Schafer contends that we suffer from an overabundance of acoustic information and explores ways to restore our ability to hear the nuances of sounds around us. This book is a pioneering exploration of our acoustic environment, past and present, an...

In this anthology, twenty-two artists, architects, historians, critics, curators, and philosophers explore the role of public art in creating a national identity, contending that each work can only be understood by analysing the context in which i...

These provocative essays by National Book Critics Circle award-winner Solnit (Wanderlust, etc.), mostly published in magazines like the London Review of Books and Sierra and in books by other authors over the past seven years, attempts to understa...

Analysing collective artistic practice from the Cold War to the global present.
The desire to speak in a collective voice has long fueled social imagination and artistic production. Prior to the Second World War, artists understood collectiv...