Art & Popular Culture

Edited by Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds, UK & Max Silverman, University of Leeds, UK Concentrationary Memories has, as its premise, the idea at the heart of Alain Resnais's fi lm Night and Fog (1955) that the concentrationary plague unleashed on the world by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s is not simply confi ned to one place and one time but is now a permanent presence shadowing modern life. It further suggests that memory (and, indeed art in general) must be invoked to show this haunting of the present by this menacing past so that we can read for the signs of terror and counter its deformation of the human.

UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 336 pages • 88 bw illus PB 9781350229174 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781780768960 ePub 9781786724434 • £85.50 / $105.94 ePdf 9781786734433 • £85.50 / $105.94 Series: New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts • Bloomsbury Visual Arts Public Art and Design in East Germany

J. R. Jenkins, Falmouth University, UK This vibrant history of the former GDR’s public art reveals a barely known but visually and theoretically rich cultural legacy. Picturing Socialism shows how works of art and design in the urban spaces of East Germany were the site of a sustained struggle between practitioners, critics and political leaders. This was not the oft-assumed confl ict between artistic freedom and political dogma; at stake was the self-identity of the republic as socialist. J. R. Jenkins shows how art and its relationship to architecture functioned as the testing ground for East Germany’s relationship to socialist realism and modernism.

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 264 pages • 58 bw illus and 8pp colour plate section HB 9781350067141 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350067158 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350067165 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Enchanted Ground

André Breton, Modernism and the Surrealist Appraisal of Fin-de-Siècle Painting

Gavin Parkinson, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK Enchanted Ground is about the challenge to modernist criticism by Surrealist writers who viewed the same artists in terms of magic, occultism, precognition, alchemy and esotericism generally. First of all, it introduces the history of the ways in which those artists who came after Impressionism became canonical in the 20th century through the broad approaches we now call modernist or formalist. It then unpacks the Surrealist positions on the same artists and, to this end, contributes to new strains of scholarship on Surrealism that exceed the usual bounds of the 1920s and 1930s.

UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 376 pages • 15 colour and 113 bw illus PB 9781501375644 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781501337253 ePub 9781501337277 • £99.06 / $121.50 ePdf 9781501337260 • £99.06 / $121.50 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 ways of thinking about it 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 June 2021 • US June 2021 • 256 pages • 30 colour & 30 bw illustrations HB 9781350204447 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350204461 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350204454 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Music, Art and Performance from Liszt to Riot Grrrl

The Musicalization of Art

Edited by Diane V. Silverthorne, University of the Arts, London, UK This book charts the interaction between music and the visual arts from late Romanticism through to the birth of modernism and emergence of postmodernism, while crossing from Western art to the Middle East. Focusing on music and the audial as a central experience of art and life, these essays scrutinize the permeable boundaries between the visual and performing arts, detailing signifi cant instances of intra-art relations between 1840 and the present, and refl ecting on the aesthetic relationships of music to painting, textiles and other visual arts. Topics range from Satie, Manet, and contemporary Iranian art to Symbolism, Minimalism and Turkish carpets.

UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 288 pages • 16 colour and 13 bw illus PB 9781501376528 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781501330131 ePub 9781501330155 • £99.06 / $121.50 ePdf 9781501330148 • £99.06 / $121.50 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Concentrationary Imaginaries

Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture

Edited by Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds, UK & Max Silverman, University of Leeds, UK In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human. This book shows how the unacknowledged legacy of a totalitarian mentality has seeped into the deepest recesses of everyday popular culture. Drawing on the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt and the analyses of violence by Agamben, Virilio, Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy, it also offers close readings of fi lms by Cavani and Haneke that identify and critically expose such an imaginary and, hence, contest its lingering force.

UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 320 pages • 49 bw illus PB 9781350229556 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781784534097 ePub 9780857739087 • £85.50 / $105.94 ePdf 9780857725448 • £85.50 / $105.94 Series: New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts • Bloomsbury Visual Arts