Explores music as an element of life ritual directed towards continual physical, subjective, and psychic motion towards self-realization and transcendence.

Poems, short stories, and other personal reactions to works in the permanent collection of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz.

Explores the relationship between media and democracy against the broader background of globalization.

Melds philosophical analysis with early cinematic history to develop a fresh theory of the notion of comedy.

Shows there is a strong religious impulse in postmodern literature and film.

Argues that representational correctness can cause critics to miss the positive work that films and television shows can perform in reducing prejudice.

Offers a cross section of international fringe cinema.

A pickup basketball player looks at the pickup game as a distinctive culture using both personal experience and cultural studies theory.

Examines the gaze in Lacanian film theory.

Discusses the expression of environmental values in Christian art as it displaced pagan aesthetics from the third century to the Reformation.

Korean cinema as industry, art form, and cultural product.

Explores atheist Michael Newdow’s constitutional challenge and how the news media marginalized him from the moment the Ninth Circuit handed down its controversial ruling that the Pledge of Allegiance was unconstitutional.

Explores the recent print work of Judy Pfaff, one of America’s leading sculptors, printmakers, installation artists, and set designers.

Explores the revolutionary potential of Bruce Lee and hip hop culture in the context of antiglobalization struggles and transnational capitalism.

Overview of the life, work, times, and legacy of renowned Albany potter Paul Cushman (1767-1833)

Beautiful landscape photographs of the Helderberg Escaprment in New York State by renowned photographer John Yang.

A study of three classical filmmakers and the films they made at the cusp of the modernist movement in cinema.

Explores the role of a significant yet elusive feature of the French landscape in literature, philosophy, and art.

Addresses the band’s resounding impact on how we think about gender, popular culture, and the formal and poetic qualities of music.

Art historical and literary perspectives on the place of women in the medieval church.

Examines the influence of the Pre-Raphaelite movement on art and literature around the world.

Offers innovative examples of how to approach art from a variety of academic disciplines and personal perspectives.

Offers a variety of perspectives on the sitcom genre and its influence on American culture.

Assesses the layered meanings and persistent global legacy of an American film classic.

Stanley Cavell's most important writings on cinema, collected together for the first time in one volume.

Looks at how violent women characters disrupt cinematic narrative and challenge cultural ideals.

Paintings by contemporary American realist Don Nice, with emphasis on recent works relating to the Hudson Valley.

Explores philosophical ideas through an examination of popular film.

A son’s coming to terms with his mother’s decision to abandon her career as a concert pianist in order to raise her children.

Examines the way recent artists have incorporated concepts of generosity into their work.

The first comprehensive survey of the work of the Uruguayan printmaker and graphic artist Rimer Cardillo, presented in both English and Spanish.

Provides insight into the ritual lures and effects of mass media spectatorship, especially regarding the pleasures, risks, and purposes of violent display.

Argues for a new kind of criticism, one that mediates between literal and allegorical modes of interpretation.

Documents the influence of Jewish music on American popular song.

Interviews with prominent filmmakers, actors, and others on the art, craft, and business of moviemaking.

Environmental artists from Europe and North America talk about their work.

Explores European and American esoteric traditions as reflected in literature and in art.

Confronts globalization and technology from philosophical perspectives.

Looks at how therapy and the "talking cure" have been portrayed in the movies.

Features the works of nine photographers and video artists on the cutting edge of the Cuban art scene.

Considers the definitions and implications of style in Anglo-Saxon art and literature.

Shows how dominant commercial media practices secure a hold among and affect diverse national cultures.

Explores the career of one of America’s most noted printmakers and seminal role he played in bringing the arts to Woodstock, New York.

Offers a behind-the-scenes look at a significant era in the development and emergence of modern American art.

Examines recent Austen remakes as well as other “post-heritage” films and television shows to show how the past is reshaped for a contemporary market.

Career retrospective of modernist Albany painter Richard Callner.

Explores the numerous perspectives from which works of art can be experienced and understood.

Explores how we come to feel connected to those we have never met face-to-face.

Explorations in the aesthetics of waste and the material infrastructure of memory.

Drawings by one of the twentieth century’s most intellectually challenging artists.

Analyzes the depiction of rape on television network news, daytime shows, prime time programming, and alternative programming.

Lithographs by American painter George Bellows, depicting the horrors and atrocities of World War I.

An innovative approach to language acquisition using Chinese folk and popular songs.

Explores the historical evolution of Belgian cinema as well as its contemporary situation within the evolving contexts of global media and European unity.

Through translation and commentary, this book presents the final visionary statements of the German-Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig.

Integrates contemporary film theory into the teaching of film production, presenting alternatives to the standard Hollywood model of filmmaking.

Through excerpts and profiles, this inspiring book presents the experiences of twelve African American artists who teach at traditionally White colleges and universities.

A comparative study of the French Revolution's most famous artist and a little-known illustrator.

Examines performance art and the powerful implications it holds for teaching in the schools.

Draws upon a wide range of aesthetic theories and artworks in order to challenge the view that art is valueless or purely subjective.

Critically surveys the films of Tony Richardson, one of Britain’s most inventive directors of stage and screen.

