Art & Visual Culture Textbooks

New and Published Textbooks

1. 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
2. Digital Drama

   Teaching and Learning Art and Media in Tanzania

   By Paula Uimonen

   Series: Innovative Ethnographies

   The aim of this book is to explore digital media and intercultural interaction at an arts college in Tanzania, through innovative forms of ethnographic representation. The book and the series website weave together visual and aural narratives, interviews and observations, life stories and video...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
3. Reading Architecture and Culture

   Researching Buildings, Spaces and Documents

   Edited by Adam Sharr

   Architecture displays the values involved in its inhabitation, construction, procurement and design. It traces the thinking of the individuals who have participated in it, their relationships, and their involvement in the cultures where they lived and worked. In this way, buildings, their details,...

   Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. To Design Landscape

   Art, Nature & Utility

   By Catherine Dee

   To Design Landscape sets out a distinctively practical philosophy of design, in accessible format. Based on the notion that landscape design is a form-based craft addressing environmental processes and utility, Dee establishes a framework for approaching such craft with modesty and ingenuity, using...

   Published January 5th 2012 by Routledge
5. Photography: History and Theory

   By Jae Emerling

   Photography: History and Theory introduces students to both the history of photography and critical theory. From its inception in the nineteenth century, photography has instigated a series of theoretical debates. In this new text, Jae Emerling therefore argues that the most insightful way to...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Sound Handbook

   By Tim Crook

   Series: Media Practice

   'Tim Crook has written an important and much-needed book, and its arrival on our shelves has come at a highly appropriate time.' Professor Seán Street, Bournemouth University The Sound Handbook maps theoretical and practical connections between the creation and study of sound across the multi-media...

   Published November 20th 2011 by Routledge
7. Critical Approaches to Comics

   Theories and Methods

   Edited by Matthew J. Smith, Randy Duncan

   Critical Approaches to Comics offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics. Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which...

   Published October 25th 2011 by Routledge
8. The Graphic Communication Handbook

   By Simon Downs

   Series: Media Practice

   The Graphic Communication Handbook is a comprehensive and detailed introduction to the theories and practices of the graphics industry. It traces the history and development of graphic design, explores issues that affect the industry, examines its analysis through communications theory, explains...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
9. Acting for Animators

   By Ed Hooks

   Ed Hooks' indispensable acting guidebook for animators has been fully updated and improved! Hooks uses basic acting theory to explain everything from character movement and facial expressions to interaction and scene construction. Just as acting on film and on stage are very different disciplines...

   Published August 8th 2011 by Routledge
10. Net Works

    Case Studies in Web Art and Design

    By xtine burrough

    Net Works offers an inside look into the process of successfully developing thoughtful, innovative digital media. In many practice-based art texts and classrooms, technology is divorced from the socio-political concerns of those using it. Although there are many resources for media theorists,...

    Published July 26th 2011 by Routledge