Visual Arts Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. Understanding Disability Studies and Performance Studies

   Edited by Bruce Henderson, Noam Ostrander

   This collection brings together scholarship and creative writing that brings together two of the most innovative fields to emerge from critical and cultural studies in the past few decades: Disability studies and performance studies. It draws on writings about such media as live performance...

   Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
4. Professional Issues in Child and Youth Care Practice

   By Kiaras Gharabaghi

   This book provides an overview of the core professional issues in the field of child and youth care practice. The author explores themes ranging from relationships and the exploration of Self to career building and field-specific approaches to management. The book is written from a pragmatic...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
5. Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts

   By Leila Koivunen

   Series: Routledge Research in Travel Writing

   This study examines and explains how British explorers visualized the African interior in the latter part of the nineteenth century, providing the first sustained analysis of the process by which this visual material was transformed into the illustrations in popular travel books. At that time,...

   Published September 18th 2011 by Routledge
6. Art Of Memory

   By F A Yates

   Published October 17th 2010 by Routledge
7. 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
8. 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
9. Aesthetics and Material Beauty

   Aesthetics Naturalized

   By Jennifer A. McMahon

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   In Aesthetics and Material Beauty, Jennifer A. McMahon develops a new aesthetic theory she terms Critical Aesthetic Realism - taking Kantian aesthetics as a starting point and drawing upon contemporary theories of mind from philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science. The creative process does...

   Published June 21st 2009 by Routledge
10. Japonisme in Britain

    Whistler, Menpes, Henry, Hornel and nineteenth-century Japan

    By Ayako Ono

    Japan held a profound fascination for western artists in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the influence of Japonisme on western art was pervasive. Paradoxically, just as western artists were beginning to find inspiration in Japan and Japanese art, Japan was opening to the western world...

    Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge