Visual Arts
Drawing
Digital Experience Design
Art and Theory After Socialism
Finding the Right Place on the Map
Writing on Drawing
An increased public and academic interest in drawing and sketching both traditional and digital has allowed drawing research to emerge recently as a discipline in its own right. In light of this development Writing on Drawing presents a collection of essays by leading artists and drawing researchers that reveal a provocative agenda for the field analysing the latest work on creativity education and thinking from a variety of perspectives. Writing on Drawing is a forward-looking text that provokes enquiry and shared understanding of contemporary drawing research and practice. An essential resource for artists scientists designers and engineers this volume offers consolidation discussion and guidance for a previously fragmented discipline.
Art, Community and Environment
Featuring rich illustrations and informative case studies from around the world Art Community and Environment addresses the growing interest in this fascinating dimension of art and education forming a vial addition to Intellect's Readings in Art and Design Education series.
Computers and Art
Research in Art and Design Education
Educating Artists for the Future
Architectures of Illusion
Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance
Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance proposes that the concept of curating is a complex field of enquiry. By drawing together artists curators architects and cultural theorists it proposes new approaches to curating and ways of developing critical enquiry about this increasingly expanding field. Focusing on pertinent issues in curating contemporary art and performance the book's four parts examine forms of thinking in contemporary curating; curating and the interdisciplinary; as intervention and contestation; as a form of reconsideration of conventional museum spaces and as a problematic in 'emerging' practices. Beginning with a contextual 'map' of recent thinking on curating which examines some of the issues that have emerged in curatorial discourse over the last ten years the volume then investigates curating as a research process and a form of collaboration in considering contemporary photography and video. The relationships between writing and curating reception and encounter is proposed as part of a way of thinking as a critical spatial practice and cross-disciplinary issues are considered in curating science / art exhibitions. Historical and contemporary perspectives examine issues of gender and marginalisation and diversity; and the particular issues relating to curating and practices such as animation site-specific dance and computer-based work are discussed.
Futures Past
This unprecedented volume examines the disparities between earlier visions of the future of digital art and its current state including frank accounts of promising projects that failed to deliver and assessments of more humble projects that have not only survived but flourished. Futures Past is a look back at the frenetic history of computerized art that points the way toward a promising future.
Handwriting of the Twentieth Century
The Problem of Assessment in Art and Design
With its inevitable dependency on the essential and often contested nature of art the subject of assessment or evaluation in art and design education remains a matter of continuing controversy. This collection of essays examines the principal issues as they relate to the main phases of formal education from primary to post-compulsory. Together the papers provide an historical and philosophical analysis of the present state of assessment in art and design in our schools and colleges and significantly they map out some possible directions for reform.
One for the Girls!
We usually think of women as the victims of pornography rather than its consumers. Whether appearing in films peering provocatively from the pages of magazines or posing on explicit Web-sites women are considered the dehumanized objects of unseen lascivious male viewers. But in her controversial new book One for the Girls! Clarissa Smith debunks this myth and challenges women to read watch and enjoy pornography on their own terms. Focusing on the British magazine For Women Smith looks at its readers’ responses to male pinups and erotica and explores the intricacies of women’s unique reactions to pornography.
“Clarissa Smith has achieved something special with her new proffering from her masculinities repertoire. Smith’s text is groundbreaking multidisciplinary and—equally importantly—extremely readable. It is the last point perhaps that really sets this work apart as One for the Girls has a great deal to offer both the specialist academic and the general reader. Clarissa Smith’s accessible style allows readers with little prior knowledge of critical theory cultural studies or the 1980s pornography debate to not only understand these discourses but to develop a strong grasp of their impact in this context.”—Michelle Parsons Transition TraditionAllegorical images
Cultural Quarters
Cultural Quarters
The Potentials of Spaces
Through a discussion regarding the performance possibilities viable through technological development and new media in recent years the book aims to challenge tradition and inspire new creative directions upon the stage. The book breaks new ground on dramatic and spatial awareness within the tropics of theatre. An essential text for those interested in or studying theatrical practice and scenography.
