Modern Art Books

New and Published Books

1. Theorizing Visual Studies

   Writing Through the Discipline

   Edited by James Elkins, Kristi McGuire, Maureen Burns, Alicia Chester, Joel Kuennen

   This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media studies, visual anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, and aesthetics. The product of a...

   Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. 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
3. Children's Culture and the Avant-Garde

   Painting in Paris, 1890-1915

   By Marilynn Olson

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This volume explores the mutual influences between children’s literature and the avant-garde. Olson places particular focus on fin-de-siècle Paris, where the Avant-garde was not unified in thought and there was room for modernism to overlap with children’s literature and culture in the Golden Age....

   Published August 24th 2012 by Routledge
4. Legislating Creativity

   The Intersections of Art and Politics

   By Dustin Kidd

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   How does political policy-making shape the creative activities of artists? Do the political interests of artists influence actual political practices in any way? Legislating Creativity examines the relationship between art and politics through an analysis of controversial art projects tied to the...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
5. Meanings of Abstract Art

   Between Nature and Theory

   Edited by Paul Crowther, Isabel Wünsche

   Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

   Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "of". Abstract art, in contrast, either adopts alternative modes of visual representation or reconfigures mimetic convention. This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature (...

   Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge
6. 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
7. ORLAN

   A Hybrid Body of Artworks

   Edited by Simon Donger, Simon Shepherd

   ORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks is an in-depth academic account of ORLAN's pioneering art in its entirety. The book covers her career in performance and a range of other art forms. This single accessible overview of ORLAN's practices describes and analyses her various innovative...

   Published May 19th 2010 by Routledge
8. Pictorial Narrative in the Nazi Period

   Felix Nussbaum, Charlotte Salomon and Arnold Daghani

   By Deborah Schultz, Edward Timms

   This book investigates creative responses to the Nazi period in the work of three artists, Felix Nussbaum, Charlotte Salomon and Arnold Daghani, focusing on their use of pictorial narrative. It analyses their contrasting aesthetic strategies and their innovative forms of artistic production. In...

   Published April 22nd 2009 by Routledge
9. Modern Art Culture

   A Reader

   Edited by Francis Frascina

   Modern Art Culture: A Reader provides an essential resource for understanding the culture of modern art since the 1960s. In recent years, media theorists and historians have asked whether works of imaginative art can have any impact in our image-saturated culture. Given the power of institutions,...

   Published December 11th 2008 by Routledge
10. Modern Art: A Critical Introduction

    2nd Edition

    By Pam Meecham, Julie Sheldon

    Modern Art: A Critical Introduction traces the historical and contemporary contexts for understanding modern art movements, and the theories that influenced and attempted to explain them. Its radical approach foregoes the chronological approach to art movements in favour of looking at the ways in...

    Published November 24th 2004 by Routledge