Ficto-Critical Approaches
Edited by Hélène Frichot, KTH School of Architecture, Sweden & Naomi Stead, Monash University, Australia Architects and fiction writers share the same ambition: to imagine new worlds into being. Every architectural proposition is a kind of fiction before it becomes a built fact; likewise, every written fiction relies on the construction of a context in which a story can take place. Writing Architectures demonstrates how ficto-critical writing can be a powerful vehicle for creative architectural practice, providing new opportunities to explore modes of writing about architecture both within and beyond the discipline. UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 264 pages • 35 bw illus PB 9781350236776 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781350137905 ePub 9781350137929 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350137912 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Participation in Art and Architecture
Spaces of Interaction and Occupation Edited by Martino Stierli & Mechtild Widrich Since the 1960s participation in art and architecture has been the focus of fierce debate: does ‘participatory’ art and architecture shape social reality, or is it shaped by it? Some critics see technocratic control in participation, while others embrace it. Participation in Art and Architecture breaks the impasse by looking at how participants themselves exert power, rather than being victimized or liberated by it. From artists hijacking Google Earth to protesters setting up a museum of the revolution in Cairo, art, architecture and daily life are explored in their participatory dimension in this geographically and historically wide-ranging book. UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 344 pages • 72 bw integrated PB 9781350297012 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781784530303 ePub 9780857729859 • £90.00 / $118.56 ePdf 9780857727879 • £90.00 / $118.56 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Building/Object
Shared and Contested Territories of Design and Architecture Edited by Charlotte Ashby, Birkbeck University of London, UK & Mark Crinson, Birkbeck University, UK Building-Object addresses the space in-between the conventional objects of design and the conventional objects of architecture – a space often neglected because of the disciplinary differences that have developed between design history and architectural history. It does this across 13 distinct essays, each examining things which are neither objectlike or building-like, but somewhere in between – air conditioning; bookshelves; partition walls; table-monuments; TVs; convenience stores; cars – with the twofold aim both of giving these areas new weight and intellectual interest in our understanding of the human environment, and of probing and reassessing the differences between the disciplines of design history and architectural history. UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 320 pages • 70 bw illus HB 9781350234000 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350234024 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350234017 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
The City as Subject
Public Art and Urban Discourse in Berlin Carolyn S. Loeb This book examines three bodies of postwar and contemporary public art in Berlin and develops a conception of the city as not only shaped by its citizens but capable of connecting its inhabitants with the past. The structures in question each represent a distinctive body of public art that has emerged in the city and which is embedded within its specifically urban structure. Together they demonstrate public art's reliance on Berlin's own forms and materials as a means of visual expression, present a vision of the city which counters today’s homogenizing practices, and highlight its prevailing climate of citizen activism. UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 256 pages • 46 colour and 34 bw illus HB 9781350258600 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350258624 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350258617 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
V I S U A L A R T S - Architecture / Art & Visual Culture - Material Culture
Writing Architectures
Material Culture of Art and Design Michael Yonan, University of Missouri, USA
Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840
Materiality, Sociability and Emotion Freya Gowrley, University of Bristol, UK Between 1750 and 1840, the home took on unprecedented social and emotional significance. Focusing on the design, decoration, and reception of a range of elite and middling class homes from this period, Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840 demonstrates that the material culture of domestic life was central to how this function of the home was experienced, expressed, and understood at this time. Examining craft production and collection, gift exchange and written description, inheritance and loss, it carefully unpacks the material processes that made the home a focus for contemporaries’ social and emotional lives. UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 272 pages • 8 color and 27 bw illus HB 9781501343360 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781501343353 • £76.69 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501343346 • £76.69 / $99.00 Series: Material Culture of Art and Design • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe Seventeenth Century to Contemporary
Edited by Imogen Hart, University of California, Berkeley, USA & Claire Jones, University of Birmingham, UK Foregrounding the overlaps between sculpture and the decorative challenges established academic and museological hierarchies, as well as the classed, raced and gendered categories that have structured the histories and languages of art and its making. Through distinct case studies (17th century altarpieces to contemporary ceramics), the book charts the contexts and agendas that shifting relationships between sculpture and the decorative expose and support. They thus demand a reassessment of how the two fields have been defined and separated, and offer a model for a more integrated form of art history writing. UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 352 pages • 103 bw PB 9781501387753 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501341250 ePub 9781501341267 • £90.50 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501341274 • £90.50 / $117.00 Series: Material Culture of Art and Design • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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