How is art both distinct and different from the rest of human life, while also mattering in and for it? This central yet overlooked question in contemporary phi

From an accomplished practitioner, curator and theorist comes Stick Figures: Drawing as a Human Practice to reset the terms for an ancient activity. D.B. Dowd e

With a focus on socially engaged art practices in the twenty-first century, this book explores how artists use their creative practices to raise consciousness,

Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene contributes to the growing literature on artistic responses to global climate change and its consequences. Designed

The Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death. Based on extensive ethnogr