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.
Decay in Ruskin's Architecture, Geology, and Wisdom
1st Edition
By Kurt Espersen-Peters
July 31, 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 ...
Bananas, Art, and Visual Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean
1st Edition
Edited
By Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano, Juanita Solano Roa
June 26, 2026
Via a diverse collection of essays in the history of art of the Americas, this book explores the cultural, political and environmental legacy of bananas from viceregal painting and 19th century photography to contemporary Latinx and Caribbean Art. Through sixteen original essays by leading art ...
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 ...
The Phenomenology of Landscape Painting: Painting Outdoors in Nineteenth-Century America
1st Edition
By Noam Gonnen
April 14, 2026
Offering a new view of nineteenth-century American landscape painting, this book focuses on the praxis of open-air painting and its distinctive role in generating and invigorating a new conceptualization of American landscape painting in the late nineteenth-century. Drawing on phenomenology and on ...
Nakanishi Natsuyuki and the Global History of Postwar and Contemporary Sculpture: Accounting for Assemblage
1st Edition
By Dan Adler
April 01, 2026
The first book-length study of Nakanishi Natsuyuki’s sculptural practice, this volume explores his assemblages in dialogue with the postwar history of sculpture as a global phenomenon in the 1960s and beyond. Nakanishi’s series of Compact Objects (produced from 1962 to 1968) allow for a ...
Gustav Klimt and Japanese Art in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Deciphering Klimt’s Stylistic Evolution
1st Edition
By Svitlana V. Shiells
March 06, 2026
This probing and innovative monograph, based on an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach, traces the trajectory of the Japanese influence on Klimt’s heterogeneous and idiosyncratic oeuvre. Placing Klimt’s experimentations with Japanese stimuli in a broad historical and cultural context, it ...
Materiality and The Afterlife of Artworks: The Rustle of Matter
1st Edition
Edited
By Gabriel Cabello, Thierry Dufrêne, Rocío Robles Tardío
March 03, 2026
Materiality and The Afterlife of Artworks: The Rustle of Matter explores, theoretically through a series of case studies, how matter and materials have a role in the afterlife of artworks. Focusing on modern and contemporary art, this book asks several related questions: How does matter affect the ...
Theorising the Artist Interview
1st Edition
Edited
By Lucia Farinati, Jennifer Thatcher
January 12, 2026
Reflecting on the relationship between artists and their audiences, this book examines how artists have presented themselves publicly through interviews and sought to establish a critical voice for themselves. Considering the interview as a form of cultural production, contributors explore the ...
Surrealist Landscape in the American West
1st Edition
By Samantha Kavky
December 28, 2025
Focusing on the period of the Second World War, this book explores the emergence of surrealist landscape as a genre throughout the period of surrealist exile in the Americas. By positioning surrealist landscape within the formal, iconographic, and theoretical strategies of the larger movement as ...
Power and Propaganda in the Large Imperial Cameos of the Early Roman Empire
1st Edition
By Julia C. Fischer
December 26, 2025
This study examines the five extant large Imperial cameos of the Early Roman Empire as a coherent whole, revealing that these gemstones were a referential group with complex interrelationships. Power and Propaganda in the Large Imperial Cameos of the Early Roman Empire offers a feminist theory that...
Alexander the Great in Renaissance Art: North and South of the Alps
1st Edition
By Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes
December 25, 2025
This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how they came about, and why they were so popular. In contrast to the numerous studies on the historical and legendary figure of Alexander, surprisingly few studies have examined, in one volume, the ...
Art Collecting and Middle Class Culture from London to Brighton, 1840–1914
1st Edition
By David Adelman
December 25, 2025
This study explores the interplay between money, status, politics and art collecting in the public and private lives of members of the wealthy trading classes in Brighton during the period 1840–1914. Chapters focus on the collecting practices of five rich and upwardly mobile Victorians: William ...