History of art Books

Book SynopsisDaniel Fountain is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter, UK. They have published widely on gender, sexuality, contemporary art, and craft, including the edited collection Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism in Contemporary Britain (2023). Daniel is also a practitioner and curator with international experience

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Book SynopsisThrough a broad range of case studies spanning from imperial monuments to rural residences, Malayan Classicism puts forward a fundamentally new understanding of classical architecture in the Asian colonial context. Across Malaysia and Singapore, thousands of historic buildings are richly ornamented with motifs drawn from Ancient Greece and Rome - as plump volutes, lush acanthus leaves, and neat rows of dentils decorate mosques, palaces, government buildings and innumerable terraced shophouses. These classical details jostle with ideas drawn from other architectural traditions from across Asia in a style that is unique to the region. Presenting the first comprehensive account of what was, prior to World War II, Malaya's most widespread architectural style, Malayan Classicism explores 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, tTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Columns and Capitals: Colonial Power and Malaya’s Capital Cities British Classicism in Nineteenth-Century Penang and Singapore Capital Ideas: Building Indo-Saracenic Kuala Lumpur Variations on a Theme: The Spread of Imperial Capitalism in British Malaya 2. A Classical Education: The Architecture of Schools in British Malaya St Joseph’s Institution, Singapore The Tao Nan Chinese School, Singapore The Malay College, Kuala Kangsar, The Malay Free School at Jalan Sultan, Singapore The Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur 3. Classical Monuments for the Modern Sultan: Royal Patronage of Classical Architecture in the Johor Sultanate The Istana Besar at Johor Bahru The Sultan Abu Bakar Mosque Sultan Ibrahim’s Banqueting Hall The Muar Mosque 4. Coarsened or Cosmopolitan? Re-reading Malaya’s Vernacular Classicism A Diverse Profession An Emerging Vernacular: Shophouses before the Twentieth Century Nascent Eclecticism A Consolidated Style New Accents, New Languages: From Art Deco to Modernism 5. Vestal Versions: Malaya’s Temples of Commerce Early Warehouses and Godowns European Banks and Trading Houses The Maritime Gateways of Empire The China Building, Boat Quay 6. Decline and Fall? The Supreme Court, Empress Place, and the Kallang Aerodrome Monumental Translation Imperial Monuments, Colonial Labour Modernity in Antiquity: The Materiality of the Supreme Court Trial by Media: Critical Backlash to the Supreme Court in the Colonial Press Grand Designs: Ward’s Unrealised Civic District Taking Flight: The Kallang Aerodrome Conclusion: Translations and Transitions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBetti Marenko is a transdisciplinary theorist, academic and educator working across process philosophies, design studies and critical technologies. She is Reader in Design and Techno-Digital Futures at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK, where she founded and directs the Hybrid Futures Lab, a transversal research initiative that focuses on developing speculative-pragmatic interventions at the intersection of philosophy, design, technology and future-crafting practices. She is also WRHI Appointed Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. With Marco Rozendaal and Will Odom, she co-edited Designing Smart Objects in Everyday Life (Bloomsbury, 2021).

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Book SynopsisArtists have worked from home for many reasons, including care duties, financial or political constraints, or availability and proximity to others.From the home studios' of Charles and Ray Eames, to the different photographic representations of Robert Rauschenberg's studio, this book explores the home as a distinct site of artistic practice, and the traditions and developments of the home studio as concept and space throughout the 20th and into the 21st century.Using examples from across Europe and the Anglophone world between the mid-20th century and the present, each chapter considers the different circumstances for working at home, the impact on the creative lives of the artists, their identities as artists and on the work itself, and how, sometimes, these were projected and promoted through photographs and the media. Key themes include the gendered and performative aspects of women practising at home', collaborative studio communities of the 1970s 90s incTrade ReviewThis original and multifaceted book interweaves artists’ interviews with contributions from art historians, design historians and architects. Surveying the domestic and creative functions of the studio alongside its performative role, it makes a compelling case for the enduring cultural significance of these extraordinary places. * Louise Campbell, Emeritus Professor, History of Art, Warwick University, UK *Insightful and timely, with a wealth of fascinating case studies and approaches, this book offers crucial new perspectives on the competing pressures of the domestic and the professional, and the myriad ways in which artists have negotiated, resisted or embraced them. * Clare O’Dowd, Research Curator, the Henry Moore Institute, UK *Demystifies the trope of the artist’s studio as a mythical (and separate) space of creativity, helping to expand and enrich its modern definition. Accessibly written and hugely informative, it will be of interest to researchers, artists, art students, architects, designers and cultural theorists. * Gill Perry, Emeritus Professor of Art History, The Open University, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Imogen Racz (Independent Scholar, UK) and Jill Journeaux (Coventry University, UK) Part One: The Studio at Home: Designing and Projecting the Creative Life 1. Blurring Boundaries between Life and Work: The Home Studios, Homes and Design/Film/ Multi-Media Workshop of Charles and Ray Eames, 1941 to 1978, Pat Kirkham (Kingston University, UK) 2. Interview, Imogen Racz and Liz Harrison 3. An Atomisation of the Home: Towards a Compound Dwelling Interior, Nicholas Lee (The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark) 4. Interview, Paula Chambers and Imogen Racz 5. Interview, Zahrah Al Ghamdi and Imogen Racz 6. Robert Rauschenberg’s Studio through the Lens of Two Photographers, Adi Meyerovitch (Yale University, USA) 7. Interview, Graham Chorlton and Jill Journeaux Part Two: Women, Home, Studio 8. Working from Home: Portuguese women artists during Estado Novo, Maria Luisa Coelho (University of Oxford, UK) 9. Interview, Gerda Roper (Teesside University, UK) and Imogen Racz 10. Making Memory Material: Clutter and the Home Studios of Margaret Olley and Mirka Mora, Cassandra Joore-Short (Melbourne University, Australia) 11. Interview, Carole Griffiths (Bradford College, UK) and Jill Journeaux Part Three: Live-work Communities from the 1970s to 1990s 12. Abandoned and Appropriated Homes: The live-work spaces of artists in East London, Imogen Racz (Independent Scholar, UK) and Heidi Saarinen (Coventry University, UK) 13. Mikey Cuddihy Reflections 14. Housewatch: Cinematic architecture for the Pedestrian, David Martin (Independent Scholar) 15. Interview, George Saxon and Imogen Racz Part Four: Staying Home During COVID-19 16. Sailing to my Nearest Neighbours for Lockdown Cocktails: Reflections on the Politics of Home and Homemaking during a Pandemic, Maria Photiou (University of Derby, UK) and Lia Lapithi (Independent artist) 17. Interview, Fran Cottell (Camberwell College of Arts, UK) and Imogen Racz 18. Artists at Home and Away: Mobile Bodies, Distance and Proximity, Gudrun Filipska (Arts Territory Exchange) 19. Interview, Angie Walton (Liverpool John Moores University, UK), Sarah Black (Liverpool Hope University, UK) and Imogen Racz 20. Studio. Object. Home: Place Setting, Jill Journeaux (Coventry University, UK) 21. Interview, Sreejata Roy and Jill Journeaux 22. Interview, Anastasia Starikova and Jill Journeaux Index

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Book SynopsisJulia May Boddewyn is an independent art researcher in New York. She is a Founding Director of The Modigliani Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the legacy of Amedeo Modigliani, and a researcher with the Arshile Gorky Foundation, USA.

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Book SynopsisEzra Shales is Professor in the History of Art department at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA. He teaches craft and design history and is the author of The Shape of Craft (2017) and Made in Newark: Cultivating Industrial Arts and Civic Identity in the Progressive Era (2010). He has also contributed chapters to publications such as Craft Economies (Bloomsbury, 2018) and The Ceramics Reader (Bloomsbury, 2017). He has written widely on contemporary artists and modernist ceramicists, and his work has appeared in exhibition catalogues and journals such as Journal of Design History and Journal of Modern Craft.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to closely examine the curatorial work that the celebrated poet Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) undertook for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, from 1950 to his death. It traces O'Hara's distinguished curatorial career at home and abroad, situating his work for MoMA's International Program, as well as the Jewish Museum in New York, within the Cold War politics of the day.Upon his premature death, the New York Times obituary ran with the headline: Frank O'Hara, 40, Museum Curator / Exhibitions Aide at Modern Art Dies Also a Poet'. However, in the half a century since, his fascinating career as a curator, where he oversaw exhibitions of the likes of Helen Frankenthaler, Jackson Pollock, Mark Tobey and Seymour Lipton, among others, has been eclipsed by the critical attention given over to his poetry. Drawing on a broad range of unpublished archival material, Curating Modern Life reveals the impact O'Hara's curatorial work had both on th

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Book SynopsisThis pioneering account of Modern Spiritualism in late 19th and early 20th-century Scotland is a compelling history of the international movement's cultural impact on Scottish art. From spirit-mediums creating séance art to mainstream artists of the Royal Scottish Academy, this exposition reveals for the first time the extent of Spiritualist interest in Scotland. With its interdisciplinary scope, Modern Spiritualism and Scottish Art combines cultural and art history to explore the ways in which Scottish art reflected Spiritualist beliefs at the turn of the 20th century. More than simply a history of the Spiritualist cause and its visual manifestations, this book also provides a detailed account of scepticism, psychical research, and occulture in modern Scotland, and the role that these aspects played in informing responses to Spiritualist ideology.Utilising extensive archival research, together with in-depth analyses of overlooked paintings, drawings and sculpTrade ReviewThis fascinating book illuminates a neglected aspect of Scottish art and society, namely the strong contribution to international Spiritualism from the middle of the 19th century onwards. Whilst Arthur Conan Doyle’s involvement is well known, the contributions of Scottish artists linked to Spiritualism are not. * Murdo Macdonald, Professor Emeritus of History of Scottish Art, University of Dundee, UK *In this rigorous and illuminating study, Foot reveals how modern spiritualism impacted Scotland’s urban, religious, and most importantly, artistic cultures in the 19th and early-20th centuries, mapping a nationally-specific current of spiritualist aesthetics within Scotland that stands dramatically apart from the movement’s reception in England. * Christine Ferguson, Professor of English, University of Stirling, UK *This is a ground-breaking study of Spiritualism and art. Its value goes way beyond its primary focus on the Scottish context. Michelle Foot’s analysis, based on an impressive knowledge of primary sources and visual material, offers new insights that will be useful to all those who are interested in the social and cultural impact of Spiritualism in the modern world. * Marco Pasi, Associate Professor, History of Hermetic philosophy, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1 - Within the Séance Circle 1. Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism in Scotland 2. Private Spiritualism in Edinburgh 3. Public Spiritualism in Glasgow 4. Art in the Service of Spiritualism 2 - Outwith the Séance Circle 5. Scottish Spiritualism in the Early Twentieth Century 6. The Survival of the Spirit 7. A Marriage of Matter and Spirit 8. The Medium and Her Spirit Guide Epilogue Note on the Cover Image Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMatt Malpass is a lecturer and design researcher at Central Saint Martin's, London, UK. He is Course Leader on MA Industrial Design and a Research Fellow in Critical Design in the Socially Responsive Design and Innovation Hub.

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Book SynopsisBernd Herzogenrath is Professor of American Literature and Culture at Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is the author of An Art of Desire: Reading Paul Auster (Rodopi, 1999) and An American Body/Politic: A Deleuzian Approach (UPNE, 2010). His other publications include the collections media matter (Bloomsbury, 2015), Sonic Thinking (Bloomsbury, 2017), Film as Philosophy (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), and Practical Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is a main editor of the media-philosophical book series thinking media with Bloomsbury.

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Book SynopsisBrian Dixon is Head of Belfast School of Art, Ulster University, UK. He is the author of Dewey and Design (2020), which explores John Dewey's philosophy in relation to design research, and Design, Philosophy and Making Things Happen (2023) which examines wider design-philosophy relations in the context of design research/knowledge.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides the first comprehensive history of window display as a practice and profession in Britain during the dynamic period of 1919 to 1939. In recent decades, the disciplines of retail history, business history, design and cultural history have contributed to the study of department stores and other types of shops. However, these studies have only made passing references to window display and its role in retail, society and culture. Kerry Meakin investigates the conditions that enabled window display to become a professional practice during the interwar period, exploring the shift in display styles, developments within education and training, and the international influence on methods and techniques. Piecing together the evidence, visual and written, about people, events, organisations, exhibitions and debates, Meakin provides a critical examination of this vital period of design history, highlighting major display designers and artists. The book r

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Book SynopsisSabine Wieber is Lecturer in History of Art, Architecture and Design at the University of Glasgow, UK. She has contributed writing to various publications including Stitching the Self (Bloomsbury, 2020), Design and Agency (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Designing the Modern Interior (Berg, 2009), and has written for several journals including Journal of Design History and Rethinking History.

