Digital Media

Art, Borders and Belonging

On Home and Migration in the TwentyFirst Century 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 April 2021 • US April 2021 • 320 pages HB 9781350203068 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350203082 • £81.00 / $101.01 ePdf 9781350203075 • £81.00 / $101.01 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Beyond the Feminine

The Politics of Skin Colour and Gender in Visual Culture Ope Lori, University of the Arts London, UK and Leeds College of Art, UK How can current image makers challenge representations of race and gender in visual culture and produce alternate visions? At once delving into this question and offering a practical guide to subverting racial power relations and the politics of the ‘gaze’, Beyond the Feminine looks at the black and white female dichotomy. It examines how light skinned black and white women are privileged over dark skinned black women in music videos, advertising, and even in classic paintings. Focusing on race as implicit in constructions of gender, the works discussed deconstruct the links between race and gender to expose embedded power relations. ePdf 9781350204850 • £72.00 / $89.92 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Mixed Forms of Visual Culture

Marxism and Protest from the Scrapbook to the Digital 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.

Contemporary Art from Cyprus

Politics, Identities and Cultures across Borders Edited by Elena Stylianou, European University Cyprus, Evanthia Tselika, University of Nicosia, Cyprus & Gabriel Koureas, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK This edited volume uses Cyprus as a case study for the exploration of notions of the global and the local, identity, and regionalism in contemporary art practices. The book is not a complete historiography of contemporary Cypriot art; it aims to become a critical text for further discussions and debates through providing a theoretical and historical framework that contextualizes current and future art practices from Cyprus, always in relation to the international art scene.

UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 272 pages • 44 bw illus HB 9781350198647 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350198654 • £81.00 / $101.01 ePdf 9781350198661 • £81.00 / $101.01

UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 320 pages HB 9781350204843 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781350204867 • £72.00 / $89.92 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

What are Exhibitions for? An Anthropological Approach

Inge Daniels, University of Oxford, UK What do people expect to gain from attending an exhibition? Inge Daniels moves past the traditional understanding of viewers as in a one-way communication form, and explores what happens when people and objects are released from their usual restrictions. With people encouraged to move freely throughout the pieces, and objects similarly 'freed', Daniels presents an in-depth examination of the processes involved in the making and reception of her own exhibition which draws on The Japan House in new ways. Lavishly illustrated with over 170 full colour images, and featuring practical examples from Daniels' work, this is a fantastic resource for scholars of museum studies, sociocultural anthropology and curatorial studies.

UK April 2020 • US June 2020 • 248 pages • 175 colour illus PB 9781350065390 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350065352 ePub 9781350065376 • £26.09 / $33.25 ePdf 9781350065369 • £26.09 / $33.25

Bloomsbury Academic

UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 272 pages • 20 colour and 20 bw illus HB 9781350211377 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781350211391 • £72.00 / $89.92 ePdf 9781350211384 • £72.00 / $89.92 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art

Experiments in Cybernetics and Society Sharon Lee 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 Lee Irish argues that it is artists like Willats who are now the instigators of social transformation.

UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 304 pages • 26 bw illus HB 9781350197626 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350197619 • £81.00 / $101.01 ePdf 9781350197602 • £81.00 / $101.01 Bloomsbury Visual Arts