Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of New Media Art

Global in scope and exclusive to Bloomsbury, the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of New Media Art is the first authoritative global reference on all aspects new media art, its history, theory, artists, practice, curation, and culture.

The collection spans digital art, film and video art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art, video games, computer robotics, 3D printing, aspects of performance art, and art as biotechnology.

Contemporary Art

Covering a diverse range of themes including disability and art, hip hop graffiti as art, and the relationship between creativity, ecological crisis and political change, this collection address contemporary art and artists from a diverse, global, range of perspectives.

The authoritative and varied range of titles support teaching and research around art in the context of an increasingly globalized world, this is an unmissable resource for students and scholars of art history, fine art, visual culture, and related visual arts fields.

Art Markets, Museums and Collecting

Art Markets, Museums and Collecting offers cornerstone historical insight and study into the emerging field of art markets studies and the contemporary art market.

Including books from Bloomsbury’s ground-breaking ‘Contextualising Art Markets’ research series, as well as Taylor and Francis and Amsterdam University Press, this wide-ranging and diverse collection examines art and commerce, provenance, art collecting, and curation.

The collection explores vital topics in the field of art market studies such as art dealers, heritage and museology, and tackles key issues including corporate patronage, cultural property, and the ethics of trading in and collecting global art.

Titles include Women Art Dealers by Véronique Chagnon-Burke and Caterina Toschi, Museums, Refugees and Communities by Domenico Sergi, and Théodore Rousseau and the Rise of the Modern Art Market by Simon Kelly.

Art and Material Culture

The Art and Material Culture collection is carefully curated to provide in-depth insight into interdisciplinary approaches to art and materiality. Encompassing topics such as the anthropology of art, art and the senses, the body and emotions, this collection includes a rich variety of titles across a range of art forms, including ceramics, sculpture, textiles, jewellery, and engravings.

The collection combines field-defining research by Amsterdam University Press through their Visual and Material Culture 1300-1700 series and Bloomsbury's Material Cultures of Art and Design series, among other influential studies – now cross-searchable with unprecedented scope.

This is an indispensable resource for students and scholars of art history, material culture, and related fields.

Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture

Filling a major gap in architectural historiography - the first authoritative reference to women architects and their work, and to key terms for gender and feminism in architecture. With over 1,000 entries and 600 images, covering 135 countries, all fully cross-searchable and browsable by theme, online and exclusive to the platform.

Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World 2nd edition

Exclusive to the platform, the definitive resource for the study of the world’s vernacular and traditional building cultures. The second edition of this classic work will present a major development in the field, its expanded scope capturing two decades of concerted effort to document and understand the world’s fast-disappearing traditional and vernacular building cultures.

It will feature 3,000 illustrated entries written by the world’s leading scholars of vernacular architecture and material culture, all fully cross-searchable and browsable by theme.