Routledge Research in Art History
About the Book Series
Routledge Research in Art History is our home for the latest scholarship in the field of art history. The series publishes research monographs and edited collections, covering areas including art history, theory, and visual culture. These high-level books focus on art and artists from around the world and from a multitude of time periods. By making these studies available to the worldwide academic community, the series aims to promote quality art history research.
Urban Feminist Visuality in Contemporary Pakistani Art: Art and Activism after 9/11
1st Edition
By Kanwal Syed
October 12, 2026
Urban Feminist Visuality in Contemporary Pakistani Art traces feminist rebellion within urban Pakistan’s visual discourse. Using social, cultural and art historical theories, and through a postcolonial and non-western feminist lens, this book envisions an alternative art history that gives credence...
Contemporary Art in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Crisis, Rupture and Discontinuity
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Blackwood, Irfan Hošić
September 11, 2026
This edited volume traces the evolution and layered mutations of the production, consumption and discussion of contemporary art from Bosnia-Herzegovina, a European country where a devastating war resulted in the deaths of approximately 100,000 people and the displacement of over 2 million refugees....
Kandinsky’s Abstract Orientalism: Colonial Contexts and Early Abstraction
1st Edition
By Emily Christensen
July 27, 2026
This book examines, for the first time, Wassily Kandinsky’s turn to "the Orient" in his early abstraction. Reframing him within colonial history, it reveals how his artistic innovations were shaped by Orientalist tropes, transforming our understanding of this modernist artist and his work from 1909...
Decay in Ruskin's Architecture, Geology, and Wisdom
1st Edition
By Kurt Espersen-Peters
July 17, 2026
This book traces the evolution of Ruskin’s thinking on decay across the breadth and depth of his aesthetic, social and critical thought, providing a new perspective on the complex terrain of his architectural and landscape theory. Ideas of decay are consistent across Ruskin’s work, from his ...
Art and Artifice in Visual Culture: Eighteenth Century to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Sonia Coman, Vasile-Ovidiu Prejmerean, Michael Yonan
June 22, 2026
This edited volume explores the notion of “artifice” in modern visual culture, ranging from the eighteenth century to the present, in countries around the globe. Artifice has been regarded as a primarily Western phenomenon, playing as it does a central role in European art theory since the ...
Exhibiting Animals in Europe and America
1st Edition
Edited
By M. Elizabeth Boone, Lianne McTavish
June 22, 2026
This edited volume, written by historians of art and visual culture who are working in the field of animal studies, seeks to understand how our ways of positioning (and ex-positioning) animals have separated us from the other-than-human animals that are an integral part of our interconnected ...
Plural and Multiple Geographies of Modern and Contemporary Art in East-Central Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Caterina Preda, Magdalena Radomska
June 22, 2026
This edited volume proposes a theoretical reflection on the different artistic geographies of East-Central Europe (ECE) from an interdisciplinary perspective found at the intersection of art history, art and politics, and critical geography. Contributors argue that this multiplicity is a defining ...
The Living Image in the Middle Ages and Beyond: Theoretical and Historical Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Kamil Kopania, Henning Laugerud, Zuzanna Sarnecka
June 22, 2026
This edited volume discusses images that bleed, speak, cry, move, and behave in ways we usually attribute to living creatures. Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both culture and cultural studies for their ambivalence...
The Primitivist Imaginary in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms
1st Edition
Edited
By Joana Cunha Leal, Mariana Pinto dos Santos
June 22, 2026
Taking into account politics, history and aesthetics, this edited volume explores the main expressions of primitivism in Iberian and Transatlantic modernisms. Ten case studies are thoroughly analyzed concerning both the circulations and exchanges connecting the Iberian and Latin American artistic ...
The Visual Culture of al-Andalus in the Christian Kingdoms of Iberia: Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries
1st Edition
Edited
By Inés Monteira
June 22, 2026
This book addresses the reception of Islamic visual culture by the northern Iberian kingdoms, by systematically comparing works of art from both sides and fleshing out their historical context. This study includes figurative and iconographic motifs, architectural forms, and even the spolia from ...
James McNeill Whistler’s Reception and Artistic Legacy: Inventing Whistlerism
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada, Laura Valette
June 08, 2026
This book addresses the artistic phenomenon of “Whistlerism," originated by the American painter James McNeill Whistler, and sheds light on this movement’s origins, its history and its wide-ranging impact on literature, poetry, art criticism, design and art philosophy. Whistler’s students and ...
Bananas, Art, and Visual Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean
1st Edition
Edited
By Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano, Juanita Solano Roa
June 01, 2026
Through a diverse collection of essays on the history of art of the Americas, this book explores the cultural, political, and environmental legacy of bananas from viceregal painting and nineteenth‑century photography to contemporary Latinx and Caribbean Art.Through sixteen original essays by ...