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.
Spiritual Art and Art Education
1st Edition
By Janis Lander
February 05, 2018
This book is a study of contemporary spirituality as it is practiced in the world today, characterized by its secular and inclusive nature, and applied to art and art education. It identifies the issues facing a formal introduction of contemporary spiritual concepts into a secular and multicultural...
How Folklore Shaped Modern Art: A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Wes Hill
January 03, 2018
Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the renewed relevance of what were previously considered "outsider" art practices, the emphasis on first-person ...
Play and Participation in Contemporary Arts Practices
1st Edition
By Timothy Stott
December 12, 2017
This book engages debates in current art criticism concerning the turn toward participatory works of art. In particular, it analyzes ludic participation, in which play and games are used organizationally so that participants actively engage with or complete the work of art through their play. Here ...
Urbanization and Contemporary Chinese Art
1st Edition
By Meiqin Wang
December 12, 2017
This book explores the relationship between the ongoing urbanization in China and the production of contemporary Chinese art since the beginning of the twenty-first century. Wang provides a detailed analysis of artworks and methodologies of art-making from eight contemporary artists who employ a ...
Representations of Pain in Art and Visual Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Pia Di Bella, James Elkins
May 24, 2017
The presentation of bodies in pain has been a major concern in Western art since the time of the Greeks. The Christian tradition is closely entwined with such themes, from the central images of the Passion to the representations of bloody martyrdoms. The remnants of this tradition are evident in ...
Ethics and Images of Pain
1st Edition
Edited
By Asbjørn Grønstad, Henrik Gustafsson
November 24, 2016
Few phenomena are as formative of our experience of the visual world as displays of suffering. But what does it mean to have an ethical experience of disturbing or traumatizing images? What kind of ethical proposition does an image of pain mobilize? How may the spectator learn from and make use of ...
Manga's Cultural Crossroads
1st Edition
Edited
By Jaqueline Berndt, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
November 08, 2016
Focusing on the art and literary form of manga, this volume examines the intercultural exchanges that have shaped manga during the twentieth century and how manga’s culturalization is related to its globalization. Through contributions from leading scholars in the fields of comics and Japanese ...
Meanings of Abstract Art: Between Nature and Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Crowther, Isabel Wünsche
October 10, 2016
Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "of". Abstract art, in contrast, either adopts alternative modes of visual representation or reconfigures mimetic convention. This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature (...
Art in the Asia-Pacific: Intimate Publics
1st Edition
Edited
By Larissa Hjorth, Natalie King, Mami Kataoka
September 08, 2015
As social, locative, and mobile media render the intimate public and the public intimate, this volume interrogates how this phenomenon impacts art practice and politics. Contributors bring together the worlds of art and media culture to rethink their intersections in light of participatory social ...
Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future
1st Edition
By John Lechte
July 03, 2014
With the emerging dominance of digital technology, the time is ripe to reconsider the nature of the image. Some say that there is no longer a phenomenal image, only disembodied information (0-1) waiting to be configured. For photography, this implies that a faith in the principle of an "...