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.
Abstract Painting and the Minimalist Critiques: Robert Mangold, David Novros, and Jo Baer in the 1960s
1st Edition
By Matthew L. Levy
September 30, 2021
This book undertakes a critical reappraisal of Minimalism through an examination of three key painters: Robert Mangold, David Novros, and Jo Baer. By establishing their substantive engagements with Minimalist discourse, as well as their often overlooked artistic exchanges with their sculptor peers,...
Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene in Nineteenth-Century Art and Visual Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Maura Coughlin, Emily Gephart
September 30, 2021
In this volume, emerging and established scholars bring ethical and political concerns for the environment, nonhuman animals and social justice to the study of nineteenth-century visual culture. They draw their theoretical inspiration from the vitality of emerging critical discourses, such as new ...
Play and the Artist’s Creative Process: The Work of Philip Guston and Eduardo Paolozzi
1st Edition
By Elly Thomas
September 30, 2021
Play and the Artist’s Creative Process explores a continuity between childhood play and adult creativity. The volume examines how an understanding of play can shed new light on processes that recur in the work of Philip Guston and Eduardo Paolozzi. Both artists’ distinctive engagement with popular ...
Portraiture and Critical Reflections on Being
1st Edition
By Euripides Altintzoglou
September 30, 2021
This book analyzes the philosophical origins of dualism in portraiture in Western culture during the Classical period, through to contemporary modes of portraiture. Dualism – the separation of mind from body - plays a central part in portraiture, given that it supplies the fundamental framework for...
Theory of the Art Object
1st Edition
By Paul Crowther
September 30, 2021
Meaning in the visual arts centers on how the physical work makes its content or presence visible. The art object is fundamental. Indeed, the different object forms of each visual medium allows our experience of space-time, and our relations to other people, to be aesthetically embodied in unique ...
Bridging Communities through Socially Engaged Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Alice Wexler, Vida Sabbaghi
June 30, 2021
Promoting the expansion of art in society and education, this book highlights the significance of the arts as an instrument of social justice, inclusion, equity, and protection of the environment. Including twenty-seven diverse case studies of socially engaged art practice with groups like the ...
Artistic Visions of the Anthropocene North: Climate Change and Nature in Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Gry Hedin, Ann-Sofie N. Gremaud
March 31, 2021
In the era of the Anthropocene, artists and scientists are facing a new paradigm in their attempts to represent nature. Seven chapters, which focus on art from 1780 to the present that engages with Nordic landscapes, argue that a number of artists in this period work in the intersection between art...
Contemporary Artists Working Outside the City: Creative Retreat
1st Edition
By Sarah Lowndes
March 31, 2021
This book reflects on the motivations of creative practitioners who have moved out of cities from the mid-1960s onwards to establish creative homesteads. The book focuses on desert exile painter Agnes Martin, radical filmmaker and gardener Derek Jarman, and iconoclastic conceptual artist Chris ...
Design and Visual Culture from the Bauhaus to Contemporary Art: Optical Deconstructions
1st Edition
By Edit Tóth
September 30, 2020
This book complements the more textually-based Bauhaus scholarship with a practice-oriented and creative interpretive method, which makes it possible to consider Bauhaus-related works in an unconventional light. Edit Toth argues that focusing on the functionalist approach of the Bauhaus has ...
Film and Modern American Art: The Dialogue between Cinema and Painting
1st Edition
By Katherine Manthorne
September 30, 2020
Between the 1890s and the 1930s, movie going became an established feature of everyday life across America. Movies constituted an enormous visual data bank and changed the way artist and public alike interpreted images. This book explores modern painting as a response to, and an appropriation of, ...
The Aesthetics of Scientific Data Representation: More than Pretty Pictures
1st Edition
Edited
By Lotte Philipsen, Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard
September 30, 2020
How can cartoon images aid in understanding bacterial biological processes? What prompts physicists to blur their images before showing them to biologists? Considering that the astronomer’s data consists solely of invisible, electric impulses, what is the difference between representing outer space...
Wonder in Contemporary Artistic Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Christian Mieves, Irene Brown
September 30, 2020
Wonder has an established link to the history and philosophy of science. However, there is little acknowledgement of the relationship between the visual arts and wonder. This book presents a new perspective on this overlooked connection, allowing a unique insight into the role of wonder in ...