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A Visual History From Stone to Screen
Paul Duncum, University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia. Applying years of experience to a wealth of visual references, Paul Duncum skilfully examines historical constructions of childhood and how they inform the prevailing view of childhood as a state of innocence� Artistic representations of the child are analysed and compared with viewers’ perspectives, while changes throughout history and with age are tracked carefully� The result is a text far broader in scope than any other in its field, as art history is interweaved with childhood studies to explore how we visually present the child and the real-life implications of this for children’s rights�
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 288 pages • 150 colour illus PB 9781350299948 • £24�99 / $34�95 • HB 9781350299931 • £75�00 / $100�00 ePub 9781350299955 • £22�49 / $31�59 ePdf 9781350299924 • £22�49 / $31�59 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture
From Forces to Forms
Edited by Ellen K. Levy, independent artist and scholar, USA & Charissa N. Terranova, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Scottish zoologist D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s visionary ideas in On Growth and Form continue to evolve a century after its 1917 publication� Practitioners, theorists, and historians from art, science, and design reflect on his ongoing influence, linking evolutionary theory to form generation in both scientific and cultural domains. Essays range from art, art history, and neuroscience to architecture, design, and biology—reflecting on how Thompson’s study relates to art and architecture, biological complex systems, and the expanded evolutionary synthesis�
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 288 pages • 15 colour and 69 bw illus PB 9781350191150 • £24�99 / $34�95 Previously published in HB 9781350191112 ePub 9781350191136 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9781350191129 • £76�50 / $105�78 Series: Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe
The Work of Art in the Complex City
Nicolas Whybrow, School of Theatre Studies, Coventry University, UK After thirty years of a global ‘biennial boom’, this timely and expansive book interrogates the extent to which biennial events and their artworks seek to engage with the socio-cultural and political complexity of cities� By examining five urban situations in diverse parts of Europe, this book tells a composite story of continental difference at a moment of high tension, centring on matters of migration, political populism and uncertainty around the future form of the European Union� Events covered are the Folkestone Triennial in the UK, Germany’s Sculpture Projects Münster, the Venice Biennale in Italy, Belgrade’s Mikser Festival and the Istanbul Biennial in Turkey�
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 234 pages • 30 bw illus PB 9781350375208 • £28�99 / $39�95 Previously published in HB 9781350166974 ePub 9781350166981 • £81�00 / $112�65 ePdf 9781350166998 • £81�00 / $112�65 Bloomsbury Visual Arts Queering Portraiture during the AIDS Crisis in America
Fiona Johnstone, Durham University, UK This is the first volume to comprehensively study portraiture, particularly self-portraits, of those suffering from AIDS at the height of the pandemic in America� In reexamining the work of contemporary American artists ranging from Nan Goldin to Felix Gonzalez-Torres, AIDS and Representation offers a new view of AIDS patients and underscores their right to self-representation in political and academic discourse� Addressing themes of sickness, mortality, desire, sexual identity, love, and loss, this is an important contribution to both queer and art history�
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 288 pages • 33 bw illus HB 9781788311885 • £90�00 / $120�00 ePub 9781350201200 • £81�00 / $112�65 ePdf 9781350201194 • £81�00 / $112�65 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Photographic Realism
The Art of Richard Billingham
Kieran Cashell, Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland
The first comprehensive examination of contemporary artist Richard Billingham (born 1970 in Cradley Heath, West Midlands, UK) this book aims to provide an insightful overview and original interpretation of the artist’s practice from the early 1990s to the present� Illustrated throughout, it combines investigative research with interviews and studio conversations, providing a subtle and sophisticated critical evaluation of the artist’s key photographic and film-based works from the period.
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 264 pages • 39 colour and 40 bw illus PB 9781350282421 • £24�99 / $34�95 Previously published in HB 9781350108691 ePub 9781350108714 • £81�00 / $112�65 ePdf 9781350108707 • £81�00 / $112�65 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Mapplethorpe and the Flower
Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control
Derek Conrad Murray, University of CaliforniaSanta Cruz, USA Mapplethorpe and the Flower, the first dedicated book-length critical study of the late artist’s flower photographs, is an interdisciplinary investigation into the symbolism of the flower as envisioned by a photographer whose production was mired in controversy and seeks to locate persistent threads running through the artist’s seemingly disparate aesthetic and conceptual investigations�
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 248 pages • 34 bw illus PB 9781350375857 • £28�99 / $39�95 Previously published in HB 9781788312516 ePub 9781350108783 • £72�00 / $100�29 ePdf 9781350108776 • £72�00 / $100�29 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Herbert Bayer, Graphic Designer
From the Bauhaus to Berlin, 1921–1938
Patrick Rössler, Universität Erfurt, Germany This biographical account follows Austrian-born Bauhaus artist Herbert Bayer, a key figure of 20thcentury avant-garde graphic design, from the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau through the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany to his 1938 departure� Examining unseen documents, letters and photographs from Bayer’s estate, Patrick Rössler uncovers the ordeal experienced by this ingenious artist; he details Bayer’s struggles for freedom of expression whilst dependent on an authoritarian state’s tolerance of his survival, as well as his eventual escape from Nazi Germany facilitated by a network of friends already established at the Bauhaus, including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy�
Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850–1930
(No)Home Away from Home
Erin Eckhold Sassin, Middlebury College, USA Unsettling traditional understandings of housing reform as focused on the nuclear family with dependent children, this book presents the first complete study of single-person mass housing, or Ledigenheime, in Germany and the pivotal role this class- and gender-specific building type played for over 80 years and its continued relevance� A means to societal reintegration, Ledigenheime effectively bridged the publicprivate divide and rewrote the rules of who was deserving of quality housing, pointing forward to the building programs of Weimar Berlin and Red Vienna, experimental housing in Soviet Russia, and even housing for the elderly today�
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 320 pages • 32 colour and 100 bw illus HB 9781350229679 • £85�00 / $115�00 ePub 9781350229693 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9781350229686 • £76�50 / $105�78 Series: Visual Cultures and German Contexts • Bloomsbury Visual Arts UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 312 pages • 14 color & 89 bw illus PB 9781350282780 • £24�99 / $34�95 Previously published in HB 9781501342721 ePub 9781501342738 • £75�70 / $103�50 ePdf 9781501342745 • £75�70 / $103�50 Series: Visual Cultures and German Contexts • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Constructing Race on the Borders of Europe
Edited by Marsha Morton, Pratt Institute, USA & Barbara Larson, University of West Florida, USA Beginning in the late nineteenth century, the expansion of the disciplines of ethnography and anthropology in a climate of nationalism in Eastern and Northern Europe stimulated increased discussions about the character and origins of race� This book explores the impact of these developments on representations of minority ethnic cultures, both indigenous and migrant, in countries along the European rim (Scandinavia, Austro-Hungary, Germany, and Russia) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries�
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 304 pages • 12 colour and 63 bw illus PB 9781350233058 • £21�99 / $29�95 Previously published in HB 9781350182325 ePub 9781350182349 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9781350182332 • £76�50 / $105�78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Scenography and Art History
Performance Design and Visual Culture
Edited by Astrid Von Rosen, University of Gothenburg, Sweden & Viveka Kjellmer, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Scenography and Art History reimagines scenography as a new strand of critical thought in art history and provides new outlooks that are not just related to theatre� Using international examples, this volume examines how scenography can be applied to modern visual objects, actions and events such as pop concerts, the Olympics opening ceremonies, feminist performance art and fashion shows� By relating scenography to social issues such as globalisation and the increasingly digitalised world, the book shows how this concept can offer new approaches to emerging and more traditional objects of study�
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 288 pages • 30 colour & 30 bw illustrations PB 9781350204485 • £21�99 / $29�95 Previously published in HB 9781350204447 ePub 9781350204461 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9781350204454 • £76�50 / $105�78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Mixed Forms of Visual Culture
From the Cabinet of Curiosities to Digital Diversity
