Art Theory

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Cue Tears

On the Act of Crying

By Daniel Sack
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, Art Theory

Lively essays on the meanings and methods of tears in performance

Textile Ascendancies

Aesthetics, Production, and Trade in Northern Nigeria

Edited by Elisha Renne & Salihu Maiwada
Subjects: African Studies, Art, Art Theory, Economics
Series: African Perspectives

The authors examine handwoven and manufactured textiles, aesthetic preferences as well as textile production, and trade in northern Nigeria

Aesthetics of Discomfort

Conversations on Disquieting Art

By Frederick Luis Aldama & Herbert S. Lindenberger
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Art, Art Theory, Literary Studies, Media Studies

Describes and defends the centrality of discomfort for consumers of various arts—literature, architecture, visual art, music, dance, and cinema

Illuminating Childhood

Portraits in Fiction, Film, and Drama

By Ellen Handler Spitz
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Art, Art Theory

Experiencing the phases of childhood through art

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