A/r/tography: Essential Readings and Conversations

This edited book explores the relationship between early a/r/tographic publications and contemporary scholarship, focusing on themes such as relationality, ethics, embodiment, movement, and materiality. It offers a platform for discussing historical works and new scholarship in a/r/tography, providing conceptual insights into the evolution and potential future of the field.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 440 pages
Publication date: 29 January 2024
Publisher: Intellect Books

This edited book delves into a captivating exploration of the intricate connections between early a/r/tographic publications and the vibrant contemporary scholarship of a/r/tographers actively publishing and producing today. With a focus on four pervasive themes that permeate a/r/tographic literature, this volume aims to ignite and provoke conceptual conversations that transcend time. These themes include relationality and renderings, ethics and embodiment, movement and materiality, and propositions and potentials. By delving into these themes, the book not only advances existing concepts within a/r/tographic literature but also provides a platform for exploring new scholarship that engages in meaningful dialogue with these historical ideas.

The volume serves as a valuable resource, making it effortless to locate key historical works that have shaped the trajectory of a/r/tography. At the same time, it offers fresh and innovative scholarship that engages in lively discussions with these historical concepts, expanding, refining, and reimagining them within contemporary contexts. The organizing themes serve as conceptual pivots, guiding readers through the evolution of a/r/tography from its initial conceptualization to its current state and offering insights into potential future directions.

This edited book presents a remarkable opportunity for individuals engaged in and influenced by a/r/tography to contribute refined, revised, reinterpreted, or entirely new conceptual understandings to contemporary scholarship and practice. As part of the Artwork Scholarship: International Perspectives in Education series, this book fosters a collaborative space where diverse perspectives and expertise converge, enriching the field of a/r/tography and paving the way.

Dimension: 244 x 170 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781789387995