Bloomsbury Academic imprint: 2928 books
Alternative Art and Anthropology
Global Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia; until now, scholarship and experiences from other regions have been largely absent from mainstream...
An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire
Or a Primer of Conquest, Dissent and Disruption
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire offers a provocative rewriting of Mrs. Ernest Ames' ABCs for Baby Patriots (1899). Whimsically illustrated for the nursery or primary school child, Ames' book demonstrates how deeply imperialism reached into popular culture during Victoria's reign.
This book...
Street Furniture Design
Contesting Modernism in Post-War Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Eleanor Herring's unique study of street furniture in post-war Britain considers how objects which are now familiar parts of our urban environment were designed to populate public spaces. Herring explores the design of lampposts, post boxes, parking meters, and signage in the context of a government...
Costume in Performance
Materiality, Culture, and the Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Winner of Best Performance Design and Scenography Publication Award, Prague Quadrennial 2019
This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding associations between contemporary practices and historical manifestations, costume is explored in six...
Religious Objects in Museums
Private Lives and Public Duties
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
In the past, museums often changed the meaning of icons or statues of deities from sacred to aesthetic, or used them to declare the superiority of Western society, or simply as cultural and historical evidence. The last generation has seen faith groups demanding to control 'their' objects, and curators...
World Art
An Introduction to the Art in Artefacts
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
What do we mean by 'art'? As a category of objects, the concept belongs to a Western cultural tradition, originally European and now increasingly global, but how useful is it for understanding other traditions? To understand art as a universal human value, we need to look at how the concept was constructed...
The Museum of the Senses
Experiencing Art and Collections
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Traditionally sight has been the only sense with a ticket to enter the museum. The same is true of histories of art, in which artworks are often presented as purely visual objects. In The Museum of the Senses Constance Classen offers a new way of approaching the history of art through the senses,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Design Objects and the Museum brings together leading design historians, curators, educators and archivists to consider the place of contemporary design objects within museums. Contributors draw on a wide range of 20th century and contemporary examples from international museums to consider how design...
Italian Style
Fashion & Film from Early Cinema to the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This is the first in-depth, book-length study on fashion and Italian cinema from the silent film to the present. Italian cinema launched Italian fashion to the world. The book is the story of this launch. The creation of an Italian style and fashion as they are perceived today, especially by foreigners,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Renowned for making films that are at once sly domestic satires and heartbreaking 'social realist' dramas, British writer-director Mike Leigh confronts his viewers with an un-romanticized dramatization of modern-day society in the hopes of inspiring them to strive for greater self-awareness and compassion...
Philippe Grandrieux
Sonic Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Philippe Grandrieux is one of cinema's only living true radicals and feted as one of the most innovative and important film makers of his generation. His consistently controversial work remains, however, relatively unknown outside of the international art film festival circuit. In this volume, the...
by Dr. Jadranka Skorin-Kapov
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Darren Aronofsky's Films and the Fragility of Hope offers the first sustained analysis of the current oeuvre of the film director, screenwriter, and producer Darren Aronofsky. Including Pi (1998), Requiem for a Dream (2000), The Fountain (2006), The Wrestler (2008), Black Swan (2010), and Noah (2014),...
by Prof. Chris Meigh-Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
A History of Video Art is a revised and expanded edition of the 2006 original, which extends the scope of the first edition, incorporating a wider range of artists and works from across the globe and explores and examines developments in the genre of artists' video from the mid 1990s up to the present...
Authoring Hal Ashby
The Myth of the New Hollywood Auteur
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Casting fresh light on New Hollywood – one of American cinema's most fertile eras – Authoring Hal Ashby is the first sustained argument that, rather than a period dominated by genius auteurs, New Hollywood was an era of intense collaboration producing films of multiple-authorship. Centering its...