Art & Photography Books

Book SynopsisA comprehensive overview of how civilian drones sense the world and how they build the aesthetic imaginaries of our communities.Drone technology has garnered critical attention across many fields, from engineering to the humanities. While the first wave of drone scholarship was key in initiating the debate on drones, it also privileged the idea of the “scopic regime”—a militarized regime of hypervisuality—in its analyses of the connection between vision and power. The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities broadens the drone’s spectrum of perception by acknowledging its creative, life-affirming possibility with the notion of the sensorium. The sensorium of the drone is a multimedia, synesthetic sensing assemblage in which the human agent is enmeshed with the drone. Drone sensoria can sense in many more ways than the scopic regime—with sound, touch, smell, temperature, and movement.In The Sensorium of the Drone and Com

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Book SynopsisAn innovative history of heartbeats, pulse, and technoscience in the works of a wide international array of artists and composers.Heartbeat Art is the first study of how artists have engaged with heartbeats from the 1960s to the present, creating sophisticated and technological works that project in unique ways the circulatory processes of the body beyond its physical limits. Drawing on a long history of scientific and artistic experimentation, Claudia Arozqueta offers detailed case studies of heartbeat works by a wide range of international artists working at the interconnections of our bodies, art, and science and technology, including Yoko Ono, Pauline Oliveros, Heinz Mark, Brian O?Doherty, Teresa Burga, and many others.Technoscientific advances in monitoring heartbeats and pulses in the nineteenth century?such as René Laennec?s stethoscope, Étienne-Jules Marey?s sphygmograph and chronophotograph, and Willem Einthoven?s electrocardiograph?transformed the movements of the heart into audible and visual representations. Artists saw in the language of these scientific technologies a way of mingling the inner with the outer, the physical with the technological, and data with flesh. Using archival research, interviews, and correspondence, Arozqueta describes significant works in detail, discusses their contexts and development, and examines the larger classes and contours of this neglected area of artistic activity. Other artists in the volume include Éliane Radigue, Jean Dupuy, Linda Montano, Catherine Richards, Diana Domingues, Mona Hatoum, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, and Christian Boltanski.

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth look at how we make and circulate art today, and how creative and economic processes shape the meaning and value of artworks.In Ecologies of Artistic Practice, Ashley Lee Wong explores the economic relationships of artists working at the nexus of art and technology as they negotiate a means to make art in a neoliberal creative economy. Wong looks at the diverse ways in which artworks circulate, both online and offline, in galleries, on digital platforms, and media facades, and investigates some of the mechanisms that enable artists to create works, including selling artworks and NFTs, grants, licensing, commissions, and artist residencies. The book also looks at the ways in which artists collaborate with corporations and develop practices as commercial entities themselves. The book provides unique insights into the diverse creative and economic processes that shape the meaning and value of artworks. Wong seeks to shift away from notions of individual authorship and finite artworks that can be bought and sold, and instead toward an understanding of artistic practices as collaborative, social, and cultural processes.Rather than critique this economy, Ecologies of Artistic Practice opens space for engaging in hypercommercialized contexts, while considering how money is not an end goal, but a means to initiate or continue an artistic process.

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Book SynopsisA transdisciplinary array of authors offering a new frame of reference for autotheory and its genre-bending synthesis of autobiography and critical theory.Autotheories tells the story of a field in formation. Building on traditions that have long fused life writing, philosophical encounter, embodied theorizing, and cultural critique, autotheory constructs new practices of critical theory. Transgressing generic boundaries and bridging stylistic registers, it crafts language that is intimate, analytic, playful, and insurgent. Editors Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan underscore autotheory?s multiple genealogies and genre-bending forms while situating it within the contemporary political field. In this collection, autotheory emerges as a strut (of style), a straddle (of disciplines), a proliferation (of selves), an axis (of identifications), an index (of attachments), and an archive (of loves).An assemblage and an experience, Autotheories surveys the field?s iterations and permutations. Without settling for classification or bowing to ossification, Autotheories invites you to its discursive play.Contributors include:Alex Brostoff, Jessica Bush, Judith Butler, Vilashini Cooppan, Carla Freccero, rl Goldberg, Jan Grue, Emma Lieber, Megan Moodie, Lili Owen Rowlands, John Patterson, Paul B. Preciado, Erica Richardson, Migueltzinta C. Solís, Jamieson Webster, Damon Ross Young, Stacey Young, Arianne Zwartjes

