Art & Visual Culture: Visual Culture

By Stephen Bull

Photography explores the photograph in the twenty-first century and its importance as a media form. Stephen Bull considers our media-saturated society and the place of photography in everyday life, introducing the theories used to analyse photographs and exploring the impact of digital…

Paperback – 2009-12-09
Routledge
Routledge Introductions to Media and Communications

By Dominic Lopes

What is computer art? Do the concepts we usually employ to talk about art, such as ‘meaning’, ‘form’ or ‘expression’ apply to computer art?   A Philosophy of Computer Art is the first book to explore these questions. Dominic Lopes argues that computer art challenges some of the basic tenets…

Paperback – 2009-08-25
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By Nicholas Mirzoeff

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.…

Paperback – 2009-05-26
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Edited by Sarah Barber, Corinna Peniston-Bird

Historians are increasingly looking beyond the traditional, and turning to visual, oral, aural, and virtual sources to inform their work. The challenges these sources pose require new skills of interpretation and require historians to consider alternative theoretical and practical approaches. In…

Paperback – 2008-11-26
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Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources

By Susan Herrington

There is no escaping landscape: it's everywhere and part of everyone's life. Landscapes have received much less attention in aesthetics than those arts we can choose to ignore, such as painting or music – but they can tell us a lot about the ethical and aesthetic values of the societies…

Paperback – 2008-10-13
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Thinking in Action

Edited by James Elkins, David Morgan

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,…

Paperback – 2008-10-06
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The Art Seminar

By Tara Brabazon

Part of the Sport in the Global Society series, this innovative and creative text explores collective history, memory, and sport culture, tracking the passage of sports away from England. The author investigates why ‘elite’ English sports – such as rugby and cricket – became national sports in New…

Paperback – 2008-09-15
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Sport in the Global Society

Edited by James Elkins, Robert Williams

Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art historians about the optimal ways of conceptualizing Renaissance art, and the links between Renaissance art and contemporary art and theory. This is the first discussion of its kind, involving not only questions within Renaissance…

Paperback – 2008-04-25
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The Art Seminar

By Barman, Betts, McColvin, Rodker

Balbus: Or the Future of Architecture by Christian Barman This volume discusses the history and future of architecture by examining key social movements which have influenced architecture and town and country planning, such as the emancipation of women and urban traffic management in major European…

Hardback – 2008-04-16
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Routledge Library Editions

By Richard Haw

The Brooklyn Bridge is a pre-eminent global icon. It is the world’s most famous and beloved bridge, a "must-see" tourist hotspot, and a vital fact of New York life. For almost a hundred and forty years it has inspired artists of all descriptions, fueling a constant stream of paintings,…

Hardback – 2008-02-25
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Edited by James Elkins, Michael Newman

Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of Art Criticism presents an international conversation among art historians and critics that considers the relation between criticism and art…

Paperback – 2007-12-17
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The Art Seminar

Edited by Rachel DeLue, James Elkins

Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from these multiple&…

Paperback – 2007-12-17
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The Art Seminar