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.
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
Edited
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 ...
Race, Gender, and Identity in American Equine Art: 1832 to the Present
1st Edition
By Jessica Dallow
October 07, 2024
This book traces an evolution of equine and equestrian art in the United States over the last two centuries to counter conventional understandings of subjects that are deeply enmeshed in the traditions of elite English and European culture. In focusing on the construction of identity in painting ...
The Artist-Philosopher and Poetic Hermeneutics: On Trauma
1st Edition
By George Smith
October 07, 2024
Focusing on the aesthetic representation of trauma, George Smith outlines the nexus points between poetics and hermeneutics and shows how a particular kind of thinker, the artist-philosopher, practices interpretation in an entirely different way from traditional hermeneutics. Taking a ...
Posthuman and Nonhuman Entanglements in Contemporary Art and the Body
1st Edition
By Justyna Stępień
October 04, 2024
Disclosing the interconnectedness of human and nonhuman bodies, understood here as more/than/human entanglements, this book makes a crucial intervention into the field of contemporary artistic studies, exploring how art can conceptualize material boundaries of entangled beings/doings. Drawing on ...
Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics
1st Edition
By David Houston Jones
October 04, 2024
David Houston Jones builds a bridge between practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader field of activity which the forensic now designates, for example in performance and installation art as well as photography. Contemporary work in these ...
Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral
1st Edition
Edited
By Max Ryynänen, Heidi Kosonen, Susanne Ylönen
August 26, 2024
This edited volume traces cultural appearances of disgust and investigates the varied forms and functions disgust takes and is given in both established and vernacular cultural practices. Contributors focus on the socio-cultural creation, consumption, reception, and experience of disgust, a ...
Technologies of the Self-Portrait: Identity, Presence and the Construction of the Subject(s) in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Art
1st Edition
By Gabriella Giannachi
August 26, 2024
This book demonstrates how artists have radically revisited the genre of the self-portrait by using a range of technologies and media that mark different phases in what can be described as a history of self- or selves-production. Gabriella Giannachi shows how artists constructed their presence, ...
The Arabesque from Kant to Comics
1st Edition
By Cordula Grewe
August 26, 2024
The Arabesque from Kant to Comics tracks the life and afterlife of the arabesque in its surprising transformation from an iconoclastic literary theory of early German Romanticism to aesthetic experimentation in both avant-garde art and popular culture. Its explosive growth in popularity was ...
Counterfactualism in the Fine Arts
1st Edition
By Elke Reinhuber
May 27, 2024
Counterfactual thinking has become an established method to evaluate decisions in a range of disciplines, including history, psychology and literature. Elke Reinhuber argues it also has valuable applications in the fine arts and popular media. A fascination with the path not taken is a logical ...
Where is Art?: Space, Time, and Location in Contemporary Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Simone Douglas, Adam Geczy, Sean Lowry
May 27, 2024
Featuring chapters by a diverse range of leading international artists and theorists, this book suggests that contemporary art is increasingly characterized by the problem of where and when it is situated. While much advanced artistic speculation of the twentieth-century was aligned with the ...
Contemporary Art, Photography, and the Politics of Citizenship
1st Edition
By Vered Maimon
January 29, 2024
This book analyzes recent artistic and activist projects in order to conceptualize the new roles and goals of a critical theory and practice of art and photography. Vered Maimon argues that current artistic and activist practices are no longer concerned with the “politics of representation” and the...