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.
Place-As-Medium and New Grounds for Thinking in Contemporary Art
1st Edition
By Katherine Paige Farrington
December 26, 2025
This book presents a broad scope of global contemporary art projects, establishing a new philosophical framework to understand and evaluate the new art practice known as “place-as‑medium.” This new category of art practice creates artworks that deepen our belonging to place by asking us to think ...
Art Historical Perspectives on the Portrayal of Animal Death: 1550–1950
1st Edition
By Roni Grén
December 25, 2025
This study concentrates on the discourses around animal death in arts and the ways they changed over time. Chapter topics span from religious symbolism to natural history cabinets, from hunting laws to animal rights, from economic history to formalist views on art. In other words, the book asks why...
The Aesthetics of Image and Cultural Form: The Formal Method
1st Edition
By Yi Chen
December 25, 2025
Offering an alternative mode of visual cultural analysis to the prevalent discursive model, this book proposes to situate analysis of Image within ‘formal’ analyses of culture experience. Specifically, the discussion draws on theories of affective aesthetics with the view of addressing the sensual ...
Contemporary Art and Forced Displacement: Methods of Intervention and Cultural Resilience
1st Edition
By Chrisoula Lionis
December 10, 2025
This book urges for an understanding of contemporary art as being core to creative responses which intervene in the lived experience of forced displacement. Contemporary Art and Forced Displacement explores art practice which moves beyond mere representation toward practical intervention across ...
Behaviourist Art and Cybernetics: Mapping a Field
1st Edition
By Kate Sloan
September 28, 2025
Drawing together key areas of cybernetic art practice in the UK and USA, this book assesses British and American cybernetic art as relating to the intersecting field of Behaviourism. This study takes as a starting point Roy Ascott’s essay ‘Behaviourist Art and the Cybernetic Vision’ (1966) and uses...
Caribbean and Latinx Street Art in Miami
1st Edition
By Jana Evans Braziel
September 28, 2025
This study focuses on street art and large-scale murals in metropolitan Miami/Dade County, while also foregrounding the diasporic and aesthetic interventions made by migrant and second-generation artists whose families hail from the Caribbean and Latin America. Jana Evans Braziel argues that ...
Images, Reality, and Digital Culture: Towards a Post-Pictorial Condition
1st Edition
Edited
By Krešimir Purgar
September 28, 2025
Focusing on the moment of transition from the pictorial to the post-pictorial condition, this book advocates the opinion that what fundamentally distinguishes pictorial representation in Western civilization is one’s ability to distinguish what the picture shows from what the picture refers to, and...
Transcultural Histories of Art and Artisanal Epistemologies: Knowledge to Be Made
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...