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.
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 ...
Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Jennie Hirsh, Isabelle Loring Wallace
May 31, 2023
Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within contemporary art. Engaging with issues of voice, embodiment, power, and projection, the case studies assembled in this volume span a range of media from ...
Dialogues Between Artistic Research and Science and Technology Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Henk Borgdorff, Peter Peters, Trevor Pinch
February 07, 2023
This edited volume maps dialogues between science and technology studies research on the arts and the emerging field of artistic research. The main themes in the book are an advanced understanding of discursivity and reasoning in arts-based research, the methodological relevance of material ...
Art and Merchandise in Keith Haring’s Pop Shop
1st Edition
By Amy Raffel
January 09, 2023
As one of the first academic monographs on Keith Haring, this book uses the Pop Shop, a previously overlooked enterprise, and artist merchandising as tools to reconsider the significance and legacy of Haring’s career as a whole. Haring developed an alternative approach to both the marketing ...
Art and Nature in the Anthropocene: Planetary Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Susan Ballard
January 09, 2023
This book examines how contemporary artists have engaged with histories of nature, geology, and extinction within the context of the changing planet. Susan Ballard describes how artists challenge the categories of animal, mineral, and vegetable—turning to a multispecies order of relations that ...
Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art: Poetic Cartography
1st Edition
By Simonetta Moro
January 09, 2023
Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art, through the concept of poetic cartography. The problem of mapping, although indebted to ...
Artistic Cartography and Design Explorations Towards the Pluriverse
1st Edition
Edited
By Satu Miettinen, Enni Mikkonen, Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos, Melanie Sarantou
December 19, 2022
This edited volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to art and design that not only reframes but also repositions agendas and actions to address fragmented global systems. Contributors explore the pluriverse of art and design through epistemological and methodological considerations. What kinds...
Arts-Based Methods for Decolonising Participatory Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Tiina Seppälä, Melanie Sarantou, Satu Miettinen
December 19, 2022
In an effort to challenge the ways in which colonial power relations and Eurocentric knowledges are reproduced in participatory research, this book explores whether and how it is possible to use arts-based methods for creating more horizontal and democratic research practices. In discussing both ...
Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa Blackmore, Liliana Gómez
December 19, 2022
This interdisciplinary book brings into dialogue research on how different fluids and bodies of water are mobilised as liquid ecologies in the arts in Latin America and the Caribbean. Examining the visual arts, including multimedia installations, performance, photography and film, the chapters ...
The Iconology of Abstraction: Non-figurative Images and the Modern World
1st Edition
Edited
By Krešimir Purgar
December 19, 2022
This book uncovers how we make meaning of abstraction, both historically and in present times, and examines abstract images as a visual language. The contributors demonstrate that abstraction is not primarily an artistic phenomenon, but rather arises from human beings’ desire to imagine, ...
The Outsider, Art and Humour
1st Edition
By Paul Clements
May 20, 2020
This cross-disciplinary book, situated on the periphery of culture, employs humour to better comprehend the arts, the outsider and exclusion, illuminating the ever-changing social landscape, the vagaries of taste and limits of political correctness. Each chapter deals with specific themes and ...