Art, Design and Visual Culture

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

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

Print, Visuality, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Satire

“The Scope in Ev’ry Page”

By Katherine Mannheimer

Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

This study interprets eighteenth-century satire’s famous typographical obsession as a fraught response to the Enlightenment’s "ocularcentric" epistemological paradigms, as well as to a print-cultural moment identified by book-historians as increasingly "visual" — a moment at which widespread...

Published May 25th 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

History as Art, Art as History

Contemporary Art and Social Studies Education

By Dipti Desai, Jessica Hamlin, Rachel Mattson

Series: Teaching/Learning Social Justice

History as Art, Art as History pioneers methods for using contemporary works of art in the social studies and art classroom to enhance an understanding of visual culture and history. The fully-illustrated interdisciplinary teaching toolkit provides an invaluable pedagogical resource—complete with...

Published October 4th 2009 by Routledge

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

Public Art, Memorials and Atlantic Slavery

Edited by Celeste-Marie Bernier, Judie Newman

In this collection distinguished American and European scholars, curators and artists discuss major issues concerning the representation and commemoration of slavery, as brought into sharp focus by the 2007 bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade. Writers consider nineteenth and twentieth...

Published January 19th 2009 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

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

Making Art History

A Changing Discipline and its Institutions

Edited by Elizabeth Mansfield

Making Art History is a collection of essays by contemporary scholars on the practice and theory of art history as it responds to institutions as diverse as art galleries and museums, publishing houses and universities, school boards and professional organizations, political parties and...

Published May 15th 2007 by Routledge

Is Art History Global?

Edited by James Elkins

Series: The Art Seminar

This is the third volume in The Art Seminar, James Elkin's series of conversations on art and visual studies.Is Art History Global? stages an international conversation among art historians and critics on the subject of the practice and responsibility of global thinking within the discipline....

Published December 12th 2006 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

Art History Versus Aesthetics

Edited by James Elkins

Series: The Art Seminar

In this unprecedented collection, over twenty of the world's most prominent thinkers on the subject including Arthur Danto, Stephen Melville, Wendy Steiner, Alexander Nehamas, and Jay Bernstein ponder the disconnect between these two disciplines. The volume has a radically innovative structure: it...

Published October 26th 2005 by Routledge

Theory for Art History

Adapted from Theory for Religious Studies, by William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal

By Jae Emerling

Series: theory4

Theory for Art History provides clear and concise introductions to thirty key figures of contemporary theory: four essential predecessors – Freud, Marx, Nietzsche, and Saussure – and twenty-six major moderns from Adorno to Spivak. This book includes key concepts, biography, survey of...

Published August 8th 2005 by Routledge

Key Writers on Art: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

Edited by Chris Murray

Series: Routledge Key Guides

Key Writers on Art: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century offers a unique and authoritative guide to theories of art from Ancient Greece to the end of the Victorian era, written by an international panel of expert contributors. Arranged chronologically to provide an historical framework, the 43...

Published October 16th 2002 by Routledge

Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century

Edited by Chris Murray

Series: Routledge Key Guides

Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century offers a unique and authoritative guide to modern responses to art. Featuring 48 essays on the most important twentieth century writers and thinkers and written by an international panel of expert contributors, it introduces readers to key approaches and...

Published October 16th 2002 by Routledge

Art History and Its Institutions

The Nineteenth Century

Edited by Elizabeth Mansfield

Art History and Its Institutions focuses on the institutional discourses that shaped and continue to shape the field from its foundations in the nineteenth century. From museums and universities to law courts, labour organizations and photography studios, contributors examine a range of...

Published June 26th 2002 by Routledge

The New Art History

A Critical Introduction

By Jonathan Harris

The New Art History provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental changes which have occurred in both the institutions and practice of art history over the last thirty years. Jonathan Harris examines and accounts for the new approaches to the study of art which have been grouped loosely...

Published September 19th 2001 by Routledge

Pollock and After

The Critical Debate, 2nd Edition

Edited by Francis Frascina

Pollock and After: The Critical Debate brings together key writings on debates about Abstract Expressionism and Modernist art history. It is an essential resource for understanding post-war American art and culture. The second edition has been fully revised and updated in response to new critical...

Published November 22nd 2000 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