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October-December 2025
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Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
An Introduction to AI for Architects
Neil Leach, Florida International University, USA
Fully updated to cover all the latest developments in the field—from ChatGPT and smart assistants to ground-breaking diffusion models for 3D modelling—Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence introduces AI for designers and explores its seismic impact on architectural practice. Highlighting current case-studies as well as near-future applications, this edition explores how AI transforms every part of the process, from the inspiration and the brief to detailed performance- and data-driven design. Written by one of the world’s leading experts in the field, this is a must-read for architects and designers wishing to stay at the forefront of AI.
UK May 2025 • US June 2025 • 336 pages • 83 color illus
PB 9781350438743 £19.99 / $26.95 HB 9781350438750 £65.00 / $90.00
ePub 9781350438767 £17.99 / $24.29
ePdf 9781350438774 £17.99 / $24.29
Series: Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
World All Languages (except Chinese/Italian/Portuguese/Spanish)
Building Modern Scotland
A Social and Architectural History of the New Towns, 1947–1997
Alistair Fair, University of Edinburgh, UK, Lynn Abrams, University of Glasgow, UK, Kat Breen, University of Edinburgh, UK, Miles Glendinning, University of Edinburgh, UK, Diane Watters, Historic Environment Scotland & Valerie Wright, University of Edinburgh, UK
A new history of Scotland’s postwar new towns; combining architectural, social and political history to illustrate what was planned, what was built, and how these places were experienced by the diverse communities who lived and worked in them. Drawing on archives and oral history, this open access book provides a new account of 20th-century Scotland, and shows how a better understanding of the new towns’ history and value could be used to inform present-day decision-making.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
UK February 2025 • US April 2025 • 240 pages • 60 bw illus and 40 colour illus
HB 9781350401709 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350401723 • £00.00 / $00.00
ePdf 9781350401716 • £00.00 / $00.00 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
The Minimum Dwelling Revisited CIAM's Practical Utopia (1928–31)
Aristotle Kallis, Keele University, UK
This book provides an intellectual history of the modernist ‘minimum dwelling’, exploring how early modernism saw mass housing as a primary vehicle for achieving the utopian transformation of society. It reappraises the often-overlooked 2nd and 3rd CIAM conferences (1929-31), revealing them both as milestones in the organisation's annals and as seminal moments in the history of interwar modernism. Serving as a corrective to the overemphasis on CIAM IV and the Athens Charter, the book is essential reading for scholars researching urban design during the interwar period.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 248 pages • 36 bw illus
PB 9781350346222 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781350346185
ePub 9781350346208 £26.09 / $36.44
ePdf 9781350346192 £26.09 / $36.44
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Another Modernism
Home Economics and the Design of Domestic Space in the US, 1900-1960
Anna Myjak-Pycia, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Targeting an important gap in design history, Another Modernism sheds light on the unacknowledged contribution of home economists to 20th-century modernist design. In analysing the home economists’ conception of space, the book argues that their focus on the user’s tactility constituted an alternative model of modern architecture – a popular and largely rural modernism which focused on the specificity of the female user and her personal experience of the domestic interior. Based on little-known archival material, and with an emphasis on (mostly) female researchers and users/occupants, it will appeal to architects, design historians, and anyone interested in gender, women, and disability studies.
UK
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture
Janina Gosseye, ETH Zurich, Switzerland & Tom Avermaete, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Hans Heyerdahl Hallen
Nordic Influences on Modern Architecture in South Africa
Kathi Holt, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, Errol Haarhoff & Walter Peters
Analysing the life and work of architect Hans Heyerdahl Hallen (1930–2022), this book reveals the transnational influences that shaped his practice in South Africa, and the migratory circles of ideas that defined a new form of subtropical architecture. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, the study features a wealth of previously-unpublished archival material to explore the role of the architect in colonial contexts, and the need for architecture to respond to local communities and climate.
UK November 2025 US November 2025 320 pages 96 color illus
HB 9781350510326 £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350510340 • £76.50 / $103.94
ePdf 9781350510333 • £76.50 / $103.94
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Paolo Portoghesi
Architecture between
History, Politics and Media
Silvia Micheli, University of Queensland, Australia & Léa-Catherine Szacka, The University of Manchester, UK
Featuring previously-unpublished archival material, interviews by the authors and articles from professional and mainstream press, this book looks at the work of the Italian architect, theorist and historian Paolo Portoghesi (1931-2023). The book presents Portoghesi in his multifaceted role of mediator, politician, historian and designer and, through his work, offers a new perspective on postmodern architecture, showing the agency of other spheres of knowledge – history, politics and media – in the making of postmodern architectural discourse.
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 232 pages • 75 bw illus
PB 9781350408616 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781350117136
ePub 9781350117150 • £26.09 / $36.44
ePdf 9781350117143 • £26.09 / $36.44
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Malayan Classicism
From the Architecture of Empire to Asian Vernacular
Soon-Tzu Speechley, University of Melbourne, Australia
Presenting the first comprehensive account of Malaya’s most widespread architectural style prior to World War II, Malayan Classicism looks at how the classical architecture of the British Empire was transmitted, translated, and transformed in the hands of local builders and architects. Addressing a critical gap in the scholarship, this book charts the metamorphosis of an imperial language of power into a local vernacular style, and provides a new way of reading classical architecture in a post-colonial context that will be applicable throughout the Global South.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 256 pages • 60 bw illus
PB 9781350360389 • £24.99 / $34.95
Previously published in HB 9781350360341
ePub 9781350360365 • £22.49 / $31.04
ePdf 9781350360358 • £22.49 / $31.04
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Fairground Theory
The Hidden Life and Architecture of the Travelling Fair
Stephen Walker, Manchester School of Architecture, UK
Even well-known places can be made strange when the fair comes to town. This book develops the first architectural theory of the fair, going behind the scenes of the intense atmosphere to explore its design, its atmosphere, and the people and processes that make it happen. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and archival study of travelling fairs in the UK - alongside examples from around the world - this book uncovers the relational architecture of events, bodies, networks, and machines which has long constituted the hidden life of the fairground.
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 256 pages • 60 colour illus
HB 9781350524705 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350524729 • £76.50 / $103.94
ePdf 9781350524712 • £76.50 / $103.94
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Exploring the Thought of Jane Jacobs
The Conversation of Cities
Richard Keeley
Exploring the Thought of Jane Jacobs examines the seven major books by Jane Jacobs’s to explain her thinking on cities, nations, and economies, and to suggest the continuing relevance of her thought to today’s challenges.
UK January 2026 • US January 2026 • 208 pages • 7 bw illus
PB 9780761874898 • £18.99 / $25.95
ePub 9780761879039 • £19.15 / $23.35
ePdf 9780761880431 • £19.15 / $23.35
Hamilton Books
World English
Design and the Vernacular Interpretations for Contemporary Architectural Practice and Theory
Edited by Paul Memmott, John Ting, Tim O’Rourke & Marcel Vellinga
This book explores the intersection between vernacular architecture, local cultures, and modernity and globalization. Focusing on Australasia and Oceania, it examines the relevance of vernacular architecture to contemporary urban planning and architectural design, placing this against a contextual background of rapid political, economic, technological, social and environmental changes including globalization, exchanges of people, finance, material culture, and digital technologies. Sixteen chapters by architects, designers and theorists, including Indigenous writers, provide valuable case studies and lessons for architecture in other global regions and challenge assumptions about vernacular architecture being anachronistic and static, instead demonstrating how it can shape contemporary architecture, nation building and cultural identities.
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 320 pages • 65 bw illus
PB 9781350294318 • £24.99 / $34.95
Previously published in HB 9781350294301
ePub 9781350294332 • £22.49 / $31.04
ePdf 9781350294325 • £22.49 / $31.04
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
The Cultural Histories Series
A Cultural History of Furniture in Antiquity
Edited by Dimitra Andrianou, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece
Covering the period from 2500 BCE to the Byzantine Era, this volume focuses on the social history of furniture found in houses, tombs and temples as narrated through the archaeological evidence. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, this volume presents essays that examine key characteristics of the furniture of the period on the themes of Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.
UK December 2025 US December 2025 296 pages 40 colour and 41 bw illus
PB 9781350595484 £25.99 / $35.95
Previously published in HB 9781472577764
ePub 9781350279902 • £67.50 / $91.79
ePdf 9781350279896 • £67.50 / $91.79
Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Exploration
Edited by Elizabeth A. Carroll, San Jose State University, USA & Christina M. Anderson, SELCS-CMII, University College London, UK
This volume explores the 16th and 17th century transformation of Europe and how this transformation was reflected in the furniture that populated interiors in both public and private spaces. Furniture displayed new designs, forms and materials and in its uses, it mirrored developments in science, technology, government and social relationships. Drawing upon both visual and textual sources, this volume presents essays on key characteristics of the period on the themes of Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.
UK
PB 9781350595699 • £25.99 / $35.95
Previously published in HB 9781472577849
ePub 9781350280045 £67.50 / $91.79
ePdf 9781350280038 £67.50 / $91.79
Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Empire and Industry
Edited by Catherine L. Futter, Brooklyn Museum, New York City, USA & Christina M. Anderson, SELCS-CMII, University College London, UK
The 19th century in Western culture was a time of both confidence and turbulence. The impacts of empire and industry were reflected in the proliferation of types of furniture, along with their categorization as 'industrial art' at the international exhibitions and world fairs and the increasingly adventurous range of materials that were sometimes used in their construction. Drawing upon both visual and textual sources, this volume presents essays on the themes of Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 336 pages • 43 colour and 41 bw illus
PB 9781350595729 • £25.99 / $35.95
Previously published in HB 9781472577870
ePub 9781350280182 £67.50 / $91.79
ePdf 9781350280175 £67.50 / $91.79
Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Furniture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Edited by Erin J. Campbell, University of Victoria, Canada & Stephanie Miller, Coastal Carolina University, USA
This volume explores how furniture contributed to the social fabric in the period from the fall of the Roman Empire to the early Renaissance, a period which exhibited a wide array of types and styles, including Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance. Drawing upon both visual and textual sources, it presents essays on key characteristics of the furniture of the period on the themes of Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 304 pages • 32 colour and 57 bw illus
PB 9781350595545 • £25.99 / $35.95
Previously published in HB 9781472577801
ePub 9781350279971 £67.50 / $91.79
ePdf 9781350279964 £67.50 / $91.79
Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Sylvain Cordier, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, USA, Christina M. Anderson, SELCSCMII, University College London, UK, Laura Houliston, Former Senior Curator, English Heritage, UK
This volume examines furniture in the 18th century, at the height of court culture in Europe, prompting ever-higher standards of luxury in designs, techniques and materials and more structure and specialization in the furniture-making process itself. Furniture came into its own during this period as a collectable work of art on its own merits. Drawing upon both visual and textual sources, this volume presents essays on the themes of Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 296 pages • 30 colour and 30 bw illus
PB 9781350595712 • £25.99 / $35.95
Previously published in HB 9781472577856
ePub 9781350280113 • £67.50 / $91.79
ePdf 9781350280106 • £67.50 / $91.79
Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Furniture in the Modern Age
Edited by Claire I. R. O'Mahony, University of Oxford, UK
This volume explores how the production, consumption, and mediation of furniture reveal shifting cultural habits and histories in the modern era. Drawing upon both visual and textual sources, the volume presents key cultural case studies of furniture on the themes of Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 296 pages • 32 colour and 28 bw illus
PB 9781350595736 • £25.99 / $35.95
Previously published in HB 9781472577887
ePub 9781350280205 £67.50 / $91.79
ePdf 9781350280199 £67.50 / $91.79
Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Exhibition as Interior, Interior as Exhibition
Spaces of Display within and beyond the
Museum and Gallery
Edited by Penny Sparke, Kingston University, UK, Jana Scholze, Kingston University, UK, Pat Kirkham, Kingston University, UK, Ersi Ioannidou, Kingston University, UK, Fiona Fisher, Kingston University, UK & Patricia Lara-Betancourt, Kingston University, UK
This book moves the focus of exhibitions beyond their narratives, instead exploring their design as constructed interiors. Through a diverse range of case studies - spanning from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, the former USSR, Croatia, Austria and New Zealand - each chapter draws on a constructed exhibition space to examine the conceptual ideas underpinning its significance. With its thought-provoking content and global scope, this book offers valuable insights for scholars and practitioners alike.
UK
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Digital Drawing for Designers
A Visual Guide to AutoCAD 2025
Douglas R. Seidler, Marymount University, USA
AutoCAD continues to dominate the twodimensional drafting marketplace for architects and interior designers. Digital Drawing for Designers: A Visual Guide to AutoCAD 2025 is designed to help this community by using visual methods to lead to understanding. Starting with the building blocks of drawing, the book progresses through architectural graphic standards, enabling students to create presentation and construction drawings that effectively communicate their design ideas. Advanced features such as annotative dimensions, annotative blocks, express tools, and linking drawings (XREFs). Instructions are illustrated using language and concepts from manual drafting, facilitating a smooth transition to the digital environment for all designers, and showing how your paper idea becomes a digital reality. Clear, concise, and above all visual, this guide gives you what you need to become a pro in AutoCAD.
