Art & Visual Culture

Architecture, the Built Environment and the Aftermath of the First World War

Edited by Neal Shasore, London School of Architecture, UK & Jessica Kelly, University for the Creative Arts, UK Reconstruction explores the immediate and longer term aftermath of the First World War on the architecture of Britain and the British Empire during the interwar years. Written by leading and emerging scholars, this collection of essays considers the complex effects of reconstruction on design, discourse, practice, and professionalism, and deals with the full spectrum of architectural styles and approaches, privileging neither Modernism nor traditional styles like the neo-Georgian. It brings to the fore social and political histories of the built environment, and makes important postcolonial interventions into the architectural history of British Imperialism at home and in its far reaches.

UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 432 pages • 77 bw illus HB 9781350152946 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350152960 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350152953 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture

Kay Fisker

Works and Ideas in Danish Modern Architecture

Martin Søberg, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark Kay Fisker (1893-1965) is considered one of the most influential Danish architects of the twentieth century, and yet there has existed until now no in-depth English-language study of his works and writing. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, this book examines Fisker’s key projects – from his early railways stations and innovative housing projects to the Danish Academy in Rome – and analyses his work as a historian and writer.

UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 232 pages • 75 bw illus PB 9781350244276 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350068193 ePub 9781350068216 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350068209 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience

Christian Parreno, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience demonstrates how an understanding of boredom affords us a new way of looking at and understanding the modern architectural experience. It reconstructs a series of episodes in architectural history from the 19th century to the present, combining archival material, literary sources and illuminating excerpts from conversations with practitioners and thinkers to explore how boredom became a normalised component of modernity, how it infiltrated into the production and reception of modern architecture, and how it serves to expose moments of crisis in the architecture of the 20th century.

UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 272 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781350213647 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350148130 ePub 9781350148154 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350148147 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts Knowledge transfers since the 1960s

Edited by Rajesh Heynickx, KU Leuven, Belgium, Ricardo Costa Agarez, Évora University, Portugal & Elke Couchez, University of Hasselt, Belgium Architecture Thinking Across Boundaries looks at architectural theory through the lens of intellectual history. 12 original essays explore a variety of themes, each examining how architectural knowledge has been transferred across social, spatial, and paradigmatic boundaries – whether through international circulation of ideas; exchanges with other disciplines; or transfers from design practice to theory and back again – and in each case examining the resulting transformations and resistances. Taken together, the essays in this book offer a new perspective on the processes by which architectural theory is produced, disseminated and tested, and suggests many ideas for future exploration.

UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 216 pages • 40 bw illus PB 9781350202139 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350153172 ePub 9781350153196 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350153189 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Ludwig Hilberseimer

Architecture, Planning, and Art Criticism – Berlin, Bauhaus, USA

Scott Colman, Rice School of Architecture, USA Despite being internationally-known for his work on Lafayette Park in Detroit, Ludwig Hilberseimer’s legacy has been obscured in the history of modern architecture. Whether this is due to the intense shadow cast by his long-standing collaborator Ludwig Mies van der Roh, or by his oeuvre being split between the differing languages and contexts of interwar Germany and postwar North America, it is now clear that he was an important Bauhaus teacher and central to avantgarde art and architecture in the Weimar Republic. This book argues that the time is now right for a critical reassessment of Hilberseimer’s work and writings.

UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 416 pages • 75 bw illus HB 9781350068025 • £75.00 / $102.00 ePub 9781350068049 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350068032 • £67.50 / $93.42 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Techniques in Painting

Learning from the Dutch Masters

Brigid Marlin Techniques in Painting is a richly illustrated book that teaches you how to develop your painting skills by practising techniques used by Masters of the Dutch 'Golden Age' (1575-1675). Brigid Marlin gives you step-by-step guidance on how to paint a portrait in the style of Rembrandt, create landscapes using the techniques of Bruegel and Rubens, learn how to paint still-life from the Van Eyck brothers and explore imagination with Hieronymus Bosch. This book is illustrated with works from the Golden Age as well as modern works showing how these ideas and skills translate into the world of contemporary art.

