Subject: Call for book proposals - RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt (RaRa)

 

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RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt (RaRa)

This series of books published by Bloomsbury explores aspects of contemporary aesthetics. We use the term ‘radical’ to promote debate, confront convention and formulate alternative ways of thinking about art practice. The fundamental premise of the series is to reconsider the relationship between practising art and thinking about art. The RaRa series aims to liberate the notion of aesthetics from visual traditions and to expand its parameters in a creative and meaningful way. It aims to examine those multisensory, collaborative, participatory and transitory practices that have developed in the last twenty years.

 

Titles include Jill Bennett’s Practical Aesthetics: events, affects and art after 9/11 (I.B.Tauris 2012); Malcolm Miles’s Eco-Aesthetics: art, literature and architecture in a period of climate change. Further titles in process are: Indigenous Aesthetics: art, activism and autonomy, Dylan A.T. Miner; Durational Aesthetics, Paul O’Neil/Mick Wilson, Socio-political Aesthetics, Kim Charnley.

 

The commissioning editors are inviting further submissions from authors (artists and scholars) who can make a provocative contribution to these debates.

 

The series aims to:

·      critique conventional approaches to thinking about art practice and aesthetics

·      reconsider the interrelationships between theories and art practice on equal terms

·      provide a useful resource to assist research and provoke discussion

·      address current issues in response to contemporary contexts

·      encourage an interdisciplinary approach to discussion           

·      survey recent and current material and debate

 

Content:

Each book (60-70,000 words) aims to provide a challenging critique as a useful resource to assist research and to generate discussion. In the case of each theme authors will:

·      address its contemporary relevance

·      outline relevant and key concepts

·      provide historical and cultural background

·      interrogate different theoretical positions

·      address theory and practice

·      provide comprehensive bibliography and glossary of terms

 

Market

The series aims to provide a comprehensive discussion of developments in contemporary art practice, its interface with other disciplines in the humanities and the consequent re-evaluation of the term ‘aesthetics’. The core readership would be an academic audience in the broad field of the fine arts, history of art, media and aesthetics. The secondary readership would be visual culture, philosophy and politics and extending across the humanities more generally. The book series will address international examples of practice and will therefore be global in scope.

 

 

Submission of Proposal

Proposals should be 3 to 5 sides A4 and include:

·      A summary statement outlining what the book is about (300 words)

·      A statement outlining your theoretical position and interpretation of the theme

·      Detailed synopsis /outline of each chapter content with reference to specific theories and examples of practice 

 

Author details should include:

·      CV –1 page A4 maximum

·      Brief description of academic interests and professional affiliations

·      A list of publications

·      A sample of recent publication (e.g. article or chapter in book)

 

Proposals should be e-mailed to both RaRa series editors

For further information regarding submission please contact

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