Mary Anne Francis, University of Brighton, UK Notions of consistency, unity and harmony have long been ideals in Western culture� With the emergence of Western empires and industrialisation however, cultural practices emerge that are informed by a very different value: the traditionally dismissed heterogeneous� This book looks at instances of this structure throughout visual culture and coins the term ‘mixed-form’� Presenting a history of its key term that starts with the inception of commodity culture in the sixteenth century, the book proposes that, as working life becomes increasingly defined by qualities such as singularity and uniformity, the need for the opposite finds expression in cultural form.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 208 pages • 80 colour illus PB 9781350211414 • £28�99 / $39�95 Previously published in HB 9781350211377 ePub 9781350211391 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9781350211384 • £76�50 / $105�78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
A Cultural History of Color in Antiquity
Edited by David Wharton, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. The smooth, white marbles of Classical sculpture and architecture lull us into thinking that the color world of the ancient Greeks and Romans was restrained and monochromatic, but nothing could be further from the truth� Classical archaeologists are rapidly uncovering and restoring the vivid, polychrome nature of the ancient built environment� At the same time, new understandings of ancient color cognition and language have unlocked insights into the ways – often unfamiliar and strange to us – that ancient peoples thought and spoke about color� A Cultural History of Color in Antiquity covers the period 3000 BCE to 500 CE�
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 288 pages • 32 col & 32 b/w HB 9781474273275 • £75�00 / $110�00 ePub 9781350193475 • £67�50 / $93�42 ePdf 9781350193468 • £67�50 / $93�42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Color in the Medieval Age
Edited by Carole P. Biggam, University of Glasgow, UK & Kirsten Wolf, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA The medieval age saw an extraordinary burst of color - from illuminated manuscripts and polychrome sculpture to enamelled metalwork and colored glass. Color was used to denote affiliation in heraldry and social status in medieval clothes� Color names were created in various languages and their resonance explored in poems, romances, epics, and plays� And, whilst medieval philosophers began to explain the rainbow, theologians and artists developed a color symbolism for both virtues and vices� A Cultural History of Color in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400�
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 304 pages • 23 col & 31 b/w HB 9781474273336 • £75�00 / $110�00 ePub 9781350193482 • £67�50 / $93�42 ePdf 9781350193499 • £67�50 / $93�42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Color in the Renaissance
Edited by Sven Dupré, Utrecht University, The Netherlands & Amy Buono, Chapman University, USA
The Renaissance was a time of change, conflict, and transformation� Innovations in color production transformed the material world of the Renaissance, especially in ceramics, cloth, and paint� Collectors across Europe prized colorful objects such as feathers and gemstones as material illustrations of foreign lands� The advances in technology and the increasing global circulation of colors led to new color terms enriching language� A Cultural History of Color in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1650�
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 288 pages • 32 col & 29 b/w HB 9781474273343 • £75�00 / $110�00 ePub 9781350193505 • £67�50 / $93�42 ePdf 9781350193512 • £67�50 / $93�42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Alexandra Loske, Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton, UK The industrial age embraced color like never before� Inventions - such as steam power, lithography, photography, electricity, motor cars, aviation, and cheap printing - all contributed to a new exuberance about color� Available pigments and colored products - made possible by new technologies, industrial manufacturing, commercialization, and urbanization – also greatly increased, as did illustrated printed literature for the mass market� Color, both literally and metaphorically, was splashed around, and became an expressive tool for artists, designers, and writers� A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920�
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 304 pages • 32 col & 22 b/w HB 9781474273350 • £75�00 / $110�00 ePub 9781350193581 • £67�50 / $93�42 ePdf 9781350193598 • £67�50 / $93�42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Carole P. Biggam, University of Glasgow, UK & Kirsten Wolf, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA From the Baroque to the Neo-classical, color transformed art, architecture, ceramics, jewelry, and glass� Newton, using a prism, demonstrated the seven separate hues, which encouraged the development of color wheels and tables, and the increased standardization of color names� Technological advances in color printing resulted in superb maps and anatomical and botanical images� Identity and wealth were signalled with color, in uniforms, flags, and fashion. And the growth of empires, trade, and slavery encouraged new ideas about color� A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800�
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 288 pages • 30 col & 30 b/w HB 9781474273725 • £75�00 / $110�00 ePub 9781350193574 • £67�50 / $93�42 ePdf 9781350193567 • £67�50 / $93�42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age
Edited by Anders Steinvall, Umeå University, Sweden & Sarah Street, University of Bristol Color has revolutionised modernity� Philosophers, scientists, linguists and artists have debated color’s polyvalence, its meaning to different cultures, and how it can be measured, manufactured, manipulated, and enjoyed� The combination of mass consumerism and the explosion in the use of synthetic dyes has made us a ‘color conscious’ society� Clothing and interiors have been transformed whilst artists, architects, writers, and filmmakers have explored the vibrancy and chromatic eclecticism of contemporary visual cultures� A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to the present�
