Dusty Bob

Dusty BobDusty Bob provides a detailed and highly illustrated study of a trade central to the well being of Victorian London that of the metropolitan dustman. Using an wide range of sources, especially prints and illustrations, this book shows, for the first time, why dustmen provided a subject for so many Victorian artists, writers and dramatists.

Drawing on work from media scholars and practitioners

or designing a structure

This book gives a critical account of four of the most significant avant-garde Chinese art groups and associations of the late 1970s and ’80s

a group of audacious middle- and upper-class British women volunteers who nursed and worked as driver-mechanics during the First World War

budget negotiations in the USA

Drawing asks why artists and designers use drawing in that way to kick-start their creative thinking

This book focuses on men’s bodies

or the Korean Wave

It also poses a specific challenge for some filmmakers who seek to apply surrealist ideas and approaches when making feature-length narrative films

Through other voices

Practising the Real on the Contemporary Stage examines the responses given by performing arts to the importance placed on reality beyond representation

polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture