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Master Narratives and their Discontents
In this bracing engagement with the many versions of art history, James Elkins argues that the story of modernism and postmodernism is almost always told…
read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97270-3 (Routledge)
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Theory for Art History
Adapted from Theory for Religious Studies, by William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal
Theory for Art History provides clear and concise introductions to thirty key figures of contemporary theory: four essential predecessors – Freud, Marx, Nietzsche, and Saussure…
read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97364-9 (Routledge)
Life and Early Works
The volume begins with overviews of Michelangelo's life and work and contains more focused essays on the artist's political thought and his chief biographers, Ascanio… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-1823-1 (Routledge)
Writing Back to Modern Art
After Greenberg, Fried and Clark
Here for the first time is a full-length study of the 'critical modernisms' of the three leading art writers of the second half of the…
read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32429-8 (Routledge)
Installation Art
Installation is one of the most popular and widespread forms of contemporary art. Installation Art provides the first clear account of the rise of installation… read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97412-7 (Routledge)
The Politics of Heritage
The Legacies of Race
While 'social inclusion' and 'cultural diversity' circulate frenetically as buzzwords, are we really ready to accept that ideas about 'race' and 'ethnicity', rather than being… read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32211-9 (Routledge)
Modern Art: A Critical Introduction
2nd Edition
Modern Art: A Critical Introduction traces the historical and contemporary contexts for understanding modern art movements, and the theories that influenced and attempted to explain… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28194-2 (Routledge)
Revealing Art
Why does art matter to us, and what makes it good? Why is the role of imagination so important in art? Illustrated with carefully chosen… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27854-6 (Routledge)
On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art
Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art "a religion assembled from the fragments of our daily life," but does that…
read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96989-5 (Routledge)
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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