Essential Desires: Contemporary Art in Thailand is the first major, fully illustrated survey of Thai art in thirty years. Brian Curtin shows how Thai artists negotiated their emergence on the global art stage while dealing with pan-Asian regionalism and nationalism at home. This book traces the influences on contemporary Thai artists, from the impact of consumerism in Bangkok in the 1990s to the waning legacies of tradition, and their relationship to the nation's often-volatile political stage. Curtin, in his exploration of Thailand's fascinating art scene, shows how Thai artists are generating new ideas about their country.
English art critic John Ruskin was one of the great visionaries of his time, and his influential books and letters on the power of art challenged the foundations of Victorian life. He loved looking. Sometimes it informed the things he wrote, but often it provided access to the many topographical and cultural topics he explored--rocks, plants, birds, Turner, Venice, the Alps. In The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place, John Dixon Hunt focuses for the first time on what Ruskin drew, rather than wrote, offering a new perspective on Ruskin's visual imagination. Through analysis of more than 150 drawings and sketches, many reproduced here, he shows how Ruskin's art shaped his writings, his thoughts, and his sense of place.
The spirit, ingenuity and genius of Peter Paul Rubens.
The loss, discovery and reinvention of the world's earliest civilization, the Sumerians.
An exploration of the Devil through art, literature, theology and music.
A fun yet comprehensive celebration of the world's fermented food and drink.
A trenchant expose of the effects of automation on worker's lives.
A Band with Built-In Hate portrays The Who through the prism of pop art and the levelling of high and low culture it brought about.
An erudite, engaging literary enquiry into the meaning of midlife.
The first historical account of the development of prison gangs world-wide.
Renowned historian Joanna Bourke explores the modern history of bestiality.
In Egyptomania Ronald H. Fritze takes us on a historical journey to unearth the Egypt of the imagination, a land of weird gods, murky magic, secret knowledge, marvellous pyramids, enigmatic sphinxes, monumental obelisks, immense wealth and mystifying mummies.
A sweeping story of twenty real worlds orbiting other stars.
A magisterial account by Roy Porter of representations of the body in health, disease and death.
Have you ever wondered how a star shines? Did you know that black holes can blaze like cosmic beacons across intergalactic space? Have you ever thought about what light really is? Five Photons explains all with the tales of five fascinating astrophysical processes through the journeys of light across space and time.
A history of the fabled heroes and miracles of the Middle Ages.
A comprehensive account of France's rich culinary history.
Drawing on archaeology, mythology and folklore, Kenneth J. McNamara explores humankind's unending quest for the meaning of fossils.
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