Visual Arts Books

New and Published Books

1. Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory

   By Brett Ashley Kaplan

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   How do the spaces of the past stay with us through representations—whether literary or photographic? How has the Holocaust registered in our increasingly globally connected consciousness? What does it mean that this European event is often used as an interpretive or representational touchstone for...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. 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 May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Imagining Masculinities

   Spatial and Temporal Representation and Visual Culture

   By Katarzyna Kosmala

   Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

   This book examines the intersections between debates in critical studies of men and masculinities and debates on visual representation, investigating representations of men and masculinities in contemporary culture and examples of visual art that deconstruct those representations. It attends to...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. 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...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. Art in the Roman Empire

   By Michael Grant

   Michael Grant has specially selected some of the most significant examples of painting, portraits, architecture, mosaic, jewellery and silverware, to give a unique insight into the functions and manifestations of art in the Roman Empire. Art in the Roman Empire shows how many of the most impressive...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
6. Why Art Photography?

   By Lucy Soutter

   Contemporary art photography is paradoxical. Anyone can look at it and form an opinion about what they see, yet it represents critical positions that only a small minority of well-informed viewers can usually access. Why Art Photography? provides a lively, accessible introduction to the ideas...

   Published February 17th 2013 by Routledge
7. Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination

   The Image between the Visible and the Invisible

   Edited by Bernd Huppauf, Christoph Wulf

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   In this interdisciplinary anthology, essays study the relationship between the imagination and images both material and mental. Through case studies on a diverse array of topics including photography, film, sports, theater, and anthropology, contributors focus on the role of the...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
8. Fifty Key Writers on Photography

   Edited by Mark Durden

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   A clear and concise survey of some of the most significant writers on photography who have played a major part in defining and influencing our understanding of the medium. It provides a succinct overview of writing on photography from a diverse range of disciplines and perspectives and...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
9. Cities and Photography

   By Jane Tormey

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   Photographs display attitudes, agency and vision in the way cities are documented and imagined. Cities and Photography explores the relationship between people and the city, visualized in photographs. It provides a visually focused examination of the city and urbanism for a range of different...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
10. Image Studies

    Theory and Practice

    By Sunil Manghani

    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