Art & Visual Culture Books

New and Published Books

1. Critical Live Art

   Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

   Edited by Dominic Johnson

   Live Art is a contested category, not least because of the historical, disciplinary and institutional ambiguities that the term often tends to conceal. Live Art can be usefully defined as a peculiarly British variation on particular legacies of cultural experimentation – a historically and...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Politics and the Art of Commemoration

   Memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain

   By Katherine Hite

   Series: Interventions

   Memorials are proliferating throughout the globe. States recognize the political value of memorials: memorials can convey national unity, a sense of overcoming violent legacies, a commitment to political stability or the strengthening of democracy. Memorials represent fitful negotiations between...

   Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. Abolitionist Places

   Edited by Martha Schoolman, Jared Hickman

   From David Brion Davis's The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution to Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic, some of the most influential conceptualizations of the Atlantic World have taken the movements of individuals and transnational organizations working to advocate the abolition of slavery as...

   Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Pleasures of the Imagination

   English Culture in the Eighteenth Century

   By John Brewer

   The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
5. Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

   Edited by Liedeke Plate, Anneke Smelik

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
6. François Blondel

   Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution

   By Anthony Gerbino

   Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

   First director of the Académie royale d’architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today. Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated as...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
7. Directory of Museums, Galleries and Buildings of Historic Interest in the United Kingdom

   5th Edition

   This unique and important directory incorporates some 2,750 entries.It covers all types and sizes of museums; galleries of paintings, sculpture and photography; and buildings and sites of particular historic interest. It also provides an extensive index listing over 3,000 subjects. The Directory...

   Published February 24th 2013 by Routledge
8. Law and Art

   Justice, Ethics and Aesthetics

   Edited by Oren Ben-Dor

   In engaging with the full range of 'the arts', contributors to this volume consider the relationship between law, justice, the ethical and the aesthetic. Art continually informs the ethics of a legal theory concerned to address how theoretical abstractions and concrete oppressions overlook...

   Published February 19th 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish
9. Why Art Photography?

   By Lucy Soutter

   Contemporary art photography is paradoxical. Anyone can look at it and form an opinion about what they see, yet it represents critical positions that only a small minority of well-informed viewers can usually access. Why Art Photography? provides a lively, accessible introduction to the ideas...

   Published February 17th 2013 by Routledge
10. Interrogating Trauma

    Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media

    Edited by Mick Broderick, Antonio Traverso

    Throughout the past century, traumatic experiences have been re-enacted frequently by evolving media and art forms. Now there is a significant body of theory across academic disciplines focused on the representation of cataclysmic European and US historical events. However, less critical attention...

    Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge