Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art

Yvonne Owens

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture
• Hans Baldung Grien, the most famous apprentice and close friend of German artist Albrecht Dürer, was known for his unique and highly eroticised images... Lees meer

Technovisuality

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture
• How should we regard the contemporary proliferation of images? Today, visual information is available as projected, printed and on-screen imagery, in ... Lees meer

Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western

Austin Fisher

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture
• Though 1960s European cinema frequently reflected the shifting ideological tides which now characterise the era in the popular imagination, the comple... Lees meer

Light + Photomedia

Jai McKenzie

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture | nr. 8
• Light and Photomedia proposes that, regardless of technological change, the history and future of photomedia is essentially connected to light. It is ... Lees meer

Mass Photography

Annebella Pollen

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture
• With increasingly accessible camera technology, crowdsourced public media projects abound like never before. Such projects often seek to secure a snap... Lees meer

Interdisciplinary Encounters

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture
• For over four decades, art historian and cultural theorist Adrian Rifkin has been producing visionary and esoteric work, influencing a variety of arti... Lees meer

Mass Photography

Annebella Pollen

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture
• With increasingly accessible camera technology, crowdsourced public media projects abound like never before. Such projects often seek to secure a snap... Lees meer

The Dead City

Paul Dobraszczyk

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture
• The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination and decay, looking at representations of both thriving cities and ones which are str... Lees meer

Henry Moore in America

Pauline Rose

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture
• Although a quintessentially English sculptor, Henry Moore experienced outstanding success in the United States. A man much admired and revered, he was... Lees meer

Black Artists in British Art

Eddie Chambers

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture | nr. 10
• Black artists have been making major contributions to the British art scene for decades, since at least the mid-twentieth century. Sometimes these art... Lees meer

Imaging the Great Irish Famine

Niamh Ann Kelly

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture
• The depiction of historical humanitarian disasters in art exhibitions, news reports, monuments and heritage landscapes has framed the harrowing images... Lees meer

The Extraordinary Archive of Arthur J. Munby

Sarah Edge

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture
• In the mid-1860s Arthur J Munby began to collect the first mass-produced photographic images of working-class women in England, recording fascinating ... Lees meer

Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western

Austin Fisher

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture
• Ever more popular in the age of DVDs, eBay and online fandom, the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s have undergone a mainstream renaissance which has ne... Lees meer

Censoring Art

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture | nr. 1
• Art is continuously subjected to insidious forms of censorship. This may be by the Church to guard against moral degeneration, by the State to promote... Lees meer

Laughter in Occupied Palestine

Chrisoula Lionis

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture
• Though the current political situation in Palestine is more serious than ever, contemporary Palestinian art and film is becoming, paradoxically, incre... Lees meer

Carnal Aesthetics

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture | nr. 3
• Art today is an increasingly multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing transgressive works that intervene in war, inequalities, ecological disasters, and ... Lees meer

Poetic Biopolitics

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture
• As the French philosopher and social theorist Michel Foucault defined the concept, 'biopolitics' is the extension of state control over both the physi... Lees meer

Writing on the Image

Mark Dorrian

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture
• From an examination of the politically-laden spectacle of George IV's visit to Edinburgh in 1822 (as stage-managed by the celebrated novelist Sir Walt... Lees meer

Participation in Art and Architecture

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture
• If participation has been an ideal in politics since ancient democracy, in art it became central only with the avant-gardes emerging from WWI and the ... Lees meer

The Hungarian Avant-Garde in Late Socialism

Katalin Cseh-Varga

• Hardcover | International Library of Visual Culture
• Examines art and culture in Kadar- era Hungary. Lees meer

On Video Games

Soraya Murray

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture
• Today over half of all American households own a dedicated game console and gaming industry profits trump those of the film industry worldwide. In thi... Lees meer

Aesthetics and Neoromanticism in Film

Stella Hockenhull

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture | nr. 6
• The contemporary study of film is dominated by narrative theory - yet films include scenes and images which do not perform a narrative task but nevert... Lees meer

Encounters with the Ottoman Miniature

Begüm Özden Firat

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture
• The dominant form of Ottoman pictorial art until the eighteenth century, miniatures have traditionally been studied as reflecting the socio-historical... Lees meer

Antipolitics in Central European Art

Klara Kemp-Welch

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of Visual Culture
• In this bold book Klara Kemp-Welch offers a compelling account of the way that artists in Central Europe embraced alternative forms of action-based pr... Lees meer