UK January 2025 • US December 2024 • 280 pages • 450 bw illus
PB 9798765122686 • £80.00 / $110.00
ePub 9798765122709 • £79.83 / $99.00
ePdf 9798765122693 £79.83 / $99.00
Fairchild Books
Space Planning for Healthcare Design
Daejin Kim, Iowa State University, Dak Kopec, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA & Jennifer Buergermeister
Healthcare is an evolving specialty in interior design. Space Planning for Healthcare Design examines traditional and emerging clinical health settings, focusing on a holistic approach to designing areas common to hospitals, clinics, and out-patient facilities for different users including patients, healthcare staff, and care givers through unique space planning requirements. Case studies based on industry examples throughout the text highlight an evidence-based design process. Each chapter guides student learning with study tools, including learning objectives, key terms, chapter summaries. Additionally, tables, charts, graphs, floor plans and images are used throughout to support concepts and ideas presented in the text.
UK May 2025 • US March 2025 • 248 pages • 100 bw illus
PB 9781501379734 £69.99 / $94.95
ePub 9781501379710 £68.65 / $85.45
ePdf 9781501379727 £68.65 / $85.45
Fairchild Books
Design Portfolios
Presentation and Marketing for Interior Designers
Diane Bender, Arizona State University, USA
Design Portfolios: Presentation and Marketing for Interior Designers, Fourth Edition is a crucial resource for students of interior design, architecture, and landscape design looking to master the art of standing out in an evolving job market. It gives readers insight into aspects of portfolio development that often feel ambiguous. Reflecting contemporary portfolio practices, the book spans the basics of selecting and organizing portfolio materials through the final presentation of the work using a variety of print and digital formats. Readers will learn how to create a collection of design work but a unique marketing tool for a successful design career.
PB 9798765103647 • £69.99 / $94.95
ePub 9798765103661 • £68.65 / $85.45
ePdf 9798765103654 £68.65 / $85.45 Fairchild Books
Photoshop® for Interior Designers
A Nonverbal Communication
Suining Ding
Photoshop for Interior Designers, Second Edition introduces step-by-step techniques for interior designers to successfully use Adobe Photoshop to visually communicate their design concept through graphic images and to illustrate design ideas through a visual thinking process. Instructions show how to integrate hand drawings and freehand sketches into digital drawings. Basic and advanced techniques presented include creating floor plans and elevations, preparing perspectives or isometric drawings, and applying materials, lightings, background and entourages for interior design presentations. Taking a multi-media approach, the text demonstrates how to use Photoshop to refine and modify drawings created in Google Sketchup, AutoCAD, Revit Architecture, and other 3D software programs, and introduces how to use InDesign to seamlessly create graphic layouts for presentation to clients.
UK December 2025 • US October 2025 • 424 pages • 460 colour illus
PB 9798765106266 • £69.99 / $94.95
ePub 9798765106280 • £68.65 / $85.45
Fairchild Books
Versailles Mirrored
The
Power of Luxury, Louis XIV to Donald Trump
Robert Wellington, Australian National University, Australia
Across eight case studies of patrons spanning the 18th to the 21st century, this book assesses the ways that Louis XIV’s Palace of Versailles has continued to shape the aesthetics of cultural capital since his death. The book demonstrates how the extravagant palace style began as a symbol of the state in the 17th century; how it was adopted by the nouveau riche to show off their financial success in the 19th century; and, remarkably, how that palace look returned to play a role in statecraft in the hands of US President Donald Trump.
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 256 pages • 48 colour illus.
PB 9781350451353 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350451315 • £75.00 / $100.00
ePub 9781350451339 • £22.49 / $31.04
ePdf 9781350451322 • £22.49 / $31.04
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Visual Cultures and Italian Contexts
Sharon Hecker, Independent Scholar, Italy
American Artists in Postwar
Rome
Art and Cultural Exchange
Peter Benson Miller
Drawing on unpublished archival sources, this book reconstitutes the experiences of a wide range of American artists, critics, and writers working in Rome following World War Two. It presents a case-study based investigation into the reciprocal relationship between American modernist artists and Italian artists, revealing how these artists perceived Rome as an alternative to New York, attracting the likes of canonical figures like Lee Bontecou, Philip Guston and Robert Rauschenberg, alongside less well-known artists, such as Barbara Chase-Riboud, William Congdon, and Claire Falkenstein, among many others. It also establishes the entangled social networks, galleries and institutions sustaining their work and providing entrée into local artistic circles.
UK February 2025 US May 2025 312 pages 32 colour & 77 bw illus
HB 9781350446366 • £95.00 / $130.00
ePub 9781350446380 • £85.50 / $116.09
ePdf 9781350446373 • £85.50 / $116.09
Series: Visual Cultures and Italian Contexts • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Relational Art A Guided Tour
Craig Smith, University of Florida, USA
Taking place in the skies over London, the plazas of Rotterdam, and the hallways of museums worldwide, a new kind of art has emerged since the 1990s. Known as Relational Art, this controversial practice features audience participation in ways never before realised, often using new media and social networking. In this book, academic and artist Craig Smith outlines a rigorous theory of Relational Art, explaining why audience interaction and collective art production has become so relevant.
UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 176 pages • 25 bw illus
HB 9781780762555 • £80.00 / $110.00
ePub 9781350201927 • £72.00 / $98.54
ePdf 9781350201910 • £72.00 / $98.54
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Polish Modernism and Jewish Identity
The Art of Henryk Streng, 1924-1960
Piotr Slodkowski, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland
Translated by Eliza Rose
This book uncovers the changing artistic landscape of Poland between the 1920s and 1950s, through the work of Jewish-Polish painter and Holocaust survivor, Henryk Streng (Marek Wlodarski) (1903-1960). Extraordinary for his aesthetic innovation during the two major traumas of 20th-century European history, the Holocaust and Stalinism, Streng’s work disrupted the established notions of 20th-century Polish art, while making the case for an internationalized history of European Modernism – as demonstrated by this book for the first time.
UK January 2025 US April 2025 272 pages 36 bw illus
HB 9781350292505 £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350292529 • £76.50 / $103.94
ePdf 9781350292512 • £76.50 / $103.94
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Art and Intimacy in Modern Italy
Entangled Lives
Edited by Sharon Hecker, Independent Scholar, Italy & Teresa Kittler, University of York, UK
Countering the dominant narrative in postwar Italian art history of the lone-male artistic genius, this volume spotlights the vital role creative partnerships played in postwar Italian artistic production. With contributions from international scholars across a variety of subject fields, it considers a range intimate and professional collaborations, widely informed by key contemporary issues surrounding gender and sexuality, modern Italian and queer identities, and transcultural exchange. Presenting a variety of underexplored case studies and new readings of Italian art, the volume will be an important reference point for future work in Italian Studies, Italian Art History, Italian Cultural Studies, and the Transdisciplinary Arts and Humanities.
