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 Leadership in Contemporary Contexts
1st Edition
By Josephine Caust
August 14, 2020
This book explores and critiques different aspects of arts leadership within contemporary contexts. While this is an exploration of ways arts leadership is understood, interpreted and practiced, it is also an acknowledgement of a changing cultural and economic paradigm. Understanding the broader ...
Changing Representations of Nature and the City: The 1960s-1970s and their Legacies
1st Edition
Edited
By Gabriel N. Gee, Alison Vogelaar
August 14, 2020
The turn of the 1960s-70s, characterized by the rapid acceleration of globalization, prompted a radical transformation in the perception of urban and natural environments. The urban revolution and related prospect of the total urbanisation of the planet, in concert with rapid population growth and ...
Photography and the Contemporary Cultural Condition: Commemorating the Present
1st Edition
By Peter D. Osborne
August 14, 2020
In this book, Osborne demonstrates why and how photography as photography has survived and flourished since the rise of digital processes, when many anticipated its dissolution into a generalised system of audio-visual representations or its collapse under the relentless overload of digital imagery...
The Evolution of the Image: Political Action and the Digital Self
1st Edition
Edited
By Marco Bohr, Basia Sliwinska
August 14, 2020
This volume addresses the evolution of the visual in digital communities, offering a multidisciplinary discussion of the ways in which images are circulated in digital communities, the meanings that are attached to them and the implications they have for notions of identity, memory, gender, ...
The Artist-Philosopher and New Philosophy
1st Edition
By George Smith
June 30, 2020
In The Artist-Philosopher and New Philosophy, Smith argues that Western Metaphysics has indeed come to what Heidegger describes as “an end.” That is hardly to say philosophy as such is over or soon to disappear; rather, its purpose as a medium of cultural change and as a generator of history has ...
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 ...
Collaborative Art in the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Sondra Bacharach, Siv B. Fjærestad, Jeremy Neil Booth
December 10, 2019
Collaboration in the arts is no longer a conscious choice to make a deliberate artistic statement, but instead a necessity of artistic survival. In today’s hybrid world of virtual mobility, collaboration decentralizes creative strategies, enabling artists to carve new territories and maintain ...
Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime
1st Edition
Edited
By Temenuga Trifonova
December 10, 2019
In the course of its long and tumultuous history the sublime has alternated between spatial and temporal definitions, from its conceptualization in terms of the grandeur and infinity of Nature (spatial), to its postmodern redefinition as an "event" (temporal), from its conceptualization in terms of...
Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice: Techne/Technique/Technology
1st Edition
Edited
By Camille C Baker, Kate Sicchio
December 10, 2019
This book focuses on the artistic process, creativity and collaboration, and personal approaches to creation and ideation, in making digital and electronic technology-based art. Less interested in the outcome itself – the artefact, artwork or performance – contributors instead highlight the ...
Looking Beyond Borderlines: North America's Frontier Imagination
1st Edition
By Lee Rodney
December 10, 2019
American territorial borders have undergone significant and unparalleled changes in the last decade. They serve as a powerful and emotionally charged locus for American national identity that correlates with the historical idea of the frontier. But the concept of the frontier, so central ...
Perception and Agency in Shared Spaces of Contemporary Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Cristina Albu, Dawna Schuld
December 10, 2019
This book examines the interconnections between art, phenomenology, and cognitive studies. Contributors question the binary oppositions generally drawn between visuality and agency, sensing and thinking, phenomenal art and politics, phenomenology and structuralism, and subjective involvement and ...
Performing Beauty in Participatory Art and Culture
1st Edition
By Falk Heinrich
December 10, 2019
This book investigates the notion of beauty in participatory art, an interdisciplinary form that necessitates the audience’s agential participation and that is often seen in interactive art and technology-driven media installations. After considering established theories of beauty, for example, ...