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Colourworks
Chromatic Innovation in Modern French Poetry and Art-Writing Susan Harrow, University of Bristol, UK
Portraits, Pastiche, Performativity Stephanie Chadwick, Lamar University, USA
If the past twenty years have witnessed a ‘colour turn’ in contemporary cultural studies and screen research, colour values in literary and textual media are often elided or, simply, overlooked. Colourworks tackles this lacuna in the study of modern poetry and art writing in French, revealing the integral role of colour in the work of three iconic French writers in the modern tradition: Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Valéry, and Yves Bonnefoy. Colourworks spans the 1860s to the early twenty-first century with an exploratory approach to the visuality of the verbal medium through an adventurous reading of text and image.
One of the most prolific and influential artists of the twentieth century, Jean Dubuffet has featured in a multitude of exhibitions and catalogues. Yet he remains one of the most misunderstood—and least interrogated—postwar French artists. This book reexamines Dubuffet’s art through the lens of his portraits (a veritable who’s who of the Parisian art and intellectual scene) in tandem with his writings and the art and writings of his Surrealist sitters. Investigating Dubuffet’s painting as bricolage, this book explores the themes of multivalence, performativity, and multifaceted identity in his portraits.
UK December 2020 • US December 2020 • 272 pages • 32 colour illus HB 9781350182202 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350182226 • £81.00 / $101.01 ePdf 9781350182219 • £81.00 / $101.01 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 224 pages • 8 colour, 65 bw illus HB 9781501349454 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781501349461 • £84.44 / $103.50 ePdf 9781501349478 • £84.44 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Jean-Jacques Lebel and French Happenings of the 1960s
Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism
The Erotics of Revolution
Gavin Parkinson, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK
Laurel Jean Fredrickson, Southern Illinois University, USA
The art of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) is usually viewed as quite distinct from Surrealist art, while the artist himself displayed some hostility towards Surrealism. However, Rauschenberg had a very positive reception among Surrealists. In the face of Rauschenberg’s avowals of his own ‘literalism’ and insistence on his art as ‘facts,’ this book gathers the generous evidence of the poetic, metaphorical, allusive, associative, connotative dimension of the oeuvre as identified by Surrealists, extrapolating new readings from key works. Here, Rauschenberg’s art is newly perceived through Surrealism, while Surrealism is newly understood against the art criticism and history of the 1960s.
Combining a broad overview of Jean-Jacques Lebel’s coming-of-age among the Surrealists and his rupture with the movement, Laurel Fredrickson focuses on two landmark happenings: the first, Burial of the Thing of Tinguely (1960), and the most scandalous, 120 Minutes dedicated to the Divine Marquis (1966). In doing so, the study illustrates the development and significance of French happenings in relation to the cultural and political changes of the 1960s. Research in Lebel’s personal archives and access to the restricted archive of Kristine Stiles, Lebel’s close friend and confidant, are indispensable in the telling of this extraordinary historical and theoretical narrative. UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 208 pages HB 9781501332319 • £88.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501332326 • £88.50 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501332333 • £88.50 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Sea Currents in NineteenthCentury Art, Science and Culture Commodifying the Ocean World
Edited by Kathleen Davidson, University of Sydney, Australia & Molly Duggins, National Art School, Australia Sea Currents in Nineteenth-Century Art, Science and Culture examines the commodification of the ocean world in the long nineteenth-century focusing on the transaction of marine objects within formal and informal networks of empire, and their effect on consumers in the intersecting realms of art, science, and culture. Through a combination of historical essays and unique object studies by a spectrum of scholars and curators, this book takes a closer look at the material, aesthetic and commercial dimensions of the collection and display, illustration and decoration, and trade and consumption of marine flora and fauna. UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 272 pages • 50 bw illus HB 9781501352782 • £80.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501352805 • £88.50 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501352799 • £88.50 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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Jean Dubuffet, Bricoleur
Art, 'Sensibility' and War in the 1960s
UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 288 pages HB 9781501358296 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501358289 • £88.50 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501358272 • £88.50 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
The Participator in Contemporary Art
Art and Social Relationships Kaija Kaitavuori, Aalto University, Finland This highly original book offers students and teachers tools to improve their understanding of participatory art without the confusing terminology that has characterised other discussions. Kaija Kaitavuori claims that the 'participator' is a new artistic role that does not fall under the auspices of artist or spectator; as such she devises a four-group typology of involvement. The key proposed criteria are how concepts of authorship and ownership shift in relation to collectively created work, how contracts regulating the use and production of shared work are arranged, and the extent to which involvement in making art can be regarded as democratic. UK February 2020 • US February 2020 • 256 pages • 40 bw illus PB 9781501362255 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781784538750 ePub 9781838609566 • £26.09 / $33.25 ePdf 9781838609573 • £26.09 / $33.25 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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