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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.

25 Series Titles


The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography

The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography

1st Edition

Edited By Colum Hourihane
June 04, 2019

Sometimes enjoying considerable favor, sometimes less, iconography has been an essential element in medieval art historical studies since the beginning of the discipline. Some of the greatest art historians – including Mâle, Warburg, Panofsky, Morey, and Schapiro – have devoted their lives to ...

The Routledge Companion to Design Studies

The Routledge Companion to Design Studies

1st Edition

Edited By Penny Sparke, Fiona Fisher
February 25, 2019

Since the 1990s, in response to dramatic transformations in the worlds of technology and the economy, design – a once relatively definable discipline, complete with a set of subdisciplines – has become unrecognizable. Consequently, design scholars have begun to address new issues, themes and ...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century

The Ashgate Research Companion to Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century

1st Edition

Edited By Wayne Franits
February 12, 2019

Despite the tremendous number of studies produced annually in the field of Dutch art over the last 30 years or so, and the strong contemporary market for works by Dutch masters of the period as well as the public's ongoing fascination with some of its most beloved painters, until now there has been...

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