Engineering Nature
Drawing -- The Process
Drawing - The Process is a collection of papers theories and interviews based on the conference and exhibition of the same name held at Kingston University in 2003.
Much debate and research is currently undertaken in this area and it is the intention of the book to galvanize this while providing a vehicle for deep enquiry. The publication will firstly comprise a collection of refereed papers representing a breadth of activity and research around the issues of drawing within the broad context of art and design activity. The second dimension of the book will be an examination of the drawing processes of high profile practitioners.
The publication will encompass the best contemporary investigation of a subject pivotal to art and design activity and should be recognized as a fundamental text for students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Visualizing Anthropology
The origins of this collection lie in visual anthropology. Although the field has greatly expanded and diversified many of the key debates continue to be focused around the textual concerns of the mainstream discipline. In seeking to establish a more genuinely visual anthropology the editors have sought to forge links with other kinds of image-based projects. Ethnography is the shared space of practice. Understood not as a specialized method but as cultural critique the book explores new collaborative possibilities linked to image-based work.
Street Scenes
Always the focal point in modern times for momentous political social and cultural upheaval Berlin has continued since the fall of the Wall in 1989 to be a city in transition. As the new capital of a reunified Germany it has embarked on a journey of rapid reconfiguration involving issues of memory nationhood and ownership. Bertolt Brecht meanwhile stands as one of the principal thinkers about art and politics in the 20th century. The 'Street Scene' model which was the foundation for his theory of an epic theatre relied precisely on establishing a connection between art's functioning and everyday life. His preoccupation with the ceaselessness of change an impulse implying rupture and movement as the key characteristics informing the development of a democratic cultural identity correlates resonantly with the notion of an ever-evolving city. Premised on an understanding of performance as the articulation of movement in space Street Scenes interrogates what kind of 'life' is permitted to 'flow' in the 'new Berlin'. Central to this method is the flaneur figure a walker of streets who provides detached observations on the revealing 'detritus of modern urban existence'. Walter Benjamin himself a native of Berlin as well as friend and seminal critic of Brecht exercised the practice in exemplary form in his portrait of the city One-Way Street.
Frames and Fictions on Television
Television drama both reflects and contributes to the production of cultural identity. At a time of deep cultural uncertainty how has this been represented within the programmes that help individuals make sense of their own lives and identities?
This book addresses the question head on: the contributors examine a range of issues of identity in relation to the shifting historical context while considering social class ethnicity race gender sexuality and national/diaspora identity. These are debated in relation to current aesthetic and social concerns and particular attention is paid to the changing identity of British television drama over the last 35 years:
- the fragmentation of the home audience
- the transnationalisation of media culture
- the increasingly hybrid nature of programme formats and
- the growth in popularity of US series within a British viewing context.
Popular Theatre in Political Culture
Art, Technology, Consciousness
Performing Processes
These essays make parallels between areas of performance that are rarely if ever compared. They present the basis for an overall theory of how 'conception' 'development' 'presentation' and 'reception' are fused together to make up the overall 'performance'. This study investigates the relationship between the process of creating performance and spectator response and how this exchange is embedded into the product itself.
The authors draw on theoretical approaches from a range of sources and examine the work of contemporary dramatists choreographers poets and performers including:
• Sarah Kane
• Iain Baxter
• Yolande Snaith
• Slobodan Snajder
• Phylis Nagy
• Steve Benson
• David Fielding
• David Antin
• Bette Midler
• Karen Malpede
• Stephen Daldry
• Mai Lanfang
Its construction of a new wide-ranging approach to performance research makes this book a valuable resource for the student as well as the broader academic community. It has application both as a textbook and for supplementary research on drama courses nationwide.
Becoming Designers
Design Research is an area that is both current and growing but texts on the subjects are in short supply. This book is a response to the vitality of discussion within journals and at conferences and it intends to place Design Research in its rightful place at the heart of studio-based education and practice.
