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The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader

Edited by Vanessa R. Schwartz, Jeannene M. Przyblyski

This Reader brings together, for the first time, key writings about the nineteenth century, a key period in contemporary discussion of visual culture.

Exploring such topics…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30866-3 (Routledge)

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Digital Currents

Art in the Electronic Age

By Margot Lovejoy

Digital Currents explores the growing impact of digital technologies on aesthetic experience and examines the major changes taking place in the role of the artist…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30781-9 (Routledge)

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Pictures and Tears

A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings

By JAMES ELKINS

Art Does art leave you cold? And is that what it's supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97053-2 (Routledge)

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Visual Studies

A Skeptical Introduction

By JAMES ELKINS

In his latest book, James Elkins offers a road map through the field of visual studies, describing its major concerns and its principal theoretical sources.…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96681-8 (Routledge)

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Vision and Difference

Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art, 3rd Edition

By Griselda Pollock

Griselda Pollock provides concrete historical analyses of key moments in the formation of modern culture to reveal the sexual politics at the heart of modernist…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30850-2 (Routledge)

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The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader

Edited by Amelia Jones

Bringing together key writings on art, film, architecture, popular culture, new media and other visual fields, this key reader combines classic texts by leading feminist…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26706-9 (Routledge)

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Stories of Art

By JAMES ELKINS

Stories of Art is James Elkins's intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-93943-0 (Routledge)

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Race-ing Art History

Critical Readings in Race and Art History

Edited by Kymberly N. Pinder

Race-ing Art History is the first comprehensive anthology to place issues of racial representation squarely on the canvas. Within these pages are representations of…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92761-1 (Routledge)

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Information Subject

By Mark Poster, Stanley Aronowitz

In this collection of essays and interviews, Mark Poster examines theoretical approaches and develops his own position on our information based society. He…

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2001 | Paperback: 978-9057012426 (Routledge)

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Blindness

The History of a Mental Image in Western Thought

By Moshe Barasch

Blindness is a remarkable study of how Western culture has imagined what it is like to be blind, especially as it is represented in that…

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2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92743-7 (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