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.
Posthuman and Nonhuman Entanglements in Contemporary Art and the Body
1st Edition
By Justyna Stępień
October 04, 2024
Disclosing the interconnectedness of human and nonhuman bodies, understood here as more/than/human entanglements, this book makes a crucial intervention into the field of contemporary artistic studies, exploring how art can conceptualize material boundaries of entangled beings/doings. Drawing on ...
Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics
1st Edition
By David Houston Jones
October 04, 2024
David Houston Jones builds a bridge between practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader field of activity which the forensic now designates, for example in performance and installation art as well as photography. Contemporary work in these ...
Intermedial Art Practices as Cultural Resilience
1st Edition
Edited
By Lindsay Blair, Camille Manfredi
September 20, 2024
This innovative collection of essays is focused on the idea of transmedialization: the ways that the traditional forms of the predominantly oral cultures of Scotland and Brittany (poetry, song and story) can be transformed by the use of hybrid forms and new digital technologies. The volume ...
Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral
1st Edition
Edited
By Max Ryynänen, Heidi Kosonen, Susanne Ylönen
August 26, 2024
This edited volume traces cultural appearances of disgust and investigates the varied forms and functions disgust takes and is given in both established and vernacular cultural practices. Contributors focus on the socio-cultural creation, consumption, reception, and experience of disgust, a ...
Technologies of the Self-Portrait: Identity, Presence and the Construction of the Subject(s) in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Art
1st Edition
By Gabriella Giannachi
August 26, 2024
This book demonstrates how artists have radically revisited the genre of the self-portrait by using a range of technologies and media that mark different phases in what can be described as a history of self- or selves-production. Gabriella Giannachi shows how artists constructed their presence, ...
The Arabesque from Kant to Comics
1st Edition
By Cordula Grewe
August 26, 2024
The Arabesque from Kant to Comics tracks the life and afterlife of the arabesque in its surprising transformation from an iconoclastic literary theory of early German Romanticism to aesthetic experimentation in both avant-garde art and popular culture. Its explosive growth in popularity was ...
Art, Elitism, Authenticity and Liberty: Navigating Paradox
1st Edition
By Paul Clements
August 20, 2024
This book excavates the depths of creative purpose and meaning-making and the extent to which artist autonomy and authenticity in art is a struggle against psychological conditioning, controlling cultural institutions and markets, key to which is representation. The chapters are underpinned by ...
Craft and Design Practice from an Embodied Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Nithikul Nimkulrat, Camilla Groth
July 30, 2024
This book brings together contributors from multiple disciplines, such as crafts, design, art education, cognitive philosophy, and sociology, to discuss craft and design practice from an embodied perspective. Through theoretical overviews of embodied cognition and research-based cases that involve ...
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 ...
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 ...