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   An Introduction to Design and Culture

   1900 to the Present, 3rd Edition
   
   By Penny Sparke
   
   This third edition of An Introduction to Design and Culture has been revised and updated throughout to include issues of globalization, sustainability and digital/interactive design.

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   Fifty Key Writers on Photography

   Edited by Mark Durden
   
   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   Fifty Key Writers on Photography is a clear and concise survey of some of the most significant writers on photography who have played a major part in defining and influencing our understanding of the medium.

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   Visual Communication on the Web

   By xtine burrough and Paul Martin Lester

   Most web design books developed for the trade market are a series of exercises without a theoretical, aesthetic, or historic framework. In this book, Visual Communication on the Web, web design exercises are accompanied by concise introductions. 

   Includes a free one-year subscription to the Interactive e-Text version.

   
   

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   Have you seen the companion website?

   Did you know Reframing Photography is more than just a textbook? We have a wide range of online resources available at the book's companion website, including updated information on equipment and further activities, information and links to related sites.
    

5. 

   Image Studies

   Theory and Practice
   
   By Sunil Manghani

   Now Available

   This title offers an engaging introduction to visual and image studies.

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   New Games: Postmodernism After Contemporary Art

   Pamela M. Lee’s New Games revisits postmodernism in light of art history's more recent embrace of "the contemporary." What can the theories and practices associated with postmodernism tell us about the obsession with the contemporary in both the academy and the art world? With a critical introduction by Johanna Burton, New Games is the fourth and penultimate volume in Routledge’s series of short books on the theories of modernism by leading art historians on twentieth-century art and art criticism.

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   Review: Contemporary British Art

   Thanks to Art History for reviewing Routledge title: Contemporary British Art By Grant Pooke http://bit.ly/PNzxBB

   'Grant Pooke’s Contemporary British Art is one of the first (if not the first) survey books to be written on the art produced in Britain between 1987 and 2007, and a thorough account of recent artists, art practices and thematic tendencies is provided. Works of art are carefully described and discussed in a clear, jargon-free style, making this book accessible to a wide audience; it will undoubtedly become a mainstay of school and undergraduate reading lists.' - Art History

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   Rave Reviews for ‘Reframing Photography’

   Thanks to philly artblog blog and we make money not art for their reviews of Reframing Photography By Rebekah Modrak & Bill Anthes:

   'Reframing Photography, the 560-page encyclopedic book on the subject includes everything about photography and then some. The book is for students, teachers and those in the self-taught orbit who want to do it themselves with a little help.' - philly artblog blog
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   ‘...the content is literally mind-blowing. Bringing together rigorous theory, idiot proof “how to” tutorials, artistic works that illustrate each concept and method might sound a bit too much for a sole book written by only two authors but somehow, it works. Theory, techniques and illustrative works complement each other efficiently.’ - we make money not art
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   New Textbook: Visual Sociology By Douglas Harper

   Visual sociology has been part of the sociological vocabulary since the 1970s, but until now there has not been a comprehensive text that introduces this area. Written by one of the founding fathers in the field, Visual Sociology explores how the world that is seen, photographed, drawn, or otherwise represented visually is different from the world that is represented through words and numbers.

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    The Fashion History Reader wins at Art Association of Australia and New Zeland

    We are delighted to announce that The Fashion History Reader has been awarded a prize for 'Best Edited Book' at the Art Association of Australia and NZ - (AAANZ): Art Historians of Australasia, Annual General Meeting, held earlier this month.