Visual Arts Books

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41. Photography: Theoretical Snapshots

    Edited by J.J. Long, Andrea Noble, Edward Welch

    Over the past twenty-five years, photography has moved to centre-stage in the study of visual culture and has established itself in numerous disciplines. This trend has brought with it a diversification in approaches to the study of the photographic image. Photography: Theoretical Snapshots...

    Published December 11th 2008 by Routledge
42. Visual Communication Research Designs

    By Keith Kenney

    Visual Communication Research Designs provides a step-by-step guide for designing research involving visuals relevant to communications media. This volume explains the process from conceptualization to research questions, instrumentation, analysis, and reliability and validity checks. It also...

    Published December 9th 2008 by Routledge
43. Art and Aesthetics

    Edited by Marta Herrero, David Inglis

    Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

    Under what social conditions do particular sorts of arts and aesthetics arise and flourish, and under what conditions do they decline and disappear? What types of artistic and aesthetic practices exist outside of museums, galleries, and other high-cultural institutions? In what ways are social...

    Published November 24th 2008 by Routledge
44. Learning to Look at Paintings

    2nd Edition

    By Mary Acton

    Learning to Look at Paintings is an accessible guide to the study and appraisal of paintings, drawings and prints. Mary Acton shows how you can develop visual, analytical and historical skills in learning to look at and understand an image by analysing how it works, what its pictorial elements are...

    Published September 29th 2008 by Routledge
45. Pigment Compendium

    By Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, Ruth Siddall

    This is an essential purchase for all painting conservators and conservation scientists dealing with paintings and painted objects. It provides the first definitive manual dedicated to optical microscopy of historical pigments. Illustrated throughout with full colour images reproduced to the...

    Published June 15th 2008 by Routledge
46. The Art Business

    By Iain Robertson

    Edited by Iain Robertson

    By the time you read this book, the art world may have witnessed the sale of its first $500 million painting. Whilst for some people money is anathema to art this is clearly a wealthy international industry, and a market with its own conventions and pressures. Drawing on the vast experience of...

    Published April 2nd 2008 by Routledge
47. Art History: The Basics

    By Grant Pooke, Diana Newall

    Series: The Basics

    Art History: The Basics is a concise and accessible introduction for the general reader and the undergraduate approaching the history of art for the first time at college or university. It will give you answers to questions like: What is art and art history? What are the main methodologies...

    Published November 20th 2007 by Routledge
48. Design: The Key Concepts

    By Catherine McDermott

    Series: Routledge Key Guides

    This is the essential student’s guide to Design – its practice, its theory and its history. Drawing from a wide range of international examples, respected design writer Catherine McDermott explores key topics including: international design – from Europe to Africa design history – from...

    Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge
49. Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography

    Edited by John Hannavy

    The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of world photography up to the beginning of the twentieth century. It sets out to be the standard, definitive reference work on the subject for years to come. Its coverage is global – an important ‘first’ in...

    Published August 23rd 2007 by Routledge
50. Making Art History

    A Changing Discipline and its Institutions

    Edited by Elizabeth Mansfield

    Making Art History is a collection of essays by contemporary scholars on the practice and theory of art history as it responds to institutions as diverse as art galleries and museums, publishing houses and universities, school boards and professional organizations, political parties and...

    Published May 15th 2007 by Routledge