UK February 2025 US May 2025 320 pages 68 bw illus
HB 9781350420335 £95.00 / $130.00
ePub 9781350420359 £85.50 / $116.09
ePdf 9781350420342 • £85.50 / $116.09
Series: Visual Cultures and Italian Contexts • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Sampling and Site-Specific Practice in Contemporary Art
Margot Bouman, The New School, New York, USA
In the early 20th century, copying, cutting, and pasting entered Western European avant-garde art through collage and readymades, as artists used found objects to create new meaning. This book examines how these techniques have evolved in contemporary art, featuring artists like Andrea Fraser, Douglas Gordon, and Isaac Julien. It explores how they sample fragments of culture—from television to the internet—using quotation, reenactment, and replication. Discussing themes such as queer and race theory, postproduction, and gender fluidity, the book offers a fresh framework for understanding sampling as a key form in 21st-century art and visual culture.
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 216 pages • 30 bw illus
HB 9781350114562 £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350196681 £76.50 / $103.94
ePdf 9781350196674 £76.50 / $103.94
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Moscow Conceptualism, 19751985
Words,
Deeds, Legacies
Mary
A. Nicholas, Lehigh University, USA
At a time of intense political repression during the 1970s and '80s, the Moscow conceptualists offered vital new ways of thinking for artists in the USSR. Based on extensive original research and in-depth interviews with the original artists, Nicholas demonstrates how the work of these radical, unconventional artists challenged the Soviet authorities, official doctrine, and even other colleagues in the nonconformist art world. Offering a counter-narrative to the tradition of Socialist Realism that dominates Soviet art history, this book presents fascinating evidence of the importance of individual protest and demonstrates that socially-engaged art can be a powerful weapon for change in building a better world.
UK December 2025 US December 2025 238 pages 44 bw illus
PB 9781350227903
£28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781350227866
ePub 9781350227880 • £76.50 / $103.94
ePdf 9781350227873 • £76.50 / $103.94
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism
Art, 'Sensibility'
and War
Gavin Parkinson, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK
This book gathers generous evidence of the poetic, metaphorical, allusive, associative and connotative dimensions of the work of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) as identified by Surrealists, and offers new readings of Rauschenberg's key works on that basis. By analyzing Rauschenberg’s art in the context of Surrealism, and drawing from it new interpretations and perspectives, this volume also examines the Surrealist movement within the frame of 1960s American art criticism and history.
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 320 pages • 15 colour & 56 bw illus
PB 9781501388705 £18.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781501358296
ePub 9781501358289 £87.01 / $108.00
ePdf 9781501358272
• £87.01 / $108.00
Series: Transnational Surrealism • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
The Art of Mary Linwood
Embroidery,
Installation, and
Entrepreneurship in Britain, 1787-1845
Heidi A. Strobel, University of Evansville, USA
The Art of Mary Linwood is the first book on Leicester textile artist and gallery owner Mary Linwood (1755-1845). Fusing art-biographical writing, material culture studies, art and cultural history, this book explores the complex and highly unorthodox life of Linwood. Showcasing every aspect of her life, ranging from her gallery guides to previously unpublished letters to her contemporaries - such as Birmingham inventor Matthew Boulton and Queen Charlotte - this book provides a much-needed contribution to the scholarship on women and cultural agency in the early 19th century.
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 268 pages • 16 colour & 46 bw illus
PB 9781350428126 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781350428089
ePub 9781350428102 • £26.09 / $36.44
ePdf 9781350428096 • £26.09 / $36.44
Series: Material Culture of Art and Design • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design
Charissa N. Terranova, University of Texas at Dallas, USA & Meredith Tromble, San Francisco Art Institute, USA
Sea Currents in NineteenthCentury Art, Science and Culture
Commodifying the Ocean World
Edited by Kathleen Davidson, University of Sydney, Australia & Molly Duggins, National Art School, Australia
Through a combination of historical essays and unique object studies by a spectrum of scholars and curators, this book takes a closer look at the material, aesthetic and commercial dimensions of the collection and display, illustration and decoration, and trade and consumption of marine flora and fauna.
UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 336 pages • 27 colour & 53 bw illus
PB 9781350239265 • £24.99 / $34.95
Previously published in HB 9781501352782
ePub 9781501352805 • £25.54 / $31.45
ePdf 9781501352799 • £25.54 / $31.45
Series: Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design Bloomsbury
Plants by Numbers
Art, Computation, and Queer Feminist Technoscience
Edited by Jane Prophet, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, USA & Helen V. Pritchard, HGK-FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
This open access book takes a queer feminist technoscience approach to the ecologies that emerge from our entanglements with nonhumans (air, rocks, algae, trees, soil and plants) and computational hard/software. Focussing on artists, feminist techno-scientists and theorists working with computation, Plants by Numbers addresses the current need to think beyond the human paradigm, opening up new fields of debate that question the troubled relationship between ecosystems and human technology.
The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Michigan.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 288 pages • 43 colour and 66 bw illus
PB 9781350344969 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781350343252
ePub 9781350344945 • £00.00 / $00.00
ePdf 9781350344938 • £00.00 / $00.00
Series: Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Space Feminisms
People, Planets, Power
Edited by Marie-Pier Boucher, Claire Webb, Annick Bureaud, Leonardo/Olats, Paris, France & Nahum
Space Feminisms examines how scientific, popular, scholarly, and artistic imaginations of outer space have, since the 1950s, reflected and embedded Earthly hopes, anxieties, and futures. It centres feminism as a mode by which to both theorize and materialize a redistribution of social power around space exploration, space science, and human presence in extra-Earth environments.
UK February 2026 • US February 2026 • 264 pages • 88 colour illus.
PB 9781350351028 • £24.99 / $34.95
Previously published in HB 9781350346321
ePub 9781350346345 £81.00 / $110.69
ePdf 9781350346338 £81.00 / $110.69
Series: Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Visual Arts
Contextualizing Art Markets
Kathryn
Brown, Loughborough University, UK
Women, Making, and Everyday Value in Contemporary Installation Art
Jessica Stockholder, Liza Lou, and Sarah Sze Elyse Speaks
This book explores the return of handwork and process-driven practices in installation art by women during the 1990s. Guiding the reader through three key episodes, focussed on the work of Jessica Stockholder, Liza Lou, and Sarah Sze, each case study explores how their work has advanced the legacies of feminist art and upended our relationship with everyday objects. Positioning these artists alongside over 20 other contemporary artists, such as David Hammons, Karen Kilimnik, Rikrit Tiravanija, Do Ho Suh, and El Anatsui, the book draws on previously unpublished interviews and situates their work in relation to contemporary consumerisms and institutionalized frameworks of value. Written in accessible prose, the book explores how work of contemporary women sculptors has challenged our relationship with everyday routines and environments.
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Bloomsbury Visual Arts
The Handbook of Cultural Work
Edited by Christos Carras, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece
This open access handbook explores the increasingly cross-disciplinary nature of cultural work and assesses how it engages with other fields, such as: education, research, and health; as well as the defining issues of our time such as the climate emergency, the quest for sustainable development, discrimination of all kinds, and the need for achieving greater inclusivity. Each of the book’s six sections includes contributions from scholars and practitioners from across Europe based both on their experience of working in and a theoretical analysis of these areas. The book is essential reading for students of arts and cultural management, management in other creative industries, and curation.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Onassis Foundation, Greece.
