Visual Culture
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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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An Introduction to Visual Culture
2nd Edition
An Introduction to Visual Culture provides a wide-ranging introduction to the now established interdisciplinary field of visual culture. Mapping a global history and theory of visual culture, An Introduction to Visual Culture asks how and why visual media have become so central to everyday life....
Published May 25th 2009 by Routledge
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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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The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader
2nd Edition
Series: In Sight: Visual Culture
Feminism is one of the most important perspectives from which visual culture has been theorized and historicized over the past forty years. Challenging the notion of feminism as a unified discourse, this second edition of The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader assembles a wide array of writings...
Published January 11th 2010 by Routledge
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An Introduction to Design and Culture
1900 to the Present, 3rd Edition
This third edition of An Introduction to Design and Culture has been revised and updated throughout to include issues of globalization, sustainability and digital/interactive design. New for this edition is a chapter which covers key changes in design culture. Design culture has changed...
Published December 6th 2012 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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Visual Communication on the Web
Most web design books developed for the trade market are a series of exercises without a theoretical, aesthetic, or historic framework. In this book, Visual Communication on the Web, web design exercises are accompanied by concise introductions that relate history, design principles, and...
Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
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Theorizing Visual Studies
Writing Through the Discipline
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
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How to Use Your Eyes
"... visually stunning and mentally stimulating."—Scientific American "…the author of What Painting Is (1998) has written a fascinating new book filled with gorgeous illustrations that would inspire us ‘to learn to see anything.’ It's a tall order, to be sure, but one that the author pulls off...
Published September 28th 2008 by Routledge
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Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this...
Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
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Beauty, Violence, Representation
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This volume explores the relationship among beauty, violence, and representation in a broad range of artistic and cultural texts, including literature, visual art, theatre, film, and music. Charting diversifying interests in the subject of violence and beauty, dealing with the multiple inflections...
To Be Published July 24th 2013 by Routledge
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Manga's Cultural Crossroads
Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
Focusing on the art and literary form of manga, this volume examines the intercultural exchanges that have shaped manga during the twentieth century and how manga’s culturalization is related to its globalization. Through contributions from leading scholars in the fields of comics and Japanese...
To Be Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Representations of Pain in Art and Visual Culture
Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
The presentation of bodies in pain has been a major concern in Western art since the time of the Greeks. The Christian tradition is closely entwined with such themes, from the central images of the Passion to the representations of bloody martyrdoms. The remnants of this tradition are evident in...
Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge
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Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture
Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
This volume offers a varied and informed series of approaches to questions of mobility—actual, social, virtual, and imaginary—as related to visual culture. Contributors address these questions in light of important contemporary issues such as migration; globalization; trans-nationality and...
To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge