Routledge Focus on Art History and Visual Studies
About the Book Series
Routledge Focus on Art History and Visual Studies presents short-form books on varied topics within the fields of art history and visual studies.
Robert Motherwell, Abstraction, and Philosophy
1st Edition
By Robert Hobbs
January 29, 2024
Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book breaks new ground by considering how Robert Motherwell’s abstract expressionist art is indebted to Alfred North Whitehead’s highly original process metaphysics. Motherwell first encountered Whitehead and his work as a philosophy graduate student ...
Performance, Art, and Politics in the African Diaspora: Necropolitics and the Black Body
1st Edition
By Myron M. Beasley
March 29, 2023
This book examines necropolitics and performance art, with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora. In this book, Myron M. Beasley situates artists as cultural workers and theorists who illuminate the political linkages between their own and others’ specific locales. The focus...
The Power and Fluidity of Girlhood in Henry Darger’s Art
1st Edition
By Leisa Rundquist
January 09, 2023
This book is the first to examine Henry Darger’s conceptual and visual representation of “girls” and girlhood. Specifically, Leisa Rundquist charts the artist’s use of little girl imagery—his direct appropriations from mainstream sources as well as girls modified to meet his needs—in contexts that ...
Duchamp, Aesthetics and Capitalism
1st Edition
By Julian Jason Haladyn
June 14, 2022
This book is a significant re-thinking of Duchamp’s importance in the twenty-first century, taking seriously the readymade as a critical exploration of object-oriented relations under the conditions of consumer capitalism. The readymade is understood as an act of accelerating art as a discourse, of...
Post-Conflict Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Unfinished Histories
1st Edition
By Uroš Čvoro
February 01, 2022
At a time of dramatic struggles over monuments around the world, this book examines monuments that have been erected in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) since 1996. Examining the historical precedents for the high rate of monumentbuilding, and its links to ongoing political instability ...
Advancing a Different Modernism
1st Edition
By S.A. Mansbach
September 30, 2021
Advancing a Different Modernism analyzes a long-ignored but formative aspect of modern architecture and art. By examining selective buildings by the Catalan architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner (1850-1923) and by the Slovenian designer Jože Plecnik (1872-1957), the book reveals the fundamental ...
Migrations, Arts and Postcoloniality in the Mediterranean
1st Edition
By Celeste Ianniciello
September 30, 2021
This book is focused on the transcultural memory of the Mediterranean region and the different ways it is articulated by contemporary art practices and museum projects linked to migrations, exile, diaspora and transnationality. The artistic and curatorial examples analysed in this study articulate ...
Contemporary Sculpture and the Critique of Display Cultures: Tainted Goods
1st Edition
By Dan Adler
June 30, 2020
In this book, Dan Adler addresses recent tendencies in contemporary art toward assemblage sculpture and how these works incorporate tainted materials – often things left on the side of the road, according to the logic and progress of the capitalist machine – and combine them in ways that allow each...