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.
Visual Redress in Africa from Indigenous and New Materialist Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Elmarie Costandius, Gera de Villiers
December 19, 2024
Through an indigenous and new materialist thinking approach, this book discusses various examples in Africa where colonial public art, statues, signs and buildings were removed or changed after countries’ independence. An African perspective on these processes will bring new understandings and ...
Art in Ukraine Between Identity Construction and Anti-Colonial Resistance
1st Edition
Edited
By Svitlana Biedarieva
November 29, 2024
This edited volume traces the development of art practices in Ukraine from the 2004 Orange Revolution, through the 2013–2014 Revolution of Dignity, to the ongoing Russian war of aggression. Contributors explore how transformations of identity, the emergence of participatory democracy, relevant ...
WPA Posters in an Aesthetic, Social, and Political Context: A New Deal for Design
1st Edition
By Cory Pillen
October 14, 2024
This book examines posters produced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a federal relief program designed to create jobs in the United States during the Great Depression.Cory Pillen focuses on several issues addressed repeatedly in the roughly 2,200 extant WPA posters created between 1935 ...
Soviet Socialist Realism and Art in the Asia-Pacific
1st Edition
By Alison Carroll
October 08, 2024
This study evaluates how the ideology of Socialist Realism, developed by the Soviets in policies and the practices of art, has been influential in the Asia-Pacific region from 1917 until today. Focusing primarily on Russia, then China, Vietnam, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and ...
Terrorism and the Arts: Practices and Critiques in Contemporary Cultural Production
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Harris
October 08, 2024
This book assesses the key definitions, forms, contexts and impacts of terrorist activity on the arts in the modern era, using historical and contemporary perspectives. Its empirical case studies include theatre, literature, music, visual art, mass media, film and the mores of ‘ordinary life.’ ...
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, ...
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 Danish Avant-Garde and World War II: The Helhesten Collective
1st Edition
By Kerry Greaves
January 21, 2023
This is the first book to focus on Helhesten (The Hell-Horse), an avant-garde artists’ collective active during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and one of the few tangible connections between radical European art groups from the 1920s to the 1960s. The Danes’ deliberately unskilled painterly ...
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 ...