Media and Communication Research

Representations of Pain in Art and Visual Culture

Edited by Maria Pia Di Bella, James Elkins

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

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

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

Manga's Cultural Crossroads

Edited by Jaqueline Berndt, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer

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

Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture

Edited by Lewis Johnson

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