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Art & Visual Culture
Stephen Kite, Cardiff University, UK Shaping the Surface explores the history of modern British architecture through its ongoing fascination with surface, materiality and decoration. Tracing this continuing sensibility to surface through to the modern era, it explores how and why surface and materiality have featured so heavily in recent architectural tradition, examining the history of British architecture through a selection of key cultural moments and movements. The book serves both as a thematic introduction to modern British architectural history and as a deep critique and meditation on the central importance of surface and materiality for architects, designers, and historians.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 336 pages • 114 bw illus PB 9781350320659 • £26.99 / $36.95 • HB 9781350320666 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350320680 • £24.29 / $34.34 ePdf 9781350320673 • £24.29 / $34.34 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
The Social Life of Streets in India
Histories, Contestations and Subjectivities
Edited by Sadan Jha, Centre for Social Studies, Surat & Gauri Bharat This volume endeavors to understand the complexities of social dynamics of streets in relation to spatiality and materiality in the Indian milieu. It draws from a diverse body of scholarship and varied disciplinary leanings and engages with three broad strands —historical aspects of streets; physicality or street as a built environment; and social science discourse, mediated through anthropology, urban geography, social theory and urban studies.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 300 pages HB 9789354356858 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9789354353970 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9789394701618 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic India World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent) Scandinavian Avant-Garde Architecture 1945-1956
Espen Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway Part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, this book tells the story of PAGON (Progressive Architects Group Oslo Norway) for the first time, offering a definitive account of the group’s projects, buildings, and approach. Despite its individual members achieving international recognition, PAGON has been overlooked in the history of modern architecture. This book demonstrates how PAGON’s architecture constitutes a unique continuity between late 1930s Scandinavian functionalism and the modern movement in the US, and an important transitional stage before the emergence of the better-known neo-avant-garde groups within CIAM and Team 10.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 304 pages • 75 bw & 33 color illus PB 9781350352889 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350067981 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781350068001 • £72.00 / $100.29 ePdf 9781350067998 • £72.00 / $100.29 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Making the Arctic City
The History and Future of Urbanism in the Circumpolar North
Peter Hemmersam, Oslo Centre for Urban and Landscape Studies, Norway Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years. Spanning northern regions of North America, through Greenland, Svalbard to Russia, this is the first book to provide a truly circumpolar account of historical and contemporary architecture and urbanism in the Arctic – and it shows how the Arctic city offers valuable lessons for the post-colonial study of architectural and urban planning history elsewhere.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 272 pages • 47 bw illus PB 9781350235861 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350235854 ePub 9781350235885 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350235878 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
The Amsterdam Town Hall in Words and Images
Constructing Wonders
Edited by Stijn Bussels, Leiden University, The Netherlands, Caroline van Eck, University of Cambridge, UK & Bram Van Oostveldt, Amsterdam University, The Netherlands This book investigates the splendour and architectural scale of the Amsterdam Town Hall, inaugurated in 1655 and portrayed by contemporaries as the ultimate representation of the power, position, and wonder. To fully understand these mechanisms of power, this book relates the Town Hall to the most impressing buildings of the same period and their visual and textual representations. It provides new international insights in the agency of magnificent buildings, clarifying how artists and writers all over Europe presented buildings as wonders of the world.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 224 pages • 70 bw illus PB 9781350205376 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350205338 ePub 9781350205352 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350205345 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Hans Luijten, The Van Gogh Museum, Netherlands Translated by Lynne Richards Vincent van Gogh’s posthumous success has long been an inexplicable phenomenon of the art world, attributed to the raw power of his paintings alone. This book uncovers the true driving force behind his legacy – his sister-in-law, Jo van Gogh-Bonger: a woman with no knowledge of the art world, but with the vision and dedication to shake it to its core. Based on rich source material, including previously unpublished diaries, documents and letters, Hans Luijten recounts the multifaceted life of this driven woman who made a bold impact in a maledominated world around the turn of the 20th century.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 526 pages • 63 colour & 67 bw illus HB 9781350299580 • £20.00 / $27.00 ePub 9781350299597 • £18.00 / $26.09 ePdf 9781350299603 • £18.00 / $26.09 Bloomsbury Visual Arts World English
Jeanne Mammen
Art Between Resistance and Conformity in Modern Germany, 1916–1950
Camilla Smith, University of Birmingham, UK What was producing modern art under a dictatorship like as a female artist? Jeanne Mammen’s candid portrayals of Berlin’s thriving nightlife and her watercolours of the genderbending ‘new woman’ are characteristic of Weimar’s glitter. In this fascinating account of Mammen’s withdrawal from public life once the Nazis came into power, Camilla Smith analyses the dissenting artworks created by Mammen in solitude during inner emigration and after the Second World War. She highlights the role of a lost generation of inner émigrés women artists as agents of German modernity and fundamentally rethinks the moral complexities—and visual culture—of inner emigration.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 288 pages • 27 colour & 76 bw illus HB 9781350239388 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350239401 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350239395 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Visual Cultures and German Contexts • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
The Hungarian Avant-Garde and Socialism
The Art of the Second Public Sphere
Katalin Cseh-Varga, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria The Hungarian Avant-Garde and Socialism investigates artistic strategies of spaces – the artist’s studio, exhibitions, installations, clubs, apartments, cellars, chapels, and shop windows – all of which existed parallel to or were interwoven with the regulated public sphere in Hungary from the beginning of the 1960s to the era immediately following the Kádár regime. Cross-referencing the international tendencies in the art worlds between and beyond the Cold War reality of Blocs, this book demonstrates how mostly non-conformist artists in Hungary reacted to the dependency inherent to the conflicting, contradictory nature of public spheres in the post-totalitarian condition.
UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 240 pages • 25 bw illus HB 9781350211582 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781350211605 • £72.00 / $100.29 ePdf 9781350211599 • £72.00 / $100.29 Bloomsbury Visual Arts Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to Today
Edited by Sharon Hecker, Independent Scholar, Italy & Raffaele Bedarida, The Cooper Union, USA Curating Fascism examines how exhibitions from around the fall of Benito Mussolini’s regime to the present day have shaped collective memory, historical narratives, and political discourse around the Italian ventennio. It explores representations of Italian fascism in exhibitions across the world, highlights blindspots in art history and exhibition practices, and charts how shows on fascism have evolved since the postwar period. Through offering fresh perspectives on the historiography, collective memory, and understanding of Italian fascist art from a contemporary standpoint, Curating Fascism critically reflects upon curatorial strategies and sheds light on the cultural legacy of fascism in the current moment.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 304 pages • 100 bw illus PB 9781350229457 • £27.99 / $37.95 • HB 9781350229464 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350229488 • £25.19 / $35.71 ePdf 9781350229471 • £25.19 / $35.71 Series: Visual Cultures and Italian Contexts • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Modernist Diaspora
Immigrant Jewish Artists in Paris, 19001945
Richard D. Sonn, University of Arkansas, USA In the years before, during and after the First World War, hundreds of young Jews flocked to Paris. As the École de Paris was the most cosmopolitan artistic movement the world had seen, the neighborhood of Montparnasse became a meeting place for diverse cultures. Now, the paintings of Chagall, Modigliani, Soutine, Delaunay-Terk and Mané-Katz, and the sculptures of Lipchitz, Zadkine, Orloff, and many others, grace the world’s museums. How did Montparnasse’s tolerant, bohemian atmosphere encourage an international style of art in an era of bellicose nationalism, racism, and antisemitism? This book examines how the clash of cultures produced genius.
UK March 2022 • US April 2022 • 392 pages • 60 colour illus HB 9781350185319 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350185333 • £81.00 / $112.65 ePdf 9781350185326 • £81.00 / $112.65 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Asian Ceramic Vessels as Transcultural Enclosures
Edited by Anna Grasskamp, University of St Andrews, UK & Anne Gerritsen, University of Warwick, UK Few objects are as universal and multi-functional as a jar. This book situates such Asian artefacts in a global context and focuses on the relationships between the filling, emptying and re-filling of jars with a variety of contents through time and space. Containers, storage vessels, urns and other types of Asian jars are shown to be culturally and aesthetically defined crafted goods charged with spiritual meanings and ritual significance. By looking at jars as things in the hands of makers, users and collectors, this book presents these objects as agents of change in cultures of craftsmanship and consumption.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 296 pages • 31 colour & 12 bw illus PB 9781350277472 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350277434 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350277458 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350277441 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Material Culture of Art and Design • 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 October 2022 • US October 2022 • 272 pages • 32 colour plate and 73 bw illus HB 9781501339226 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501339233 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501339240 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Identity, Community and Australian Artists, 1890-1914
Paris, London and Further Afield
Kate R. Robertson, University of Sydney, Australia Between 1890 and 1914, Australian artists were lured abroad by an overwhelming desire to engage with their artistic and social heritage. In Paris – the centre of art – and London – the heart of the Empire – they developed complex social and professional networks. Artists joined ateliers in Paris, the Chelsea Arts Club and artist colonies including St Ives and Étaples. They formed communities based on their Australianness, performing this identity in private and public. Exploration of these artists reveals the fluid nexus of place, travel and relationships in this transitional juncture in British-Australian history.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 256 pages • 10 colour and 40 bw illus PB 9781501388712 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501332845 ePub 9781501332852 • £26.20 / $35.95 ePdf 9781501332869 • £26.20 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Visual Arts Visual Culture and the Global Imagination from 1952 to the Present
Edited by Marco Bohr, Nottingham Trent University, UK Largely cut off from the west until the early 19th century, Japan and its complex visual culture has for centuries been an object of fascination, even obsession, in the west. Going beyond the east-west dichotomy this has inevitably created, Capture Japan investigates the formation of visual tropes and how these have contributed to perceptions of Japan in the global imagination. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach, with a multiplicity of perspectives from around the world, Capture Japan goes beyond binarisms to uncover how images can also produce discourses that challenge, subvert or even contradict each other.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 304 pages • 46 bw illus HB 9781350186798 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350186804 • £81.00 / $112.65 ePdf 9781350186781 • £81.00 / $112.65 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Visioning Israel-Palestine
Encounters at the Cultural Boundaries of Conflict
Edited by Gil Pasternak, De Montfort University, UK A rigorous study of the part cultural products have played in the duplication of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the book analyses the work they do within Israel-Palestine and in the Jewish and Palestinian diasporas. Contributors largely draw on the legacy of intellectual Edward Said, who saw culture as a participant in the perpetuation of the conflict, as well as a vehicle capable of leading the way towards its just resolution. Considering Israeli and Palestinian films, art installations, street exhibitions, photographs and oral histories, the book expands the conflict’s historical imagination and nurtures suitable cultural conditions to revitalise the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 336 pages • 47 bw illus PB 9781350280748 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501364624 ePub 9781501364648 • £26.20 / $35.95 ePdf 9781501364631 • £26.20 / $35.95 Series: New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Art, Borders and Belonging
On Home and Migration
Edited by Maria Photiou, University of Derby, UK & Marsha Meskimmon, Loughborough University, UK Over recent decades, it has been noted that a growing number of artists are migrating for better job opportunities and to gain experience of different cultures. For some, their migration is a forced displacement caused by political, religious or military confrontations. Art, Borders and Belonging examines how the concepts of ‘home’, ‘migration’ and ‘belonging’ can be used to contextualise contemporary art practices and visual culture. The book is centrally concerned with artists’ experiences of borders and locations (physical and psychological), as well as their narrations of ‘lost’ or existing homeland.
UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 320 pages • 31 bw illus PB 9781350203105 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350203068 ePub 9781350203082 • £81.00 / $112.65 ePdf 9781350203075 • £81.00 / $112.65 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
