Visual Arts and Performing Arts papers

Pofolia’s corpus holds 96 papers from Visual Arts and Performing Arts (2012–2026), each with a short summary. Below, the 20 most-cited, then the most recently added.

At a glance

• Most cited: The Location of Culture (2012, 14,225 citations).
• The 20 papers listed have 35,629 citations between them.
• 1 of the 1 with a known journal quartile appeared in a Q1 journal.
• 1 have a free full text (open access).
• Most frequent journals: Choice Reviews Online, Journal of Design History, Medical Entomology and Zoology.
• Published between 2012 and 2024.

Most cited

Ranked by citation count. Because citations accumulate over time, this list naturally leans towards work published a few years ago; for where the field is now, see “recently added”. How to read the signals

• The Location of Culture

  2012 · FWCI 941.92 · 14,225 citations

  This abstract outlines a book or collection of essays exploring the complex relationship between culture, identity, and colonialism, particularly through the lens of postcolonial theory.

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• Playing and Reality

  2012 · FWCI 285.79 · 5,634 citations

  This work explores the origins of imaginative living and cultural experience, focusing on what enables individuals to live creatively and find life meaningful.

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• Artificial hells: participatory art and the politics of spectatorship

  Choice Reviews Online · 2013 · 1,831 citations

  This book offers the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, critically examining its claims for emancipation and questioning the turn to ethical criteria over artistic ones.

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• Theatre of the oppressed

  2020 · FWCI 312.62 · 1,506 citations

  This chapter proposes using theatre to empower the oppressed, transforming passive spectators into active participants who can discover new concepts and express themselves through a new language.

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• The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

  2018 · FWCI 1425.46 · 1,277 citations

  Mechanical reproduction, unlike manual imitation, fundamentally alters the authority and authenticity of a work of art, a shift first seen with woodcuts and later amplified by photography and sound reproduction.

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• Dispossession: The Performative in the Political

  Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2013 · FWCI 92.70 · 1,083 citations

  This work explores the concept of 'dispossession' not as a simple loss, but as a performative act deeply embedded within political structures and human experience.

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• New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies

  Open Humanities Press eBooks · 2012 · FWCI 15.53 · 1,072 citations

  This book offers the first comprehensive monograph on "new materialism," a significant 21st-century intellectual trend.

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• Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing

  2013 · 1,049 citations

  This book explores how 3D printing, combined with the internet, low-cost electronics, and advanced materials, is driving technological and social innovation across various sectors.

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• O espectador emancipado

  Urdimento · 2018 · FWCI 1185.69 · 886 citations · Open access

  Contemporary theater should actively foster new ways for audiences to share experiences, promote equal relationships, and reawaken the spectator's joy in learning.

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• Reading Images

  2020 · FWCI 116.94 · 757 citations

  This updated textbook provides a systematic framework for understanding how visual elements in images communicate meaning, drawing on diverse examples from art to digital media.

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• “I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess”: Becoming-Intersectional in Assemblage Theory

  philoSOPHIA · 2012 · FWCI 93.41 · 741 citations

  This paper argues for a frictional, rather than oppositional, relationship between intersectionality and assemblage theory, suggesting that their combined use can offer a more nuanced understanding of identity and politics.

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• Performance: A Critical Introduction

  2017 · FWCI 67.83 · 730 citations

  Marvin Carlson's "Performance: A Critical Introduction" has been updated to its third edition, offering a comprehensive guide to understanding performance as a theatrical activity.

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• Space, Time, and Perversion

  2018 · FWCI 45.27 · 665 citations

  This work argues that feminist and cultural analysis have stripped bodies of their specificity, leading to a need for radical reconsideration of bodies and their relationship to transgression.

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• New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies

  2012 · FWCI 402.05 · 657 citations

  This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of "new materialism," a significant 21st-century intellectual movement.

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• Modern Architecture

  2024 · 641 citations

  This revised edition of a classic survey updates the history of 20th-century architecture and its origins.

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• Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything

  2018 · FWCI 815.20 · 622 citations

  Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) proposes that objects, regardless of their nature (real, fictional, human, non-human), are mutually autonomous and that reality is not solely defined by human perception.

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• Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persuasion in Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Practice

  2016 · FWCI 85.33 · 601 citations

  This study re-examines ekphrasis, the ancient art of vivid description through words, by linking rhetorical theory with ancient concepts of imagination, emotion, and language.

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• Crafting Qualitative Research: Working in the Postpositivist Traditions

  2015 · FWCI 114.51 · 562 citations

  This book, "Crafting Qualitative Research," addresses a gap in management research education by providing a comprehensive guide to diverse qualitative research traditions and their applications.

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• To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism

  Journal of Design History · 2013 · Q1 · FWCI 221.88 · 555 citations

  This book review critiques the concept of 'technological solutionism,' arguing that the belief in technology as a universal fix for complex problems is a flawed and potentially harmful ideology.

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• Arts Based Research

  2012 · FWCI 47.84 · 535 citations

  Arts Based Research (ABR) offers a framework to expand qualitative inquiry in social sciences by integrating arts as representations of human knowing.

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Recently added

• Thinking Through Making: Supporting Children’s Inquiry Through Visual Arts in Early Childhood Education

  Early Childhood Education Journal · 2026 · Q1

  A new framework, 'Thinking Through Visual Inquiry', conceptualizes how visual arts support children's inquiry as a relational, recursive, and evolving process, offering distinct articulations for infants/toddlers and young children.

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• Ageing between reverence and resentment: cinematic narratives of ageing and memory in Malayalam cinema

  Contemporary South Asia · 2026 · Q2

  Malayalam cinema reimagines ageing as a socio-cultural negotiation, mediating dignity, dependency, and memory through narrative and cinematic form, as seen in the films 'Appan' and 'Falimy'.

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• Naming and shaping: Contours of Indian identity in Anita Desai's in custody

  Social Sciences & Humanities Open · 2026 · Q1

  Anita Desai's novel 'In Custody' uses character names, analyzed through literary onomastics and new historicism, to reveal hidden social hierarchies and historical influences on post-independence Indian identity.

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• Unfolded stories and issues in drama processes for change: Community-based theatre and sociodrama – Two methods and two contexts

  Applied Theatre Research · 2026 · Q2

  Sociodrama (SD) and community-based theatre (C-BT) both use stories for social change, but SD focuses on stakeholder perspectives while C-BT interrogates story structures. This paper argues SD can gain from focusing on story's transformative power, and C-BT from stronger issue analysis, suggesting cross-fertilization.

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• Screening Precarity: Hindi Cinema and Neoliberal Crisis in Twenty-first Century India

  Asian Affairs · 2026 · Q2

  Contemporary Hindi cinema reflects the pervasive uncertainty and insecurity of neoliberal India by portraying 'precarity' through evolving narrative and aesthetic strategies.

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• Unmasking the making of a hero: analyzing Aamir Khan’s fandom in China

  Popular Communication · 2026 · Q2

  Aamir Khan's popularity in China stems from his films aligning with Chinese aesthetic preferences and social values, beyond just Bollywood's reach, with 80% of surveyed respondents admiring him as an actor and public figure.

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• Dissecting nationalist narratives: Lagaan – a critique of colonialism or a eulogy of colonial governance?

  Journal of Postcolonial Writing · 2026 · Q1

  The film Lagaan, often seen as anti-colonial resistance, paradoxically upholds imperial governance by portraying it as just and self-correcting, and by showing villagers loyal to the monarch rather than demanding popular sovereignty.

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• Utpal Dutt and political theatre in postcolonial India

  Theatre Research International · 2026 · Q1

  Mallarika Sinha Roy's book reframes Utpal Dutt's dramaturgy not merely as political theatre, but as a form of revolutionary historiography that actively rewrites and challenges dominant historical narratives.

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Journals in this field

The journals that publish most of this field’s papers. Quartile (Q1–Q4), SJR and h-index are from SCImago Journal Rank; “in this field” is how many of the journal’s pooled papers belong here. What is a Q1 journal? · What is the h-index?

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