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Some of our highlights for 2012 include Seeing Differently, by Amelia Jones, a great new textbook, Photography: History and Theory, from Jae Emerling and a new, third edition of our best-selling title, The Visual Culture Reader, edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff. Publishing later this year, we also have a brand new textbook for visual culture courses entitled Image Studies: A Practical Approach.
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The Visual Culture Reader
3rd Edition
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
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Image Studies
Theory and Practice
Image Studies offers an engaging introduction to visual and image studies. In order to better understand images and visual culture the book seeks to bridge between theory and practice; asking the reader to think critically about images and image practices, but also simultaneously to make images and...
Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Photography: History and Theory
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
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Seeing Differently
A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts
Seeing Differently offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture, from early modern beliefs that art is an expression of an individual, the painted image a "world picture" expressing a comprehensive and coherent...
Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
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Why Art Photography?
Contemporary art photography is paradoxical. Anyone can look at it and form an opinion about what they see, yet it represents critical positions that only a small minority of well-informed viewers can usually access. Why Art Photography? provides a lively, accessible introduction to the ideas...
To Be Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge