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.
Methodologies for Graffiti and Street Art Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonna Tolonen, Mari Myllylä
September 21, 2026
This book explores theoretical approaches, methods, and practices for executing graffiti and street art research. The book provides insight into the methods around an exponentially growing area within visual studies. Graffiti and street art research has been criticised for utilising methods ...
Aesthetics, Gender, and Disability in Interactive Digital Art and Performance Art
1st Edition
By Phaedra Shanbaum
July 20, 2026
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...
Art, Elitism, Authenticity and Liberty: Navigating Paradox
1st Edition
By Paul Clements
July 20, 2026
This book excavates the depths of creative purpose and meaning-making and the extent to which artist autonomy and authenticity in art is a struggle against psychological conditioning, controlling cultural institutions and markets, key to which is representation. The chapters are underpinned by ...
Intermedial Art Practices as Cultural Resilience
1st Edition
Edited
By Lindsay Blair, Camille Manfredi
July 20, 2026
This innovative collection of essays is focused on the idea of transmedialization: the ways that the traditional forms of the predominantly oral cultures of Scotland and Brittany (poetry, song and story) can be transformed by the use of hybrid forms and new digital technologies. The volume ...
The Artist-Philosopher in the Age of Addiction: Heidegger’s Climatology
1st Edition
By George Smith
June 22, 2026
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 ...
Critical Approaches to Art, Race and Coloniality in Eastern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Dorota Jagoda Michalska, Marta Zboralska
June 15, 2026
Building on recent scholarship that challenges the supposed historical isolation of Eastern European art from the colonial matrix of power, this book responds to the sometimes uncritical application of established Western postcolonial and decolonial theories to the region’s visual production. ...
Craft and Design Practice from an Embodied Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Nithikul Nimkulrat, Camilla Groth
May 21, 2026
This book brings together contributors from multiple disciplines, such as crafts, design, art education, cognitive philosophy, and sociology, to discuss craft and design practice from an embodied perspective. Through theoretical overviews of embodied cognition and research-based cases that involve ...
Arts and Extractivism in the Global Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Liliana Gómez, Alexander Brust
May 05, 2026
Through the lens of contemporary art, this book focuses on social ecologies and those spaces that are characterized, on the one hand, by a high degree of biodiversity and, on the other, by a long history of the extraction of resources, (neo)colonial relationships, and extractivism. Contributors ...
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 ...