This is the first full-length biography of the artist Arthur B. Davies, who played a major role in twentieth-century American art's coming-of-age. Includes 101 illustrations.

The autobiography of painter and Binghamton University professor Dr. Irving Zupnick, who served in Panama in World War II, then studied Art History at Columbia Teachers College in the 1950s.

Provocative, inventive, and at times outrageous essays on literary theory, philosophy, and cultural criticism.

The trauma of Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrates the limits of dominant visual models, such as photography, for providing adequate historical memory. The author argues that collective traumas suggest the need for a prolonged gaze, such as can be provided by expressive art.

A history of the near-simultaneous emergence of moving pictures in several countries in the mid-1890s and a thorough reevaluation of the development of the technology. CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book 1999

A collection of interviews with some of the most provocative artists of the postmodern era, including Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Carrie Mae Weems, Carolee Schneemann, Andres Serrano, Karen Finley, and Kathy Acker. These sculptors, writers, filmmakers, activists, and performance artists have forged a new vision of art that is confrontational, political, and concerned with interrupting the domination of our lives by mass culture.

Presents historical, ritual, and musical data preserved in authentic Ming documents illustrating the significance of state sacrifices in imperial China.

Nineteenth-century landscape and outdoor drawings and sketches by the Hudson River School artists and others.

Beautifully illustrated introduction and overview to the collections of the Albany Institute of History and Art

Cuts across perceptual psychology, art, television, film, literature, advertising, and political communication to give the reader critical insight into the holistic logic and emotional power of the images that dominate our lives.

Demonstrates that Dali's Surrealism anticipates postmodern tactics, and inaugurates "New Dali Studies" by offering an original interpretation of his relationship with the Surrealist canon.

Explores how Rutini’s experimental work in sonata-allegra formal procedures played a significant role in the history of music.

Presents a theory of art which is at once universal in its general conception and historically-grounded in its attention to aesthetic practices in diverse cultures. Argues that art, especially today, enjoys a special kind of autonomy but that it has, nevertheless, important social and political responsibilities.

First-ever career-spanning retrospective of the nineteenth century New York sculptor, Charles Calverley.

Presents a systematic theory of the artforms (symbolic, classical, and romantic), providing a way of addressing contemporary art and sketching a theory of the individual arts.

Highlights the work of fourteen alumni artists from the SUNY New Paltz art department.

This book examines psychoanalysis, feminism, philosophy, and semiotics to examine late 19th- and 20th-Century Spanish and Spanish-American literature in relation to painting, and to larger questions of art theory and literary history.

Focuses on strategies for solving communication problems in presidential campaigns.

This book explores how traditional relations among the arts have changed in our time, focusing on the radical transformation of Paul Cezanne.

Re-Viewing British Cinema, 1900–1992 is a collection of essays on British cinema history and practice. It offers both the casual reader and the film scholar a different view of British filmmaking during ...

In this book Miller challenges contemporary aesthetic theory to include gardens in an expanded definition of art. She provides a radical critique of three central tenets within current intellectual debate: ...

Art Brut, also termed Outsider Art, has long been suppressed from most art historical writing. Why this rejection? The hyperbolic expressions of Romanticism and Symbolism nourished a desire for derangement ...

This book calls for a way of reading and responding to the media culture that is more than passive reception. It argues for the fostering of critical citizenship as the key to engaging, debating, and ...

In this bold political rethinking of contemporary film theory, Zavarzadeh overturns the dominant concepts that fetishize film as a work of art or simple entertainment. He demonstrates how aesthetic notions ...

Here is a straightforward, comprehensive reference on the art of color printmaking created by Krishna Reddy, one of the world's greatest and most innovative printmakers. This book doesn't expect the reader ...

With remarkable breadth of vision, Seyyed Hossein Nasr reveals for both Western and Muslim readers how each art form in the islamic tradition is based upon a science of nature concerned, not with the ...

Invaluable overview of domestic wall paintings in the northeast from 1890-1820

Scientists are portrayed as champions of objectivity and truth, and artists as champions of subjectivity and creative expression. Through analysis of modern art, John C. Gilmour shows how misleading is ...

In this introduction to natural-base music theory, Ernst Levy presents the essentials of a comprehensive, consistent theory of harmony developed from tone structure. A Theory of Harmony is a highly original ...

Music is performed, reproduced, and heard differently today as a result of twentieth-century technology. A new consideration of these changes is a practical and cultural necessity. In Conditions of Music ...

Introduction to contemporary painters of the Hudson River, who both continue and react to the legacy of the nineteenth-century Hudson River School of painting.

Part of the ancient Appalachians and just a few miles up the road from a massive metropolitan area, the Catskills have been home to the variety of people who have made the history of the New World.

The ...

The richness of art is manifested in contrast: contrast with other works of art, other features of human experience, other times and places, and other forms of judgment and understanding. The possibilities ...

Religion in its most authentic part is an art form. Religion does what art does. This idea is richly illustrated and supported by materials of diverse origin. The vast range of the author's experience ...

This four-volume work is the most substantial and thorough analysis of Yugoslav folk music ever to be published in the English language. In addition to the editorially corrected reprint of the seventy-five ...