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Book SynopsisWhy we enjoy works of art, and how repetition plays a central part in the pleasure we receive.Leonard Bernstein, in his famous Norton Lectures (1976) extolled repetition, saying that it gave poetry its musical qualities and that music theorists? refusal to take it seriously did so at their peril.Play It Again, Sam takes Bernstein seriously.In this book, Samuel Jay Keyser explores in detail the way repetition works in poetry, music, and painting. He argues, for example, that rhyme in metrical verse is identical to the way songwriters like Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn (Satin Doll) and Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (My Funny Valentine) constructed their iconic melodies. Furthermore, the form of these tunes can be found in such classical compositions as Mozart?s Rondo Alla Turca and his German Dances as well as in galant music in general.The author also looks at repetition in paintings like Caillebotte?s Rainy Day in Paris, Warhol?s Campbell Soup Cans, and Pollock?s drip paintings.Finally, the photography of Lee Friedlander, Roni Horn, and Osmond Giglia?Giglia?s Girls in the Windows is one of the highest grossing photographs in history?are all shown to be built on repetition in the form of visual rhyme.The book ends with a cognitive conjecture on why repetition has been so prominent in the arts from the Homeric epics through Duke Ellington andbeyond.Artists have exploitedrepetitionthroughout the ages. The reason why it is straightforward: the brain finds the detection of repetition innately pleasurable. Play It Again, Sam offers experimental evidence to support this claim.

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Book SynopsisExplores the production, circulation, and survival of French luxury after the death of Louis XVI by focusing on makers of decorative art objects who had strong ties to the monarchy and how they navigated the French Revolution. Trade Review“In Luxury After the Terror, Moon demonstrates the fascinating and subtle ways in which the decorative arts were shaped by the contradictory politics of the French Revolution. She measures this influence less in terms of iconography and the new emblems such as Phrygian bonnets and tricolour cockades that came to adorn many surfaces; rather, she reflects on the expressive limits and materiality of different genres of cultural production, from wallpaper and assignat banknotes (including a remarkable prototype stitched on silk), to lime-wood carving and hard-paste porcelain. Her analysis balances a meticulous attention to the physical properties and aesthetics of objects from across the 1790s with a refreshing willingness to speculate about how they articulated collective fantasies and anxieties.”—Tom Stammers Apollo Magazine“The robust history of artisans provides new vantage points from which to understand the French Revolution. Moon encourages her readers to adopt a critical lens on ‘survival’: not only of artisans in a changing economy, but also of physical objects in a new world of collecting and museums.”—Delanie J. Linden Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide“Esthetically pleasing, meticulously researched, and engagingly written, the range of topics Moon explores is impressive and sometimes daunting. . . . Challenging traditional scholarship, Moon introduces new perspectives on this fascinating period of French and European history.”—Felicia B. Sturzer New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century“Luxury After the Terror brings a criticality, a poetics, and a politics to this material that is truly exciting to see. Offering a vital new reading of the place of the decorative arts in the wake of revolution and reorienting our understanding of the period toward a range of captivating and unfamiliar objects, this meticulously researched and brilliantly argued book is an exhilarating rethinking of the field.”—Richard Taws,author of The Politics of the Provisional: Art and Ephemera in Revolutionary France

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Book SynopsisStewart Mann currently works as a visiting lecturer in the Faculty of Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Hertfordshire. His teaching experience includes practical, critical and contextual studies in a variety of subjects at foundation studies and undergraduate level and he has been Admissions Officer for the School for many years.  Table of ContentsDraft contents Chapter 1 Introduction Part 1 Helping you to prepare for study and knowing yourself as a learner Chapter 2 Art, design and media – preparing for study in higher education Chapter 3 How you learn Part 2 Day to Day Studies Chapter 4 Studying the arts, design and media Chapter 5 Gathering information Chapter 6 Approaches to project work Chapter 7 Tackling practical project work Chapter 8 Tackling academic project work Chapter 9 Assessment, crits, presentations Chapter 10 Preparing for the future - work experience and careers Part 3 An introduction to critical, contextual, cultural studies Part 4 Specialist Media Glossaries

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Book SynopsisA survey of the history of Irish painting, encompassing the entire span from the Middle Ages to the mid-20th century. The volume includes both well-known and virtually unknown artists, Irish artists who worked abroad as well as in Ireland, and major foreign artists who worked in Ireland.