UK August 2022 • US October 2022 • 176 pages • Step-by-step colour illustrations throughout PB 9781789940589 • £30.00 / $42.00 ePub 9781789940596 £30.00 / $42.00 ePdf 9781789940572 • £27.00 / $38.46 Herbert Press

A Crosscultural Anthology

Edited by Frima Fox Hofrichter, Pratt Institute, USA & Midori Yoshimoto, New Jersey City University, USA What images come to mind with the words: women, aging, old, even elderly? Are they stereotypes? Are there any positive associations? 13 chapters explore images of old women from medieval “old wives” to contemporary reimaginations of shamans and witches and empowering selfportraits. Works from medieval Europe to colonial-time Polynesia, present West Africa, Japan, and the Americas, in a multiplicity of media are explored. These studies of varied representations of “old women” offer fresh perspectives and a dialogue about society’s values and preconceptions regarding the “golden years” in different times and cultures and the wisdom of our elders.

UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 224 pages • 16 color and 56 bw illus PB 9781501379390 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781501349409 ePub 9781501349416 • £75.70 / $103.50 ePdf 9781501349423 • £75.70 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Visual Activism in the 21st Century

Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World

Edited by Stephanie Hartle & Darcy White, both of Sheffield Hallam University, UK This anthology provides a fresh perspective on the possibilities, limitations and politics of visual activism, as activists, artists, and curators adjust and flex to the changing world around them in this most uncertain of times. Across 22 case-studies from across the globe, the book provides an up-to-date picture of the impact of contemporary visual and art activism, combining a scholarly interrogation of visual activism with an examination of how it works in practice. This diverse scope enables readers to consider examples comparatively – noticing emerging trends and key differences to reveal how geopolitical and cultural factors play an important role in shaping activist practices.

UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 384 pages • 56 colour & 60 bw illus HB 9781350265073 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350265097 • £81.00 / $112.65 ePdf 9781350265080 • £81.00 / $112.65 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Contextualizing Art Markets

Kathryn Brown, Loughborough University, UK

Ellen Emmet Rand

Gender, Art, and Business

Edited by Alexis L. Boylan, University of Connecticut, USA Ellen Emmet Rand (1875-1941) was one of the most important portraitists in the United States in the 20th century; she painted the most powerful and ambitious people who could pay for her time and talent. Rand negotiated her career, family, and finances in modern, commercially savvy ways suggesting the strategies women artists had to ruthlessly navigate to balance competing pressures. Engaging with newly available archival documents and featuring innovative scholars, this collection not only seeks to reimagine the meaning of Rand’s portraits and her career, but dialogues about gender, art, race, business, and modernism in the twentieth century.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 224 pages • 40 bw & 16 colour illus PB 9781350189973 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781350189935 ePub 9781350189959 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350189942 • £85.50 / $118.15 Series: Contextualizing Art Markets • Bloomsbury Visual Arts Politics, Identities, and Cultures across Borders

Edited by Elena Stylianou, European University Cyprus, Evanthia Tselika, University of Nicosia, Cyprus & Gabriel Koureas, Birkbeck, 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 September 2022 • US September 2022 • 272 pages • 44 bw illus PB 9781350216174 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350198647 ePub 9781350198654 • £81.00 / $112.65 ePdf 9781350198661 • £81.00 / $112.65 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art

Experiments in Cybernetics and Society

Sharon 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 Irish argues that it is artists like Willats who are now the instigators of social transformation.

UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 304 pages • 26 bw illus PB 9781350203631 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350197626 ePub 9781350197619 • £81.00 / $112.65 ePdf 9781350197602 • £81.00 / $112.65 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Art Markets, Agents and Collectors

Collecting Strategies in Europe and the United States, 1550-1950

Edited by Adriana Turpin, IESA International Programmes, France & Susan Bracken, Birkbeck College, UK The case studies provided in this book nuance the history of the art market and the role of the collector within it. Using letters, diaries, account books and other archival sources, the chapters together show how agents set up networks and acquired works of art, often developing the taste and knowledge of the collectors for whom they were working. Each chronological period is introduced by a contextual essay, written by a leading expert in the field, which sets out the art market in the period concerned and the ways in which agents functioned.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 400 pages • 25 colour & 47 bw illus PB 9781501392276 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781501348877 ePub 9781501348884 • £105.55 / $144.00 ePdf 9781501348891 • £105.55 / $144.00 Series: Contextualizing Art Markets • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Material Literacy in 18thCentury Britain

A Nation of Makers

Edited by Serena Dyer, De Montfort University, UK & Chloe Wigston Smith, University of York, UK These interdisciplinary essays invite us into the workshops, drawing rooms, and backrooms of a broad range of makers to uncover the key place of material literacy in Britain’s consumer revolution. Making could be taxing, laborious and frustrating, but it was also sociable, pleasurable, creative and skilled. It was a complex, codified and creative practice that forged collective vocabularies of manual labour and connected elite, middling and labouring people who relied on their material literacy to understand domestic and imported goods. Uncovering these languages and practices illuminates how this nation of shopkeepers was as much a nation of makers.

UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 328 pages • 74 bw illus PB 9781350282414 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781501349614 ePub 9781501349621 • £99.00 / $135.00 ePdf 9781501349638 • £99.00 / $135.00 Series: Material Culture of Art and Design • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Anti-Portraiture

Challenging the Limits of the Portrait

Edited by Fiona Johnstone, Middlesex University, UK & Kirstie Imber, Birkbeck, University of London, UK The portrait has historically been understood as an artistic representation of a human subject. Its purpose was to create visual or psychological likenesses or the expression of personal, familial or social identity; it was typically associated with the privileged individual. Recent scholarship in the humanities and social sciences however has responded to the complex nature of twenty-first century subjectivity and proffered fresh conceptual models and theories to analyse it. The contributors to Anti-Portraiture examine individuality via a range of media including sculpture, photography, installation and sound art, making a convincing case for an expanded definition of portraiture.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 232 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781350284197 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781784534127 ePub 9781350192768 • £81.00 / $112.65 ePdf 9781350193055 • £81.00 / $112.65 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Feminism and Art in Postwar Italy

The Legacy of Carla Lonzi

Edited by Francesco Ventrella, University of Sussex, UK & Giovanna Zapperi, University of Tours, France A renowned art critic of the 1960s, Carla Lonzi abandoned the art world in 1970 to found Rivolta Femminile, a pioneering feminist collective in Italy. Rather than separating the art world luminary from the activist, however, this book looks at the two together. It demonstrates that even as Lonzi refused art, she articulated how feminist spaces and communities drew strength from creativity. Her written work and activism represents a crucial, but previously overlooked, feminist intervention in traditional art history from beyond the Anglo-American canon.

UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 288 pages • 45 bw illus PB 9781350187160 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781784537326 ePub 9781350187146 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350187139 • £85.50 / $118.15 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Tupaia, Captain Cook and the Voyage of the Endeavour

A Material History

Edited by Khadija Von Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham, UK Centring Tupaia and Pacific worldviews, this book weaves a new set of cultural histories in the Pacific between local islanders and the crew of the Endeavour on James Cook’s first ‘voyage of discovery’ (1768-1771). This book revisits material collections brought back from the voyage, with chapters covering Tupaia’s drawings, journals and cartography, textiles and objects of old worlds and new, clothing, animal iconography, instruments and ethnomusicology, and performances and rituals. Bringing together Pacific and indigenous artists and scholars, this book presents a cross-cultural conversation around the concepts of acquired and curated museum artefacts that traversed oceans and entwined cultures.

UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 288 pages • 50 bw illus and 1 x 8pp colour plate section HB 9781350157491 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350157507 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350157514 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Edgar Wind and Modern Art

In Defence of Marginal Anarchy

Ben Thomas, University of Kent, UK The eminent art historian and philosopher Edgar Wind is mainly remembered as the author of Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance (1958). Throughout his life, however, he was passionately interested in modern art, and recognized as a compelling public speaker on this topic. He gave, for example, a remarkable series of lectures at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1942, and was a friend of artists like Tchelitchew, Shahn and Kitaj. Ben Thomas’ astute analysis of Wind’s views on modern art reveals his robust challenge to the prevailing formalism of the age, and a new understanding of the iconographical approach.

UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 272 pages • 19 bw illus PB 9781350284272 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501341755 ePub 9781501341731 • £72.79 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501341748 • £72.79 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

The Present Prospects of Social Art History

Edited by Robert Slifkin, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, USA & Anthony E. Grudin, Independent Scholar, USA The Present Prospects of Social Art History represents a major reconsideration of how art historians analyze works of art and the role that historical factors play in informing their interpretations. Featuring the work of some of the discipline’s leading scholars, this volume contains a collection of essays that consider the advantages, limitations, and specific challenges of approaching works of art primarily through a historical perspective. The assembled texts, along with an introduction by the co-editors, demonstrate an array of possible methodological approaches that acknowledge the significance of historical context in the creation, reception, and exhibition of works of art.

UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 224 pages • 41 bw illus PB 9781501376085 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501341564 ePub 9781501341571 • £75.70 / $103.50 ePdf 9781501341588 • £75.70 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Visual Arts