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Writing Back to Modern Art
After Greenberg, Fried and Clark
Here for the first time is a full-length study of the 'critical modernisms' of the three leading art writers of the second half of the…
read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32429-8 (Routledge)
Installation Art
Installation is one of the most popular and widespread forms of contemporary art. Installation Art provides the first clear account of the rise of installation… read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97412-7 (Routledge)
The Politics of Heritage
The Legacies of Race
While 'social inclusion' and 'cultural diversity' circulate frenetically as buzzwords, are we really ready to accept that ideas about 'race' and 'ethnicity', rather than being… read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32211-9 (Routledge)
Modern Art: A Critical Introduction
Modern Art: A Critical Introduction traces the historical and contemporary contexts for understanding modern art movements, and the theories that influenced and attempted to explain… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28194-2 (Routledge)
Revealing Art
Why does art matter to us, and what makes it good? Why is the role of imagination so important in art? Illustrated with carefully chosen… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27854-6 (Routledge)
On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art
Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art "a religion assembled from the fragments of our daily life," but does that…
read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96989-5 (Routledge)
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The Nineteenth Century Visual Culture Reader
This reader brings together, for the first time, key writings about the nineteenth century, a key period in contemporary discussion of visual culture.
Exploring such topics…
read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30866-3 (Routledge)
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Digital Currents
Art in the Electronic Age
Digital Currents explores the growing impact of digital technologies on aesthetic experience and examines the major changes taking place in the role of the artist…
read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30781-9 (Routledge)
Urban Avant-Gardes
Art, Architecture and Change
Urban Avant-Gardes presents original research on a range of recent contemporary practices in and between art and architecture giving perspectives from a wide range of…
read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26688-8 (Routledge)
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Forthcoming Titles:
Sublime Economy: On the intersection of art and economics
Edited by Jack Amariglio, Joseph W. Childers, Stephen E. Cullenberg
To be published November 25th 2008
History Beyond the Text: A Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources
Edited by Sarah Barber, Corinna Peniston-Bird
To be published November 26th 2008
Vermeer's Family Secrets: Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice
By Benjamin Binstock
To be published December 5th 2008
Directory of Museums, Galleries and Buildings of Historic Interest in the United Kingdom
To be published December 12th 2008
Photography: Theoretical Snapshots
Edited by Jonathan Long, Andrea Noble, Edward Welch
To be published December 12th 2008