Books in the Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies series

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Edinburgh, 2015, under the title: Curating resistances: crisis and the limits of the political turn in contemporary art biennials.

Promoting the expansion of art in society and education, this book highlights the significance of the arts as an instrument of social justice, inclusion, equity, and protection of the environment.

This book will help both students and seasoned scholars to understand key terms in visual studies - pictorial turn, metapictures, literary iconology, image/text, biopictures or living pictures, among many others - while systematically presenting the work of W.J.T.Mitchell as one of the discipline's founders and most prominent figures.

Wonder has an established link to the history and philosophy of science. However, there is little acknowledgement of the relationship between the visual arts and wonder. In this book, artists, curators and art theorists give accounts of their approach to wonder through the use of materials, objects and ways of exhibiting.

This book explores why collaboration has become so integrated into a greater understanding of creative artistic practice. It draws on an emerging generation of contributors¿from the arts, art history, sociology, political science, and philosophy¿to engage directly with the diverse and interdisciplinary nature of collaborative practice of the future.

The complex gestures of artwork remain an under-explored theoretical topos in contemporary visual culture studies. In In this volume, contributors ask: How may one speak not only of the gestures of the body but also of the gestures of the image? What constitutes gesturality in the image and, more broadly, what are the gestures of the aesthetic itself? By thinking about images within this conceptual framework, this volume seeks to renew our understanding of the image.

How Folklore Shaped Modern Art: A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics underscores how the cultural traditions, belief systems and performed exchanges that were once integral to the folklore discipline are now central to contemporary art's "post-critical turn."