Lowbrow Art

This chapter explores Porter's writing style. It shows that what makes Porter's lyrics unforgettable is the way they combine with the music. There is no more perfect example of thi...

The Introduction explains the need for academic exploration of the British musical by approaching the genre from various perspectives: its sociocultural meanings, its correlation t...

Lower-Middle-Class Nation provides an unparalleled interdisciplinary cultural history of the lower-middle-class worker in British life since 1850. Considering highbrow, lowbrow, an...

A readable guide to the art of looking at art. There’s an art to viewing art. A sizable portion of the population regards art with varying degrees of reverence, bewilderm...

Leading international artists and art educators consider the challenges of art education in today's dramatically changed art world. The last explosive change in art ...

Romanticized notions of how one becomes an “artist” have long been questioned, so why do we still fetishize them in popular culture, turning a blind eye to the politics of exclusio...

This book presents the first detailed study of the place of contemporary art galleries and gallerists, especially within the art markets of Europe and the United States.Based on th...