Arts

True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney

by Lawrence Weschler

Soon after the book's publication in 1982, artist David Hockney read Lawrence Weschler's Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin and invited Weschler to...

Michelangelo's Last Judgment: The Renaissance Response

by Bernadine Barnes

In her analysis of Michelangelo's Last Judgment, Bernadine Barnes provides an original and stimulating view of this renowned fresco and of the audience for which it was created. Because Michelangelo is so often...

The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide: How to Make Your Show A Success

by Mark Fisher

’Ah! The Fringe! I can’t think of a more delightful way of putting my liver, bank account, relationship, complexion, and mental stability under the greatest strain they’ve ever known!’ Mel Giedroyc

It is...

Art Teaching: Elementary Through Middle School

by George Szekely & Julie Alsip Bucknam

Art Teaching speaks to a new generation of art teachers in a changing society and fresh art world. Comprehensive and up-to-date, it presents fundamental theories, principles, creative approaches, and resources...

The Architecture of Information

by Martyn Dade-Robertson

This book looks at relationships between the organization of physical objects in space and the organization of ideas. Historical, philosophical, psychological and architectural knowledge are united to develop...

Persistent Modelling

by Phil Ayres

With contributions from some of the world's most advanced thinkers on this subject, this book is essential reading for anyone looking at new ways of thinking about the digital within architecture. It speculates...

The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination

by Daniel J. Boorstin

By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle...

The Golden Hat

by Kate Winslet, Keli Thorsteinsson & Margret Ericsdottir

Thank you for taking this journey with us. We hope this book brings a new awareness of the opportunity we have to help those with autism learn to communicate and realize their ambitions. People with autism have...

Television Production

by Gerald Millerson & Jim Owens

Television Production offers you a very practical guide to professional TV and video production techniques. You will find straightforward description and explanations of the equipment you will use, and discover...

Caught in the Web: Dreaming Up the World of Spider-Man 2

by Mark Vaz

The Spider-Man 2 Dream Machine—from original idea to final cut— unmasking the creative genius at work in the blockbuster movie

The epic adventure of one of the greatest superheroes of all time explodes on...

Music, Performance and African Identities

by Toyin Falola & Tyler Fleming

Cutting across countries, genres, and time periods, this volume explores topics ranging from hip hop's influence on Maasai identity in current day Tanzania to jazz in Bulawayo during the interwar years, using...

Music Technology and the Project Studio

by Dan Hosken

Music Technology and the Project Studio: Synthesis and Sampling provides clear explanations of synthesis and sampling techniques and how to use them effectively and creatively. Starting with analog-style synthesis...

Music and Globalization in History

by Richard Wetzel

This book contextualizes a globalization process that has since ancient times involved the creation, use, and world-wide movement of song, instrumental music, musical drama, music with dance, concert, secular,...

The Persistence of Hollywood

by Thomas Elsaesser

While Hollywood's success - its persistence - has remained constant for almost one hundred years, the study of its success has undergone significant expansion and transformation. Since the 1960s, Thomas Elsaesser's...

Seeing Differently

by Amelia Jones

Seeing Differently offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture, from early modern beliefs that art is an expression of an...

An Actress Prepares

by Rosemary Malague

'I've been waiting for someone to write this book for years: a thorough-going analysis and reconsideration of American approaches to Stanislavsky from a feminist perspective ... lively, intelligent, and engaging.'...

Twentieth-Century Organ Music

by Christopher S. Anderson

This volume explores twentieth-century organ music through in-depth studies of the principal centers of composition, the most significant composers and their works, and the evolving role of the instrument and...

Electronic and Experimental Music

by Thom Holmes

Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive history of electronic music, covering key composers, genres, and techniques used in both analog and...

The Recorder

by Richard W. Griscom & David Lasocki

A Choice "Best Academic" book in its first edition, The Recorder remains an essential resource for anyone who wants to know about this instrument. This new edition is thoroughly redone, takes account of the...

Global Television Formats

by Tasha Oren & Sharon Shahaf

For decades, television scholars have viewed global television through the lens of cultural imperialism, focusing primarily on programs produced by US and UK markets and exported to foreign markets. Global Television...