Forthcoming Contemporary Art Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Culturally Relevant Arts Education for Social Justice

   A Way Out of No Way

   Edited by Mary Stone Hanley, Gilda L Sheppard, George W. Noblit, Thomas Barone

   A groundswell of interest has led to significant advances in understanding and using Culturally Responsive Arts Education to promote social justice and education. This landmark volume provides a theoretical orientation to these endeavors. Examining a range of efforts across different forms of art,...

   To Be Published April 18th 2013 by Routledge
2. For Creative Geographies

   Geography, Visual Arts and the Making of Worlds

   By Harriet Hawkins

   Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

   This book provides the first sustained critical exploration, and celebration, of the relationship between Geography and the contemporary Visual Arts. With the growth of research in the Geohumanities and the Spatial Humanities, there is an imperative to extend and deepen considerations of the form...

   To Be Published July 7th 2013 by Routledge
3. Art and Ethics in a Material World

   Kant’s Pragmatist Legacy

   By Jennifer McMahon

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   In this book, McMahon argues that a reading of Kant’s body of work in the light of a pragmatist theory of meaning and language (which arguably is a Kantian legacy) leads one to put community reception ahead of individual reception in the order of aesthetic relations. A core premise of the book is...

   To Be Published July 24th 2013 by Routledge
4. Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture

   Edited by Lewis Johnson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

   This volume offers a varied and informed series of approaches to questions of mobility—actual, social, virtual, and imaginary—as related to visual culture. Contributors address these questions in light of important contemporary issues such as migration; globalization; trans-nationality and...

   To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Crime and the Urban Imagination

   Law, Space and the Art of the Streets

   By Alison Young

   Crime and the Urban Imagination investigates the practices of street art and graffiti as cultural practices at the borders of legality and illegality. Street art has become a highly significant part of the ways in which people shape their urban surroundings. Cities are engaged in a continual...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. An Introduction to Electronic Art Through the Teaching of Jacques Lacan: Strangest Thing

   By David Schwarz

   To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge