Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
About the Book Series
Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions offer thorough, high-quality surveys and assessments of the major topics in the fields of art history and visual studies. All entries in each companion are specially commissioned and written by leading scholars in the field. Clear, accessible, and cutting-edge, these companions are the ideal resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate students, and researchers alike.
The Routledge Companion to Performance Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Lucian O'Connor, Graciela Ovejero Postigo, Natalie Loveless, Jennie Klein
July 13, 2026
This global anthology offers a constellation of practices, genealogies, contexts, movements, events, artists, theories, and debates around performance art and its meaning, current and future research, and emerging critical discourse. At the core of this collection is the understanding that ...
The Routledge Companion to Art Biennials
1st Edition
Edited
By Panos Kompatsiaris
March 25, 2026
The Routledge Companion to Art Biennials assembles forty-six chapters that explore art biennials as expanded sites of artistic display, cultural policy, economic value, soft power, urban development and political struggle. The volume traces biennials from their 19th-century origins to ...
The Routledge Companion to Art and Challenges to Empire
1st Edition
Edited
By Emily C. Burns, Alice M. Rudy Price
November 28, 2025
This companion analyzes interactions between the arts and global imperial relationships from around 1800 through the twentieth century. By excavating layers and identifying legacies, the essays reveal inherent fractures in colonial perspectives. Tremendous multi-directional imperialisms and ...
The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History
1st Edition
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By Tatiana Flores, Florencia San Martín, Charlene Villaseñor Black
September 15, 2025
This companion is the first global, comprehensive text to explicate, theorize, and propose decolonial methodologies for art historians, museum professionals, artists, and other visual culture scholars, teachers, and practitioners. Art history as a discipline and its corollary institutions - the ...
The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art, Craft, and Visual Culture Education
1st Edition
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By Manisha Sharma, Amanda Alexander
July 30, 2025
This companion demonstrates how art, craft, and visual culture education activate social imagination and action that is equity- and justice-driven. Specifically, this book provides arts-engaged, intersectional understandings of decolonization in the contemporary art world that cross disciplinary ...
The Routledge Companion to Art and the Formation of Empire
1st Edition
Edited
By Emily C. Burns, Alice M. Rudy Price
May 30, 2025
This companion comprises essays that analyze interactions between art and global imperial relationships from 1800 to World War II. The essays in this volume expose and add to historical layers of meaning in their discussions of art and empire. Found across much of the globe, sites of sedimentary ...
The Routledge Companion to Race in Early Modern Artistic, Material, and Visual Production
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicholas R. Jones, Christina H. Lee, Dominique E. Polanco
May 30, 2025
This companion analyzes, frames, and provokes race in insightful ways that center non‑white communities’ artistic and visual expression in the early modern period, rather than presenting the bias of European artistic and visual depictions of the colonization, enslavement, and subordination of ...
The Routledge Companion to Irish Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Fionna Barber, Fintan Cullen
April 30, 2025
This companion contains new and innovative writing on Irish art and its history, from c. 1800 to the present day. This book critically engages with Irish art in a period linked to key events in Irish history, beginning with the Acts of Union between Britain and Ireland (1800–01)) and the ...
The Routledge Companion to Design Research
2nd Edition
Edited
By Paul A. Rodgers, Joyce Yee
April 14, 2025
This new edition of The Routledge Companion to Design Research offers an updated, comprehensive examination of design research, celebrating a plurality of voices and range of conceptual, methodological, technological and theoretical approaches evident in contemporary design research. This volume ...
The Routledge Companion to Marxisms in Art History
1st Edition
Edited
By Tijen Tunalı, Brian Winkenweder
March 31, 2025
This companion is an essential contribution to the study of historical materialism in general and the social history of art in particular. Each chapter in the collection focuses on a key figure, concept or historical epoch. Increasingly, scholars adopt an array of Marxist methods intertwined with a...
The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Lesley Shipley, Mey-Yen Moriuchi
December 19, 2024
The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century brings together a wide range of geographical, cultural, historical, and conceptual perspectives in a single volume of new essays that facilitate a deeper understanding of the field of art activism as it stands today and as it ...
The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Art Histories in the United States and Canada
1st Edition
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By Heather Igloliorte, Carla Taunton
December 19, 2024
This companion consists of chapters that focus on and bring forward critical theories and productive methodologies for Indigenous art history in North America. This book makes a major and original contribution to the fields of Indigenous visual arts, professional curatorial practice, ...