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.
Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice: Techne/Technique/Technology
1st Edition
Edited
By Camille C Baker, Kate Sicchio
December 10, 2019
This book focuses on the artistic process, creativity and collaboration, and personal approaches to creation and ideation, in making digital and electronic technology-based art. Less interested in the outcome itself – the artefact, artwork or performance – contributors instead highlight the ...
Looking Beyond Borderlines: North America's Frontier Imagination
1st Edition
By Lee Rodney
December 10, 2019
American territorial borders have undergone significant and unparalleled changes in the last decade. They serve as a powerful and emotionally charged locus for American national identity that correlates with the historical idea of the frontier. But the concept of the frontier, so central ...
Perception and Agency in Shared Spaces of Contemporary Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Cristina Albu, Dawna Schuld
December 10, 2019
This book examines the interconnections between art, phenomenology, and cognitive studies. Contributors question the binary oppositions generally drawn between visuality and agency, sensing and thinking, phenomenal art and politics, phenomenology and structuralism, and subjective involvement and ...
Performing Beauty in Participatory Art and Culture
1st Edition
By Falk Heinrich
December 10, 2019
This book investigates the notion of beauty in participatory art, an interdisciplinary form that necessitates the audience’s agential participation and that is often seen in interactive art and technology-driven media installations. After considering established theories of beauty, for example, ...
W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory: Living Pictures
1st Edition
Edited
By Krešimir Purgar
December 10, 2019
W.J.T. Mitchell – one of the founders of visual studies – has been at the forefront of many disciplines such as iconology, art history and media studies. His concept of the pictorial turn is known worldwide for having set new philosophical paradigms in dealing with our vernacular visual world....
Art : Process : Change: Inside a Socially Situated Practice
1st Edition
By Loraine Leeson
September 11, 2019
This book brings a practitioner’s insight to bear on socially situated art practice through a first-hand glimpse into the development, organisation and delivery of art projects with social agendas. Issues examined include the artist’s role in building creative frameworks, the relationship of ...
The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials: Spectacles of Critique, Theory and Art
1st Edition
By Panos Kompatsiaris
August 08, 2019
Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category of art is meant to be in perpetual motion, rearranged and redefined, opening itself to the world and its contradictions. They are sites of a seemingly peaceful cohabitation between the elitist and ...
Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art: Seeing with Maps
1st Edition
By Claire Reddleman
June 04, 2019
In this book, Claire Reddleman introduces her theoretical innovation "cartographic abstraction" – a material modality of thought and experience that is produced through cartographic techniques of depiction. Reddleman closely engages with selected artworks (by contemporary artists such as Joyce ...
What Drawing and Painting Really Mean: The Phenomenology of Image and Gesture
1st Edition
By Paul Crowther
May 14, 2019
There are as many meanings to drawing and painting as there are cultural contexts for them to exist in. But this is not the end of the story. Drawings and paintings are made, and in their making embody unique meanings that transform our perception of space-time and sense of finitude. These meanings...
Visualizing War: Emotions, Technologies, Communities
1st Edition
Edited
By Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Kathrin Maurer
May 07, 2019
Wars have always been connected to images. From the representation of war on maps, panoramas, and paintings to the modern visual media of photography, film, and digital screens, images have played a central role in representing combat, military strategy, soldiers, and victims. Such images evoke a ...
Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing
1st Edition
Edited
By Asbjørn Grønstad, Henrik Gustafsson, Øyvind Vågnes
June 28, 2018
The first book of its kind, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing engages broadly with the often too neglected yet significant questions of gesture in visual culture. In our turbulent mediasphere where images – as lenses bearing on their own circumstances – are constantly mobilized to enact...
Installation Art and the Practices of Archivalism
1st Edition
By David Houston Jones
June 28, 2018
On the leading edge of trauma and archival studies, this timely book engages with the recent growth in visual projects that respond to the archive, focusing in particular on installation art. It traces a line of argument from practitioners who explicitly depict the archive (Samuel Beckett, ...