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   The Fashion History Reader wins at Art Association of Australia and New Zeland

   We are delighted to announce that The Fashion History Reader has been awarded a prize for 'Best Edited Book' at the Art Association of Australia and NZ - (AAANZ): Art Historians of Australasia, Annual General Meeting, held earlier this month.

2. Photography: History and Theory

   From its inception in the nineteenth century, photography has instigated a series of theoretical debates. In this new text, Jae Emerling therefore argues that the most insightful way to approach the histories of photography is to address simultaneously the key events of photographic history alongside the theoretical discourse that accompanied them.

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   New Online Resources Brochure Out Now

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   The 2011 Art, Design and Visual Culture catalog is now available!

   For 2011, Routledge are pleased to offer you a diverse list of Art, Design and Visual Culture books, ranging from undergraduate and graduate textbooks, to readers and edited collections, to companions and scholarly monographs. To view the catalog online click here or email media_studies@routledge.com for a paper copy.

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   The Fashion History Reader

   The Fashion History Reader is an innovative work that provides a broad introduction to the complex literature in the fields of fashion studies, and dress and fashion history. It identifies the history of fashion as a meeting point between the long-standing historical investigation of ‘dress’ and ‘costume’ and is a comprehensive resource for those who wish to further their engagement with fashion as a contemporary phenomenon.

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   Photography: Theoretical Snapshots

   Photography: Theoretical Snapshots offers exciting perspectives on photography theory today from some of the world’s leading critics and theorists. It introduces new means of looking at photographs, and addresses the question of photography history, revisiting the work of some of the most influential theorists such as Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, and the October group.

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   The Pictorial Turn

   This seminal collection of essays is the first to be devoted to the pictorial turn. It brings together theorists from across the humanities and social sciences with a paleontologist and practising artists. Together they consider the relation between pictures and images, the power of landscape, the life of images, and the pictorial uncanny amongst many other things.

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   Contemporary British Art

   The last few decades have been among the most dynamic within recent British cultural history. Artists across all genres and media have developed and re-fashioned their practice against a radically changing social and cultural landscape. Contemporary British Art is an ideal introduction to the field, taking a fresh look at some of the themes, ideas and directions which have informed British art since the later 1980s.

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    Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination

    Art can change the way we imagine, understand and engage with the world and with others very different than ourselves. In this sense, art participates in a critical dialog between cosmopolitan imagination, embodied ethics and locational identity. Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination offers a challenging new direction in the current literature on cosmopolitanism, globalization and art.