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The Iconology of Abstraction: Non-figurative Images and the Modern World Kresimir Purgar 9780367511296
SciFier: $76.09This book uncovers how we make meaning of abstraction, both historically and in present times, and examines abstract images as a visual language. The contributors demonstrate that abstraction is not... -
The Digital Interface and New Media Art Installations Phaedra Shanbaum (University of Cambridge, Cambridge England University College London, UK) 9781032338088
SciFier: $82.65This book is about the digital interface and its use in interactive new media art installations. It examines the aesthetic aspects of the interface through a theoretical exploration of new media... -
Geneses of Postmodern Art by Paul Crowther (National University of Ireland, Galway)
RRP: $75.58SciFier: $74.45Postmodernism in the visual arts is not just another 'ism.' It emerged in the 1960s as a transformation of artistic creativity inspired by Duchamp's idea that the artwork does not have to be... -
Digital Art, Aesthetic Creation: The Birth of a Medium Paul Crowther 9781032338910
SciFier: $82.65Is art created with computers really art? This book answers 'yes.' Computers can generate visual art with unique aesthetic effects based on innovations in computer technology and a Postmodern... -
Art in the Asia-Pacific: Intimate Publics Larissa Hjorth 9781138961166
SciFier: $92.48As social, locative, and mobile media render the intimate public and the public intimate, this volume interrogates how this phenomenon impacts art practice and politics. Contributors bring together... -
Play and Participation in Contemporary Arts Practices Tim Stott 9781138067233
RRP: $96.37SciFier: $87.56This book engages debates in current art criticism concerning the turn toward participatory works of art. In particular, it analyzes ludic participation, in which play and games are used... -
On Not Looking: The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture Frances Guerin 9781138548626
RRP: $102.04SciFier: $92.48On 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... -
Caribbean and Latinx Street Art in Miami Jana Evans Braziel (Miami University, USA) 9781032547831
RRP: $90.70SciFier: $82.65This study focuses on street art and large-scale murals in metropolitan Miami/Dade County, while also foregrounding the diasporic and aesthetic interventions made by migrant and second-generation... -
Art After Instagram: Art Spaces, Audiences, Aesthetics Lachlan MacDowall 9781032159263
RRP: $75.58SciFier: $73.69This book explores the effects of the Instagram platform on the making and viewing of art.Authors Lachlan MacDowall and Kylie Budge critically analyse the ways Instagram has influenced artists, art... -
Postinternet Art and Its Afterlives Ian Rothwell (University of Edinburgh, UK) 9781032187730
RRP: $90.70SciFier: $82.65Focusing on the 'postinternet' art of the 2010s, this volume explores the widespread impact of recent internet culture on the formal and conceptual concerns of contemporary art.The 'postinternet' art... -
Popularisation and Populism in the Visual Arts: Attraction Images Anna Schober 9781032338002
SciFier: $82.65This book investigates the pictorial figurations, aesthetic styles and visual tactics through which visual art and popular culture attempt to appeal to "all of us". One key figure these practices... -
W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory: Living Pictures Kresimir Purgar 9780367876562
SciFier: $82.65W.J.T. Mitchell - one of the founders of visual studies - has been at the forefront of many disciplines such as iconology, art history and media studies. His concept of the pictorial turn is known... -
The Aesthetics of Scientific Data Representation: More than Pretty Pictures Lotte Philipsen 9780367878696
SciFier: $81.01How can cartoon images aid in understanding bacterial biological processes? What prompts physicists to blur their images before showing them to biologists? Considering that the astronomer's data... -
Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture Lewis Johnson (Bahcesehir UEniversitesi, Turkey) 9781138548985
RRP: $102.04SciFier: $93.80This volume offers a varied and informed series of approaches to questions of mobility-actual, social, virtual, and imaginary-as related to visual culture. Contributors address these questions in... -
Film and Modern American Art: The Dialogue between Cinema and Painting Katherine Manthorne 9780367661700
RRP: $90.70SciFier: $82.65Between the 1890s and the 1930s, movie going became an established feature of everyday life across America. Movies constituted an enormous visual data bank and changed the way artist and public alike... -
The Evolution of the Image: Political Action and the Digital Self Marco Bohr 9780367592202
SciFier: $82.65This volume addresses the evolution of the visual in digital communities, offering a multidisciplinary discussion of the ways in which images are circulated in digital communities, the meanings that... -
Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice by Camille C Baker
SciFier: $81.01This book focuses on the artistic process, creativity and collaboration, and personal approaches to creation and ideation, in making digital and electronic technology-based art. Less interested in... -
Visualizing War: Emotions, Technologies, Communities Anders Engberg-Pedersen 9780367322731
SciFier: $82.65Wars have always been connected to images. From the representation of war on maps, panoramas, and paintings to the modern visual media of photography, film, and digital screens, images have played a... -
Contemporary Art and Disability Studies Alice Wexler (UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Los Angeles, CA, USA) 9781032337456
SciFier: $82.65This book presents interdisciplinary scholarship on art and visual culture that explores disability in terms of lived experience. It will expand critical disability studies scholarship on... -
Manga's Cultural Crossroads Jaqueline Berndt 9781138243330
SciFier: $82.65Focusing on the art and literary form of manga, this volume examines the intercultural exchanges that have shaped manga during the twentieth century and how manga's culturalization is related to its... -
Counterfactualism in the Fine Arts Elke Reinhuber (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) 9780367709068
SciFier: $76.09Counterfactual thinking has become an established method to evaluate decisions in a range of disciplines, including history, psychology and literature. Elke Reinhuber argues it also has valuable... -
Intermedial Art Practices as Cultural Resilience Lindsay Blair (University of the Highlands and Islands, UK) 9781032536033
RRP: $90.70SciFier: $82.65This innovative collection of essays is focused on the idea of transmedialization: the ways that the traditional forms of the predominantly oral cultures of Scotland and Brittany (poetry, song and... -
Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing Asbjorn Gronstad 9781138319783
SciFier: $87.56The first book of its kind, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing engages broadly with the often too neglected yet significant questions of gesture in visual culture. In our turbulent... -
Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe: Sarmatia Europea to Post-Communist Bloc Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius (Birkbeck College, University of London) 9781032003610
RRP: $83.14SciFier: $76.09Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe puts images centre stage and argues for the agency of the visual in the construction of Europe's east as a socio-political and cultural entity. This book probes...