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Book SynopsisThe Art of Mary Linwood is the first book on Leicester textile artist Mary Linwood (1755-1845) and catalogue of her work. When British textile artist and gallery owner Mary Linwood died in 1845 just shy of 90 years old, her estate was worth the equivalent of 5,199,822 in today's currency. As someone who made, but did not sell, embroidered replicas of famous artworks after artists such as Gainsborough, Reynolds, Stubbs, and Morland, how did she accumulate so much money? A pioneering woman in the male-dominated art world of late Georgian Britain, Linwood established her own London gallery in 1798 that featured copies of well-known paintings by these popular artists. Featuring props and specially designed rooms for her replicas, she ensured that her visitors had an entertaining, educational, and kinetic tour, similar to what Madame Tussaud would do one generation later. The gallery's focus on picturesque painters provided her London visitors with an idylliTrade ReviewHighly readable and beautifully researched, The Art of Mary Linwood restores this multifaceted artist to her rightful place in the history of art, offering a fascinating insight into the remarkable experience of a virtuosic embroiderer, entrepreneur, installation artist, mentor, and educator. Strobel’s rich assessment of Linwood’s oeuvre illuminates the many ways in which intermedial artforms flourished during this period. * Laura Engel, Professor of English, Duquesne University, USA *Heidi Strobel’s brilliantly researched and engaging study enriches and expands scholarship on women artists. This book deftly explores Linwood’s multiple roles as entrepreneur, educator, exhibition designer, and embroidery artist. Strobel’s book challenges common assumptions about art history, material culture, and gender. * Christina K. Lindeman, Associate Professor of Art History, University of South Alabama, USA *Situating Linwood’s unique artistic practice in the context of cultural patriotism and the London gallery scene, this long overdue biography and catalogue raisonné has fresh relevance today. * Kimberly Chrisman Campbell, author of Fashion Victims (2015), Worn on This Day (2019), and Skirts (2022). *This fascinating book repositions Mary Linwood at the center of London's vibrant gallery culture, delivering a comprehensive picture of Linwood's innovative work across exhibition making and the decorative arts. * Freya Gowrley, Lecturer in History of Art and Liberal Arts, University of Bristol, UK *This book makes an essential contribution to British art history, textile history, and the history of display. Its treatment of Linwood, who combined the roles of female artist, entrepreneur, curator, and educator, reveals new, vibrant paths of study. * Ryan Whyte, Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts & Science, OCAD University, Canada *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Plates List of Figures Introduction 1. Embroidery, Education, and Commerce: Linwood’s Early Years 2. The Pantheon and Hanover Square Exhibitions 3. Portraiture, Publications, and Promotion 4. The Leicester Square Gallery: Performing British Patriotism 5. Of Students and Studying: The Academic Tradition and the Scripture Room 6. Linwood’s Legacies Appendix: Catalogue of Linwood’s Textiles Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisRichly illustrated, this is the first study in English to explore the longevity of Orientalist art in Spain over a period of 120 years.It highlights how artists in Spain shaped perceptions of Al-Andalus (Iberia under Islam 7111492) and northern Morocco, from Spain's liberal revolution of the 1830s to the end of the Protectorate of Morocco in 1956. Combining art history with a cultural studies approach, and using exemplary case studies, Hopkins foregrounds the diverse issues that underpin Orientalist expression: reflections on history and the nation, cultural nationalism, gender and sexuality, aesthetics and art commerce, colonialism and racial thinking. In the process, the book challenges over-familiar understandings of Western Orientalism.Beyond Fortuny and Sorolla, many unfamiliar artists and exhibitions are introduced, amongst them Villaamil, whose nostalgic landscapes evoked the loss of Andalusi culture; Bécquer, who celebrated Spanish-Morocc

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Book SynopsisD Wood is an independent craft and design scholar and currently teaches at OCAD University, Canada. Wood earned a PhD in Design Studies in 2012 at the University of Orago, New Zealand, and has an MFA in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design, USA. Her profiles of craft practitioners and reviews of exhibitions and books have appeared in an international array of publications, including American Craft, Ceramic Review, Fiberarts, Fine Woodworking, Metalsmith, Neues Glas and Textile Forum. She is also the editor of, and contributor to, Craft is Political (Bloomsbury, 2021).

