Austerity Baby might best be described as an 'oblique memoir'. Janet Wolff's fascinating volume is a family history - but one that is digressive and consistently surprising. The central... Læs mere
First published in 1983, Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art offers an account of aesthetics which is both sociologically informed and sensitive to the specific nature of cultural products.
This reissue (1975) is an examination of the theoretical foundation of... Læs mere
This reissue (1975) is an examination of the theoretical foundation of... Læs mere
First published in 1983, Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art offers an account of aesthetics which is both sociologically informed and sensitive to the specific nature of cultural products.
A series of linked essays on particular Germans living in Manchester from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The themes of refuge (from the 1848 Revolutions in Europe, and later from Nazi Germany) and reparation run through the book. -- .
Early twentieth-century art and art practice in Britain and the United States were, Janet Wolff asserts, marginalized by critics and historians in very similar ways after the rise of post-Cubist modern art. In a masterly book on the sociology of...