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Book SynopsisAs the focal point of numerous high-profile exhibitions, the sculpture of Richard Serra (b. 1939) has drawn international acclaim. This title brings together the Serra's drawn work, considering the artist's investigation of medium as an activity both independent from and linked to his pioneering sculptural practice.

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Book Synopsis"I never conformed to any sort of fashion ideal. My idea was always to show reality, even though I started at Savile Row and ended up at Givenchy in Paris; to depict the times I live in." -Alexander McQueen, Harper's Bazaar, September 2008Trade Review“An authoritative and moving insight into the legacy of the British designer.”—Carola Long, Financial Times (Christmas Books)“Excellent catalogue.”—Huffington Post“McQueen’s brilliance is celebrated in this sumptuous tome. . . . The hologram cover makes it a collector’s item.”—Harper’s Bazaar“A captivating tribute to the designer’s most radical and beautiful creations. . . . I love all the detail shots which highlight the sheer intricacy of his work.”—Claire Brayford, Daily Express“This book . . . helps illuminate McQueen’s artistic process. Recommended for readers with an interest in contemporary fashion.”—Library Journal“A super-glossy and utterly gorgeous coffee table tome, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty is a must for any fashionista.”—Living North“A stunning overview of the work of Britain’s favourite designer.”—Observer Magazine“The definitive reference of Lee Alexander McQueen.”—Dean Mayo Davies, I-D Magazine“The show and book, Savage Beauty, offer plenty of ammunition to the charge that the fashion and art world will never see the like of Alexander McQueen again.”—Laurence Mackin, Irish Times“Many books will come dedicated to his genius, but Savage Beauty will remain a beacon.”—Janice Breen Burns, Sydney Morning Herald“A sumptuous catalogue. . . . His designs are beautifully interpreted by London-based Norwegian fashion photographer Sølve Sundsbø. There is detail enough to satisfy the student of fashion, and striking full-page images that convey McQueen’s sense of style and his flair for dramatic statements.”—Eleri Lynn, V & A Magazine“[A] stunning book.”—Baby & Me Exclusive“Alexander McQueen, famed for his astonishing and extravagant runaway presentations on the catwalk is revealed extensively in this remarkable book. . . . This goldmine book available in hardcover with lenticular image is a must-have addition to your library and a way of keeping the memory and work of Alexander McQueen alive.”—The BiteWinner of a 2012 Independent Publisher Book Award in the Most Outstanding Design categoryWinner of the 2012 San Francisco Book Festival award for Photography and ArtWinner of the Awards for Excellence in 2011, given by the Association of Art Museum CuratorsFinalist for the 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year Award in the Art category

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Book SynopsisKent is home to an extraordinary amount of first-rate architecture, from the timber-framed houses of the Weald and the spacious cathedral of Rochester to the planned, modernist suburb of New Ash Green and the docks of Dungeness. This title offers an architectural survey of West Kent suitable for students and travellers.

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Book SynopsisThe people and publications at the root of a national obsession In the century between the accession of Elizabeth I and the restoration of Charles II, a horticultural revolution took place in England, making it a leading player in the European horticultural game. Ideas were exchanged across networks of gardeners, botanists, scholars, and courtiers, and the burgeoning vernacular book trade spread this new knowledge still furtherreaching even the growing number of gardeners furnishing their more modest plots across the verdant nation and its young colonies in the Americas. Margaret Willes introduces a plethora of garden enthusiasts, from the renowned to the legions of anonymous workers who created and tended the great estates. Packed with illustrations from the herbals, design treatises, and practical manuals that inspired these menand occasionally womenWilles's bookenthrallingly charts how England's garden grew.Trade Review“Willes, who was a publisher for the National Trust, is a true bibliophile who has undertaken an ambitious piece of research that will be invaluable to students of gardens and their history.”—Rosie Atkins, History Today -- Rosie Atkins * History Today *“…..all can enjoy the illuminating way Willes puts gardens into context.”—Gardens Illustrated * Gardens Illustrated *“Avoid the glut of picture books that blossom at this time of year for this serious study of the social life of the English garden. It will fascinate serious horticulturalists with its explanation of the how the country had already undergone a radical revolution in gardening before the 18th century, which so many thought was its heyday.”—Country and Town House Magazine * Country and Town House Magazine *

