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.
Counterfactualism in the Fine Arts
1st Edition
By Elke Reinhuber
May 27, 2024
Counterfactual thinking has become an established method to evaluate decisions in a range of disciplines, including history, psychology and literature. Elke Reinhuber argues it also has valuable applications in the fine arts and popular media. A fascination with the path not taken is a logical ...
Where is Art?: Space, Time, and Location in Contemporary Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Simone Douglas, Adam Geczy, Sean Lowry
May 27, 2024
Featuring chapters by a diverse range of leading international artists and theorists, this book suggests that contemporary art is increasingly characterized by the problem of where and when it is situated. While much advanced artistic speculation of the twentieth-century was aligned with the ...
The Aesthetics of Image and Cultural Form: The Formal Method
1st Edition
By Yi Chen
April 24, 2024
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 ...
Art Historical Perspectives on the Portrayal of Animal Death: 1550–1950
1st Edition
By Roni Grén
April 22, 2024
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...
Caribbean and Latinx Street Art in Miami
1st Edition
By Jana Evans Braziel
February 29, 2024
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 ...
Contemporary Art, Photography, and the Politics of Citizenship
1st Edition
By Vered Maimon
January 29, 2024
This book analyzes recent artistic and activist projects in order to conceptualize the new roles and goals of a critical theory and practice of art and photography. Vered Maimon argues that current artistic and activist practices are no longer concerned with the “politics of representation” and the...
Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe: Sarmatia Europea to Post-Communist Bloc
1st Edition
By Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius
January 29, 2024
Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe puts images centre stage and argues for the agency of the visual in the construction of Europe’s east as a socio-political and cultural entity. This book probes into the discontinuous processes of mapping the eastern European space and imaging the eastern ...
Art After Instagram: Art Spaces, Audiences, Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Lachlan MacDowall, Kylie Budge
September 25, 2023
This book explores the effects of the Instagram platform on the making and viewing of art. Authors Lachlan MacDowall and Kylie Budge critically analyse the ways Instagram has influenced artists, art spaces, art institutions and art audiences, and ultimately contemporary aesthetic experience. The ...
Contemporary Art and Capitalist Modernization: A Transregional Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Octavian Esanu
September 25, 2023
This book addresses the art historical category of "contemporary art" from a transregional perspective, but unlike other volumes of its kind, it focuses in on non-Western instantiations of "the contemporary." The book concerns itself with the historical conditions in which a radically new mode of ...
Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance
1st Edition
Edited
By Gwenn-Aël Lynn, Debra Riley Parr
September 25, 2023
This book claims a political value for olfactory artworks by situating them squarely in the contemporary moment of various forms of political resistance. Each chapter presents the current research and art practices of an international group of artists and writers from the United States, Canada, ...
The Contemporary Art Scene in Syria: Social Critique and an Artistic Movement
1st Edition
By Charlotte Bank
September 25, 2023
This book focuses on the expanding contemporary art scene in Syria, particularly Damascus, during the first decade of the twenty-first century. The decade was characterized by a high degree of experimentation as young artists began to work with artistic media that were new in Syria, such as ...
A History of Solar Power Art and Design
1st Edition
By Alex Nathanson
May 31, 2023
This book examines the history of creative applications of photovoltaic (PV) solar power, including sound art, wearable technology, public art, industrial design, digital media, building integrated design, and many others. The growth in artists and designers incorporating solar power into their ...