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Fashion & Culture
Fashion Criticism
An Anthology Edited by Francesca Granata, Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA This is the first anthology of the growing field of fashion criticism, claiming a place for writing on fashion alongside other, better established areas of pop culture criticism. Exploring the history of fashion criticism, the book brings together two centuries of previously uncollected articles and writings, from Oscar Wilde’s editorial’s in Women’s World to the ground-breaking fashion journalism of the 1980s along with today’s proliferation of fashion bloggers. It is a key resource for students of fashion studies, media, and journalism.
UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 208 pages PB 9781350058804 • £23.99 / $32.95 • HB 9781350058811 • £75.00 / $102.00 ePub 9781350058798 • £21.59 / $27.09 ePdf 9781350058781 • £21.59 / $27.09 Bloomsbury Academic
Communicating Fashion
Clothing, Culture, and Media Myles Ethan Lascity, Southern Methodist University, USA We each make decisions about clothing and personal adornment every day, often reflecting how we view ourselves and impacting how others view us. From style magazines to social media influencers and brand ambassadors, a multi-million dollar industry is dedicated to influencing our decisions and analyzing the choices of others. Communicating Fashion introduces key concepts from the intersecting worlds of fashion and communication studies to explore the ways people use clothing to express themselves and how media systems support and give meaning to specific goods and fashions.
UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 248 pages • 100 bw illus PB 9781350112230 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350112247 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350112254 • £22.49 / $28.32 ePdf 9781350112261 • £22.49 / $28.32 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Dress Cultures
Wearing the Niqab
Muslim Women in the UK and the US Anna Piela, Northwestern University, USA The niqab has become a symbol of everything that is perceived to be wrong with Islam— barbarity, backwardness, female exploitation, and radicalization—and these meanings are regularly ascribed to niqabis without consultation, in debates where wearers are absent. This book counteracts this absence by bringing niqab-wearers’ voices to the fore in first-hand accounts of religious agency, identity, community, and urban spaces. Situating wearers’ experiences firmly in socio-political and media contexts, the book demonstrates that, for many wearers, political symbols are deeply personal, freely chosen, multi-layered, and socially situated.
UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 208 pages • 11 bw illus HB 9781350166035 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350166059 • £67.50 / $83.76 ePdf 9781350166042 • £67.50 / $83.76 Series: Dress Cultures • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Fat Fashion
The Thin Ideal and the Segregation of Plus-Size Bodies Paolo Volonté, Associate Professor of Cultural Sociology, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Average body mass in many Western cultures is getting larger and yet the fashion system seems mostly unchanged. Major fashion houses still limit their output to small sizes and the dominant ideal of the female body in fashion imagery is still thin. In the first systematic study of fatness and thinness in the fashion industry, Paolo Volonté draws on influential literature on the body, beauty standards and the roles of clothing in society to explore the nature of the segregation of fat bodies in fashion and considers what the future may hold for consumers, designers and marketers alike.
UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 304 pages • 30 bw illus PB 9781350126930 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350126923 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350126916 • £19.79 / $24.63 ePdf 9781350126954 • £19.79 / $24.63 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Fashioning the Modern Middle East
Gender, Body, and Nation Edited by Reina Lewis, London College of Fashion, UK & Yasmine Nachabe Taan, Lebanese American University, Lebanon In the first book to address the critical role of the dressed and undressed body in the formation of the modern Middle East, these essays unveil contemporary struggles over nation, gender, modernity and post-modernity. Contributions from leading interdisciplinary scholars, exploring gender representation, photography, dress and visual culture, paint a rich picture of a historical period and cultural landscape which brings dress and visual culture back into historical narratives of the modern Middle East.
UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 224 pages • 83 bw illus PB 9781350135215 • £27.99 / $37.95 • HB 9781350135208 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350135222 • £25.19 / $32.02 ePdf 9781350135239 • £25.19 / $32.02 Series: Dress Cultures • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Queering the Subversive Stitch
Men and the Culture of Needlework Joseph McBrinn, University of Ulster, UK In Queering the Subversive Stitch, Joseph McBrinn uses Queer Theory to address the history of men’s relationship with needlecrafts, to ‘queer’ the narratives and contest assumptions that perpetuate misogynistic and homophobic ideas. Thirty years after Rozsika Parker published her seminal work on embroidery and the making of the feminine, McBrinn argues that, in fact, men have engaged with needlework throughout history. Such activities have become stigmatized over the past two hundred years, and as a result, needlework can be used by men as a means of deviance and subversion, many historical and contemporary examples of which are explored by McBrinn.
UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 224 pages • 16 colour and 71 bw illus PB 9781472578044 • £23.99 / $32.95 • HB 9781472578051 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781472578068 • £21.59 / $27.09 ePdf 9781472578075 • £21.59 / $27.09 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Color Plus Design
Bundle Book + Studio Access Card Ron Reed, Sam Houston State University, USA Learn how to create unified and visually inviting spaces with the third edition of Color Plus Design. Author Ron Reed shows how color and design, when used together, can organize any space around a theme or focal point, provide harmony or contrast, and help designers avoid common color mistakes in a variety of residential and commercial interiors. Students will gain an appreciation of how different cultures around the world use color in their designs, while a new chapter on color and health explores how color affects human perception, emotions, illnesses, and misconceptions. Fairchild Books
Interior Design Materials and Specifications
Bundle Book + Studio Access Card Lisa Godsey, International Academy of Design & Technology, USA Written from the viewpoint of the working designer, Interior Design Materials and Specifications, 4th Edition, describes each material’s characteristics and teaches students how to evaluate, select, and specify materials, taking into account factors including code compliance, building standards, sustainability guidelines, human needs, and bidding processes. This complete guide has been updated to reflect the most recent materials on the market and contemporary awareness on industry movements like sustainability. Students will learn how to communicate with suppliers and vendors to achieve the results they envision and how to avoid some of the pitfalls common to material selection and specification.