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Book SynopsisA companion to the architecture of Cambridgeshire, in which the first half is devoted to the famous University city, with its rich and varied inheritance of college buildings.Trade Review'For the future, trips out in Cambridge will be enhanced by Simon Bradley’s revision of the Pevsner Guide to Cambridgeshire. It was much in need of updating and Bradley manages it expertly, without destroying the sparky style of the original.'—Mary Beard, The Guardian -- Mary Beard * The Guardian *'Simon Bradley has done a marvellous job in checking out the bits of the county that the great man missed, and leavening some of his prejudices, without losing the wit or the style. Don’t go to Cambridge without it.’—Mary Beard, TLS -- Mary Beard * TLS *‘Pevsner’s original edition was published in 1954; this new edition is by Simon Bradley, who has carried out the brilliant revisions of Pevsner’s London volumes and several others. Bradley has both an all-seeing eye for buildings great and small and a gift for deft, concise writing and characterisation.’—Marcus Binney, The Times. -- Marcus Binney * The Times *‘In Simon Bradley’s confident and scholarly revision, Pevsner is present and absent in just the right proportion: exactly what he would of have wanted.’—Ruth Scurr, TLS. -- Ruth Scurr * TLS *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review “One of the many improvements of this new edition is to acknowledge that these ancient buildings have a history far more complicated than was once imagined” —Simon Heffer, The Daily Telegraph “The ‘Pevsner’ series [. . .] is said to be the unrivalled source for authoritative and comprehensive information on the architecture of the British Isles. In Sussex:West, new research accompanies 130 specially commissioned colour photographs” —Mid Sussex Times“[The book] follows a now-familiar format, with longer and updated texts, numerous additional figures and an expanded collection of colour photographs” —John Goodall, Country Life“West is another solid achievement in this magnificent series.”—Graham Kent, Ancient Monuments Society

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Succinct, authoritative, well-contextualized. . . .Stirton's narrative throws new light on the most renowned modern typographer of the twentieth century."—Jeremy Aynsley, Journal of Design History “The book is well illustrated with many unfamiliar examples (all well placed near their text references) and forms a useful addition to the literature covering this immensely creative period in the history of typographic design” — Edward Wates, Forum 38

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive history of the creation and growth of Lincoln Center, exploring the interconnections between politicians, financiers, and performing artistsTrade Review“Masterful. . . . A powerful work of nonfiction with the drama of a novel.”—Jaap van Zweden, Wall Street Journal“Written by a scholar, musician and arts executive, Polisi’s superb work is an authoritative yet eminently readable account of the creation and growth of the world’s most important performing arts center.”—Nathan Leventhal, president emeritus, Lincoln Center“Joseph Polisi has written an indispensable and detailed account of Lincoln Center’s complex history, from its iconic Cold War founding to the cultural uncertainties of classical performance in America today.”—Robert Marx, president, Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation“A superb history about one of the world’s most important cultural centers. The narrative is compelling and besides providing a history of the Lincoln Center, is about leaders, leadership styles, and leadership effectiveness.”—Jamal J. Rossi, Eastman School of Music“The public deserves such an eyewitness account as this. Joseph Polisi welcomes readers to a historic glimpse of a noble venture that envisioned the arts as a pillar of democracy. In it we see the courage and frailty of humanity reflected by leaders whose tenacity established Lincoln Center as a ‘beacon to the world.’”—Robert Blocker, Yale University

