Forthcoming Contemporary Art Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Creative Geographies

   Geography, Visual Art and the Making of Worlds

   By Harriet Hawkins

   Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

   Since the publication of Iconography of the Landscape and Fields of Vision, wherein the valuable contribution of the analysis of representational landscape painting, among other creative practices, to debates on landscape, space, politics and power was realized, geography’s engagements with the...

   To Be Published March 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. 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...

   To Be Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
3. 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 a significant advance in understanding and using the arts to promote social justice and education. This landmark volume provides a theoretical orientation to these endeavors— Culturally Responsive Arts Education. Examining a range of efforts across...

   To Be Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
4. 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 May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. 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 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. 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
7. Strangest Thing: An Introduction to Electronic Art Through the Teaching of Jacques Lacan

   By David Schwarz

   To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge