Opera, Exoticism and Visual Culture

Lee Hyunseon

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 34
• As a uniquely hybrid form of artistic output, straddling music and theatre and high and popular culture, opera offers vast research possibilities not ... Lees meer

Pierre Klossowski

Hervé Castanet

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 22
• This book examines the many facets of the work of Pierre Klossowski (1905-2001). Admired as a writer, theorist and painter, Klossowski's oeuvre is her... Lees meer

Natasha's Dress

Paola Colaiacomo

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 41
• This book explores interconnections between high literary modernism and the revolution in dress design of the early twentieth century. New and 'libera... Lees meer

Mediality of Smells / Médialité des odeurs

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 47
• The study of scents and all things olfactory is thriving, a sign of our current interest in direct and immediate experiences of reality. This volume c... Lees meer

Documentary Graphic Novels and Social Realism

Jeff Adams

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 7
• This book analyses graphic novels which document social crises. It demonstrates that artists' documentary use of this medium is a form of social reali... Lees meer

Roman Shakespeare

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 42
• This book addresses the memory of Rome: the dialectic between the glorious historical past of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire and its echoes, ... Lees meer

Will the Modernist

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 32
• Why was the Bard of Avon so frequently on the agenda of avant-garde writers in Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Germany and Ireland? The essays of th... Lees meer

Light That Dances in the Mind

Graham Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 2
• This book is concerned with the presence of familiar objects in unfamiliar places. It examines the literary practice of inserting imaginary photograph... Lees meer

Aesthetic Rivalries

Linda Goddard

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 15
• This book explores interaction and competition between painting and literature in France, from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth, off... Lees meer

What is a Woman to Do?; A Reader on Women, Work and Art, c. 1830-1890

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 13
• This anthology contributes to a scholarly understanding of the aesthetics and economics of female artistic labour in the Victorian period. It maps out... Lees meer

Genteel Mavericks

Shannon Hunter Hurtado

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 27
• Sculpture was no occupation for a lady in Victorian Britain. Yet between 1837 and 1901 the number of professional female sculptors increased sixteen-f... Lees meer

Phenomenology, Modernism and Beyond

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 10
• From the first stirrings of modernism to contemporary poetics, the modernist aesthetic project could be described as a form of phenomenological reduct... Lees meer

InHabit; People, Places and Possessions

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 40
• Central to human life and experience, habitation forms a context for enquiry within many disciplines. This collection brings together perspectives on ... Lees meer

Dancing with Time

John Powell

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 43
• Gardens provoke thought and engagement in ways that are often overlooked. This book explores the philosophical issues raised by art gardens, such as t... Lees meer

"The Germ"

Paola Spinozzi, Elisa Bizzotto

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 24
• It was in The Germ (1850), the first British magazine with an aesthetic manifesto, that the interart theories of the Pre-Raphaelites took shape. The t... Lees meer

Showcase Britain

Christina Baird

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 39
• Showcase Britain explores the diverse aspects of British participation in the Vienna World Exhibition ( Weltausstellung ) of 1873. The exhibition cove... Lees meer

Bodies of Poems

Lennart Nyberg

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 6
• How is meaning created by a poem? Through the invisible ideas and thoughts conveyed by the text or through the physical presence of book, paper and pr... Lees meer

Critical Exchange; Art Criticism of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in Russia and Western Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 12
• This collection examines the development of art criticism across Russia and Western Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Art criticism a... Lees meer

Behind the Image

Judith A Kidd

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 30
• Scenes and characters from the Old Testament appear frequently in Western medieval art, yet the study of their significance is a neglected area of ico... Lees meer

The Colours of the Past in Victorian England

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 38
• As new, artificial dyes were created in the second half of the nineteenth century, a longing for faded, ancient hues emerged in artistic circles. This... Lees meer

The Hand of the Interpreter

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 3
• This collection of essays by scholars and artists of different disciplines and from different countries is designed to navigate the labyrinth of conte... Lees meer

Trash Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 11
• In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, concerns about the environment and the future of global capitalism have dominated political an... Lees meer

Pre-Raphaelites in the Spirit World

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 48
• This book includes two previously unpublished works that offer insights into the Pre-Raphaelites and the cult of spiritualism. William Michael Rossett... Lees meer

Roger Fry's 'Difficult and Uncertain Science'

Adrianne Rubin

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between t | nr. 28
• This new study traces the development and evolution of the writings of Roger Fry (1866-1934), a highly influential art critic who introduced modern Fr... Lees meer