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New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts

New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts
After theory: do we abandon ‘the theoretical turn’, or do we work with it differently? This timely series, figure-headed by eminent art historian and cultural analyst Griselda Pollock, brings together major international commentators and also introduces a new generation of thinkers. Resisting both the rejection of theory and the current displacement of art history in favour of visual culture, New Encounters instead rejuvenates both approaches. Marked out by its critical engagement with and close informed readings of images, texts and cultural events, this series employs new feminist, postcolonial and queer perspectives. New Encounters also showcases exciting new volumes which revisit key figures in twentieth century art through highly original feminist approaches.

Series editor: Griselda Pollock, Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art, and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History, University of Leeds.

Auschwitz and Afterimages Abjection Witnessing and Representation Cover

This deeply persuasive book presents a new and profound approach to the testimony of the Holocaust.

Bluebeards Legacy Death and Secrets from Bartok to Hitchcock Cover

Explores the deep appeal of the Bluebeard story for twentieth-century culture. This book focuses how the modernist imagination used the elements of Bluebeard's tale to explore masculinity's anxieties in the face of the emerging demands of women for redefinition and sexual equality.

Conceptual Odysseys Passages to Cultural Analysis Cover

Presents work by a generation of scholars responding directly to the author's idea of the 'travelling concept'. This work makes a contribution to the territorial conflicts between visual culture, art history and cultural studies.

Digital and Other Virtualities Renegotiating the Image Cover

Draws on concrete practices, ranging from film, video and chatrooms to airport spaces, conceptual art and textiles, to offer critically engaged, sometimes sceptical, analyses of contemporary image worlds in the light of a continuing allegiance to grounded histories and critical practice.

Eva Hesse Longing Belonging and Displacement Cover

Examines the work of American German Jewish artist Eva Hesse. Using feminist approaches and taking as a starting point two of her key works, the author reveals the way in which Hesse has been constructed as a 'woman artist' and explores the overlooked legacy of the Holocaust and refugee life in her art practice.

Helen Frankenthaler: Painting History, Writing Painting

Presents an examination of the work of 'colour field' painter Helen Frankenthaler. This book provides insights into Frankenthaler's practice, as a painter who is also a woman.

The Sacred and the Feminine: Imagination and Sexual Difference

Explores the sacred and the feminine in art, architecture, literature, art history, music, philosophy, theology, critical theory and cultural studies. This book addresses key issues in feminist questions of creativity, the imaginary and the sacred as 'otherness', examining the ways in which visual practices have explored this territory.

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