Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
About the Book Series
This series is our home for innovative research in the fields of art and visual studies. It includes monographs and targeted edited collections that provide new insights into visual culture and art practice, theory, and research.
Arts and Extractivism in the Global Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Liliana Gómez, Alexander Brust
May 06, 2026
Through the lens of contemporary art, this book focuses on social ecologies and those spaces that are characterized, on the one hand, by a high degree of biodiversity, and on the other, by a long history of the extraction of resources, (neo)colonial relationships, and extractivism. Contributors ...
Critical Approaches to Art, Race and Coloniality in Eastern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Dorota Jagoda Michalska, Marta Zboralska
March 31, 2026
Building on recent scholarship that challenges the supposed historical isolation of Eastern European art from the colonial matrix of power, this book critiques the sometimes uncritical application of established Western postcolonial and decolonial theories to the region's visual production. Instead...
Place-As-Medium and New Grounds for Thinking in Contemporary Art
1st Edition
By Katherine Paige Farrington
December 26, 2025
This book presents a broad scope of global contemporary art projects, establishing a new philosophical framework to understand and evaluate the new art practice known as “place-as‑medium.” This new category of art practice creates artworks that deepen our belonging to place by asking us to think ...
Art Historical Perspectives on the Portrayal of Animal Death: 1550–1950
1st Edition
By Roni Grén
December 25, 2025
This study concentrates on the discourses around animal death in arts and the ways they changed over time. Chapter topics span from religious symbolism to natural history cabinets, from hunting laws to animal rights, from economic history to formalist views on art. In other words, the book asks why...
The Aesthetics of Image and Cultural Form: The Formal Method
1st Edition
By Yi Chen
December 25, 2025
Offering an alternative mode of visual cultural analysis to the prevalent discursive model, this book proposes to situate analysis of Image within ‘formal’ analyses of culture experience. Specifically, the discussion draws on theories of affective aesthetics with the view of addressing the sensual ...
Contemporary Art and Forced Displacement: Methods of Intervention and Cultural Resilience
1st Edition
By Chrisoula Lionis
December 10, 2025
This book urges for an understanding of contemporary art as being core to creative responses which intervene in the lived experience of forced displacement. Contemporary Art and Forced Displacement explores art practice which moves beyond mere representation toward practical intervention across ...
Behaviourist Art and Cybernetics: Mapping a Field
1st Edition
By Kate Sloan
September 28, 2025
Drawing together key areas of cybernetic art practice in the UK and USA, this book assesses British and American cybernetic art as relating to the intersecting field of Behaviourism. This study takes as a starting point Roy Ascott’s essay ‘Behaviourist Art and the Cybernetic Vision’ (1966) and uses...
Caribbean and Latinx Street Art in Miami
1st Edition
By Jana Evans Braziel
September 28, 2025
This study focuses on street art and large-scale murals in metropolitan Miami/Dade County, while also foregrounding the diasporic and aesthetic interventions made by migrant and second-generation artists whose families hail from the Caribbean and Latin America. Jana Evans Braziel argues that ...
Images, Reality, and Digital Culture: Towards a Post-Pictorial Condition
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Edited
By Krešimir Purgar
September 28, 2025
Focusing on the moment of transition from the pictorial to the post-pictorial condition, this book advocates the opinion that what fundamentally distinguishes pictorial representation in Western civilization is one’s ability to distinguish what the picture shows from what the picture refers to, and...
Postmodernism and Video Art: Criticism, Ideology, and Politics
1st Edition
By Liz Kim
August 21, 2025
Liz Kim traces the theories and artistic practices that articulated American experimental video through its key works and events, art critical discourse, as well as the politics of its funding and distribution during the 1970s into the 1980s, focusing on New York. This is a historical examination...
Transcultural Histories of Art and Artisanal Epistemologies: Knowledge to Be Made
1st Edition
Edited
By Claire Farago, Susan Lowish, Jens Baumgarten
August 10, 2025
This edited volume de-familiarizes European conceptions of artistry and thinks its history anew. It represents a rethinking on a global stage of some of the most fundamental assumptions in what were once arguably helpful methodological tools in art history. As chapters in this book demonstrate, the...
Postinternet Art and Its Afterlives
1st Edition
By Ian Rothwell
July 30, 2025
Focusing on the ‘postinternet’ art of the 2010s, this volume explores the widespread impact of recent internet culture on the formal and conceptual concerns of contemporary art. The ‘postinternet’ art movement is splintered and loosely defined, both in terms of its form and its politics, and has ...