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 360 pages • 16 bw illus
PB 9781350359505 • £39.99 / $54.95
Previously published in HB 9781350359468
ePub 9781350359475 £00.00 / $00.00
ePdf 9781350359482 £00.00 / $00.00
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
World All Languages (except Greek)
Contemporary Art and Other Obstructions
Adam Geczy, University of Sydney, Australia
Edited by Alan Cruickshank
What is the position of art in contemporary culture, where it is threatened by an ever-greater diversity of media, discourses, practices, genres and forms?
Contemporary Art and Other Obstructions sets out to answer questions such as these in addressing art and social agency, communication, the problem of Biennales and other major events, and the shadow of postcolonialism as it hangs over art and indigeneity.
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 288 pages • 45 bw illus
HB 9781350383562 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350383586 • £76.50 / $103.94
ePdf 9781350383579 • £76.50 / $103.94
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Jewish Dealers and the European Art Market, c. 1860–1940
Negotiating Cultural Modernity
Edited by Silvia Davoli, Strawberry Hill House and Garden, UK & Tom Stammers, University of Durham, UK
Adopting a far wider geography than any previous study, this is the first book to consider Jewish dealers as a coherent cohort, tied together by common contexts and strategies, but also a common vulnerability. The essays in this volume presents case studies from the mid-19th to mid-20th century across six thematic subsections: the historic art trade in Paris and London; the role of Jewish dealers as mediators between East and West; cosmopolitan dealers and modernist identities; Jewish art promoters and exhibition makers; the antisemitism faced by Jewish dealers; and the migration, circulation and reinvention of Jewish dealers in the 20th century.
UK March 2025 US June 2025 336 pages 12 colour illus & 80 bw illus
HB 9781350473683 £95.00 / $130.00
ePub 9781350473713 • £85.50 / $116.09
ePdf 9781350473706 • £85.50 / $116.09
Series: Contextualizing Art Markets • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Lillie P. Bliss
Collector, Advocate, and Visionary
Benefactor of the Museum of Modern Art
Irene M. Walsh, Independent, UK
The first comprehensive study of New York art patron and collector Lillie P. Bliss (1864-1931), examining her influential work as an art collector, advocate, and museum founder (MoMA). Combining archival materials, art market analysis, and the evolution of New York's museum scene, the book reconstructs Bliss's career, highlighting her influence on markets and taste. It also reevaluates MoMA's origins, demonstrating how her visionary bequest significantly contributed to the institution's growth and authority during its formative years.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 248 pages • 46 bw illus
HB 9781350459731 • £90.00 / $120.00
ePub 9781350459755 • £81.00 / $110.69
ePdf 9781350459748 • £81.00 / $110.69
Series: Contextualizing Art Markets • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
The Art Market and the Museum
Institutional Collecting, Display and Patronage since the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Edited by Frances Fowle, University of Edinburgh, UK & MaryKate Cleary, Independent
This book considers how art market stakeholders, including art dealers, collectors and agents, have shaped museum collections and affected exhibition practices since the mid-19th century. Based on new archival research and data analysis, it features contributions from a wide range of international specialists in the market for material culture as well as European modernism, and explores the origins and development of the modern Western art market and the global art networks that operated not only in Paris, London and New York, but in cities such as Glasgow, Vienna, Melbourne and Kansas City.
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 328 pages • 25 colour & 40 bw illus
HB 9781350385351 • £90.00 / $120.00
ePub 9781350385375 • £81.00 / $110.69
ePdf 9781350385368 • £81.00 / $110.69
Series: Contextualizing Art Markets • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Global Craftivism since the Pussyhats
Handcraft
Responses to Violence, War, Illness, and Isolation
Edited by Hinda Mandell
This anthology offers a framework for understanding why people urgently turn to textile handwork as a site of repair in a world on the brink and examines how craft expression aligns with political activism in a sometimes quirky and always colorful way. In a world at a constant crossroads of despair and disruption, chapter contributors provide a clear-eyed assessment of specific craft-activism campaigns since the “Pussyhats,” focusing on the most pressing political issues of our time, as people seek to stitch a world aligned with their belief systems that is built on a DIYethos of hands-on community building. UK
Bloomsbury
Larry Clark and Masculinity
Male Subjectivity and Visual Culture
Dirk Reynders, PXL University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Belgium
Placing an array of his work into conversation with the work of a wide range of other photographers, including David Armstrong, Steven Klein and Nan Goldin, this book explores the visual representation of masculinity in the work of filmmaker and photographer, Larry Clark. It makes a vital contribution to research on Clark, but also visual and photography studies more broadly, where it explores the photographer’s depiction of the male subject as an object of desire. It also expands research in gender and queer studies by examining masculinity as a relational, social and intercultural construct in media and society.
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 224 pages • 36 bw illus
HB 9781350385405 £90.00 / $120.00
ePub 9781350385429 £81.00 / $110.69
ePdf 9781350385412 £81.00 / $110.69
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Ungovernable Spaces
Community Formation and the Poetics of Resistance
Kristen Kreider & James O'Leary
This open access book presents a range of global, practice-based, case studies that conceptualise community formation in times of social and political turbulence as a process that emerges through local political activism and resistance. A truly interdisciplinary work at the intersection of visual culture, the built environment and poetics, it explores these individual acts of resistance and argues for a necessary inter-relation between politics, ethics and aesthetics. In doing so, it sets out to conceive a new poetics of ‘us’ and demonstrate how the formation of community in and through resistance, on a planetary scale, has the potential to introduce new models of social and cultural interaction.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.
UK April 2025 • US June 2025 • 280 pages • 51 colour illus
HB 9781350409088 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350409101 • £00.00 / $00.00
ePdf 9781350409095 • £00.00 / $00.00
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Female Art and Agency in Yugoslavia, 1971–2001
Anja Foerschner
Despite being marginalized on the map of contemporary art since the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, Belgrade continues to be a hub of creativity. Especially noteworthy is the presence of women artists, scholars, and activists whose deeply personal, yet highly political, practices are rooted in the city’s legacy of female and feminist artists. Female Art and Agency in Yugoslavia, 1971-2001 offers the first comprehensive study of female and feminist artists and agents—women who formed the art and cultural scene in other ways such as scholarship, theory, exhibition work—in former Yugoslavia since the 1970s.
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 200 pages • 32 bw illus
PB 9781350229259 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781350229211
ePub 9781350229235 £76.50 / $103.94
ePdf 9781350229228 £76.50 / $103.94
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Rethinking Plastics in Product Design
A Guide to Sustainable Transitions for the Environmental Emergency
Geoff Isaac, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
This book addresses the urgent need to reduce our use of plastics. Tracing the historical use of plastics through to today, and combining the latest theories and methods from sustainable transition design with real-life experiences of product designers and manufacturers, Geoff Isaacs identifies environmentally friendly solutions and provides practical guidance for designers who seek to use plastics more sustainably. Chapters include case studies of over sixty chairs made from renewable plastics to explore the complexities around working with a range of materials and their suitability for applications across other consumer products. The book also features interviews with international contemporary designers including Philippe Starck, Barber Osgerby, Konstanin Grcic, Bertjan Pot and Karim Rashid to illustrate recent successful designs using renewable plastics.
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Designing Smart Objects in Everyday Life
Intelligences, Agencies, Ecologies
Edited by Marco C. Rozendaal, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, Betti Marenko, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK & William Odom, Simon Fraser University, Canada
By offering a critical assessment on the growing place of smart technology in everyday environments, this book outlines a transdisciplinary research agenda for the future of ‘smartness’ to help define, envision, and inspire future collaborative design practices. The integration of digital technologies into physical products is transforming everyday objects. Our appliances, furniture, clothing, are growing in intelligence. This collection of essays and case studies brings together perspectives from interaction design, the humanities, science and technology studies, and engineering, to map, explore and interrogate ways in which our relationships with everyday smart objects might expand and be re-imagined.
UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 224 pages
PB 9781350514164 • £27.99 / $37.95
Previously published in HB 9781350160125
ePub 9781350160132 • £25.19 / $35.09
ePdf 9781350160149 • £25.19 / $35.09
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Women Graphic Designers Rebalancing the Canon
Edited by Elizabeth Resnick
The first in-depth anthology of previously published and newly commissioned illustrated essays on individual female graphic designers representing many diverse cultures who worked professionally during the 20th century.
UK October 2025 US October 2025 608 pages 200 full colour illus
PB 9781350349216 £39.99 / $54.95 HB 9781350349230 £130.00 / $175.00
ePub 9781350349254 £35.99 / $48.59
ePdf 9781350349261 • £35.99 / $48.59
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Designing Inclusive Public Toilets
Wee the People
Jo-Anne Bichard, Royal College of Art, UK & Gail Ramster, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art, UK
This book provides a critical overview of public toilet design in the UK and presents an urgent need to re-evaluate the accessibility of these essential spaces. Drawing on research into public services and social injustice, the authors examine the complexities around using these facilities alongside design considerations related to disability, gender and sustainability. This rigorous study explores issues of navigating and entering facilities, concerns related to cubicles, fixtures and products, in addition to the body’s needs and hygiene. This book presents an inclusive design approach to help designers, planners and managers create these spaces more effectively for every prospective user.
UK June 2025 • US September 2025 • 312 pages • 141 colour images
PB 9781350346031 • £22.99 / $30.95 • HB 9781350346048 • £70.00 / $95.00
ePub 9781350346055 • £20.69 / $28.34
ePdf 9781350346062 • £20.69 / $28.34
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Designing for Local Communities
A guide to freelancing and empowering groups in your neighborhood Meaghan Barry Designing For Local Communities encourages the reader to find their first clients in their local community. By working with small businesses the designer can build a freelancing portfolio, while simultaneously investing in their neighborhood. Lessons are tailored for working with these smallscale clients, with examples, interviews and exercises that will build a strong foundation for an independent design practice.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 176 pages • 50 colour illus
PB 9781350400962 £19.99 / $26.95 HB 9781350400955 £55.00 / $75.00
ePub 9781350400986 £17.99 / $24.29
ePdf 9781350400979 £17.99 / $24.29
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
The Development of Corporate Design
Brand Identity, Graphic Design and Professionalism in Post-war Britain
David Preston, University of the Arts London, UK Practitioners in Britain were at the forefront of efforts to transform corporate identity design into a recognised practice with its own codified methods. David Preston uses three key design agencies as the springboard to explore this foundational period in the history of graphic design labour practicesthe practical rationality of Hans Schleger & Associates, the systematic methods of Henrion Design Associates and the Design Research Unit and their design manual as an instrument of control. An important contribution to the understanding of post-war graphic design and the advent of branding.
UK November 2025 US November 2025 272 pages 43 b&w, 30 color illus
PB 9781350384675 £24.99 / $34.95 HB 9781350384682 £75.00 / $100.00
ePub 9781350384699 £22.49 / $31.04
ePdf 9781350384705 • £22.49 / $31.04
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
The Politics of Global Craft
Edited by D Wood, Independent Scholar, Canada
As climate change, war, social injustice, gender and racial inequality, unchecked technology and exploitative capitalism remain urgent issues, the worldwide craft community has responded in notable ways. In this follow-up to Craft is Political (Bloomsbury, 2021), D Wood and contributors demonstrate how global circumstances have given rise to additional craft scholarship that further interrogates the political agency of craft.
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The Dynamics of Modern Asian Design
Material Culture and Social Agency
Edited by Sandy Ng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong & Megha Rajguru, University of Brighton, UK
Focusing on the late 20th century onward, this book brings to light the ways in which design as a material form has underscored cultural, social and economic changes across Asia. Authors provide a deeper and more enhanced understanding of material culture in Asia through analysis of ceramics, electronic items, fashion, furniture, interior design, architecture, magazines and ornaments from across countries such as China, Hong Kong, India, Japan and South Korea. They explore the production of objects as agents in modern material life, moving beyond their roles as commodities and addressing their values in a range of contexts and subjectivities.
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ePub 9781350427839 • £22.49 / $31.04
ePdf 9781350427846 • £22.49 / $31.04
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• £75.00 / $100.00
Design and Agency
Critical Perspectives on Identities, Histories, and Practices
Edited by John Potvin, Concordia University, Canada & Marie-Ève Marchand, Concordia University, Canada
Design and Agency addresses the concept of agency in relation to objects, organisations and people. Contributors expand the scope of design history and practice, avoiding the heroic narratives of a typical modernist approach. They consider both how the agents of design construct and express their identities through practice, while also investigating design's role in the construction of individual identity and subjectivity.
UK January 2025
• US January 2025 • 328 pages • 40 bw illus
PB 9781350513013 • £27.99 / $37.95
Previously published in HB 9781350063792
ePub 9781350063808 • £25.19 / $35.09
ePdf 9781350063815 £25.19 / $35.09
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Drawing in Health and Wellbeing
Marks, Signs and Traces
Edited by Philippa Lyon, University of Brighton, UK & Curie Scott, Independent Education Consultant, UK
Drawing has an established history within medicine for learning, recording, investigating and discovery. Bringing together diverse drawing approaches in the form of research and practical projects, this book demonstrates how drawing has extended beyond the realm of medicine with relevance and value for an array of health and wellbeing settings. Chapters critically examine how drawing helps us convey and understand complex illness experiences, and supports a deeper, more holistic form of communication between patient and professional. This book presents the underlying principle that manual drawing, such as sketching, diagrams, cartoons and other forms of mark-making, has important qualities in enabling people to investigate, explain, express and alleviate suffering.
