Routledge Research in Art and Politics
About the Book Series
Routledge Research in Art and Politics is a new series focusing on politics and government as examined by scholars working in the fields of art history and visual studies. Proposals for monographs and edited collections on this topic are welcomed.
Street Art and Activism in the Greater Caribbean: Impossible States, Virtual Publics
1st Edition
By Jana Evans Braziel
October 07, 2024
Foregrounding street art in the capital cities of Cuba, Haiti, and Puerto Rico, this book argues that Antillean street artists diagnose the “impossible state” of the arrested present (colonized, occupied, or under dictatorship) while simultaneously imagining liberated futures and fully sovereign ...
Interrogating the Visual Culture of Trumpism
1st Edition
Edited
By Grant Hamming, Natalie E. Phillips
August 26, 2024
Bringing together scholars from art history, visual studies, and related disciplines, this edited volume asks why Trumpism looks the way it does and what that look means for American—and global—society. Grouped into six categories, the essays in this volume tackle some of the most perplexing—and ...
Dutch Neorealism, Cinema, and the Politics of Painting, 1927–1945
1st Edition
By Stephanie Lebas Huber
August 12, 2024
This study offers a radically new perspective on Dutch Neorealism, one that emphasizes the role of film as an apparatus, the effects of which, when emulated in painting, can reproduce the affective experience of film-watching. More of a tendency than a tightly defined style or "ism," Neorealism is ...
Politics and Heidegger’s Concept of Thinking in Contemporary Art
1st Edition
By Louise Carrie Wales
May 27, 2024
Responding to Heidegger’s stark warnings concerning the essence of technology, this book demonstrates art’s capacity to emancipate the life-world from globalized technological enframing. Louise Carrie Wales presents the work of five contemporary artists – Martha Rosler, Christian Boltanski, ...
Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 1825–1878
1st Edition
By Evan Robert Neely
May 01, 2024
Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 1825–1878 is an interdisciplinary work analyzing the historical origins of a dominant concept of Nature in the culture of the United States during the period of its expansion across the continent. Chapters analyze the ways in ...
Art and Politics During the Cold War: Poland and the Netherlands
1st Edition
By Michał Wenderski
February 29, 2024
Drawing on thousands of historical documents from Polish and Dutch archives, this book explores Cold War cultural exchange between so-called ‘smaller powers’ of this global conflict, which thus far has been predominately explored from the perspective of the two superpowers or more pivotal countries...
Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape
1st Edition
Edited
By Tijen Tunalı
September 25, 2023
Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape brings together various disciplinary perspectives and diverse theories on art’s dialectical and evolving relationship with urban regeneration processes. It engages in the accumulated discussions on art’s role in gentrification, yet changes...
The Political Portrait: Leadership, Image and Power
1st Edition
Edited
By Luciano Cheles, Alessandro Giacone
August 01, 2022
The leader's portrait, produced in a variety of media (statues, coins, billboards, posters, stamps), is a key instrument of propaganda in totalitarian regimes, but increasingly also dominates political communication in democratic countries as a result of the personalization and spectacularization ...
Art and Activism in the Age of Systemic Crisis: Aesthetic Resilience
1st Edition
Edited
By Eliza Steinbock, Bram Ieven, Marijke de Valck
January 31, 2022
This book examines how renewed forms of artistic activism were developed in the wake of the neoliberal repression since the 1980s. The volume shows the diverse ways in which artists have sought to confront systemic crises around the globe, searching for new and enduring forms of building ...
Italian Modern Art in the Age of Fascism
1st Edition
By Anthony White
September 30, 2021
This book examines the work of several modern artists, including Fortunato Depero, Scipione, and Mario Radice, who were working in Italy during the time of Benito Mussolini’s rise and fall. It provides a new history of the relationship between modern art and fascism. The study begins from the ...
Constructing the Memory of War in Visual Culture since 1914: The Eye on War
1st Edition
Edited
By Ann Murray
March 31, 2021
This collection provides a transnational, interdisciplinary perspective on artistic responses to war from 1914 to the present, analysing a broad selection of the rich, complex body of work which has emerged in response to conflicts since the Great War. Many of the creators examined here embody the ...