Art and Design

Offering a negative definition of art in relation to the concept of culture.

Explores art practice and learning as processes that break new ground, through which new perceptions of self and world emerge.

A celebration of pictures and the multiple modes of manipulating them to produce illusory worlds on flat surfaces.

Examines the politics of art and culture in light of the profound changes that have taken place in the world order since the 1980s and 1990s.

Essays on art crime by the most respected and knowledgeable experts in this interdisciplinary subject.

Discusses how myth binaries, memory layers and identity markers shaped artists professional lives in an interwoven and fluid approach following German unification.

Explores the cultural economics of a new concept: artist-enterprises. It covers various dimensions that artists embody, i.e., aesthetic, critical, messianic, and economic ones, and screens the multiple challenges faced by the artist-enterprises in terms of pricing, funding, and networking in the Digital Age.

Provides an extensive and original analysis of the way that written and spoken communication facilitates creative practice in university art and design studios.

Combines work from curators, digital artists, human computer interaction researchers and computer scientists to examine the mutual benefits and challenges posed when working together to support digital art works in their many forms.

Provides an up-to-date, critical review of theoretical concepts connecting artists and urban development.

Offers gendered, postcolonial insights into the poetic and artistic work of four generations of female Asian American artists in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Examines Mao's image from the perspective of its producers, focusing on four artists, chosen for both the diverse media they worked in and their diverse backgrounds.

Explores the development of practical wisdom, or phronesis, within the stories of four mature students studying for degrees in art and design.

Investigates how student CG artists develop proficiency.

Explores how street art has been used as a tool of resistance to express opposition to political systems and social issues around the world.

Examines images in the borderlands of the art world, investigating relations between visual art and vernacular visual culture within different images communities from the 1870s to the present day.

Focuses on the relationship between the university and those in visual and performing arts disciplines who joined the university sector in the 1990s.

Explores the relationship between the arts and learning in various educational contexts and across cultures, but with a focus on higher education and organizational learning.

Scrutinizes, suggests and aggravates the relationships, boundaries and connections between arts, research and education in various contexts.

Examines how the Massachusetts Normal Art School became the alma mater par excellence for generations of art educators, designers, and artists.

Proposes an integration of sustainability and arts education in both principle and practice.

Explores the dedication of the New American Colleges & Universities to the purposeful integration of liberal education, professional studies, and civic engagement through the performing, literary, and visual arts.

Fills a gap in the literature of 21^st century international visual arts education by providing a structured approach to understanding the benefits of Philosophical Realism in art education, an approach that has received little international attention until now.

Evocative images of political conflict and confrontations in the streets taken by Howard Epstein when he was a photographer for Liberation News Service.

Explores how Instagram is changing people's visual experiences.

Traces the relationship between history, photography and memory in a global perspective on three interrelated levels: firstly, in the artistic and cultural production of pictures, secondly, in the decoding of colonial and contemporary photography, and thirdly, in collecting photographs in picture archives dealing with colonial, anthropological and family photography.

Traces the development of the photographic essay from the 1890s to the 1990s and beyond.

Looks at every stage of the production of news photographs as they move to and from the ground and are sold around the world.

War photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life.

Provides a critical introduction to François Laruelle's writings on photography, with a particular focus on his two most important books on photography: The Concept of Non-Photography and Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics.

What you need to know to protect yourself and your business when planning, shooting, publishing, and selling your photography.

The JC Allen photographs represent a historical account of the transition from pioneer practices to scientific methodologies in agriculture and rural communities.

Considers the potential of photographs for orienting in a critical direction the scope, questions and interests of the disciplinary conventions of the field of educational inquiry.

Argues for a renewed understanding of the fundamentally uncanny quality of the medium of photography.

Focuses on photography within the social research field, building a solid foundation for photography as a social research method and describing different techniques and applications of photo research.

Explores how photography and recorded music act as vehicles or catalysts in processes of remembering, and how they are regarded, treated, valued and drawn upon as resources connecting past and present in everyday life.

Addresses the unprecedented disruptions in photojournalism over the last decade, with a particular focus on the Australian news media context.

Discusses visual literacy, critical thinking, and photography and provides a nontechnical approach anyone can use.

Addresses the need for critical thinking and ethical behavior among professionals responsible for visual messages in photography and photojournalism, film, and digital media.