genre is still an important reference point for creativity in Britain. more...
Net Works
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95Net Works offers an inside look into the process of successfully developing thoughtful, innovative digital media. In many practice-based art texts and classrooms, technology is divorced from the socio-political concerns of those using it. Although there are many resources for media theorists, practice-based students sometimes find it difficult to... more...
The Divided Heart
Red Dog Books 2008; US$ 15.99A book that will resonate with anyone who has ever wondered, Who will I be when this baby is born? more...
Not Here, Not Now, Not That!
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 30.00In the late 1990s Angels in America , Tony Kushner’s epic play about homosexuality and AIDS in the Reagan era, toured the country, inspiring protests in a handful of cities while others received it warmly. Why do people fight over some works of art but not others? Not Here, Not Now, Not That! examines a wide range of controversies over... more...
Globalized Arts
Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 44.99Our interactive world can take a cultural product, such as a Hollywood film, Bollywood song, or Latin American telenovela, and transform it into a source of cultural anxiety. What does this artwork say about the artist or the world she works in? How will these artworks evolve in the global market? Film, music, television, and the performing arts... more...









