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.
Social Practice Art in Turbulent Times: The Revolution Will Be Live
1st Edition
Edited
By Eric J. Schruers, Kristina Olson
June 14, 2022
This volume is an anthology of current groundbreaking research on social practice art. Contributing scholars provide a variety of assessments of recent projects as well as earlier precedents, define approaches to art production, and provide crucial political context. The topics and art projects ...
Modernity, History, and Politics in Czech Art
1st Edition
By Marta Filipová
June 13, 2022
This book traces the influence of the changing political environment on Czech art, criticism, history, and theory between 1895 and 1939, looking beyond the avant-garde to the peripheries of modern art. The period is marked by radical political changes, the formation of national and regional ...
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 ...
Reframing Migration, Diversity and the Arts: The Postmigrant Condition
1st Edition
By Moritz Schramm, Sten Pultz Moslund, Anne Ring Petersen, Mirjam Gebauer, Hans Christian Post, Sabrina Vitting-Seerup, Frauke Wiegand
September 30, 2021
This book offers a compelling study of contemporary developments in European migration studies and the representation of migration in the arts and cultural institutions. It introduces scholars and students to the new concept of ‘postmigration’, offering a review of the origin of the concept (in ...
Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary China: Voices from Below
1st Edition
By Meiqin Wang
June 30, 2021
This book provides an in-depth and thematic analysis of socially engaged art in Mainland China, exploring its critical responses to and creative interventions in China’s top-down, pro-urban, and profit-oriented socioeconomic transformations. It focuses on the socially conscious practices of eight ...
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 ...