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Art & Visual Culture
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
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 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
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
Affect, Violence and Materiality in Global Contemporary Art
Julia Skelly, McGill University, Canada Skin Crafts discusses multiple artists from global contexts who employ craft materials in works that address historical and contemporary violence. These artists are deliberately embracing the fragility of textiles and ceramics to evoke the vulnerability of human skin and - in so doing - are demanding visceral responses from viewers. Drawing on a range of theories including affect theory, material feminism, skin studies, phenomenology and global art history, the book illuminates the various ways in which artists are harnessing the affective power of craft materials to address and cope with violence.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 224 pages • 8 color and 24 bw illus HB 9781350122956 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350122987 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350122970 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Visual Arts Orphic Art in the Age of Jazz
Simon Shaw-Miller, University of Bristol, UK Central to the development of abstract art, in the early decades of the 20th century was the conception (most famously articulated by Walter Pater) that the most appropriate paradigm for nonfigurative art was music. The assumption has always been that this model was most effectively understood as Western music (classical music). However, the musical form that was abstract art’s true twin is jazz, a music that originated with African Americans, but which had a profound impact on European artistic sensibilities. This book theorizes the affinities and connections between, and across, two seemingly diverse cultural phenomena, offering a truly interdisciplinary study.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 336 pages • 52 bw illus HB 9781350203426 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350203440 • £81.00 / $106.83 ePdf 9781350203433 • £81.00 / $106.83 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Edited by Max Carocci & Stephanie Pratt Art, Observation, and the Anthropology of Illustration presents detailed case studies of work produced by non-Western and Western artists from different world regions and time periods to explore the contemporary relevance and challenges implicit in artistic renditions of past peoples and places. Incorporating current methodological and theoretical tools, this volume expands the area of connection between the disciplines of art history and anthropology, bringing into sharp focus the multiple intersections of objectivity, evidence, and artistic licence. An essential tool for anyone who wants to understand how the observation of different realities has impacted upon the production of art and visual cultures.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 256 pages • 31 colour and 53 bw illus HB 9781350248434 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350248458 • £81.00 / $106.83 ePdf 9781350248441 • £81.00 / $106.83 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Helen Frankenthaler
Painting History, Writing Painting
Alison Rowley, University of Huddersfield, UK This book overturns familiar assumptions about colour field painter Helen Frankenthaler that cast her as 'the bridge between Pollock and what was possible'. Alison Rowley brings a painter's eye to Frankenthaler's work, highlighting the artist's debt not only to Jackson Pollock but also to Cézanne, and speculating for the first time about Frankenthaler's artistic responses to wider political events, in particular the Rosenberg trial. Making a fascinating case, too, for the connections between the work Mountains and Sea and Lily Briscoe's painting in Virginia Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse, this beautifully written book provides crucial new insights into Frankenthaler's practice.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 184 pages • 16 colour and 20 bw illus PB 9781350297036 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePub 9780755605477 • £19.99 / $26.05 ePdf 9780857713209 • £20.69 / $27.35 Series: New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Crossmappings
On Visual Culture
Elisabeth Bronfen In this lively book, major cultural critic Elisabeth Bronfen addresses key topics such as portraiture, the body, war, sovereignty, political power, life, and death. Tracking the transformations that occur as aesthetic figurations travel from one historical moment or artistic medium to another, she discusses prominent figures such as Shakespeare, Degas, and Picasso, Hollywood's classical film noir, and influential TV series such as The Wire and House of Cards. The result is an influential text that rethinks creativity and the cultural imaginary.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 432 pages • 59 bw illus PB 9781350297029 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781788311076 ePub 9781838608309 • £72.00 / $95.11 ePdf 9781838608316 • £72.00 / $95.11 Series: New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Post-Traumatic Art in the City
Between War and Cultural Memory in Sarajevo and Beirut
Isabelle de le Court, Independent Scholar, Switzerland Post-Traumatic Art in the City comprises an original analysis of the nexus of war, art and urban society in two specific contexts: late 20th-century Beirut and Sarajevo. With an emphasis on conceptions of the 'post-traumatic', De le Court explores how cities and art are mutually formative in war and post-war contexts, providing unique insight into the politically and psychologically driven art scenes from within the works of art themselves. Grounded in close analyses and new research, the book makes an important contribution to the fields of art history and trauma studies.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 240 pages • 35 bw illus PB 9781350194397 • £21.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781350194359 ePub 9781350194373 • £81.00 / $106.83 ePdf 9781350194366 • £81.00 / $106.83 Series: New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Gender, Race, and Class in the Global Sixties
Edited by Mona Hadler, Brooklyn College and City University of New York, USA & Kalliopi Minioudaki, Independent Scholar and Curator, Greece Edited by post-war art scholars Mona Hadler and Kalliopi Minioudaki, the book features an array of rigorous chapters written by acclaimed international experts and emerging scholars who explore the work of over 20 artists. These include practitioners of different cultural, racial and social origins and sexual orientations, including numerous female artists from around the world. By transgressing the borders of individual and national contexts and forsaking Cold War dichotomies and the dominant definition of pop art, Hadler and Minioudaki create a space in which pop can be opened up and a new appreciation of its heterogeneity and politics achieved.
UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 336 pages • 48 colour and 35 bw illus HB 9781350197534 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350197541 • £81.00 / $106.83 ePdf 9781350197558 • £81.00 / $106.83 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art
Audacities of Color
LaNitra M. Berger, George Mason University, USA South African artist Irma Stern is one of the nation’s most controversial modern figures. This book explores how Stern became South Africa’s most prolific painter of Black, Jewish, and mixed-race life while maintaining a neutral position on apartheid. Spanning from the Boer War, to Nazi Germany, to apartheid South Africa, Irma Stern’s life and work document important cultural and political moments modern history.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 208 pages • 46 bw illus PB 9781350187535 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781350187498 ePub 9781350187511 • £72.00 / $95.11 ePdf 9781350187504 • £72.00 / $95.11 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Tracey Emin
Art into Life
Edited by Alexandra Kokoli, Middlesex University, UK & Deborah Cherry, Central Saint Martins, UK This fascinating book looks at the art of Britain's most famous contemporary artist, Tracey Emin. Writers from a range of art historical, artistic and curatorial perspectives examine how her work, life and celebrity status have become inextricably intertwined. They explore Emin’s intersectional identity (including her Turkish-Cypriot heritage, ageing and sexuality), reflect on her early years as an artist, pay attention to key works such as My Bed, highlight the tensions between Emin’s art and craft, and provide an eminently readable theorization of her distinctive creative practice. Tracey Emin: Art into Life will be of interest to a broad readership.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 160 pages PB 9781350296152 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781350160606 ePub 9781350160613 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350160620 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Visual Arts The Witches and Femmes Fatales of Hans Baldung Grien
Yvonne Owens, Victoria College of Art, Canada Hans Baldung Grien’s paintings, drawings and prints offer some of the most iconic early modern depictions of witches, crones and “poison maids.” In this groundbreaking book, Yvonne Owens reconstructs the humanist intellectual milieu of Renaissance Germany to show how classical and medieval ideas about medicine and natural philosophy shaped perceptions of the female body. In particular, she demonstrates that the female body was regarded as a toxic and defective entity, and that Grien referenced these ideas to please his wealthy patrons. Using this lens to reevaluate Grien’s work allows Owens to advance new interpretations of the artist’s previously mysterious iconography.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 312 pages • 46 bw illus PB 9781350283503 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781784537296 ePub 9781350190504 • £81.00 / $106.83 ePdf 9781350190566 • £81.00 / $106.83 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932
Lyneise E. Williams, UNC Chapel Hill, USA This book examines representations of Latin Americans in mid-19th to early 20th-century Parisian popular visual media. It shows how darkened skin, brushed onto images of Latin Americans of European descent, mitigated claims for the privileges of ancestral heritage; meanwhile, whitened skin denied the Blackness of Latinos and rendered them "assimilatable" compared to Black people from other parts of the world. The book focuses on three case studies: depictions of Cuban circus entertainer Chocolat; representations of Panamanian World Bantamweight Champion boxer Alfonso Teofilo Brown; and paintings of Black Uruguayans created by Pedro Figari, a Uruguayan artist, during his residence in Paris.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 232 pages • 9 colour and 37 bw illus PB 9781501391019 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781501332357 ePub 9781501332364 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501332371 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Unica Zürn
Art, Writing and Post-War Surrealism
Esra Plumer Writer and graphic artist Unica Zürn produced a wealth of remarkable material while being treated for schizophrenia in psychiatric institutions across Europe. This book re-introduces Zürn as a member of the French Surrealist group and as an artist with a story distinct from that of her husband, artist Hans Bellmer. Esra Plumer presents Zürn's work in light of her individual experiences with World War II, post-war Surrealism and mental illness. She also connects her work to psychoanalytic theory and poststructuralist thought by showing how methods designed to unlock the subconscious formed the pillars of Zürn's artistic creative output.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 272 pages • 21 bw integrated PB 9781350296954 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781784530365 ePub 9780857739728 • £85.50 / $112.04 ePdf 9780857726469 • £85.50 / $112.04 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
How to Make the Body
Difference, Identity, and Embodiment
Edited by Jennifer L. Creech, University of Rochester, USA & Thomas O. Haakenson, California College of the Arts, USA This book explores established and emerging theories of difference, identity, and embodiment in a variety of German contexts. By utilizing cuttingedge approaches to scholarship, and putting these approaches in direct conversation with canonical texts and objects, or lesserknown yet provocative emerging forms, “the body” is investigated through detailed studies that span a variety of disciplines and modes of expression. From advertising, aesthetics, and pornography, to social media, scientific experimentation, and transnational cultural forms, this volume demonstrates how the human form continues to undergo constant—and potentially disruptive—diversification and transformation.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 288 pages • 32 colour and 8 bw illus HB 9781350194045 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350194069 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350194052 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Visual Cultures and German Contexts • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Photofascism
Photography, Film, and Exhibition Culture in 1930s Germany and Italy
Vanessa Rocco, Southern New Hampshire University, USA Photography and fascism in interwar Europe developed into a highly toxic and combustible formula. Particularly in concert with aggressive display techniques, the European fascists were utterly convinced of their ability to use the medium of photography to manufacture consent among their publics. Other dictatorial regimes in the 1930s harnessed this powerful combination of photography and exhibitions for their own odious purposes. This book, for the first time, focuses on the particularly consequential dialectic between Germany and Italy in the early-to-mid 1930s, and within each of those countries vis-à-vis display culture.
UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 224 pages • 52 bw illus PB 9781350284241 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781501347061 ePub 9781501347078 • £76.69 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501347085 • £76.69 / $99.00 Series: Visual Cultures and German Contexts • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Photography and the Arts
Essays on 19th Century Practices and Debates
Edited by Juliet Hacking, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, UK & Joanne Lukitsh, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA Photography and the Arts revisits practices both celebrated and elided by the modernist and postmodernist grand narratives of art and photographic history in order to open up new critical spaces. Written by leading scholars in the fields of photography, art and literature, the essays examine the metaphorical as well as the material exchanges between photography and the fine, graphic, reproductive and sculptural arts.
UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 248 pages • 62 bw illus PB 9781350283527 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781350048539 ePub 9781350048553 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350048546 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Photopoetry 1845-2015
A Critical History
Michael Nott, University College Cork, Ireland From amateur experiments in scrapbooks and stereographs to contemporary photobook collaborations between leading practitioners, poets and photographers have created an art form that continues to evolve and deserves critical exploration. Michael Nott traces the development of photopoetic collaboration from its roots in 19th-century illustrative practices to the present day. Focusing on work from the UK and US, he examines how and why poets and photographers collaborate, and explores the currents of exchange and engagement between poems and photographs on the page.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 304 pages • 56 bw illus PB 9781501388729 • £24.99 / $34.95 ePub 9781501332241 • £104.30 / $135.00 ePdf 9781501332258 • £104.30 / $135.00 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Ethics of Contemporary Art
In the Shadow of Transgression
Theo Reeves-Evison, Birmingham School of Art, UK
As the first full-length study of its kind to outline a positive vision of the ethics of contemporary art, this book distances itself from previous accounts that focus on transgression. The critique of transgressive art is not made on the basis that it is wrong, but that it no longer succeeds on its own terms in societies where language, prohibition and morality are more plastic than they once were. By drawing on the work of Félix Guattari and Jacques Lacan, the book develops a novel theoretical framework that emphasizes the effect of art on subjectivity.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 228 pages • 17 bw illus PB 9781501388095 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501339905 ePub 9781501339912 • £76.69 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501339936 • £76.69 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art
Experiments in Cybernetics and Society
Sharon Irish, University of Illinois, USA This book on Stephen Willats pulls together key strands of his practice and threads them through histories of British cybernetics, experimental art, and urban design. For Willats, a cluster of concepts about control and feedback within living and machine systems (cybernetics) offered a new means to make art relevant. For decades, Willats has built relationships through art with people in tower blocks, underground punk clubs, middle-class enclaves like Harrow, and warehouses on the Isle of Dogs. Here, Sharon Irish argues that it is artists like Willats who are now the instigators of social transformation.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 304 pages • 26 bw illus PB 9781350203631 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350197626 ePub 9781350197619 • £81.00 / $106.83 ePdf 9781350197602 • £81.00 / $106.83 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Pioneers of the Global Art Market
Paris-Based Dealer Networks, 1850-1950
Edited by Christel H. Force, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA While Paris was the capital of the art world at the turn of the 20th century, the contemporary-art market was international in scope. This book assembles original scholarship based on a close inspection of and fresh perspective on extant dealer records that have only recently become available to researchers. Catering to an amplified curiosity concerning the emergence and workings of our unprecedented contemporarycentric and global art market, this anthology fills a significant gap in the burgeoning field of art market studies, complete with concrete examples, and bibliographical and archival references.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 312 pages • 16 colour & 56 bw illus PB 9781350282841 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781501342769 ePub 9781501342783 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501342776 • £83.60 / $108.00 Series: Contextualizing Art Markets • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Old Masters Worldwide
