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highly entertaining and informative... This is a book worth arguing with, written with verve, wit and passion. It is also lavishly illustrated. I enjoyed every minute of it."--"The Spectator" "as comprehensive a guide as anyone could wish to the appearances of the Evil One in art and literature throughout the age."--"The Herald

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Last Landscapes is an exploration of the cult and celebration of death, loss and memory. Tracing the history and design of burial places throughout Europe and the USA, Ken Worpole ranges from village churchyards to tightly packed cities of the dead, such as the Jewish Cemetery in Prague and Pere Lachaise in Paris.

An international movement that followed specific geographical-cultural patterns, Conceptual Art built on the legacy of Marcel Duchamp, redefining the institutional and social relationships among production, work and audience in ways which have comprehensively transformed the nature of the art object and forms of artistic practice, both historically and in the present.Investigating and documenting the histories, theories and forms of Conceptual...

Using examples that include Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a number of William Hogarth's best-known engravings and samples from the so-called obscene propaganda prints published during the French Revolution, Peter Wagner argues for the importance of seeing text and image as mutually interdependent in the ways they establish meaning.

Most writing on modern warfare begins with the French Revolutionary Wars and continues through World Wars I and II, giving post-1945 conflicts only a cursory glance through the lens of Cold War politics. Distinguished military historian Jeremy Black corrects that imbalance with War since 1945, a comprehensive look at the many large- and small-scale wars fought around the world in the past sixty years.Black argues strenuously that, in order ful...

Wild animals have fascinated human observers since time immemorial. The story of our interest in collecting, classifying and dominating Nature looms large, thus it is surprising that the history of menageries, zoological gardens and zoos as we know them today has been so poorly documented. This gap is addressed by "Zoo." In the Renaissance, wealthy aristocrats showcased exotic beasts in private menageries. Safely caged, animals inspired the i...

The author sets out to show how, in its golden age (up until 1914), the public monument served the purpose of both education and legitimization. The French Third Republic, for instance, envisaged the monument as a symbol of bourgeois meritocracy. In more recent decades the public monument has been charged with the task of commemorating and symbolizing one of mankind's most terrible catastrophes - the Holocaust. Today, although the artistic fai...

In "The Postmodern Animal, " Steve Baker explores how animal imagery has been used in modern and contemporary art and performance, and in postmodern philosophy and literature, to suggest and shape ideas about identity and creativity. Baker cogently analyses the work of such European and American artists as Olly and Suzi, Mark Dion, Paula Rego and Sue Coe, at the same time looking critically at the constructions, performances and installations ...

For a woman in the Western world, there is no escaping beauty. Either she possesses it, or she lacks it. If she lacks it, she may hope to gain it. If she already has it, she will certainly lose it. But what is "it"? Not an objective thing, Francette Pacteau tells us, but a generic term for an unspecifiable number of psychological experiences in the mind of the observer. What these experiences are, what causes them, and how they manifest themse...

According to most of the critical commentary on Francis Bacon, the paintings by this crucially important artist are about violence, torment, fragmentation and loss. However, Ernst van Alphen argues that it is the violence done to the viewer that needs to be addressed if we are to understand how these works function. In this provocative and highly original interpretation of Bacon's art, the author offers close readings of significant works, di...

This extensively illustrated book examines Greenaway's vision from a number of perspectives and traces a shift of sensibility in his work. David Pascoe examines not only Greenaway's films, but also his paintings, exhibitions and installations. "(Pascoe) tirelessly explicates the numerology and mytho-mania that are the film-maker's organising principles"--"The Guardian" "A supremely intelligent, utterly tuned-in, definitive exploration of the u...

Human beings have always smoked, and they probably always will. Every culture in recorded history has smoked something, whether as a cure or for pleasure, whether as part of a ritual or as an aspect of popular culture. It is curious, then, that no history of smoking has been written based on the assumption that smoking - in all of its forms and products - is a cultural phenomenon common to all human societies."Smoke: A Global History of Smokin...

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Photos of the Gods, " the first comprehensive account of modern India's popular print culture, reveals the central role of images in the struggle against colonial rule. "Photos of the Gods" fuses anthropological, political, and cultural history to provide a new view of India's troubled history illuminated by over two hundred illustrations.

In this highly original and innovative study of Nicolas Poussin, one of seventeenth-century Europe's greatest artists, Oskar Batschmann presents a series of connected studies that offer new ways of interpreting the work and ideas of this brilliant and complex figure. This superbly illustrated book is a polemical challenge in a field of art-historical research that has often lost its way in insoluble disputes and erudite details. "Like Poussin'...

In "Aircraft, " David Pascoe offers a fascinating account of the form of the -airplane, an object that has quickly developed from a flimsy contraption of wood, wire, and canvas into a machine compounded of exotic materials whose wings can touch the edges of space. He considers the subject from a number of perspectives: as an inspiration for artists, architects, and politicians, as a miracle of engineering, as a product of industrialized cultur...

Mappings" explores what mapping has meant in the past and how its meanings have altered. How have maps and mapping served to order and represent physical, social and imaginative worlds? How has the practice of mapping shaped modern seeing and knowing? In what ways do contemporary changes in our experience of the world alter the meanings and practice of mapping, and vice versa?In their diverse expressions, maps and the representational processe...

The dream of a happy life has pre-occupied thinkers since Plato, and is the signature tune of our times. In "The Happiness Paradox "Ziyad Marar shows how our modern obsession with happiness has evolved. In a lively and accessible style, he argues that happiness is a deceptively simple idea that will always be elusive because it is based on a paradox: the conflict of feeling good while simultaneously being good.Drawing on a wide and varied rang...

Analyses the origins, history and logic of 'still life', one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. This work surveys a major segment in the history of still life, from 17th-century Spanish painting to Cubism. It tackles the controversial field of 17th-century Dutch still life.