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-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, ...
Art, Cybernetics and Pedagogy in Post-War Britain: Roy Ascott’s Groundcourse
1st Edition
By Kate Sloan
October 01, 2022
This is the first full-length study about the British artist Roy Ascott, one of the first cybernetic artists, with a career spanning seven decades to date. The book focuses on his early career, exploring the evolution of his early interests in communication in the context of the rich overlaps ...
Digital Art, Aesthetic Creation: The Birth of a Medium
1st Edition
By Paul Crowther
July 15, 2022
Is art created with computers really art? This book answers ‘yes.’ Computers can generate visual art with unique aesthetic effects based on innovations in computer technology and a Postmodern naturalization of technology wherein technology becomes something we live in as well as use. The present ...
Art, Animals, and Experience: Relationships to Canines and the Natural World
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Sutton
July 12, 2022
Elizabeth Sutton, using a phenomenological approach, investigates how animals in art invite viewers to contemplate human relationships to the natural world. Using Rembrandt van Rijn’s etching of The Presentation in the Temple (c. 1640), Joseph Beuys’s social sculpture I Like America and America ...
Contemporary Citizenship, Art, and Visual Culture: Making and Being Made
1st Edition
Edited
By Corey Dzenko, Theresa Avila
July 12, 2022
Taking citizenship as a political position, cultural process, and intertwining of both, this edited volume examines the role of visual art and visual culture as sites for the construction and contestation of both state-sanctioned and cultural citizenships from the late 1970s to today. Contributors ...
Arte Ambientale, Urban Space, and Participatory Art
1st Edition
By Martina Tanga
June 14, 2022
Working in 1970s Italy, a group of artists—namely Ugo La Pietra, Maurizio Nannucci, Francesco Somaini, Mauro Staccioli, Franco Summa, and Franco Vaccari—sought new spaces to create and exhibit art. Looking beyond the gallery, they generated sculptural, conceptual, and participatory interventions, ...
Popularisation and Populism in the Visual Arts: Attraction Images
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Schober
June 14, 2022
This book investigates the pictorial figurations, aesthetic styles and visual tactics through which visual art and popular culture attempt to appeal to "all of us". One key figure these practices bring into play—the "everybody" (which stands for "all of us" and is sometimes a "new man" or a "new ...
The Concept of the Animal and Modern Theories of Art
1st Edition
By Roni Grén
June 14, 2022
This book examines the importance of the animal in modern art theory, using classic texts of modern aesthetics and texts written by modern artists to explore the influence of the human-animal relationship on nineteenth and twentieth century artists and art theorists. The book is unique due to its ...
The Digital Interface and New Media Art Installations
1st Edition
By Phaedra Shanbaum
June 14, 2022
This book is about the digital interface and its use in interactive new media art installations. It examines the aesthetic aspects of the interface through a theoretical exploration of new media artists, who create, and tactically deploy, digital interfaces in their work in order to question the ...
Contemporary Art and Disability Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Alice Wexler, John Derby
June 13, 2022
This book presents interdisciplinary scholarship on art and visual culture that explores disability in terms of lived experience. It will expand critical disability studies scholarship on representation and embodiment, which is theoretically rich, but lacking in attention to art. It is organized in...