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.
Transcultural Histories of Art and Artisanal Epistemologies: Knowledge to Be Made
1st Edition
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By Claire Farago, Susan Lowish, Jens Baumgarten
August 10, 2025
This edited volume de-familiarizes European conceptions of artistry and thinks its history anew. It represents a rethinking on a global stage of some of the most fundamental assumptions in what were once arguably helpful methodological tools in art history. As chapters in this book demonstrate, the...
Postinternet Art and Its Afterlives
1st Edition
By Ian Rothwell
July 30, 2025
Focusing on the ‘postinternet’ art of the 2010s, this volume explores the widespread impact of recent internet culture on the formal and conceptual concerns of contemporary art. The ‘postinternet’ art movement is splintered and loosely defined, both in terms of its form and its politics, and has ...
Figurations of Peripheries Through Arts and Visual Studies: Peripheries in Parallax
1st Edition
Edited
By Maiju Loukola, Mari Mäkiranta, Jonna Tolonen
June 26, 2025
This edited volume breaks new ground for understanding peripheries and peripherality by providing a multidisciplinary cross-exposure through a collection of chapters and visual essays by researchers and artists. The book is a collection of approaches from several disciplines where the spatial, ...
Pedagogical Art in Activist and Curatorial Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Izabel Galliera, Noni Brynjolson
June 23, 2025
This edited volume highlights the historical, philosophical and theoretical legacies of pedagogical art and examines its connections with various forms of activism and institutional transformation. Chapters reveal interconnected concerns related to institutional power structures, systemic racism, ...
Arts-Based Interventions and Social Change in Europe
1st Edition
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By Andrea Kárpáti
May 05, 2025
This book presents 23 successful arts-based efforts to respond to social problems experienced by disadvantaged communities. The arts are a powerful means of fighting discrimination, marginalisation, neglect and even poverty. The educational programmes described in these chapters help stakeholders ...
The Artist-Philosopher in the Age of Addiction: Heidegger’s Climatology
1st Edition
By George Smith
March 16, 2025
George Smith argues that modern humanity suffers from a late-stage, pre-fatal addiction to scientific-technological thinking. Like most pre-fatal addictions, this one will most likely result in one of three ways: misery, extinction, or human transformation. The question remains, wherein lies the ...
Crosscurrents in Australian First Nations and Non-Indigenous Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Scott, Helen McDonald, Caroline Jordan
January 30, 2025
This edited collection examines art resulting from cross-cultural interactions between Australian First Nations and non-Indigenous people, from the British invasion to today. Focusing on themes of collaboration and dialogue, the book includes two conversations between First Nations and ...
Aesthetics, Gender, and Disability in Interactive Digital Art and Performance Art
1st Edition
By Phaedra Shanbaum
November 29, 2024
This book explores the tensions between aesthetics, gender, and disability in contemporary digital media installations and performance art. Notions of agency and subjectivity are connected to four contemporary political issues (artificial intelligence, migration and political violence, contemporary...
Geneses of Postmodern Art: Technology As Iconology
1st Edition
By Paul Crowther
October 14, 2024
Postmodernism in the visual arts is not just another 'ism.' It emerged in the 1960s as a transformation of artistic creativity inspired by Duchamp's idea that the artwork does not have to be physically made by its creator. Products of mass culture and technology can be used just as well as ...
Art, Agency and the Continued Assault on Authorship
1st Edition
By Simon Blond
October 07, 2024
This book presents a counter-history to the relentless critique of the humanist subject and authorial agency that has taken place over the past fifty years. It is both an interrogation of that critique and the tracing of an alternative narrative from Romanticism to the twenty-first century which ...
Art, the Sublime, and Movement: Spaced Out
1st Edition
By Amanda du Preez
October 07, 2024
This book is a critical interdisciplinary approach to the study of contemporary visual culture and image studies, exploring ideas about space and place and ultimately contributing to the debates about being human in the digital age. The upward and downward pull seem in a constant contest for ...
Art-Based Research in the Context of a Global Pandemic
1st Edition
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By Usva Seregina, Astrid Van den Bossche
October 07, 2024
Living through the Covid-19 global pandemic has changed the way that we experience our lives, the way that we relate to one-another, and the way that we engage with the world. Focusing contextually on the initial lockdowns of the pandemic in 2020, this book proposes that art-based research has a ...