Art & Visual Culture

In this new text, Jae Emerling argues that the most insightful way to approach the histories of photography is to address simultaneously the key events of photographic history alongside the theoretical discourse that accompanied them. Order a complimentary examination copy if you teach a related course.

Seeing Differently offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture, from early modern beliefs that art is an expression of an individual, the painted image a "world picture" expressing a comprehensive and coherent point of view, to the rise of identity politics after WWII in the art world and beyond.

The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts is a major collection of new writings on research in the creative and performing arts by leading authorities from around the world. It provides theoretical and practical approaches to identifying, structuring and resolving some of the key issues in the debate about the nature of research in the arts which have surfaced during the establishment of this subject over the last decade.

Few phenomena are as formative of our experience of the visual world as displays of suffering. Engaging with a wide range of visual media--from painting, theater, and sculpture, to photography, movie, and video--this interdisciplinary collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars of visual culture offers a reappraisal of the increasingly complex relationship between images of pain and the ethics of viewing.

With the emerging dominance of digital technology, the time is ripe to reconsider the nature of the image. What are the key moments in the genealogy of the Western image which might illuminate the present status of the image? And what exactly is the situation to which we have arrived as far as the image is concerned? These are the questions guiding the reflections in this book.

Visit our new roundup of the recent highlights from our media and culture books. We've gathered together key books and further suggested reading for four areas witinlcuding photography and visual culture, media and democracy, internet and new media, and movie studies.

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