Tartan
Revised and Updated Jonathan Faiers, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK Featuring new insights from over the past 12 years, this updated edition of Tartan – Jonathan Faiers’ revered study – revitalises discussions of the fabric’s traditional, sentimental Highland origins through also examining it as a radical, provocative inspiration to contemporary designers throughout the world today, including Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen. Beautifully illustrated and weaving together a story out of history, art, music, film and fashion, this book demonstrates that tartan is no longer a Scots' textile and positions it within broader philosophical, political and cultural contexts, assessing its extraordinarily versatile and pervasive influence.
UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 336 pages • 150 colour illus PB 9781350193772 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781845203771
UK March 2021 • US February 2021 • 232 pages • 270 colour illus PB Pack 9781501362729 • £69.99 / $95.00 ePub 9781501362675 • £69.82 / $85.45 ePdf 9781501362682 • £69.82 / $85.45 Series: Textiles that Changed the World • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Estimating and Costing for Interior Designers
Bundle Book + Studio Access Card Diana Allison, University of the Incarnate Word Readers learn the logical process for calculating materials and estimating the costs of installed products based on their math calculations. Fully updated and revised, this book utilizes step-by-step examples and worksheets to simplify the math used in the interior design field. Sample problems and exercises take the calculations of quantities needed one step further to actually applying material and labor costs, in order to discover the installed costs of the specified products. Exercises are provided in introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels for all types of interior designers. This book is applicable to both commercial and residential design projects.
UK March 2021 • US February 2021 • 0 pages • 290 bw illus PB Pack 9781501361111 • £59.99 / $85.00 ePub 9781501361074 • £58.46 / $71.95 ePdf 9781501361067 • £58.46 / $71.95
Fairchild Books
UK March 2021 • US February 2021 • 416 pages • 420 colour illus PB Pack 9781501360893 • £74.99 / $100.00 ePub 9781501360855 • £73.88 / $90.00 ePdf 9781501360862 • £73.88 / $90.00 Fairchild Books
The New Munsell Student Color Set
Ron Reed, Sam Houston State University, USA Now with brand new, perforated color chip technology, The New Munsell Student Set, Sixth Edition is adaptable to both studio and lecture courses and appropriate for all student levels. It is a complete learning package that offers opportunities for experimenting with color effects including 11 Munsell color charts, 15 interactive charts, 12 hue families of perforated color chips, and a textbook, all designed to facilitate hands-on learning experience. The text covers color use, color science, visual perception, optical effects, and practical application of color phenomena across art disciplines.
UK January 2021 • US December 2020 • 180 pages • 116 colour illus 35 bw illus PB 9781501365966 • £74.99 / $100.00 ePub 9781501365942 • £73.88 / $90.00 ePdf 9781501365959 • £73.88 / $90.00 Fairchild Books
6-Volume Set Edited by Marcel Vellinga, Oxford Brookes University, UK The Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World presents, in six volumes, 2 million words, and 3,000 illustrated entries, the definitive resource for the study of the world’s vernacular and traditional building cultures. Increasing from three volumes to six, this new edition, expanded and updated throughout, presents over 30 percent new material. A major development in the field of vernacular architecture studies, this new edition reflects the considerable growth in research in the field since the first edition, and its expanded scope captures two decades of concerted effort to document and understand the world’s fastdisappearing traditional and vernacular building cultures. Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £995.00 / $1,350.00
UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 6 vols • c. 3,352 pages HB Pack 9781472592736 • £1,100.00 / $1,495.00 3,074 bw illus Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Vernacular Architecture
4-Volume Set Critical and Primary Sources Edited by Howard Davis, University of Oregon, USA Collating scholarly historical texts from the last 200 years from a wide range of sources, this four-volume set offers a key knowledge resource for the field. An essential addition to libraries, it creates for the first time a comprehensive framework through which to understand the critical aspects and diverse interpretations of vernacular architecture studies, vital to much ongoing research in the built environment, in heritage studies, and material culture studies. Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £595.00 / $804.00
UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 4 vols • c. 1,536 pages HB Pack 9781474283915 • £660.00 / $890.00 Series: Critical and Primary Sources • Bloomsbury Academic
The Ruins of Palmyra and Baalbek
Volumes I-II Robert Wood First published in the 1750s, The Ruins of Palmyra and The Ruins of Baalbek contain over 100 engravings of the classical architecture of these two ancient cities. The volumes were unique in providing systematic discussion of the sites' physical and human geography alongside two kinds of pictorial evidence: views of the ancient sites and detailed plans, with measurements, of architectural features. The volumes had great influence upon Neoclassical architecture in Britain, Europe and North America. This new edition features reproductions of all the engravings from the original publications and includes a new introduction by noted scholar, Benjamin Anderson (Cornell University, USA). Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £250.00 / $340.00
UK December 2020 • US December 2020 • 2 vols • c. 320 pages HB Pack 9780755617265 • £278.00 / $380.00 113 bw illus Bloomsbury Visual Arts