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Book SynopsisThe indispensable guide to the architectural heritage of Wiltshire.Trade Review“In deepest Wiltshire, I found an architectural feat as significant as Stonehenge or Salisbury Cathedral.”—Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph“Mr Orbach's Wiltshire combines Pevsnerian scholarship with a sure eye, a keen Betjemanian sense of place and a warm heart for the architectural heritage of his adopted county.”—Timothy Mowl, Country Life“A work which carries on the great traditions of Pevsners, and retains the strengths of the first two Wiltshire volumes, while augmenting them with the perceptions and descriptions generated by a fresh eye on the county's buildings”—Richard Deane, Salisbury Civic Society“Orbach retains the use of Pevner's theme-based approach to the county…But he also innovates: whilst previous editions have been presented on manorial and municipal lines, Orbach introduces new themes like transport which allow him to expand more comprehensively on the importance of the Box Tunnel or Dundas' aqueduct, for instance.”—Frederick Hervey-Bathurst, Friends of Friendless Churches “Orbach’s is a fine work of burrowing and scholarship. He writes with energy. His text is often elliptical...a sort of shorthand that lends the book an enjoyable immediacy.”—Jonathan Meades, London Review of Books“Clear and informative…Orbach gives a detailed account of the history, archaeology and, of course, above all surviving buildings of Old Sarum.”—Graham Kent, Journal of Historic Buildings and Places

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Book SynopsisExploring the life and work of avant-garde film’s most influential and intriguing figure

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Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated look at the work of one of today’s most exciting artistsTrade Review“High-quality color images that permit a surprisingly detailed visual reading . . . [and] three succinct and thoughtful essays by the show’s curators. . . . One is hard-pressed to find fault with this beautifully and perceptively produced volume.”—Lisa Farrington, Woman’s Art Journal

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Book SynopsisA close look at Man Ray’s interwar portraiture, as well as the friendships between the photographer and his subjects: the international avant garde in Paris

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Book SynopsisAn engagingly accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the futureTrade Review“Jeremy Black’s extraordinary body of work regularly returns to themes in military history. . . . His latest book distills his achievements as the most prolific historian in the English language into 40 short chapters that describe war from the ancient world to the present day. . . . A Short History of War offers an expansive and often evocative account of great causes that are never lost or won.”—Crawford Gribben, Wall Street Journal“This is a feat of remarkable compression and erudition...Studded with thought-provoking comparisons and insights and offers a handy introduction to the subject, and to Black’s oeuvre.”—Jonathan Boff, Spectator “Black has demonstrated an enormous capacity for the length, breadth and depth of global military history which will prompt readers to explore further into campaigns they know little about.”—Major General Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter, Aspects of History“This book should be a ‘must read’ for people entering into a study of military history. It will also be a valuable resource for those who already have some broader knowledge in the field or are already possessed of some expertise. This is a book well worth reading more than once, keeping as a reference, and as a start-point for future study.”—Rob Ellis, Royal United Services Institute of Victoria ‘Jeremy Black has somehow managed to condense a vast and complex subject into a very compact and compelling book. His global range, avoidance of repetition of the standard topics, and ability to capture the variety of warfare in all its forms throughout history is truly remarkable.’—Professor Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny ‘This is an excellent overview of the history of war. Highly recommended reading for anyone who wants to understand the evolution of war around the globe from prehistory to the present day.’—Professor Heather Jones, University College London‘This is a truly global survey which amounts to a miracle of compression. Indispensable for students and scholars alike.’— Professor Gary Sheffield, University of Wolverhampton

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Book SynopsisThe first monographic publication in English on German Expressionist artist and architect Paul Goesch, whose extraordinary architectural fantasies were produced while he was institutionalized for schizophrenia

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Book SynopsisA fresh perspective on collaboration, collectivity, and conflict in the women’s art movement of the 1970sTrade Review“This is an urgent, important book. Tobin explores the productive, sometimes uncomfortable, moments where solidarity, collectivity and conversation met disagreement and difference as artists working in the USA and UK sought to forge new communities and ways of working, thinking, and living together.”—Jo Applin, author of Lee Lozano“Tobin’s work rescues women’s artistic subjectivity from the tomb of historical erasure without essentialism, she writes about 'women artists' as a political category – noting the complexity and nuance in their work with care, with generosity, and an unmatched theoretical precision.”—Lola Olufemi, author of Feminism, Interrupted“Amy Tobin offers a fluent, readable and important history of complex groupings, intense debates, diverse artworks and agonistic cultures of difference that formed the historic moment when art was transformed by a new consciousness—the Women’s Liberation Movement. This new political energy collided with all that was new and exciting, critical and challenging in post-1968 art practice: performance, moving image, photography, installation, conceptual practice, and most radically, the dynamic of collaboration and collective art making and a confrontation with differences and their often painful, but always creative, challenges.”—Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds

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Book SynopsisReassessing the career of the hugely influential Harper’s Bazaar art director, who changed the course of twentieth-century American photography and graphic design

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Book SynopsisCovering all regions of Italyfrom Turin's Palace of Labor in northern Italy to the Monreale Cathedral and Cloister in Sicilyand all periods of Italian architecturefrom the first-century Colosseum in Rome to the Casa Rustica apartments built in Milan in the 1930sthis volume examines over 70 of Italy's most important architectural landmarks.

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Book SynopsisIn February 2016, Rachel Swarms, Darcy Eveleigh, Damien Cave, and Dana Canedy discovered dozens of photographs--and explored the history behind them--and chronicled them in the popular blog series Unpublished Black History. The month-long series was overwhelmingly well-received and garnered 1.7 million views and thousands of comments from readers. This book dives even deeper in the Times photo archives--known as the Morgue--to showcase 120 more photographs and their untold stories. The never-before-published photographs include a 27-year-old Jesse Jackson leading a rally of 4,000 people in Chicago, Rosa Parks arriving at a Montgomery Courthouse, and a candid behind-the-scenes shot of Aretha Franklin backstage at the Apollo Theater. Were the photos--or the people in them--not deemed newsworthy enough? Did the images not arrive in time for publication? Were they pushed aside by words at an institution long known as the Gray Lady? Swarms, Eveleigh, Cave, and Canedy explore all these questions and more in this one-of-a-kind book.

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Comedy Studies Reader is a selection of the most outstanding critical analysis featured in the journal Comedy Studies in the decade since its inception in 2010.The Reader illustrates the multiple perspectives that are available when analysing comedy. Wilkieâs selections present an array of critical approaches from interdisciplinary scholars, all of whom evaluate comedy from different angles and adopt a range of writing styles to explore the phenomenon. Divided into eight unique parts, the Reader offers both breadth and depth with its wide range of interdisciplinary articles and international perspectives.Of interest to students, scholars, and lovers of comedy alike, The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader offers a contemporary sample of general analyses of comedy as a mode, form, and genre.Trade ReviewPraise for A Comedy Studies Reader, ed. Ian WilkieAn important resource for those bent on taking comedy seriously, this collection gathers disparate studies from the innovative Journal of Comedy Studies and elsewhere to illuminate contemporary performative comedy. It should prove invaluable for students in Comedy Studies and also remind many in Humour Studies about the importance of the relationship between a piece of humour and its mediator, whether professional or or amateur, as a creator of amusement and laughter.Jessica Milner Davis FRSN, University of SydneyTable of ContentsForeword by Ian WilkieAcknowledgementsPart I: Back to Basics: What is Comedy and Where Does It Come From?1. Against Comedy Chris Ritchie2. Thoughts on the current state of humour theory Peter Marteinson3. The origins of comic performance in adult–child interaction Ian Wilkie and Matthew Saxton 4. The science of baby laughter Caspar Addyman and Ishbel Addyman Part II: Old Comedy: Taproots and Tropes 5. The time-travelling miser: Translation and transformation in European comedy Rachel Kirk6. Conflict and slapstick in Commedia dell’Arte – The double act of Pantalone and Arlecchino Louise Peacock7. Clowns do ethnography: an experiment in long-distance comic failure Barnaby King and Richard TalbotPart III: Class, Gender, Race: Reading Comedy’s Issues 8. ‘To what base uses we may return, Horatio!’ – Hamlet, Comedy and Class Struggle Isaac Hui9. No other excuse: Race, class and gender in British Music Hall comedic performance 1914–1949 David Huxley and David James10. 'Women Like Us?' Gilli Bush-BaileyPart IV: Doing Comedy: Giving, Receiving, Causes and Effects11. Pretty funny: Manifesting a normatively sexy female comic body Hannah Ballou12. No greater foe? Rethinking emotion and humour, with particular attention to the relationship between audience members and stand-up comedians Tim Miles13. The roots of alternative comedy? – The alternative story of 20th Century Coyote and Eighties Comedy Lloyd Peters14. Life memory archive translation performance memory archive life: textual self-documentation in stand-up comedy Christopher MolineuxPart V: New Comedy? Interviews with Practitioners15. Not the definitive version: an interview with Ross Noble Oliver Double16. Scenes in the House of Comedy: Interview with Stewart Lee Tony Moon17. Up and down with Barry Cryer: From an interview conducted on 22 July 2011 Tony Moon18. Interview with Charlie Hanson Gary Turk19. ‘Words are my weapons’: Tiffany Stevenson interview Tony Moon20. Russell Kane: Comic chameleon Sam Friedman21. Les Dennis: Man out of time Sam Friedman22. ‘Not a funny place to live’: An interview with Chris Rock Kara Hunt23. A series of ghastly mistakes that turned out right in the end Tony Moon interview with John Lloyd (comedy producer)24. Interview with Kate Fox - stand-up poet Ian Wilkie Part VI: Critical Angles: Essays on a Joan Rivers’ Routine25. From toothpick legs to dropping vaginas: Gender and sexuality in Joan Rivers’ stand-up comedy performance Sharon Lockyer26. Joan Rivers – Reading the meaning Louise Peacock27. ‘A pleasure working with you’: Humour theory and Joan Rivers Brett MillsPart VII: The World of Comedy: Culture and Satire28. Obscenity, dirtiness and licence in Jewish comedy Debra Aarons and Marc Mierowsky29. Satire in a multi-cultural world: a Bakhtinian analysis Grant Julin30. Silly meets serious: discursive integration and the Stewart/Colbert era Amanda Martin, Brbara K. Kaye and Mark D. Harmon31. The comedian, the cat, and the activist: the politics of light seriousness and the (un)serious work of contemporary laughter Ian Reilly32. Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen, and the seriousness of (mock) documentary Cate BloukePart VIII: New Comedy? Emerging Platforms and Forms of Expression 33. A book and a movie walk into a bar Kyle Meikle34. Kidding around: children, comedy, and social media Peter Kunze35. A new economy of jokes?: #Socialmedia #Comedy Rebecca Krefting and Rebecca Baruc36. Comedy meets media: how three new media features have influenced changes in the production of stand-up comedy Jillian M. Belanger37. The animated moving image as political cartoon Lucien Leon38. Is vlogging the new stand-up? A compare/contrast of traditional and online models of comedic content distribution Matthew McKeagueIndex