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOne of the vivid threads that binds this collection together has to do with the erasures of history. Here, however we are faced with compelling evidence that in the major centers of interwar Central Europe, Jews were in the vanguard of the new urbanism and contributed to the remaking of these historical cities at an astounding level that has not yet been given the recognition it deserves. The conclusion we can draw from this is that for almost a century our understanding of European architectural modernism has been narrow, racist, and impoverished; this book is a bugle call for change. * Journal of Design History *For anyone interested in Jewish cultural identity in Central Europe in the interwar period as well as anyone interested in Modernist architecture and style, this book is a must-read. The wealth and breadth of the contributions … bring new and refreshing revelations about the architectural landscape of urban Central Europe that was significantly influenced by Jewish architects and designers. * Journal of Austrian Studies *Designing Transformation presents a wealth of new research on the multi-faceted involvement of Jewish architects, designers, writers and patrons in Central European Modernism. Wide ranging and thoughtfully framed, the collection demonstrates the centrality and complexity of Jewish production and co-production of the modern city, home and collective consciousness. And it offers a provocative challenge to understand and mark the importance of this contribution to the contemporary European city. -- Leslie Topp, Professor of Architectural History, Birkbeck, University of London, UKElana Shapira’s Designing Transformation breaks new ground in its intricate and nuanced examination of the Jewishness of Central European modernism. Its essays reveal how the negotiation of Jewish difference, visibility, and belonging, how processes of Jewish acculturation and mobility imprinted the urban landscapes of the former Habsburg empire in the interwar period and global sites of forced emigration in the 1930s and 40s. The volume encompasses a wide range of well-known and obscure figures who responded to twentieth-century crises and opportunities with artistic innovation and dazzling creativity. -- Paul Lerner, Professor of History and Director of the Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies, University of Southern California, USAThis volume offers an array of expertly-researched, insightful essays on a breathtaking number of Central European Jewish designers, architects, artisans and artists. It is a vital resource for anyone seeking to expand their knowledge of Jews’ participation in the built environment and visual culture in the modern era. -- Lisa Silverman, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USAThis important volume complicates our understanding of modernism by shedding light on a significant but overlooked period of production through the lens of identity. Rather than a single view, this lens offers multiple visions and rich, complex accounts about both known and little-known works and designers. Particularly welcome are the authors’ even-handed treatments of modernism in all its permutations from the most rigorously functionalist to those informed by tradition and folk-culture. -- Timothy M. Rohan, Associate Professor, American and European Architecture, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USAThis volume is the first to comprehensively examine the productive role of modern Jewish designers and architects in Central Europe within the horizon of emancipation, participation and dislocation. Elana Shapira has succeeded in bringing together distinguished authors from different disciplines and geographies. Designing Transformation thus formulates multiple perspectives and presents an impressive tableau of topics and approaches. -- Burcu Dogramaci, Professor of Art History, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, GermanyDesigning Transformation marks a highly important stage in the overdue acknowledgement of Jewish architects, designers and patrons in shaping Central European Modernism. Through ground-breaking research, the collected essays offer ways to understand the diverse circumstances of Jews, how their Modernism was far from homogenous, and that their negotiation of cultural authorship was central to their status, identity and survival. -- Jeremy Aynsley, Professor of Design History, University of Brighton, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Contributors Introduction: Jews and Cultural Identity in Central European Modernism, Elana Shapira (University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria) Part I: Designing Their Homes in Central Europe 1. The ‘Bauhaus Shtetl’: Opposing Conservatism in New Leopold Town in Budapest, Rudolf Klein (Óbuda University, Hungary) 2. Shaping Modern Bratislava: The Role of Architect Friedrich Weinwurm and his Jewish Clients in Designing the Slovak Capital, Henrieta Moravciková (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia) 3. Adolf Sommerfeld Co-Producing Modern Architecture and Urban Design in Berlin, Celina Kress (Technical University of Berlin, Germany) 4. Entangled Histories: The Contribution of Jewish Architects to Modernism in Croatia, Jasna Galjer (University of Zagreb, Croatia) 5. An International Style Synagogue in Brno: Otto Eisler’s Synagogue Agudas Achim (1936), Zuzana Güllendi-Cimprichová (University of Bamberg, Germany) 6. Identity and Gender as Obstacles? A Comparison of Two Biographies of Jewish Architects from Krakow, Kamila Twardowska (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland) Part II: Outsiders/Insiders – Cultural Authorship and Strategies of Inclusion 7. Lajos Kozma, ‘Judapest,’ and Central European Modernism, Juliet Kinchin (Independent Design Historian, Scotland) 8. Refuge and Respite: Oskar Wlach, Max Eisler, and the Culture of the Modern Jewish Interior, Christopher Long (University of Texas at Austin, USA) 9. The Art and Design of Anna Lesznai: Adaptation and Transformation, Rebecca Houze (Northern Illinois University, USA) 10. The Art of Survival: Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and Children’s Art at the Theresienstadt Ghetto, Megan Brandow-Faller (City University of New York, Kingsborough, USA) Part III: Survival Through Design - Projecting Transformative Designs onto the Future 11. Flights of Fancy: Willy de Majo and the Youthful Foundations of a Lifelong Design Practice, Lesley Whitworth (University of Brighton, UK) 12. Sustaining Independence: Marie Frommer’s Networks and Architectural Practices in Berlin and in New York, Tanja Poppelreuter (University of Salford, UK) 13. ‘Memory’s instruments and its very medium’: the Archival Practices of Émigré Designers, Sue Breakell (University of Brighton, UK) 14. Facing the Sun: German-Speaking Émigrés and the Roots of Israeli Climatic Building Design, Or Aleksandrowicz (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAmy Buono is Assistant Professor at the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Chapman University, USA.Sven Dupré is Professor of History of Art, Science and Technology at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Book SynopsisA Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to the present, a time of extraordinary developments in colour science, philosophy, art, design and technologies. The expansion of products produced with synthetic dyes was accelerated by mass consumerism as artists, designers, architects, writers, theater and filmmakers made us a color conscious' society. This influenced what we wore, how we chose to furnish and decorate our homes, and how we responded to the vibrancy and chromatic eclecticism of contemporary visual cultures.The volume brings together research on how philosophers, scientists, linguists and artists debated color's polyvalence, its meaning to different cultures, and how it could be measured, manufactured, manipulated and enjoyed. Color shapes an individual's experience of the world and also how society gives particular spaces, objects, and moments meaning. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Color examines how color has

