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Visual Resources

1999 | Paperback: 978-9057005565 (Routledge)

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Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?

On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity

By JAMES ELKINS

With bracing clarity, James Elkins explores why images are taken to be more intricate and hard to describe in the twentieth century than they had…

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1999 | Paperback: 978-0-415-91942-5 (Routledge)

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Art Information and the Internet

How to Find it, How to Use It

By Lois Swan Jones

In the first book of its kind, art information expert Lois Swan Jones discusses how to locate visual and textual information on the Internet and…

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1998 | Hardback: 978-1-57958-095-7 (Routledge)

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England and its Aesthetes

Biography and Taste

By David Carrier

John Ruskin (1819-1900), Walter Pater (1839-1894), and Adrian Stokes (1902-1972) represent three generations of English aesthetes whose writings have transformed art history and the formations…

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1998 | Paperback: 978-9057012914 (Routledge)

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Difference / Indifference

Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage

By Moira Roth, Jonathan D. Katz

This book brings together for the first time Moira Roth's influential articles, lectures and interviews on the two men who embodied the very spirit of…

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1998 | Paperback: 978-9057013317 (Routledge)

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Giotto, Master Painter and Architect

Florence

Edited by Andrew Ladis

This four-volume set provides the most comprehensive collection of modern scholarly literature on the artist and his work. Assembling writings that are as disparate as…

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1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2725-7 (Routledge)

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Franciscanism, the Papacy, and Art in the Age of Giotto

Assisi and Rome

Edited by Andrew Ladis

This four-volume set provides the most comprehensive collection of modern scholarly literature on the artist and his work. Assembling writings that are as disparate as…

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1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2726-4 (Routledge)

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The Arena Chapel and the Genius of Giotto

Padua

Edited by Andrew Ladis

This four-volume set provides the most comprehensive collection of modern scholarly literature on the artist and his work. Assembling writings that are as disparate as…

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1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2774-5 (Routledge)

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Giotto as an Historical and Literary Figure

Miscellaneous Specialized Studies

Edited by Andrew Ladis

This four-volume set provides the most comprehensive collection of modern scholarly literature on the artist and his work. Assembling writings that are as disparate as…

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1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2773-8 (Routledge)

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Wake of Art

Criticism, Philosophy, and the Ends of Taste

By Arthur C. Danto, Gregg Horowitz, Tom Huhn, Saul Ostrow

Since the mid-1980s, Arthur C. Danto has been increasingly concerned with the implications of the demise of modernism. Out of the wake of modernist art,…

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1998 | Paperback: 978-9057013010 (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 26th 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