Surrealist Masculinities offers a fresh exploration of how surrealist visual production was
shaped by constructions of gender and sexuality, particularly masculinity, in the 1920s and …

Discussions of the relatively recent notion of 'activist-art'have two common art-historical
frames. The first is formal: the post-modern move towards collective or participatory art …

The post-World War II period gave rise to a large number of social-scientific techniques for
investigating and intervening in social reality. A particular group of these, exemplified here …

Rethinking the Political demonstrates that the Collège de Sociologie's quest to create a new
place for the sacred in modern collective life ostensibly entailed avoiding the theorization of …

Cinema has long played a crucial role in the way that societies represent themselves.
Hedges discusses the role of cinema in creating cultural memory within a global perspective …

How the notorious author of The 120 Days of Sodom inspired the surrealists and other avant-
garde artists, writers, and filmmakers The writings of the Marquis de Sade (1740–1814) …

Anarchism and the Advent of Paris Dada sheds new light on Paris Dada's role in developing
the anarchist and individualist philosophies that helped shape the cultural dialogue in …

Although one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century, Salvador Dal has typically
been considered no more than peripheral to the dominant practices of modernism. Roger …

The first monograph on a groundbreaking Surrealist masterpiece, Reading Claude Cahun's
Disavowals offers a comprehensive account of Cahun's most important published work …

On 9th August 1945, the US dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Of the dead,
approximately 8500 were Catholic Christians, representing over sixty percent of the …