History of Art Books

New and Published Books

1. Fifty Key Writers on Photography

   Edited by Mark Durden

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   Fifty Key Writers on Photography is a clear and concise survey of some of the most significant writers on photography who have played a major part in defining and influencing our understanding of the medium. It provides a succinct overview of writing on photography from a diverse range of...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. A Portfolio Of Paintings And Drawings

   By Robert Palevitz

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. An Introduction to Design and Culture

   1900 to the Present, 3rd Edition

   By Penny Sparke

   This third edition of An Introduction to Design and Culture has been revised and updated throughout to include issues of globalization, sustainability and digital/interactive design. New for this edition is a chapter which covers key changes in design culture. Design culture has changed...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
4. New Games

   Postmodernism After Contemporary Art

   By Pamela M. Lee

   Series: Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts

   Pamela M. Lee’s New Games revisits postmodernism in light of art history's more recent embrace of "the contemporary." What can the theories and practices associated with postmodernism tell us about the obsession with the contemporary in both the academy and the art world? In looking at work by Dara...

   Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Birth of Western Painting (Routledge Revivals)

   A History of Colour, Form and Iconography

   By Robert Byron, David Talbot Rice

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1930, this book deals with Byzantine art, not as an isolated province, but as one intimately connected with the subsequent history of European painting. After a summary of the whole question in its relation to modern art, the second chapter opens with a novel analysis of the...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
6. The International Recording Industries

   Edited by Lee Marshall

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   The recording industry has been a major focus of interest for cultural commentators throughout the twenty-first century. As the first major content industry to have its production and distribution patterns radically disturbed by the internet, the recording industry’s content, attitudes and...

   Published October 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy

   By John Champagne

   Series: Popular Culture and World Politics

   Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy is an interdisciplinary historical re-reading of a series of representative texts that complicate our current understanding of the portrayal of masculinity in the Italian fascist era. Examining paintings, films, music and literature in light of...

   Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Visual Culture Reader

   3rd Edition

   Edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff

   Ten years after the last edition, this thoroughly revised and updated third edition of The Visual Culture Reader highlights the transformed and expanded nature of globalized visual cultures. It assembles key new writings, visual essays and specially commissioned articles, emphasizing the...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
9. 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
10. 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