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding the Failure of Materials and Structures introduces practical aspects of mechanical characterisation of materials and structures. It gives those with little or no prior experience insight into the process of developing everyday products, issues behind some high-profile failures, and tools to begin planning a programme of research.Written in an easily accessible manner, the work discusses fundamentals of the physical world, highlighting the range of materials used and varied applications, and offers a brief history of materials development. It covers the role of materials structure in controlling materials properties and describes mechanical properties, such as stress, strain, stiffness, fracture, and fatigue. The book also features information on various modes of testing and strain measurement. It provides some discussion on topics that go beyond well-behaved test coupons, with thoughts on biomechanics, megastructures, and testing for applications in extre

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Book SynopsisPlatinotype: Making Photographs in Platinum and Palladium with the Contemporary Printing-out Process describes the mechanisms and chemistry of platinum/palladium printing in safe and practical ways. Clearly presented formulae allow the printer to work with platinum, palladium, or varying combinations of both. The printed-out image appears fully during exposure, and only requires simple and safe steps for clearing to a stable, archival state.The authors explain what makes the image, how all necessary components are prepared and used, and the kind of paper and negative needed to make prints. More than just a technical manual, the book underscores the authors'' belief that printing is a creative, scientific, and philosophic way of working. The book presents an outstanding collection of prints by over 40 artists, all made with this printing-out process. The artists'' notes and comments offer insights into their methods and thinking, and a large number of full-pageTrade Review'Simple formulae and excellent directions guide you through each step in the process. The book will be a valuable resource for a wide readership. More than a technical manual, Platinotype lays out a creative and philosophic practice – revealed from lens to paper.'Meg Partridge, Director, The Imogen Cunningham Trust'Elegantly written and explained for the novice, advanced amateur, or professional alternative process photographer.'Jim Patterson, Photochemist and Experimenter in alternative photography"Simple formulae and excellent directions guide you through each step in the process. The book will be a valuable resource for a wide readership. More than a technical manual, Platinotype lays out a creative and philosophic practice―revealed from lens to paper."Meg Partridge, Director, The Imogen Cunningham Trust"Elegantly written and explained for the novice, advanced amateur, or professional alternative process photographer."Jim Patterson, Photochemist and Experimenter in alternative photographyTable of ContentsForeword by Mike Ware, Preface, Acknowledgements, PART 1, 1. Contexts and Expectations, 2. Chemistry of the Platinum/Palladium Print, 3. Safety, Workspaces, and Procedures, 4. Equipment, Materials, and Chemicals, 5. Preparation of Sensitizer and Processing Solutions, 6. Paper―Its Properties and Choice, 7. Negatives, 8. Making the Print, 9. Archival Processing, Presentation, and Documentation, 10. Looking and Seeing, PART 2 11. Contemporary Practices, Appendix I Troubleshooting, Appendix II Workflow Summaries, Appendix III Glossary, Appendix IV Equipment, Materials and Resources, Appendix V Bibliography and References, Index

