Art as worldmaking

Art as worldmakingThis collection is a response to Alex Pottss provocative 2013 book Experiments in modern realism. Twenty essays by leading art historians explore Potts recasting of realism, providing a new understanding of artworks dating from the eighth to twenty first centuries and challenging established thinking on arts relation to the everyday.

A highly intelligent

Britain and Africa in the twenty-first century offers the first book-length study of how Britain’s relationship with Africa has fared since the fall of the 1997-2010 New Labour government

An impassioned defence of the role of philanthropy in society

and the rise of 007 video gaming

Attention is paid to the corpus of political documentaries made between 1968 to 1976

it is guaranteed to appeal to anyone who has ever closed the last page of The Return of the King and wished it to never end

to reconsider the nature and significance of the postmodern moment

The various aspects of the way the Jews regarded themselves is analysed

Situating Brazilian cinema within the country's changing position in the global capitalist system

as well as to the emergence in his filming of statuary

By drawing on constructivism with its focus on framing

a train journey across a drowned landscape