UK May 2025 • US July 2025 • 248 pages • 79 bw illus
PB 9781350359857 • £22.99 / $30.95 • HB 9781350359864 • £70.00 / $95.00
ePub 9781350359871 £20.69 / $28.34
ePdf 9781350359888 £20.69 / $28.34
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries
Transnational Exchanges through Art, Architecture, and Design 1945-1985
Edited by Harriet Atkinson, University of Brighton, UK, Verity Clarkson, University of Brighton, UK & Sarah A. Lichtman, Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA
After World War II, exhibition spaces were increasingly used as locations for the exercise of "soft power", for displays of cultural diplomacy between nations and for addressing social and political contestation. With impressively global scope, this book explores approaches to the study of exhibitions within and beyond the disciplinary boundaries of art and design history. Case studies include the presentation of African-American Art at FESMAN '66 and FESTAC '77, the US’s 1961 Small Industries Exhibition in Colombo, Israel's early appearances at the Venice Biennale, the Vatican Pavilion at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair, and Hong Kong's Pavilion at Expo 70 in Tokyo.
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 320 pages • 35 bw illus
PB 9781350568310 • £24.99 / $34.95
Previously published in HB 9781350088481
ePub 9781350088498 £81.00 / $110.69
ePdf 9781350088504 • £81.00 / $110.69
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Ceramics and Globalization
Staffordshire Ceramics, Made in China
Neil Ewins, Jingdezhen Ceramic University, China
Neil Ewins' study of the Staffordshire potteries traces how ceramics production has been affected by globalisation. He draws on a combination of sources to examine this, from the press, ceramic objects, and primary interview evidence. The book highlights issues such as 'authenticity', and discovers ramifications for UK manufacturing futures.
UK March 2025 US March 2025 224 pages
PB 9781350514263 £27.99 / $37.95
ePub 9781474289894 • £25.19 / $35.09
ePdf 9781474289900 • £25.19 / $35.09
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Design Otherwise
Transforming Design Education in the Arab Region
Danah Abdulla, University of the Arts London, UK
How can we study and teach design in a way that is critical, socially engaged and relevant to place?
In this timely book, Danah Abdulla challenges us to imagine a design education and culture that moves beyond blindly borrowing Eurocentric models and frameworks. Drawing on learnings from work with design students, educators and designers in the Arab region, with a particular focus on Jordan and featuring examples from Lebanon, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, Abdulla creates a dialogue with those who have most at stake in education to imagine how we can develop a collaborative, contextually based and socially relevant design education.
UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 208 pages • 25 bw illus
PB 9781350295773 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350295780 • £65.00 / $90.00
ePub 9781350295797 • £19.79 / $26.99
ePdf 9781350295803 • £19.79 / $26.99
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Designing the Domestic Posthuman
Colbey Emmerson Reid, Columbia College Chicago, USA & Dennis M. Weiss, York College of Pennsylvania, USA
By focusing on the neglected intersection of posthumanism and the home from a feminist, care-oriented perspective, this book recovers a plethora of overlooked, sophisticated human-technology mediations and challenges dominant, contemporary visions of future humanity. Chapters explore a range of familiar domestic objects, spaces and practices, revivifying the home as a site of species transformation and highlighting a range of mediated materialisms and embodiments affiliated with domestic space. This book widens the lens of critical focus in posthumanism, feminist philosophy and design and presents an alternative, inclusive design framework for the future.
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9781350566798 • £24.99 / $34.95
Previously published in HB 9781350301207
ePub 9781350301214 • £67.50 / $91.79
ePdf 9781350301221 • £67.50 / $91.79
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Studio Properties
A field guide to design
education
Derek Jones, Open University, UK, Elizabeth Boling, Indiana University, USA, James Benedict Brown, Umeå University, Sweden, James Corazzo, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, Colin M. Gray, Purdue University, USA & Nicole Lotz, Open University, UK
This open access book examines the essential properties of the studio within the complex landscape of design education as a place for experimentation and development. Brought together by a team of experts in design pedagogy, Studio Properties is both a tool for education and an inspiration for developing teaching and learning techniques in the studio setting. Motivated by the absence of a comprehensive text on studio pedagogy, this guide is aimed at both those teaching within a studio setting and those interested in the scholarship of design education.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Open University.
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 344 pages • 60 colour illus
PB 9781350407503 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350407497 • £75.00 / $100.00
ePub 9781350407527 • £00.00 / $00.00
ePdf 9781350407510 • £00.00 / $00.00
Series: Design Teaching • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Making Data
Materializing Digital Information
Edited by Ian Gwilt, University of South Australia, Australia
Delivering on the importance and likely future prevalence of physical representations of data, Making Data is an innovative and engaging study. For many outside of the scientific community, big data and the forms it takes, such as statistical lists, spreadsheets and graphs, often seem abstract and unintelligible. This book explores the creative methods, processes, theories and cultural histories of making physical representations of information and proposes that the making of data into physical objects is the next important development in the data visualization phenomenon.
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 280 pages • 33 bw illus
PB 9781350568204 £24.99 / $34.95
Previously published in HB 9781350133235
ePub 9781350133242 £81.00 / $110.69
ePdf 9781350133259 • £81.00 / $110.69
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Fashioning Japanese Subcultures
Decentralization and Diversification as Neotribes
Yuniya Kawamura, Fashion Institute of Technology, USA
Fashioning Japanese Subcultures gives unique insight into how and why subcultures evolve and what they mean to their members. This second edition features three new chapters on the global impact of anime, manga and cosplay, global youth subcultures in cyberspace and social media, and neofeminist and cyber feminist frameworks. It also features new fieldwork across Tokyo, New York and social media platforms, updated coverage of Euro-American perspectives in light of advancements in postcolonial theory, and new methodological sections on cyberethnography and auto ethnography.
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 256 pages • 75 color illus
PB 9781350436626 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350436633 • £75.00 / $100.00
ePub 9781350436657 • £22.49 / $31.04
ePdf 9781350436640 • £22.49 / $31.04
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Fashion Fictions
Imagining Sustainable Worlds
Amy Twigger Holroyd, Nottingham Trent University, UK
This open access book presents a kaleidoscope of crowdsourced responses to an open-ended prompt that asked participants to dream up a new fashion system, exploring the common themes and issues that arose in the myriad of responses received. Bridging the gap between fiction and reality, this imaginative project brings something entirely new the study of fashion and sustainability. Each world differs immensely – in one, the fashion conscious use foliage to dress up for a night out while, in another, commercial trade in clothing is as unthinkable as trade in human organs. These imaginings are fleshed out by the book’s contributors, before being brought to life. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.
UK December 2025 US December 2025 304 pages 110 colour illus
PB 9781350435636 £21.99 / $29.95 HB 9781350435629 £65.00 / $90.00
ePub 9781350435643 • £00.00 / $00.00
ePdf 9781350435650 • £00.00 / $00.00
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Fashion Communications between Italy and China
Unfolding a Sartorial Relationship
Gaoheng Zhang, University of British Columbia, Canada
Applying the lenses of communication, cultural and fashion studies, Gaoheng Zhang analyses the Chinese and Italian fashion systems, considering the competition and collaboration between these two countries and reflecting on global fashion systems more generally.
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 192 pages • 12 bw illus.
HB 9781350544048 • £75.00 / $100.00
ePub 9781350544062 £67.50 / $91.79
ePdf 9781350544055 £67.50 / $91.79
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Antigender Fashion
The Possibilities of Gender-Fluid and Non-Binary Fashion Design
Judith Beyer, Formerly Massey University, New Zealand
Can gender-fluid fashion design influence the construction of contemporary masculinities and femininities – and can it be a catalyst for change?
In this rich examination, Judith Beyer develops a new theoretical framework for understanding how fashion can blur and challenge gender boundaries: antigender fashion. After tracing the history of gender-blurring fashion since the 19th century, case studies of four leading contemporary fashion brands situate antigender fashion in a rich theoretical landscape – and illuminate exciting new critical directions for students and researchers.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 256 pages • 45 bw illus
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Series: Dress, Body, Culture • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Luxury and the Senses
Past, Present, and Future
Edited by Yasmin K. Sekhon Dhillon, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK & Jo Norman
Tracing the relationship between luxury and the senses, this book looks at the history of luxury as a sensual experience. Bringing together leading international experts, it takes us from ancient Rome to modern California, exploring the importance of sensory triggers like scent, taste and texture to our experience of luxury. With case studies which range from whisky drinking to perfume making, the book examines the influence of luxury brands, and new possibilities opened by technology. Highlighting the emotional and sensuous aspects of creating and consuming luxury goods, this is essential reading for scholars of fashion, luxury studies, and brand management.
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 176 pages • 10 color and 12 bw illus
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Queer and Trans Fashion Brands
Resistance and Revolution in the 21st Century
Kelly L. Reddy-Best, Iowa State University, USA
Queer and Trans Fashion Brands highlights the resilience, creativity, and cultural contributions of 25 fashion entrepreneurs, showing how they serve as agents of change, actively challenging heteronormative norms prevalent in the fashion industry. Kelly L. Reddy-Best draws upon an intersectional feminist framework to offer a nuanced examination of the production, distribution, regulation, and consumption of the products and media associated with these brands and their collective impact on the fashion industry.
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 224 pages • 50 color illus
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Scent, Colour and Glitter in the Ancient World
A Comparative History of Aromatics, Cosmetics and Adornment, from the Mediterranean to the China Seas Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian, Independent
This richly illustrated book provides a history of luxury items from the Neolithic period to late Antiquity. The material culture of Egyptian and Mesopotamian cosmetics are discussed first, along with the vast region between the Nile and the Indus, with the Iranian plateau at its core. Through the latter, the book ventures westwards to the Greco-Roman world and eastwards to the Indian subcontinent and China. The differing focus of each chapter gives a fuller picture of the global role of aromatics, cosmetics and jewellery within a broader civilizational framework that includes discoveries that have come to light in the last six decades.
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Her World, Women and Fashion in Singapore 1974-1989
Accidental Career Girl to Working Mother of the Year
Nadya Wang, LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore, Singapore Between 1974 and 1989, significant changes were taking place in the lives of Singaporean women and in their local fashion industry. Nadya Wang explores how these shifts were not only reflected in but actively influenced by popular Singapore women's magazine Her World. Analyzing fragments of this publication, as well as other archival material and oral history interviews, the author advocates for a new and decentred understanding of the evolution of the Singapore woman and the Singapore fashion industry.
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Canadian Fashion Economies
A Select History of Fashion Culture, Commerce, and Colonization
Mark Joseph O'Connell, Seneca College, Toronto, Canada
A rich and vital re-examination of Canadian cultural and commercial history told through key fashion objects from First Nations, colonial settler, and contemporary Canadian culture. Where many traditional fashion histories ignore sophisticated pre-colonial networks, First Nation innovations and techniques, and their contributions to colonial dress, O’Connell’s vivid object-based research equips readers with a framework for more nuanced and inclusive histories of Canadian fashion.
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 248 pages • 20 bw illus
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Marketing Fashion
A Cross-Cultural Perspective - with STUDIO
Joseph H. Hancock II, Drexel University, USA, Penny Gill, Richard Petrizzi & Patricia Mink Rath Marketing Fashion: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, Second Edition presents marketing theories and practices as they specifically relate to apparel, home goods, and other design-driven products. This includes topics such as: Research, Relationships and Branding, Products; Prices and Distribution; Sales, Promotion, and Communications; and Careers. A brand-new appendix on Careers helps students better identify potential jobs in the ever-evolving division of marketing. This book explores in depth contemporary issues such as technology, social media, virtual reality, social responsibility and ethics, ecological production, and considers effective strategies for various economic climates.
UK November 2025 US September 2025 400 pages 250 colour illus
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Fairchild Books
Apparel Production Terms and Processes
Janace E. Bubonia, Texas Christian University, USA
Apparel Production Terms and Processes, Third Edition defines materials and terms relating to global mass production of raw materials, design and development, garment details and component parts, sizing and fit, patternmaking tools methods and computer technology, pre-production operations, assembly, production and manufacturing, labeling regulations, testing and quality control, inspection, finishing, and packaging. Chapters follow the product from concept to completion. Each chapter opens with a brief introduction followed by terms that are listed alphabetically, terms are grouped according to subject by use or application. This edition expands the global perspective, integrates recent advances in technology, and focuses on sustainability.
UK June 2025 US April 2025 504 pages 1,110 colour illus
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The Stained and Bloodied Cloths of Ireland
A Material Culture View of Irish Shame, Oppression, Morality and Repression
Edited by Catherine Harper, British University in Egypt
This collection of specially commissioned essays tells the stories of cloth, textiles and materials that have been actually or symbolically stained by blood or other body fluids in Ireland’s last 100 years – since partial independence from Britain. By focusing on their role in experiences of shame, oppression, morality and repression that have been instrumental in forming Irish culture, the book ‘lances the boil’ of Irish social history, celebrating the movement of Ireland into post-Church, post-conflict, post-nostalgia modernity that, while a painful transition, is a vital part of a country coming to terms with its past and looking to its future.
UK December 2025
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How Textile Communicates From Codes to Cosmotechnics
Ganaele Langlois, York University, Canada
Textile is a medium of communication that predates even the alphabet. In this pioneering crossover of textile and communication studies, Ganaele Langlois draws on global historical case studies to explore the communicative capacity of textile before shedding light on its more recent appropriation by industrial, capitalist and colonial systems.
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 222 pages • 42 bw illus.
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