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.
W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory: Living Pictures
1st Edition
Edited
By Krešimir Purgar
December 10, 2019
W.J.T. Mitchell – one of the founders of visual studies – has been at the forefront of many disciplines such as iconology, art history and media studies. His concept of the pictorial turn is known worldwide for having set new philosophical paradigms in dealing with our vernacular visual world....
Art : Process : Change: Inside a Socially Situated Practice
1st Edition
By Loraine Leeson
September 11, 2019
This book brings a practitioner’s insight to bear on socially situated art practice through a first-hand glimpse into the development, organisation and delivery of art projects with social agendas. Issues examined include the artist’s role in building creative frameworks, the relationship of ...
The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials: Spectacles of Critique, Theory and Art
1st Edition
By Panos Kompatsiaris
August 08, 2019
Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category of art is meant to be in perpetual motion, rearranged and redefined, opening itself to the world and its contradictions. They are sites of a seemingly peaceful cohabitation between the elitist and ...
Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art: Seeing with Maps
1st Edition
By Claire Reddleman
June 04, 2019
In this book, Claire Reddleman introduces her theoretical innovation "cartographic abstraction" – a material modality of thought and experience that is produced through cartographic techniques of depiction. Reddleman closely engages with selected artworks (by contemporary artists such as Joyce ...
What Drawing and Painting Really Mean: The Phenomenology of Image and Gesture
1st Edition
By Paul Crowther
May 14, 2019
There are as many meanings to drawing and painting as there are cultural contexts for them to exist in. But this is not the end of the story. Drawings and paintings are made, and in their making embody unique meanings that transform our perception of space-time and sense of finitude. These meanings...
Visualizing War: Emotions, Technologies, Communities
1st Edition
Edited
By Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Kathrin Maurer
May 07, 2019
Wars have always been connected to images. From the representation of war on maps, panoramas, and paintings to the modern visual media of photography, film, and digital screens, images have played a central role in representing combat, military strategy, soldiers, and victims. Such images evoke a ...
Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing
1st Edition
Edited
By Asbjørn Grønstad, Henrik Gustafsson, Øyvind Vågnes
June 28, 2018
The first book of its kind, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing engages broadly with the often too neglected yet significant questions of gesture in visual culture. In our turbulent mediasphere where images – as lenses bearing on their own circumstances – are constantly mobilized to enact...
Installation Art and the Practices of Archivalism
1st Edition
By David Houston Jones
June 28, 2018
On the leading edge of trauma and archival studies, this timely book engages with the recent growth in visual projects that respond to the archive, focusing in particular on installation art. It traces a line of argument from practitioners who explicitly depict the archive (Samuel Beckett, ...
Photography and Place: Seeing and Not Seeing Germany After 1945
1st Edition
By Donna West Brett
April 25, 2018
As a recording device, photography plays a unique role in how we remember places and events that happened there. This includes recording events as they happen, or recording places where something occurred before the photograph was taken, commonly referred to as aftermath photography. This book ...
Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Lewis Johnson
February 06, 2018
This volume offers a varied and informed series of approaches to questions of mobility—actual, social, virtual, and imaginary—as related to visual culture. Contributors address these questions in light of important contemporary issues such as migration; globalization; trans-nationality and ...
On Not Looking: The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Frances Guerin
February 06, 2018
On Not Looking: The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture focuses on the image, and our relationship to it, as a site of "not looking." The collection demonstrates that even though we live in an image-saturated culture, many images do not look at what they claim, viewers often do not look at the ...
The Uses of Art in Public Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Julia Lossau, Quentin Stevens
February 06, 2018
This book links two fields of interest which are too seldom considered together: the production and critique of art in public space and social behaviour in the public realm. Whilst most writing about public art has focused on the aesthetic, cultural and political intentions and processes that shape...