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Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions


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Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions offer thorough, high-quality surveys and assessments of the major topics in the fields of art history and visual studies. All entries in each companion are specially commissioned and written by leading scholars in the field. Clear, accessible, and cutting-edge, these companions are the ideal resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate students, and researchers alike.

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The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies

The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Lucy Soutter, Duncan Wooldridge
July 26, 2024

In response to widespread demand for more knowledge and insight about contemporary photographies beyond Western centers of production and dissemination, this volume provides a transnational discussion, grounded in dialogue between authors and editors from diverse locations and contexts.   ...

The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability

The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Keri Watson, Timothy W. Hiles
May 27, 2024

The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences are articulated physically and theoretically, and to demonstrate the ways in which disability is culturally constructed. This companion is organized ...

The Routledge Companion to William Morris

The Routledge Companion to William Morris

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Florence S. Boos
May 27, 2024

William Morris (1834–96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist, socialist theorist, and political activist, whose admirers have been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and efforts to live up to radical ideals of social...

The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art

The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art

1st Edition

Edited By Stephen J. Campbell, Stephanie Porras
January 22, 2024

This companion examines the global Renaissance through object-based case studies of artistic production from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe in the early modern period. The international group of contributors take an art historical approach characterized by close analysis of form and meaning...

The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History

The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History

1st Edition

Edited By Tatiana Flores, Florencia San Martín, Charlene Villaseñor Black
November 27, 2023

This companion is the first global, comprehensive text to explicate, theorize, and propose decolonial methodologies for art historians, museum professionals, artists, and other visual culture scholars, teachers, and practitioners. Art history as a discipline and its corollary institutions - the ...

The Routledge Companion to Art Deco

The Routledge Companion to Art Deco

1st Edition

Edited By Bridget Elliott, Michael Windover
September 25, 2023

Scholarly interest in Art Deco has grown rapidly over the past fifty years, spanning different academic disciplines. This volume provides a guide to the current state of the field of Art Deco research by highlighting past accomplishments and promising new directions. Chapters are presented in five ...

The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm

The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm

1st Edition

Edited By Cameron Cartiere, Leon Tan
September 25, 2023

This multidisciplinary companion offers a comprehensive overview of the global arena of public art. It is organised around four distinct topics: activation, social justice, memory and identity, and ecology, with a final chapter mapping significant works of public and social practice art around the...

The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context

The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context

1st Edition

Edited By Isabel Wünsche
September 25, 2023

The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context is a challenging exploration of the transnational formation, dissemination, and transformation of expressionism outside of the German-speaking world, in regions such as Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics and Scandinavia, ...

The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art, Craft, and Visual Culture Education

The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art, Craft, and Visual Culture Education

1st Edition

Edited By Manisha Sharma, Amanda Alexander
July 31, 2023

This companion demonstrates how art, craft, and visual culture education activate social imagination and action that is equity- and justice-driven. Specifically, this book provides arts-engaged, intersectional understandings of decolonization in the contemporary art world that cross disciplinary ...

The Routledge Companion to Design Research

The Routledge Companion to Design Research

2nd Edition

Edited By Paul A. Rodgers, Joyce Yee
July 31, 2023

This new edition of The Routledge Companion to Design Research offers an updated, comprehensive examination of design research, celebrating a plurality of voices and range of conceptual, methodological, technological and theoretical approaches evident in contemporary design research. This volume ...

The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century

The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century

1st Edition

Edited By Lesley Shipley, Mey-Yen Moriuchi
December 30, 2022

The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century brings together a wide range of geographical, cultural, historical, and conceptual perspectives in a single volume of new essays that facilitate a deeper understanding of the field of art activism as it stands today and as it ...

The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Art Histories in the United States and Canada

The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Art Histories in the United States and Canada

1st Edition

Edited By Heather Igloliorte, Carla Taunton
December 30, 2022

This companion consists of chapters that focus on and bring forward critical theories and productive methodologies for Indigenous art history in North America. This book makes a major and original contribution to the fields of Indigenous visual arts, professional curatorial practice, ...

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