Markets, Movements and Museums, 1789–1939
Edited by Susanna Avery-Quash, National Gallery London, UK & Barbara Pezzini After the Napoleonic wars, vast numbers of Old Master paintings were released on to the market from collections across continental Europe. The knock-on effect was the growth of interest in Old Masters paintings from the 1790s until the Great Depression. This book explores the changes that took place in the art market as a result. Arguably, the most important phenomenon was the diminishing of the traditional figure of the art agent and the rise of more visible, increasingly professional, dealerships. Old Masters Worldwide explores the ways in which the pioneering practices of such businesses contributed to shape a changing market.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 320 pages • 87 bw illus PB 9781350283633 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501348143 ePub 9781501348150 • £90.50 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501348167 • £90.50 / $117.00 Series: Contextualizing Art Markets • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Performance Drawing
New Practices since 1945
Maryclare Foá, Central Saint Martins, UAL, UK, Jane Grisewood, Central Saint Martins, UAL, UK, Birgitta Hosea, University for the Creative Arts, UK & Carali McCall, Central Saint Martins, UK Featuring a wide range of pioneering practitioners alongside current and emerging artists, Performance Drawing explores what it might mean to perform and draw through an examination of contemporary practice since 1945. The term ‘performance drawing’ first appeared in the subtitle of Catherine de Zegher’s Drawing Papers 20: Performance Drawings, in particular with reference to Alison Knowles and Elena del Rivero. In this book, it is used as a trope, and a thread of thinking, to describe a process dedicated to broadening the field of drawing through resourceful practices and cross-disciplinary influence.
Reframing Japonisme
Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853–1914
Elizabeth Emery, Montclair State University, USA Japonisme, the 19th-century fascination for Japanese art, has generated an enormous body of scholarship over the last 20 years, but most of it neglects women, who also acquired objects from the Far East and displayed them in their homes before selling or bequeathing them to museums. The present volume thus brings to light the culturally important, yet largely forgotten artistic activities of women who began collecting Japanese and Chinese chimeras in the 1840s, built a house for them in the 1870s, and bequeathed the ‘Musée d’Ennery’ to the state as a free public museum in 1893.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 280 pages • 13 colour and 48 bw illus PB 9781350282766 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781501344633 ePub 9781501344664 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501344640 • £83.60 / $108.00 Series: Contextualizing Art Markets • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Modern in the Making
MoMA and the Modern Experiment, 1929–1949
Edited by Austin Porter, Kenyon College, USA & Sandra Zalman, University of Houston, USA Though widely recognized for establishing the modern art canon, the Museum of Modern Art initially operated as a laboratory for multidisciplinary visual production. Between its founding in 1929 and its 20th anniversary in 1949, MoMA created the first museum departments of architecture, film, and photography in the country, marshaled modern art as a political tool, and embraced consumer culture in its exhibitions and programming. By bracketing MoMA’s early history from its later reputation as a bastion of formalism, this volume investigates how the museum’s ambitious yet experimental agenda promoted modern art as fundamentally intertwined with multiple forms of cultural production.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 288 pages • 60 bw illus PB 9781350186392 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350186354 ePub 9781350186378 • £81.00 / $106.83 ePdf 9781350186361 • £81.00 / $106.83 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Slow Painting
Contemplation and Critique in the Digital Age
Helen Westgeest, Leiden University, Netherlands The abundance of images in our everyday lives seems to have left us unable to critique them. To rectify this, artists such as Daniel Richter and Artur Zmijewski have demonstrated that painting is brilliantly equipped to produce ‘slow images’ that enable, encourage and reward reflection. Here, Helen Westgeest attempts to understand how various forms of slow painting can be used as tools to interrogate the visual mediations we encounter daily. Through interactive painting performances and painting-like manipulated photographs and videos, Westgeest shows how photography, video and new media art have themselves developed the visual strategies that painting had already mastered.
UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 264 pages • 32 bw illus PB 9781350287358 • £27.99 / $37.95 Previously published in HB 9781788313841 ePub 9781350113008 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350113015 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Drawing In • Bloomsbury Visual Arts UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 240 pages • 26 bw illus PB 9781350283572 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781788314046 ePub 9781501353079 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501353086 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
