Five Art History staff publications announced
The Department of Art History has recently announced the publication of several new titles from researchers and academics, each covering vastly unique and insightful subject matter. Details of each publication can be found below, from ground-breaking critiques to inspiring artbooks. Dr Charlie Miller Radical Picasso: The Use Value of Genius Radical Picasso , Lecturer in Art History and Theory, Dr Charlie Miller, has dispensed with the privatised clichés that have dominated the reception of modernism's most celebrated oeuvre, Pablo Picasso, and instead observes the artist's practice as an assemblage whose density and agitation, negativity and excess, cannot be contained by hero worship, nor its inverse. Ranging across histories of art, literature, philosophy, and science, Miller critiques the Picasso myth, rethinks cubism and surrealism, and in the process transforms our understanding of European modernism. Dr Claire Reddleman Pennine Street Pennine Street is an art book that deals in movement, adopting the format of a walking guidebook to an imagined route that Lecturer in Digital Humanities, Dr Claire Reddleman, has coined 'Pennine Street 2012.' This route, a mash-up of the Pennine Way and High Street 2012, is designed to be a space between the empirical and the imagined, a progression from Aldgate to Stratford in an imagined procession toward an equivocal end point. Dr Colin Trodd Ford Madox Brown: The Manchester Murals and the Matter of History Senior Lecturer, Dr Colin Trodd, extends his expertise to the work of Ford Madox Brown, specifically to the British painter's murals in the Great Hall of Manchester Town Hall.
