Abject visions: Powers of horror in art and visual culture (Arya Rina)(Paperback)

Art After Empire: From Colonialism to Globalisation (Carter Warren)(Paperback)

Explores the relationship between art and visual culture in Europe and the 'wider world' from the early twentieth century to the contemporary era of

Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children's Media Culture (Bak Meredith A.)(Paperback)

A Culture of Conspiracy, 15: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America (Barkun Michael)(Paperback)

American society has changed dramatically since A Culture of Conspiracy was first published in 2001. In this revised and expanded edition, Michael Barkun delves deeper into America's conspiracy sub-culture, exploring the rise of 9/11 conspiracy theories, the 'birther' controversy surrounding Barack

Art & Visual Culture 1850-2010 - Modernity to Globalization (Tate Publishing)(Paperback / softback)

The essays in this volume engage directly with topical issues around art and gender, globalization, cultural difference, and curating, as well as explorations of key artists and movements and some less well-documented work by contemporary

The Art of Junji Ito: Twisted Visions (Ito Junji)(Pevná vazba)

Enter the world of Juni Ito's art--an abyss of horror and sublime beauty. A first-ever collection of Junji Ito's artworks, featuring over 130 images from his bestselling manga titles along with rare works. This sublime collection includes all of Ito's unforgettable illustrations in both

Visual Culture (Howells Richard)(Paperback)

This is a book about how to read visual images: from fine art to photography, film, television, and new media. It explores how meaning is communicated by the wide variety of texts that inhabit our increasingly visual world. But rather than simply providing set meanings to individual images, Visual

Contemporary Iranian Art: From the Street to the Studio (Grigor Talinn)(Paperback)

In the first comprehensive look at Iranian art and visual culture since the 1979 revolution, Talinn Grigor investigates the official art sponsored by the Islamic Republic, the culture of avant-garde art created in the studio and its display in galleries and museums, and the art of the Iranian

The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (Jones Amelia)(Paperback)

Feminism is one of the most important perspectives from which visual culture has been theorized and historicized over the past forty years. Challenging the notion of feminism as a unified discourse, this second edition of The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader assembles a wide array of writings

The New Singapore Horror Collection (Huang)(Paperback)

Tales of horror have long been an integral part of Singapore's storytelling culture, and they continue to dominate the imagination in the 21st century. But even as the horror folklore of yesteryear--along with its creatures, the pontianak and the jiangshi--recedes from collective memory, new fears

Dark Visions (King Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

Take three of the leading names in contemporary horror writing, commission one-third of a book's worth of stories from each, and the result is DARK

China and the Church: Chinoiserie in Global Context (Johns Christopher M. S.)(Pevná vazba)

This groundbreaking study examines decorative Chinese works of art and visual culture, known as chinoiserie, in the context of church and state politics, with a particular focus on the Catholic missions' impact on Western attitudes toward China and the Chinese. Art-historical examinations of

Visual Coexistence: Informationdesign and Typography in the Intercultural Field (Baur Ruedi)(Paperback)

In a globalized world, Asian, Latin and Arabic characters and visual cultures appear side by side and woven together. The coexistence of different visual cultures is now part of our daily lives and a given feature of our communication systems. But how do we best present information, structures and

Fantastical Visions IV (Horner W. H.)(Paperback)

Fantastical Visions IV features the magical art of Stephanie Pui-Mun Law, and a selection of stories that travels across the sub-genres of fantasy. Young men and women struggle to find their places in worlds harsh and beautiful. Lives are changed as people grapple with relationships and the

Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (Sturken Marita)(Paperback)

Practices of Looking, Third Edition, bridges visual, communication, media, and cultural studies to investigate how images and the activity of looking carry meaning within and between different arenas in everyday life. The third edition has been updated to represent the contemporary visual cultural

Zen in Japanese Culture: A Visual Journey Through Art, Design, and Life (Blair Gavin)(Pevná vazba)

Formed by a convergence of the Buddha's teachings with Taoism and local tradition, Zen has had a profound impact on the art and culture of Japan. As a philosophy, Zen promotes a recognition of emptiness and impermanence. As an aesthetic, it is marked by striking simplicity and a reverence for

Sex and Horror: The Art of Fernando Carcupino, 3 (Carcupino Fernando)(Paperback)

This is the third volume in the Sex and Horror series, which celebrates the publishing craze known as 'fumetti sexy: ' Italian adult comics and cartoons with a unique take on such genres as horror, crime, fantasy, history, and fairy tales. Their huge success in the 1960s and '70s was due in part to

Dark Art: A Horror Coloring Book (Gautier Franois)(Paperback)

Calling all coloring and horror fans Step into the beautiful, macabre world of Fran ois Gautier in this intricate, detailed, and genuinely frightening coloring book. Color your way through the grim and gruesome world of Dark Art. Featuring elaborately detailed black line artwork of undead

Landscape Drawing in Pencil (Rines Frank M.)(Paperback)

Concise and beautifully illustrated, this guide provides invaluable instruction on the art of pencil drawing. It covers the basics of holding the pencil, applying different strokes, shading, perspective, and the rendering of different textures, as well as the finer points of pictorial composition

Sex and Horror: The Art of Emanuele Taglietti, 1 (Korero Press)(Paperback)

Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma, and Contemporary Art (Bennett Jill)(Paperback)

This book analyzes contemporary visual art produced in the context of conflict and trauma from a range of countries, including Colombia, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Australia. It focuses on what makes visual language unique, arguing that the 'affective' quality of art contributes to a new

Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (Clifford James)(Paperback)

The Predicament of Culture is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be

Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production (Drucker Johanna)(Paperback)

In our current screen-saturated culture, we take in more information through visual means than at any point in history. The computers and smart phones that constantly flood us with images do more than simply convey information. They structure our relationship to information through graphical

Visions of Social Control: Crime, Punishment and Classification (Cohen Stanley)(Paperback)

Visions of Social Control is a wide ranging analysis of recent shifts in ideas and practices for dealing with crime and delinquency. In Great Britain, North America and Western Europe, the 1960's saw new theories and styles of social control which seemed to undermine the whole basis of the

Migration into art: Transcultural identities and art-making in a globalised world (Petersen Anne Ring)(Paperback)

Provides close readings of works by internationally renowned artists, including Rina Banerjee, Yinka Shonibare, Fred Wilson, Pat Ward Williams and Bharti