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 Surrealism
1st Edition
Edited
By Kirsten Strom
November 29, 2024
This book provides a conceptual and global overview of the field of Surrealist studies. Methodologically, the companion considers Surrealism’s many achievements, but also its historical shortcomings, to illuminate its connections to the historical and cultural moment(s) from which it originated and...
The Routledge Companion to African Diaspora Art History
1st Edition
Edited
By Eddie Chambers
October 31, 2024
This is an authoritative companion that is global in scope, recognizing the presence of African Diaspora artists across the world. It is a bold and broad reframing of this neglected branch of art history, challenging dominant presumptions about the field. Diaspora pertains to the global scattering ...
The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari
1st Edition
Edited
By David J. Cast
October 14, 2024
The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provide, at the 500th anniversary of his birth, a comprehensive assessment of the current state of scholarship on this important-and still ...
The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies
1st Edition
Edited
By Lucy Soutter, Duncan Wooldridge
August 30, 2024
In response to widespread demand for more knowledge and insight about contemporary photographies beyond Western centers of production and dissemination, this volume provides a transnational discussion, grounded in dialogue between authors and editors from diverse locations and contexts. Ecological ...
The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability
1st Edition
Edited
By Keri Watson, Timothy W. Hiles
May 27, 2024
The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences are articulated physically and theoretically, and to demonstrate the ways in which disability is culturally constructed. This companion is organized ...
The Routledge Companion to William Morris
1st Edition
Edited
By Florence S. Boos
May 27, 2024
William Morris (1834–96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist, socialist theorist, and political activist, whose admirers have been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and efforts to live up to radical ideals of social...
The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen J. Campbell, Stephanie Porras
January 22, 2024
This companion examines the global Renaissance through object-based case studies of artistic production from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe in the early modern period. The international group of contributors take an art historical approach characterized by close analysis of form and meaning...
The Routledge Companion to Art Deco
1st Edition
Edited
By Bridget Elliott, Michael Windover
September 25, 2023
Scholarly interest in Art Deco has grown rapidly over the past fifty years, spanning different academic disciplines. This volume provides a guide to the current state of the field of Art Deco research by highlighting past accomplishments and promising new directions. Chapters are presented in five ...
The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm
1st Edition
Edited
By Cameron Cartiere, Leon Tan
September 25, 2023
This multidisciplinary companion offers a comprehensive overview of the global arena of public art. It is organised around four distinct topics: activation, social justice, memory and identity, and ecology, with a final chapter mapping significant works of public and social practice art around the...
The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Isabel Wünsche
September 25, 2023
The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context is a challenging exploration of the transnational formation, dissemination, and transformation of expressionism outside of the German-speaking world, in regions such as Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics and Scandinavia, ...
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change
1st Edition
Edited
By T. J. Demos, Emily Eliza Scott, Subhankar Banerjee
December 19, 2022
International in scope, this volume brings together leading and emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art, visual culture, activism, and climate change, and addresses key questions, such as: why and how do art and visual culture, and their ethics and values, matter with regard...
The Routledge Companion to African American Art History
1st Edition
Edited
By Eddie Chambers
December 01, 2022
This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. The first section examines how African American art has been constructed over the course of a century of published scholarship. The second section studies how ...