Art, Design and Visual Culture

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

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

Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future

By John Lechte

Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

With the emerging dominance of digital technology, the time is ripe to reconsider the nature of the image. Some say that there is no longer a phenomenal image, only disembodied information (0-1) waiting to be configured. For photography, this implies that a faith in the principle of an "...

Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge

Fifty Key Texts in Art History

Edited by Diana Newall, Grant Pooke

Series: Routledge Key Guides

Fifty Key Texts in Art History is an anthology of critical commentaries selected from the classical period to the late modern. It explores some of the central and emerging themes, issues and debates within Art History as an increasingly expansive and globalised discipline. It features an...

Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge

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

An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art

By Michelle Facos

Using the tools of the "new" art history (feminism, Marxism, social context, etc.) An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art offers a richly textured, yet clear and logical, introduction to nineteenth-century art and culture. This textbook will provide readers with a basic historical framework of...

Published March 20th 2011 by Routledge

Cross-Cultural Issues in Art

Frames for Understanding

By Steven Leuthold

Cross-Cultural Issues in Art provides an engaging introduction to aesthetic concepts, expanding the discussion beyond the usual Western theorists and Western examples. Steven Leuthold discusses both contemporary and historical issues and examples, incorporating a range of detailed case studies...

Published December 12th 2010 by Routledge

Contemporary British Art

An Introduction

By Grant Pooke

The last few decades have been among the most dynamic within recent British cultural history. Artists across all genres and media have developed and re-fashioned their practice against a radically changing social and cultural landscape – both national and global. This book takes a fresh look at...

Published September 23rd 2010 by Routledge

Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination

By Marsha Meskimmon

Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination explores the role of art in conceiving and reconfiguring the political, ethical and social landscape of our time. Understanding art as a vital form of articulation, Meskimmon argues that artworks do more than simply reflect and represent the...

Published July 20th 2010 by Routledge

The Practice of Public Art

Edited by Cameron Cartiere, Shelly Willis

Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

Wide-ranging and timely, The Practice of Public Art brings together practicing artists, curators, activists, art writers, administrators, city planners, and educators from the United Kingdom and United States to offer differing perspectives on the many facets of the public art process. The Practice...

Published December 23rd 2009 by Routledge

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

Vermeer's Family Secrets

Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice

By Benjamin Binstock

Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest Dutch painters and for some the single greatest painter of all, produced a remarkably small corpus of work. In Vermeer's Family Secrets, Benjamin Binstock revolutionizes how we think about Vermeer's work and life. Vermeer, The Sphinx of Delft, is famously a...

Published December 10th 2008 by Routledge

Re-Enchantment

Edited by James Elkins, David Morgan

Series: The Art Seminar

The near-absence of religion from contemporary discourse on art is one of the most fundamental issues in postmodernism. Artists critical of religion can find voices in the art world, but religion itself, including spirituality, is taken to be excluded by the very project of modernism. The sublime,...

Published October 5th 2008 by Routledge

Learning to Look at Paintings

2nd Edition

By Mary Acton

Learning to Look at Paintings is an accessible guide to the study and appraisal of paintings, drawings and prints. Mary Acton shows how you can develop visual, analytical and historical skills in learning to look at and understand an image by analysing how it works, what its pictorial elements are...

Published September 29th 2008 by Routledge

Making American Art

By Pam Meecham, Julie Sheldon

Making American Art presents a thematic, interdisciplinary examination of art in the United States from the seventeenth century to the present day. The themes and issues explored in Making American Art pull together documentary material, art works and contemporary theory to enliven what can often...

Published September 28th 2008 by Routledge

Art History: The Basics

By Grant Pooke, Diana Newall

Series: The Basics

Art History: The Basics is a concise and accessible introduction for the general reader and the undergraduate approaching the history of art for the first time at college or university. It will give you answers to questions like: What is art and art history? What are the main methodologies...

Published November 20th 2007 by Routledge

Art History: The Key Concepts

By Jonathan Harris

Series: Routledge Key Guides

Art History: The Key Concepts is a systematic, reliable and accessible reference guide to the disciplines of art history and visual culture. Containing entries on over 200 terms integral to the historical and theoretical study of art, design and culture in general, it is an indispensable source of...

Published September 28th 2006 by Routledge

Learning to Look at Modern Art

By Mary Acton

This companion volume to the author's Learning to Look at Paintings suggests that the best way to understand modern art is to look closely at it, and to consider the different elements that make up each art work: composition, space and form, light and colour, and subject matter. Engaging and...

Published May 26th 2004 by Routledge

History of Art

A Students' Handbook, 4th Edition

By Marcia Pointon

History of Art covers training and vocational aspects of Art History, providing a wealth of information on the different kinds of courses available on the relationship between, for example, museum and gallery work and academic Art History....

Published July 9th 1997 by Routledge