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 288 pages • 32 col & 41 b/w HB 9781474273367 • £75�00 / $110�00 ePub 9781350193604 • £67�50 / $93�42 ePdf 9781350193611 • £67�50 / $93�42 Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Intimate Interiors
Sex, Politics, and Material Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Bedroom and Boudoir
Edited by Tara Zanardi & Christopher M. S. Johns Intimate Interiors explores how a desire for privacy in domestic spaces led to interiors taking on more specific roles in the 18th century. It examines the importance of conceptions of intimacy, privacy, and sociability on the 18th-century boudoir and its material culture within a global context� Analyzing issues surrounding gender, politics, exoticism, imperialism, sensorial experiences, and modernity, the book shows how ideas of sociability played an integral role in architectural and material design of the period and emphasizes the ornate materiality and visual culture of these often highly performative "private" spaces�
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 256 pages • 103 color & 4 bw illus HB 9781350277601 • £90�00 / $120�00 ePub 9781350277625 • £81�00 / $112�65 ePdf 9781350277618 • £81�00 / $112�65 Series: Material Culture of Art and Design • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Enlightened Animals in Eighteenth-Century Art
Sensation, Matter, and Knowledge
Sarah R. Cohen, University at Albany, USA Focusing on depictions of animals in eighteenthcentury art, this book studies the ways in which painters such as Chardin, as well as sculptors, porcelain modelers, and other decorative designers portrayed animals as sensing subjects who physically confirmed the value of material experience� Examining writings on sensory knowledge by La Mettre, Condillac, Diderot and other philosophers side by side with depictions of the animal in art, Cohen argues that artists promoted the animal as a sensory subject while also validating the material basis of their own professional practice�
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 256 pages • 10 colour and 83 bw illus PB 9781350203624 • £24�99 / $34�95 Previously published in HB 9781350203587 ePub 9781350203600 • £76�50 / $105�78 ePdf 9781350203594 • £76�50 / $105�78 Series: Material Culture of Art and Design • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Moving Objects
A Cultural History of Emotive Design
Damon Taylor, University of Brighton, UK Moving Objects deals with emotive design: designed objects that demand to be engaged with rather than simply used� If postmodernism depended upon ironic distance, and Critical Design is all about questions, then emotive design runs hotter than this, confronting how designers are using feelings in what they make� This original study considers emotionally laden, highly authored works, often produced in limited editions and sold like art – objects such as a chair made from cuddly toys, a leather sofa that resembles a cow, and a jewellery box fashioned from human hair�
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 248 pages • 50 bw illus PB 9781350360006 • £24�99 / $34�95 Previously published in HB 9781350088610 ePub 9781350088627 • £81�00 / $112�65 ePdf 9781350088634 • £81�00 / $112�65 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Georges Rouault and Material Imagining
Jennifer Johnson, University of Oxford, UK Described as a difficult and dark painter, Georges Rouault’s oeuvre is deeply experimental� Images of the circus emerge from a plethora of chaotic marks, while landscapes appear as if ossified in thick paint� Georges Rouault and Material Imagining approaches Rouault in relation to contemporary theories about making and material, examining how Rouault’s oeuvre constructs a ‘material consciousness’ that departs from other modern painters� Ultimately, the process of making is revealed as both a search for understanding and a response to the problematic world of the 20th century�
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 216 pages • 14 colour and 49 bw illus PB 9781350213814 • £21�99 / $29�95 Previously published in HB 9781501346095 ePub 9781501346101 • £79�34 / $108�00 ePdf 9781501346118 • £79�34 / $108�00 Series: Material Culture of Art and Design • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
The Material Culture of Tableware
Staffordshire Pottery and American Values
Jeanne Morgan Zarucchi, Professor of Art History, University Missouri-St Louis, USA This is a fascinating and authoritative study of patterned tableware in the USA� It undertakes a visual analysis of Johnson Brothers patterns of tableware pottery, with reference to comparable designs by other British companies, such as Spode and Adams. It examines how this practical genre reflected the aesthetic values, sense of identity and aspirations of American consumers, and how tableware designs reflected the cultural developments of American society during the 20th century� From status-seeking 1890s beaux-arts patterns and the nostalgic historical scenes of the 1930s, to whimsical 1960s patterns and contemporary 1970s motifs, it tells a compelling story about who 20th-century middle-class Americans were and wanted to be�
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 200 pages • 64 colour and 30 bw illus PB 9781350359925 • £24�99 / $34�95 Previously published in HB 9781350041271 ePub 9781350041264 • £90�00 / $125�02 ePdf 9781350041288 • £90�00 / $125�02 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
