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Colourworks

Chromatic Innovation in Modern French Poetry and Art-Writing Susan Harrow, University of Bristol, UK 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.

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

Jean-Jacques Lebel and French Happenings of the 1960s

The Erotics of Revolution Laurel Jean Fredrickson, Southern Illinois University, USA 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 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. 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.

Jean Dubuffet, Bricoleur

Portraits, Pastiche, Performativity Stephanie Chadwick, Lamar University, USA 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 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

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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

Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism

Art, 'Sensibility' and War in the 1960s Gavin Parkinson, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK 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.

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

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

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

The Social Context of James Ensor’s Art Practice

“Vive La Sociale!” Susan M. Canning, College of New Rochelle, USA This new study of Ensor’s art focuses on its social discourse and the artist’s interaction with his contemporary milieu. Rather than the alienated and traumatized Expressionist given preference in modern art history, Ensor is presented here as an artist of agency and purpose whose art practice engaged the issues and concerns of middle class Belgian life, society and politics and was informed by the values and class, race and gendered perspectives of his time. This book invites a re-evaluation not only of Ensor’s social context and expressive critique but also his unique contribution to modernist art practice.

UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 272 pages • 70 bw illus HB 9781501339226 • £96.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501339233 • £88.50 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501339240 • £88.50 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Malevich and Interwar Modernism

Russian Art, the Square and Cultural Transfer Eva Forgacs, Art Center College of Design, USA The square, a central motif in the legacy of international interwar modernism, was the most emblematic and widely known form of the international avant-garde in the interwar years. It originated from the Russian artist Kazimir Malevich who painted The Black Square on White Ground in 1915 and was then picked up by artists El Lissitzky and Theo van Doesburg. This book focuses on the square and its journey across borders to follow its significance, artistic use, and how its meaning became modified in Western Europe.

UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 304 pages HB 9781350204171 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350204195 • £81.00 / $101.01 ePdf 9781350204188 • £81.00 / $101.01 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Contextualizing Art Markets of the Modern Art Market

An Avant-Garde Landscape Painter in Nineteenth-Century France Simon Kelly, Saint Louis Art Museum, USA The 19th century in France witnessed the emergence of the structures of the modern art market that remain until this day. This book examines the relationship between the avant-garde Barbizon landscape painter, Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867), and this market, exploring the constellation of patrons, art dealers and critics who surrounded the artist. It argues for the pioneering role of Rousseau, his patrons and his public in the origins of the modern art market, and, in so doing, shifts attention away from the more traditional focus on the novel careers of the Impressionists and their supporters.

Time, Media, and Visuality in Post-Revolutionary France

Edited by Iris Moon, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA & Richard Taws, University College London, UK This diverse collection of essays draws attention to the multiple points of view and refracted forms of visuality that emerged in France from the beginning of the French Revolution through to the end of the July Monarchy in 1848. It offers a new account of the story of French art’s modernity by exploring the work of genre painters and miniaturists, sign-painters and animal artists, landscapists, architects, and restorers, as they worked out what it meant to be “post-revolutionary.”

UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 272 pages • 70 bw illus HB 9781501348396 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781501348402 • £84.44 / $103.50 ePdf 9781501348419 • £84.44 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Appropriating Antiquity for Modern Chinese Art

Chia-ling Yang, University of Edinburgh, UK Since the Opium War (1839-42), with great concern about the direction of modern Chinese painting, many artists sought inspiration from jinshixue (epigraphy) as a way to revitalise Chinese painting and the literati tradition when the country was in turmoil. By examining versatile trends within paintings in modern China, this book asks if antiquarian movements ultimately served as a tool for intentionally re-writing art historiography in modern China. In searching for the public meaning of inventively reinforced private collecting activity, this book draws on modes of artistic creation to detail an apposite use of antiquities, linking ancient civilization and modern lives.

UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 304 pages • 92 bw illus HB 9781501358371 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501358364 • £95.81 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501358357 • £95.81 / $117.00

Théodore Rousseau and the Rise

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 256 pages • 70 bw illus HB 9781501343797 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781501343803 • £81.19 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501343810 • £81.19 / $99.00 Series: Contextualizing Art Markets • 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 twentieth century, the contemporaryart 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 December 2020 • US December 2020 • 320 pages • 16 colour & 56 bw illus HB 9781501342769 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501342783 • £88.50 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501342776 • £88.50 / $108.00 Series: Contextualizing Art Markets • Bloomsbury Visual Arts