Art & Visual Culture Books

New and Published Books

1. Lean Design Management

   Edited by Stephen Emmitt

   Series: Architectural Engineering and Design Management

   The fields of design management and lean construction appear to be developing independently. This volume brings together authors from four continents to argue that lean thinking should be integral to design management in the fields of architecture, engineering and construction (AEC). The...

   Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge
2. Live Art in LA

   Performance in Southern California, 1970 - 1983

   Edited by Peggy Phelan

   Live Art in LA: Performance Art in Southern California , 1970-1983 documents and critically examines one of the most fecund periods in the history of live art. The book forms part of the Getty Institute’s Pacific Standard Time initiative – a series of exhibitions, performance re-enactments and...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
3. Modern Orthodoxies

   Judaic Imaginative Journeys of the Twentieth Century

   By Lisa Mulman

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This study introduces a genuine, provocative religious vocabulary into the discourse on Modernist art and literature. Mulman looks at key texts and figures of the Modern period, including Henry Roth, Amedeo Modigliani, James Joyce, and Art Spiegelman, revealing a significant engagement with the...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Florentine Villa

   Architecture History Society

   By Grazia Gobbi Sica

   Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

   Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use and exchange between the countryside and the walled city of Florence, from the thirteenth century up to the present day....

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. The City Rehearsed

   Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

   By Christopher Heuer

   Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

   The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Archaeologies of Presence

   Edited by Gabriella Giannachi, Nick Kaye, Michael Shanks

   Archaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performance theory and archaeological thinking. Drawing together carefully commissioned contributions by leading international scholars and artists, this...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
7. Digital Drama

   Teaching and Learning Art and Media in Tanzania

   By Paula Uimonen

   Series: Innovative Ethnographies

   The aim of this book is to explore digital media and intercultural interaction at an arts college in Tanzania, through innovative forms of ethnographic representation. The book and the series website weave together visual and aural narratives, interviews and observations, life stories and video...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
8. Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future

   By John Lechte

   Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

   With the emerging dominance of digital technology, the time is ripe to reconsider the nature of the image. Some say that there is no longer a phenomenal image, only disembodied information (0-1) waiting to be configured. For photography, this implies that a faith in the principle of an "...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Ethics and Images of Pain

   Edited by Asbjørn Grønstad, Henrik Gustafsson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

   Few phenomena are as formative of our experience of the visual world as displays of suffering. But what does it mean to have an ethical experience of disturbing or traumatizing images? What kind of ethical proposition does an image of pain mobilize? How may the spectator learn from and make use of...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
10. Speaking with Pictures

    Folk Art and the Narrative Tradition in India

    By Roma Chatterji

    Series: Critical Asian Studies

    Speaking with Pictures is a path-breaking exploration of visual narratives in folk art. Instead of talking of the recovery of narrativity in Indian modernism through the idiom of folk art, as art critics sometimes do, this book foregrounds folk art’s engagement with modernity by re-looking at its...

    Published March 29th 2012 by Routledge India