Art & Visual Culture News & Updates

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   The results are in! Our Open Access survey receives nearly 15,000 responses

   Almost 15,000 journal authors responded to our recent Open Access survey, conducted by our lovely brothers and sisters in Taylor & Francis Journals. The survey touched on a range of important questions, including peer review, licensing, re-use and metrics. Read the full report here.

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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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   Oscar nominations galore for the new Taylor & Francis (Routledge) eBooks video

   And the winner in the category of Best Short Film (Live Action) goes to ... eBooks for Libraries from Taylor & Francis (including all Routledge titles)! We are very proud of our new eBooks video (a bit too proud maybe). It gives you a great overview of what T&F eBooks are all about, how to trial them and how to purchase. Watch the vid here!

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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.
    

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   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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   It’s Official: Using Twitter Makes Students More Engaged

   Further affirming what you probably already know, Twitter is evidently one of the best tools for learning and becoming an engaged student. A new study solidifies the worth of Twitter for students. Read all about it here

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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