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Book SynopsisThe new edition ofPlaybuilding as Arts-Based Research details how playbuilding (creating an original performative work with a group) as a methodology has developed in qualitative research over the last 15 years.The second edition substantially updates the award-winning first edition by making connections to current research theories, providing complete scripts with URL links to videos, and including a new section with interviews with colleagues. Chapter 1 provides an in-depth discussion of the epistemological, ontological, axiological, aesthetic, and pedagogic stances that playbuilding takes, applying them to research in general. The value of a playful, trusting atmosphere; choices of style, casting, set, and location in representing the data; and pedagogical theories that guide participatory theatre are highlighted. Chapter 2 discusses how Mirror Theatre generates data, structures dramatic scenes, and conducts live and virtual participatory workshops. Chapter 3

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Book SynopsisThis book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal episteme of selfie practice.Claire Raymond investigates how the selfie's involvement with time and self emerges from capitalist ideologies of identity and time. The book leverages theories from Katharina Pistor, Jacques Lacan, Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson, and Hans Belting to explore the ways in which the selfie imposes a dominant ideology on subjectivity by manipulating the affect of time. The selfie is understood in contrast to the self-portrait. Artists discussed include James Tylor, Shelley Niro, Ellen Carey, Graham MacIndoe, and LaToya Ruby Frazier.The book will be of interest to scholars working in visual culture, history of photography, and critical theory. It will also appeal to scholars of philosophy and, in particular, of the intersection of aesthetic theory and theories of ontology, epistemology, and temporality.Table of Contents1. Dreaming the Self: Selfie Practice, Temporality, and Artificial Intelligence 2. The Capitalist Affect 3. Embodied Self: Temporality, Ontology, Mortality 4. Numbering Identity: The Algorithmic Self 5. Archive, Memory, Identity 6. Selfie-as-Mask 7. Celebrity Self-Fashioning 8. Self-Portrait Performance

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Book Synopsis"Engaged in fascinating and useful multidisciplinary research, Cranz is an avatar for body-friendly design. . . . Read [The Chair] and cheer."--Elizabeth Zimmer, Village Voice

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Book SynopsisA fresh portrait of the Polish-Jewish writer and artist, and a gripping account of the secret operation to rescue his last artworksTrade Review"Excellent...An absorbing, terrifying history of a special writer who deserves to be known for reasons entirely apart from the historical nightmare that engulfed him." -- Scott Bradfield - The Spectator"Engaging and provocative…This biography, which weaves well-chosen, colourful threads from Schulz’s writings into the threadbare fabric of his days, stands as the best brief introduction to the author currently available in English" -- Boris Dralyuk - The Times Literary Supplement"Balint does a fine job of capturing Schulz’s life and his world before the war, his deeply peculiar mind and the fascinating figures in whose orbit he moved" -- Joe Moshenska - The Observer"“The clearest, most evenhanded account to date of the tangled afterlife of the Master of Drohobych….An unflaggingly curious and fastidious critic, the Jerusalem-based Balint has forged a career out of examining cases like this one….Balint excels at distinguishing the possible ownership of artifacts from the impossible ownership of legacies, and demonstrates with sensitivity how in the clash between so-called intellectual property rights and so-called moral rights, the only sure loser is the artist himself, especially if he is no longer around to defend (or define) himself.”" -- Joshua Cohen - The New York Times Book Review

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