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Who's Afraid of Conceptual Art?
What is conceptual art? Is it really a kind of art in its own right? Is it clever – or too clever?
Of all the different…
read moreOctober 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42282-6 (Routledge)
Aesthetics and Material Beauty
Aesthetics Naturalized
In Aesthetics and Material Beauty, Jennifer A. McMahon develops a new aesthetic theory she terms Critical Aesthetic Realism - taking Kantian aesthetics as a starting…
read moreJune 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-87425-0 (Routledge)

An Introduction to Visual Culture
2nd Edition
An Introduction to Visual Culture provides a wide-ranging introduction to the now established interdisciplinary field of visual culture.
Mapping a global history and theory of visual…
read moreMay 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32759-6 (Routledge)

Photography: A Critical Introduction
4th Edition
Photography: A Critical Introduction was the first introductory textbook to examine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political contexts,…
read moreMay 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46087-3 (Routledge)

The Object Reader
This unique collection frames the classic debates on objects and aims to generate new ones by reshaping the ways in which the object can be…
read moreFebruary 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45230-4 (Routledge)

Photography: Theoretical Snapshots
Over the past twenty-five years, photography has moved to centre-stage in the study of visual culture and has established itself in numerous disciplines. This trend…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47707-9 (Routledge)

Vermeer's Family Secrets
Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice
Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest Dutch painters and for some the single greatest painter of all, produced a remarkably small corpus of work. In…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96664-1 (Routledge)

Directory of Museums, Galleries and Buildings of Historic Interest in the United Kingdom
4th Edition
This unique and important directory incorporates some 2,700 entries.
It covers all types and sizes of museums; galleries of paintings, sculpture and photography; and buildings… read more
2008 | Hardback: 978-1-85743-489-7 (Routledge)

Sublime Economy
On the intersection of art and economics
Over the last two centuries, artists, critics, philosophers and theorists have contributed significantly to such representations of "the economy" as sublime. It might even be…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77191-7 (Routledge)

Making American Art
Making American Art presents a thematic, interdisciplinary examination of art in the United States from the seventeenth century to the present day.
The themes and issues…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42070-9 (Routledge)
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Forthcoming Titles:
Art and Human Development
By Constance Milbrath, Cynthia Lightfoot
To be published December 2nd 2009
Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier: Architecture, Space and the Construction of Subjectivity
By Lorens Holm
To be published December 15th 2009
Thinking Through Art: Reflections on Art as Research
Edited by Katy Macleod, Lin HoldridgeColin Beardon
To be published January 4th 2010
Network Art: Practices and Positions
Edited by Tom Corby
To be published January 4th 2010
The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader: Second Edition
Edited by Amelia Jones
To be published January 20th 2010
The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives
Edited by Giorgio Riello, Peter McNeil
To be published April 27th 2010
Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice
By Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes
To be published June 1st 2010
The Pictorial Turn
Edited by Neal Curtis
To be published June 1st 2010
Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination: Politics, Ethics, Affect
By Marsha Meskimmon
To be published July 1st 2010
The Continental Aesthetics Reader
Edited by Clive Cazeaux
To be published July 1st 2010
Global Design History
Edited by Glenn Adamson, Giorgio Riello, Sarah Teasley
To be published July 15th 2010
Walter Benjamin
By Barbara Engh
To be published October 1st 2010
