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A New Framework for Building Participation in the Arts
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This work looks at the process by which individuals become involved in the arts and attempts to identify ways in which arts institutions can most effectively influence this process. more...
Emotion and the Arts
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 60.00This collection of essays addresses emotion in relation to the arts, and considers such topics as the paradox of fiction, emotion in the pure and abstract arts, and the rationality and ethics of emotional responses. It is aimed at students and scholars of philosophy, literary studies, and art. more...
Artistic Citizenship
CRC Press 2006; US$ 39.95This volume identifies the question of artistic citizenship to explore civic identity. Featuring contributions from experts in the field, this book is indispensable to anyone involved in arts education or the creation of public policy for the arts. more...
Database Aesthetics
University of Minnesota Press 2007; US$ 75.00Database Aesthetics examines the database as cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated in network culture by creating data art. more...
Psyche and the Arts
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 42.95Does art connect the individual psyche to history and culture? Psyche and the Arts challenges existing ideas about the relationship between Jung and art, and offers exciting new dimensions to key issues such as the role of image in popular culture, and the division of psyche and matter in art form. Divided into three sections - Getting into... more...
Cultural Appropriation and the Arts
Wiley 2008; US$ 91.95Now, for the first time, a philosopher undertakes a systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation gives rise. Cultural appropriation is a pervasive feature of the contemporary world (the Parthenon Marbles remain in London; white musicians from Bix Beiderbeck to Eric Clapton have appropriated musical styles... more...
Artistic Bedfellows
University Press of America 2008; US$ 46.99This is a collection of historical essays, critical papers, case studies, interviews, and comments from scholars and practitioners that shed new light on the growing field of collaborative art. It examines the field broadly, while asking specific questions with regard to issues of interdisciplinary and cultural difference, as well as the psychological... more...
Arts Management
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 59.95The second edition of Arts Management has been thoroughly revised to provide an updated, comprehensive overview of this fast-changing subject. Arts managers and students alike are offered a lively, sophisticated insight into the artistic, managerial and social responsibilities necessary for those working in the field. With new cases studies and... more...
The Big Fish
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 116.20While debate continues in the fields of the sciences and humanities as to the nature of consciousness and the location of consciousness in the brain or as a field phenomenon, in the Vedic tradition, consciousness has been understood and continues to be articulated as an infinite field of intelligence at the basis of all forms of existence. This infinite... more...
Writing and Seeing
Editions Rodopi 2005; US$ 119.00The essays in this volume are informed by a variety of theoretical assumptions and of critical methodologies, but they all share an interest in the intersections of word and image in a variety of media. This unifying rationale secures the present collections central position in the current critical context, defined as it predominantly is by ways... more...









