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The New Art History

Mark Crinson

Mark Crinson is Professor of Art History at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a board member of ABE Journal (Architecture Beyond Europe) and also vice-president of the European Architectural History Network. His previous books include Stirling and Gowan: Architecture from Austerity to Affluence (2012; winner of the Historians of British Art Prize, 2014) and Modern Architecture and the End of Empire (2003; winner of the Spiro Kostof Prize, 2006). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Richard J. Williams

Richard J. Williams is Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has written and edited several books, including Regenerating Culture and Society (2011) and After Modern Sculpture (2000), and is a frequent contributor to The Times Higher on architecture and urbanism related topics. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Architecture of Art History : A Historiography

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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...At some point in 1986, the London-based publishing house Camden Press put out a little book, The New Art History, edited by A. L. Rees and Frances Borzello (Figure 5.1).A. L. Rees and Frances Borzello (eds), The New Art History (London...

Place and Loss

Jessica Dubow

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The Intelligence of Place : Topographies and Poetics

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...All the new thinking is about loss/In this it resembles all the old thinking.1. Every person has a place of their own, even if it is unclear where that place is and what forms of attachment it entails. In the simplest sense we inhabit...

The Council of Industrial Design: Official Articulations of Street Furniture Design

Eleanor Herring

Eleanor Herring lectures in design history at Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, in product design at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and in fashion and sustainability at ESMOD, Berlin, Germany. She has published articles in various edited volumes and conference proceedings. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Street Furniture Design : Contesting Modernism in Post-War Britain

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...By the early 1940s, the view that an official machine was necessary to ensure better standards in design was shared by many parties, both in and outside of government. Neither the Design and Industries Association nor the Council for Art...

Black Rod and the Three Knocks on the Door

Peter Blundell Jones

Peter Blundell Jones is Professor of Architecture at the University of Sheffield, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Architecture And Ritual : How Buildings Shape Society

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...Black Rod knocks at the door of the Commons, Opening of Parliament 2014 (photograph by Jessica Taylor, licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0).Black Rod approaching the Commons (photograph by Jessica Taylor, licensed under the Open...

Conclusion

Tim Edensor

Tim Edensor is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Industrial Ruins : Spaces, Aesthetics and Materiality

Berg, 2005

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...(The form of ruins) ‘must be respected as integrity, embodying a history that must not be denied. In their damaged states they suggest new forms of thought and comprehension, and suggest new conceptions of space that confirm the potential...

Introduction

Sarah Elsie Baker

Sarah Baker is Lecturer in Culture and Context at the School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She has researched and published numerous articles focussed on consumption and domestic space. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Retro Style : Class, Gender and Design in the Home

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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...On Saturday, May 26, 2007, the Guardian Weekend magazine published a special retro issue consisting of articles about retro food, cars, fashion, gardens and homes. The style section of the magazine featured enthusiasts in their living rooms...

Originality and Authenticity in the Post-War Reconstruction of Britain

Peter J. Larkham

Peter J. Larkham

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David Adams

David Adams

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Authentic Reconstruction : Authenticity, Architecture and the Built Heritage

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Introduction The concept of ‘authenticity’, however defined, seems rather at odds with almost all of the planned and built reconstruction of British towns and cities following the Second World War. There was indeed damage and destruction...

Authoring the neighbourhood in Wikipedia

Rebecca Ross

Rebecca Ross

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Chi Nguyen

Chi Nguyen

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Engaged Urbanism : Cities & Methodologies

I.B. Tauris, 2016

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...In June 2014, we convened a community event targeted at those who live and work in the King’s Cross area of London with the objective of analysing and expanding upon the existing entry in Wikipedia (the crowd-sourced encyclopedia...

Sweetening Colonialism: A Mauritian Themed Resort

Tim Edensor

Tim Edensor is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Uma Kothari

Uma Kothari

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Architecture and Tourism : Perception, Performance and Place

Berg, 2004

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...Introduction In this chapter, we explore the production of a themed resort in Mauritius, a tropical island located off the African coast east of Madagascar, in order to discuss critically the often dystopian view that themed space...

Enclosure

Imogen Racz

Imogen Racz is Senior Lecturer in Art History at Coventry University. Her publications include Contemporary Crafts (2009), as well as many articles related to sculpture and object-based art. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Art and The Home : Comfort, Alienation and the Everyday

I.B.Tauris, 2015

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...In his autobiographical work ‘A Berlin chronicle’ Walter Benjamin describes the childhood walks that he took around Berlin with his nurse and mother, and frequent visits to his relatives. To get to the apartment where Aunt Lehmann lived, he...