Visual Arts Books

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21. What Photography Is

    By James Elkins

    In What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he explored oil painting in his best-selling What Painting Is. In the course of an extended imaginary dialogue with Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, Elkins...

    Published April 25th 2011 by Routledge
22. Paper and Water: A Guide for Conservators

    By Gerhard Banik, Irene Bruckle

    Series: Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology

    This is the first compendium for conservation professionals involved in the preservation of paper artifacts in archives, libraries and fine art museums around the world. The global team of expert authors explain the principal interactions between paper and water, a topic of primary importance for...

    Published March 28th 2011 by Routledge
23. 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
24. Reframing Photography

    Theory and Practice

    By Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes

    To fully understand photography, it is essential to study both the theoretical and the technical. In an accessible yet complex way, Rebekah Modrak and Bill Anthes explore photographic theory, history and technique to bring photographic education up-to-date with contemporary photographic practice....

    Published November 22nd 2010 by Routledge
25. Art Of Memory

    By F A Yates

    Published October 17th 2010 by Routledge
26. Aesthetic Experience

    Edited by Richard Shusterman, Adele Tomlin

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    In this volume, a team of internationally respected contributors theorize the concept of aesthetic experience and its value. Exposing and expanding our restricted cultural and intellectual presuppositions of what constitutes aesthetic experience, the book aims to re-explore and...

    Published October 14th 2010 by Routledge
27. Art, Creativity and Imagination in Social Work Practice

    Edited by Prue Chamberlayne, Martin Smith

    Harnessing the inspiration available from the arts and the imagination brings to life sensitive and effective social work practice. Workers feel most satisfied while service users and communities are more likely to benefit when creative thinking can be applied to practice dilemmas. Drawing on...

    Published July 31st 2010 by Routledge
28. 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 July 25th 2010 by Routledge
29. The Artist's Mind

    A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Creativity, Modern Art and Modern Artists

    By George Hagman

    For the past century psychoanalysts have attempted to understand the psychology of art, artists and aesthetic experience. This book examines how contemporary psychoanalytic theory provides insight into understanding the psychological sources of creativity, Modern Art and modern artists. The Artist...

    Published June 10th 2010 by Routledge
30. Marketing the Arts

    A Fresh Approach

    Edited by Daragh O'Reilly, Finola Kerrigan

    In recent years, there have been significant shifts in arts marketing, both as a practice and an academic discipline. The relationship between art and the market is increasingly complex and dynamic, requiring a transformation in the way the arts are marketed. Marketing the Arts argues that...

    Published April 20th 2010 by Routledge