Art & Visual Culture News & Updates
Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.
Recent Articles
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On Not Looking
The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture
Edited by Frances Guerin
On Not Looking: The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture focuses on the image, and our relationship to it, as a site of "not looking." The collection demonstrates that even though we live in an image-saturated culture, many images do not look at what they claim, viewers oftentimes do not look at the images, and in other cases, we are encouraged by the context of exhibition not to look at images.
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FREE eBook - Self-Promotion for Professional Photographers
Self-Promotion for Professional Photographers is a quick and dirty guide to sharing and promoting your work online. You will learn about how to create an attractive website that will appeal to potential clients, generate engaging content for your blog, and use social media to connect with your followers and the larger photographic community.
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Art, Design & Visual Culture Catalog
New and Key Titles 2015
This catalog focuses on our new and upcoming titles, along with a few of our bestselling back list titles. You can also find books on related areas, including media studies, film studies and cultural studies.
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Law for Artists
Copyright, the obscene and all the things in between
By Blu Tirohl
Written especially for professional artists and those studying the visual arts, Law for Artists is an accessible guide to those aspects of law that impact on artists and their work. It encompasses a comprehensive range of creative practices including fine art, photography, the graphic and plastic arts, animation, illustration, applied and media arts, as well as fashion, textile and product design.
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Photography and Its Origins
Edited by Tanya Sheehan, Andres Zervigon
Recent decades have seen a flourishing interest in and speculation about the origins of photography. Spurred by rediscoveries of ‘first’ photographs and proclamations of photography’s death in the digital age, scholars have been rethinking who and what invented the medium. This book reflects on this interest in photography’s beginnings by reframing it in critical and specifically historiographical terms.
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Photography: A Critical Introduction, 5th Edition
Edited by Liz Wells
Photography: A Critical Introduction was the first introductory textbook to examine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political contexts, and is now established as one of the leading textbooks in its field.
Click here to learn more and to order a complimentary exam copy
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CHOICE Reviewed Titles from Routledge Music and Visual Arts
The Routledge Music and Visual Arts list has developed a reputation for world-renowned scholarship and groundbreaking content. This is the opinion shared by many of the reviewers who look over our new texts on behalf of CHOICE Reviews, part of the American Library Association and the premier source for academic feedback. Please read on for the latest views from the academic community.
Nineteenth-Century Choral Music, edited by Donna M. Di Grazia is Essential!
"Written by 25 eminent music scholars, the essays offer new, enlightening insights into a variety of topics relating to a century of choral literature…Supplemented with music examples and bibliographies, this is an important, distinguished contribution to the literature on choral music... Summing Up: Essential." - CHOICE, May 2013
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New titles from Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
The Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies series is our home for innovative research in the fields of Art and Visual Studies. It includes monographs and targeted edited collections that provide new insights into visual culture and art practice, theory, and research.
Click here to view the latest titles from the series...
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Three New eBook Collections for Theatre, Media and Creative Arts from Routledge and Focal Press
Three eBook collections are now available from Routledge and Focal Press, covering Theatre and Performing Arts, Media & Communication Studies and Creative and Media Arts.
These collections provide the best research and advice to readers wanting to know more about performing arts, develop their practical skills in a range of creative media, or researching the latest developments in the media and communication field.
Further information on these eCollections can be found on www.tandfebooks.com.
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Is the photography we now have truly photography?
The changes which photography has undergone in the last two decades have created a degree of uncertainty about how we understand its contemporary status or condition. Indeed, that last phrase, ‘contemporary status or condition’ begs the question. Is the photography we now have truly photography?
An excerpt from The Photographic Image in Digital Culture by Martin Lister