2Visual Culture

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Abstract This chapter addresses books published in the field of visual culture in 2020, and is divided into three sections: 1. Curatorial Practice; 2. Thinking About Space; and 3. The New Craft. The books under review cover a range of subjects within their specialities but reflect general trends in contemporary writing and study in the field of visual culture. The first section looks at publications that examine curatorial practice (In the Meantime: Speculations on Art, Curation, and Exhibitions, by Jens Hoffman; Museums Inside Out: Artist Collaborations and New Exhibition Ecologies by Mark W. Rectanus); the second section examines books that describe theories of space (Architecture and Ekphrasis: Space, Time and the Embodied Description of the Past by Dana Arnold; Construction Site for Possible Worlds, edited by Amanda Beech and Robin Mackay); and the third and final section examines publications about craft and its ethics (The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and Design, edited by Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch).