Art, Race and Gender

The ideal collection to support decolonising and diversifying curricula, this collection focusses on women artists, artists of colour, art and feminism, masculinity, class, race, sexuality, ethnicity, and related topics. It combines comprehensive encyclopaedic and bibliographic background material with cutting-edge research from established scholars and practitioners, such as Eddie Chambers and Helen Gorrill, as well as emerging scholars. The collection also includes interviews with contemporary artists such as Sonia Boyce, who represented Britain at the Venice Biennale 2022 – the first Black woman to do so.

This authoritative and varied range of titles will help support teaching and research focussed beyond the traditional canon of artists, aiding the exploration of the concepts of identity in art. It is an unmissable resource for students and scholars of art history, fine art, visual culture, and related visual arts fields.

Global and Regional Art

Focussing predominantly on the art of Asia, Africa, and South America, but placed alongside material on Europe and North America, this collection supports a more global curriculum within art history combining encyclopaedic background with cutting-edge scholarship.

This authoritative and varied range of titles will help support teaching and research focussed beyond artists from Europe and America. It is an unmissable resource for students and scholars of art history, fine art, visual culture, and related visual arts fields.

Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture

Filling a major gap in architectural historiography - the first authoritative reference to women architects and their work, and to key terms for gender and feminism in architecture. With over 1,000 entries and 600 images, covering 135 countries, all fully cross-searchable and browsable by theme, online and exclusive to the platform.

Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World 2nd edition

Exclusive to the platform, the definitive resource for the study of the world’s vernacular and traditional building cultures. The second edition of this classic work will present a major development in the field, its expanded scope capturing two decades of concerted effort to document and understand the world’s fast-disappearing traditional and vernacular building cultures.

It will feature 3,000 illustrated entries written by the world’s leading scholars of vernacular architecture and material culture, all fully cross-searchable and browsable by theme.