Forthcoming Art & Visual Culture Books

Forthcoming Books

1. The Birth of Western Painting (Routledge Revivals)

   A history of colour, form and iconography

   By Robert Byron

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   To Be Published May 31st 2012 by Routledge
2. New Feminist Discourses

   Critical Essays on Theories and Texts

   Edited by Isobel Armstrong

   Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

   This collection of new feminist essays represents the work of young critics researching and teaching in British Universities. Aiming to set the agenda for feminist criticism in the nineties, the essays debate themes crucial to the development of feminist thought: among them, the problems of...

   To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
3. Aesthetics After Metaphysics

   From Mimesis to Metaphor

   By Miguel Beistegui

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   This book focuses on a dimension of art which the philosophical tradition (from Plato to Hegel and even Adorno) has consistently overlooked, such was its commitment – explicit or implicit – to mimesis and the metaphysics of truth it presupposes. De Beistegui refers to this dimension, which unfolds...

   To Be Published June 10th 2012 by Routledge
4. Meanings of Abstract Art

   Between Nature and Theory

   Edited by Paul Crowther, Isabel Wünsche

   Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

   Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "of". Abstract art, in contrast, either adopts alternative modes of visual representation or reconfigures mimetic convention. This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature (...

   To Be Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. From Intelligent to Smart Cities

   Edited by Mark Deakin, Husam Al Waer

   The concept of smart cities offers a revolutionary vision of urban design for sustainability. Utilizing the intelligent application of new technologies, smart cities also incorporate considerations of social and environmental capital in order to transform the life and work of cities. This book...

   To Be Published July 3rd 2012 by Routledge
6. The Visual Culture Reader

   3rd Edition

   Edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff

   Ten years after the last edition, this thoroughly revised and updated third edition of The Visual Culture Reader highlights the transformed and expanded nature of globalized visual cultures. It assembles key new writings, visual essays and specially commissioned articles, emphasizing the...

   To Be Published July 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. Identity and Diversity

   Celebrating Dance in Taiwan

   Edited by Wang Yunyu, Stephanie Burridge

   Series: Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific

   To Be Published July 30th 2012 by Routledge India
8. Children's Culture and the Avant-Garde

   Painting in Paris, 1890-1915

   By Marilynn Olson

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This volume explores the mutual influences between children’s literature and the avant-garde. Olson places particular focus on fin-de-siècle Paris, where the Avant-garde was not unified in thought and there was room for modernism to overlap with children’s literature and culture in the Golden Age....

   To Be Published August 6th 2012 by Routledge
9. Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Design

   Edited by Jesper Simonsen, Toni Robertson

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Participatory design is about the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use. Its central concern is how collaborative design processes can be driven by the participation of the people affected by the technology designed. Embracing a diverse collection of principles...

   To Be Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
10. How Architects Write

    By Tom Spector, Rebecca Damron

    This is the first writing reference book for designers. Whether you're an architect, landscape architect, interior architect, or an industrial designer How Architects Write shows you the interdependence of writing and design. Authors Tom Spector and Rebecca Damron present typical writing...

    To Be Published August 9th 2012 by Routledge