Offering a valuable context within which to understand the educational needs and aspirations of the designer Becoming Designers is also a vital resource for students in this field whose access to books on the subject is currently very limited.
Literacy and the Politics of Writing
Writing as a Visual Art
Is writing primarily a functional medium of communication? Is it possible to access fuller potential for it to contribute to the quality of our everyday lives?
Writing as a Visual Art offers a revolutionary approach to writing by exploring a visual and multidimensional experience that is fun and common to people's experience. Clearly written and liberally illustrated chapters show writing text as akin to creating a drawing or painting or designing a structure.
The result of discoveries made during ten years of research in the fields of linguistics cognitive science and artificial intelligence the author's findings have been successfully applied in education programmes in Italy and the rest of Europe as well as workshops in the United States.
Iconic Communication
Do pictures enhance the communicative power of text?
Our society is becoming a more visual culture day-by-day. This book offers detailed analyses of how to combine words with pictures to communicate clearly across cultural barriers.
While some information is better communicated by one kind of media than another some information is communicated most effectively through a combination of media. This book presents a critical framework within which iconic communication systems can be developed to truly bridge linguistic and cultural gaps and to provide effective computer-based systems for conveying information on a global scale.
With valuable insights for the Information and Communication industries this book draws on the work presented at several conferences on the subject and is designed primarily for graphic designers and human-computer interface developers as well as supplementary reading on degree courses in Information Technology.
Digital Magazine Design
Locality, Regeneration and Divers(c)ities
Visual Language for the World Wide Web
In this digital age are there cultural lessons for us in looking to the earliest kinds of communications? The icons used in ancient Mayan and Sumerian language systems are presented here as direct cultural links to the visual presentation of World Wide Web pages on the Internet. The book shows how the development of digital screens has caused visual human communication to come full circle from the earliest representations. The in-depth analysis demonstrates how these visual languages now serve as a rich source for renewed study for the development of meaningful computer icons. Readers are also invited to become involved in ongoing investigations through participating in a WWW site that will synthesise all the research and current data.
Digital Design using QuarkXPress 4
The authors approach the subject of teaching QuarkXPress from all the necessary directions.
Learning software enables you to lay out a page but not to design one. So this does not take the reader through a series of steps reproducing designed pages - that teaches you nothing. Instead the authors provide an objective understanding of what makes your designs work.
The Art and Science of Handwriting
Journal of Arts & Communities
Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds
Metaverse Creativity (new title: Virtual Creativity)
Poster, The
Journal of Contemporary Painting
Journal of Contemporary Painting responds to the territory and practice of contemporary painting in its broadest sense viewing painting as a context for discussion exploring its sphere of history and influence rather than as a medium specific debate. The JCP combines a thematic approach with an open call each issue opening up and problematising pressing concerns in contemporary painting.
As well as contributions to current debates on contemporary art a particular feature of the Journal of Contemporary Painting is the publication of archival or newly translated texts alongside current responsive articles based on the premise that contemporary painting cannot be understood without reflecting on its history. Dedication to understanding the nature and forms of painting research has also led to the inclusions of an original visual essay for every edition. Additionally we respond to current exhibitions books and symposia nationally and internationally in our reviews section.
Our aim is to be responsive to current debates in painting and related art practices drawing from a wide geographical field and across discipline boundaries to provide a discursive space in which a range of subject specialisms can be brought to bear on the culture of painting. We are particularly interested in writing emerging from practice-based research as well as from academics working in different disciplines.
Studies in Comics
Studies in Comics aims to describe the nature of comics to identify the medium as a distinct art form and to address the medium's formal properties. The emerging field of comics studies is a model for interdisciplinary research and in this spirit this journal welcomes all approaches. This journal is international in scope and provides an inclusive space in which researchers from all backgrounds can present new thinking on comics to a global audience. The journal will promote the close analysis of the comics page/text using a variety of methodologies. Its specific goal however is to expand the relationship between comics and theory and to articulate a ""theory of comics"". The journal also includes reviews of new comics criticism and exhibitions and a dedicated online space for cutting-edge and emergent creative work.