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Book SynopsisA Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400, examining the creation, use and understanding of human-made objects and their consequences and impacts. The power and agency of objects significantly evolved over this time. Exploring objects and artefacts within art, technology, and everyday life, the volume challenges our understanding of both life worlds and object worlds in medieval society. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds. Julie Lund is Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway. Sarah Semple is Profe

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Book SynopsisA Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1600. The Renaissance was a cultural movement, a time of re-awakening when classical knowledge was rediscovered, leading to an efflorescence in philosophy, art, and literature. The period fostered an emerging sense of individualism across European cultures. This sense was expressed through a fascination with materiality and the natural world, and a growing attachment to things. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds. James Symonds is Professor at the University of Amsterdam, T

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Book SynopsisCarolyn White, Mamie Kleberg Professor of Historic Preservation, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno

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Book SynopsisLaurie A. Wilkie, Professor of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley, USA John M. Chenoweth, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA

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Book SynopsisFrom Betty Boop to Donald Duck, Tex Avery to Walt Disney, collage animation to Japanese anime, and Claymation to 3D animation, Surrealism and Animation is the first book to identify correspondences between the art of animation and the International Surrealist Movement. Sharing a deep commitment to a reanimation of everyday life, surrealist artists and animators sought a marvellous, living form of art. Cartoons and trick films by pioneers such as Georges Méliès were influential for Salvador Dalí and André Breton, among others; many other surrealists and their associates such as Max Ernst, Joseph Cornell, Hans Richter, Len Lye, Roland Topor, Jan Švankmajer, and Lawrence Jordan turned to animated cinema and theories of animacy to express their surrealist visions. Surrealism and Animation is the first book devoted to surrealism's vivid engagement with the history, theory, and medium of animation on a transnational basis. Featuring seventeen essays by leading and emerging scholars, as w

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Book SynopsisSusan S. Bean is an Independent Scholar and Former Senior Curator of South Asian Art at Peabody Essex Museum. She is Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Center for Art & Archaeology, American Institute of Indian Studies, India and USA.

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Book SynopsisMolly Duggins is Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the National Art School, Sydney, Australia.Mark De Vitis is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Sydney, Australia.Georgina Cole is Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the National Art School, Sydney, Australia.

