Bloomsbury Academic imprint: 2928 books
Photography and Collaboration
From Conceptual Art to Crowdsourcing
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Photography and Collaboration offers a fresh perspective on existing debates in art photography and on the act of photography in general. Unlike conventional accounts that celebrate individual photographers and their personal visions, this book investigates the idea that authorship in photography...
China's Porcelain Capital
The Rise, Fall and Reinvention of Ceramics in Jingdezhen
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Maris Boyd Gillette's groundbreaking study tells the story of Jingdezhen, China's porcelain capital, from its origins in 1004 in Song dynasty China to the present day.
Gillette explores how Jingdezhen has been affected by state involvement in porcelain production, particularly during the long...
by Lisa Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Running a Successful Photography Business is the definitive business bible for every professional photographer – a one-stop resource covering everything you need to know to make your business a success. This handy book contains guidance on the key areas of running your business: fine-tuning your...
New Directions in Ceramics
From Spectacle to Trace
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
New Directions in Ceramics explores and responds to contemporary ceramists' use of innovative modes of practice, investigating how change is happening and interpreting key works. Jo Dahn provides an overview
of the current ceramics landscape, identifying influential exhibitions, events and publications,...
Not Born Digital
Poetics, Print Literacy, New Media
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Not Born Digital addresses from multiple perspectives – ethical, historical, psychological, conceptual, aesthetic – the vexing problems and sublime potential of disseminating lyrics, the ancient form of transmission and preservation of the human voice, in an environment in which e-poetry and digitalized...
Popkiss
The Life and Afterlife of Sarah Records
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
From 1987 to 1995, Bristol, England's Sarah Records was a modest underground success and, for the most part, a critical laughingstock in its native country-sneeringly dismissed as the sad, final repository for a fringe style of music (variously referred to as "indie-pop,†? "C86,†? "cutie†?...
Witness to Phenomenon
Group ZERO and the Development of New Media in Postwar European Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Witness of Phenomenon articulates a fresh examination of the German Group Zero-Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and Günter Uecker-and other new tendency artists, who rejected painting and introduced new art media in postwar Europe. Group ZERO evolved into a network across Europe- Amsterdam, Milan, Paris,...
by Dr. Alexis L. Boylan
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Arriving in New York City in the first decade of the twentieth century, six painters-Robert Henri, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Glackens, George Luks, and George Bellows, subsequently known as the Ashcan Circle-faced a visual culture that depicted the urban man as a diseased body under assault. Ashcan...
J.K. Rowling: A Bibliography
Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
This is the definitive bibliography of the writings of J. K. Rowling. In addition to bibliographical details of each edition of all her books, pamphlets and original contributions to published works, there is detailed information on the publishing history of her work, including fascinating extracts...
Ecocriticism and Italy
Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Winner of the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies 2016
Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2016
Written by one of Europe's leading critics, Ecocriticism and Italy reads the diverse landscapes of Italy in the cultural imagination. From death...
by Valerie Cumming, C. W. Cunnington, P. E. Cunnington
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
- What is an Apollo knot?
- Who wore a Welch wig?
- When were Zouave jackets the height of fashion?
This new edition of The Dictionary of Fashion History further updates the landmark work of C. Willett Cunnington, Phillis Cunnington and Charles Beard. Featuring over 60 new and revised entries...
How to Read a Dress
A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Fashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are not always easily identifiable. With overviews of each key period and detailed illustrations for each new style, How to Read a Dress is an authoritative...
Consumptive Chic
A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular 'moment' in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing out in the clothing fashions of the day. With the ravages of the illness widely regarded as conferring...
by Keisuke Yamada
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
The lead singer on Supercell's eponymous first album is Hatsune Miku-a Vocaloid character created by Crypton Future Media with voice synthesizers. A virtual superstar, over 100,000 songs, uploaded mostly by fans, are attributed to her. Supercell is a Japanese creator music group with the composer...