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Book SynopsisCamilla Smith is Associate Professor in Art History in the Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of Jeanne Mammen (Bloomsbury, 2023) and has published widely on erotic visual culture in Oxford Art Journal, Art History, and The Art Bulletin.Ty Vanover is an instructor in the department of Art & Art History at Dickinson College. His work has appeared in Oxford Art Journal, Arts, and Ikonotheka.

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Book SynopsisExplores the links between patronage, identity and Franco-Scottish relations in the late medieval and early modern periods

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Book SynopsisStudies the interaction between Perso-Islamic sedentary concepts and Mongolian nomadic traditions in the context of Ilkhanid capital cities.

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Book SynopsisExamines how mechanisms of change and conversions harrowed and transformed early modern people and their worldsTrade Review"Conversion Machines is a brave new world of innovative, interdisciplinary and adventurous thinking about the culture of early modern conversions: its history as well as its transformative impact on body and soul, mind and matter, politics and poetics. This inclusive collaboration will appeal not only to scholars of early modern culture across media and disciplines, but to anyone who wants to take from the past to imagine a collective future." -Subha Mukherji, University of Cambridge

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Book SynopsisStudies cross-cultural exchanges across the Mediterranean using new interdisciplinary methodologies

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Book SynopsisThis is the story of Mashya and Mashyana Unearthed, an exploration of when and where ancient myths become metonymic in varied forms of contemporary cultural and aesthetic representations.

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Book SynopsisFor seventy years, William Gillies has been seen as a placid painter of landscape and decorative still life. Andrew McPherson explodes this view to reveal a modernist whose response to the instabilities and violence of modernity touched universals of human experience.

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Book SynopsisA major reappraisal of the life, works and legacy of Scottish painter William Gillies. Presents new evidence and looks at unseen paintings to reveal his connections to British and European modernism.Trade Review"Published to celebrate both the 125th anniversary of his birth and the 50th of his death, this is a revelatory account of the life and art of the Scottish painter William George Gillies (1898-1973). Until now he has been considered a ruralist, a Neo-romantic and a traditionalist. This detailed biography dispels the myth of such interpretation and for the first time places him securely within the modernist canon. In his persuasive analysis Andrew McPherson reveals the tight relationship of Gillies's art to personal experience from the trauma of family history to the 'theatre' of war, both of which were counterbalanced by the attraction of new European art. McPherson reveals how Gillies's grief at the early death of his artist sister Emma became formalised through his art. A thorough and skilful analysis of selected art works identifies many signifiers of remembrance over time. This is a compelling book which closely interrogates art and in so doing not only repositions a modest and sensitive artist but also illuminates the nature of Scottish art in the central decades of the twentieth century." -Elizabeth Cumming, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh

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Book SynopsisGardens were both a setting and showcase for nearly every aspect of social and daily life at the royal court during the early Islamic period in Western Asia. Safa Mahmoudian uses ?a wide range of ?primary source materials including ??contemporary ??Arabic manuscripts, together with archaeological ?reports, aerial ?photographs, and archaeologists? letters ?and diaries.? ?Through close readings of this evidence, Mahmoudian creates a picture of these gardens in their historical, architectural and environmental contexts and examines various factors that influenced their design and placement. In doing so, Mahmoudian adds to our understanding of these gardens and palaces and, ultimately, early Islamic-period court culture as a whole.

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Book SynopsisToward the end of the nineteenth century much of Iran?s architectural heritage gave way to urban development. Among the casualties were the seventeenth-century Safavid palaces of Isfahan. Local dealers salvaged a series of astonishingly beautiful pictorial arch-shaped panels composed of cuerda seca tiles from one of these. Beginning in 1911 whole panels and many single tiles were sold through Hagop Kevorkian. The authors have assembled (digitally) 36 friezes once part of this set.The iconographic program consisted of three themes: secular pastimes (picnics, hunt, games), Persian literary episodes, and religious festivals (e.g., the Ashura). The first two themes have a long history in Iranian mural painting, but the third was new and will be of interest to cultural historians. The friezes are stylistically datable to c. 1685-95. One clue to the identity of the original site is the duplication of almost all the friezes. The authors deduce that the scenes were paired across a courtyard and suggest three possible sites. Fully assembled, the suite emerges as a hitherto unknown, outstanding creation that should be added to the canon of Safavid art.

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