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.
Beyond Brutalism and the Postwar Architecture-Sculpture Network: Redefining Media and Global Public Space
1st Edition
By Angelique Campens
December 08, 2025
This study focusses on the moment in the history of modern art, during the 1950s when sculptors and architects began to use concrete to create a previous impossible fusion of their respective art forms and the mutual influences between sculpture and architecture. The book pays particular attention ...
A Neuroarthistory of The Painters of Modern Life: Embodying Baudelairean Modernity
1st Edition
By Lauren S. Weingarden
November 20, 2025
Using a transdisciplinary method combining art history, literary studies, and neuroaesthetics, this book examines the modern urban experience of nineteenth-century Paris through language and images of fragmentation and transformation. The volume includes new empirical research conducted in ...
Surrealism and the People’s Republic of China: From Mao to Now
1st Edition
By Lauren Walden
October 31, 2025
This study investigates cultural exchange between the Surrealist movement and the People’s Republic of China (1949-present). Surrealist art was officially prohibited under Mao’s rule (1949-1976). However, the book interrogates potent tensions in clandestinely created surrealist artworks by Zhao ...
Avant-Garde World Creation: Cosmogony and the Total Work of Art in Europe 1913-1923
1st Edition
By Abigael van Alst
October 30, 2025
This book explores the widespread fascination with world creation among early twentieth century artists, and examines those trends within the European avant-garde. The book reflects on what ‘the world’ looks and feels like before and after World War One – and thus also concerns creativity and ...
Contemporary Art in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Case Studies in Hauntology
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Blackwood, Jasmina Tumbas
October 24, 2025
This edited volume is centred on the production, discussion and consumption of contemporary art in the post-Yugoslav space now. Authors in this volume demonstrate how and why contemporary art discourses have continued to overcome chronic difficulties in local cultural economies since the ...
Plants and Gardens as Artefacts in Transcultural Contexts: Between Asia and Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Minna Törmä
September 30, 2025
This edited volume explores the ways in which the object biography or object itinerary approach could be adapted to frame research on animate objects, such as plants and gardens in transcultural contexts. By treating these animate elements as ‘objects’ in the manner of artefacts and looking at ...
Transnational Perspectives on the Art of Piero Manzoni and Hélio Oiticica: From Abstraction to Participation
1st Edition
By Lara Demori
August 26, 2025
Establishing a ‘missed link’ between the work of Piero Manzoni and Hélio Oiticica and their respective cultural contexts, this book sheds new light on overlooked aspects of these two artists’ practices, particularly focusing on the shift from painting to performance in the long 1960s. Lara Demori ...
The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
1st Edition
By Stijn Bussels, Bram Van Oostveldt
July 30, 2025
Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as “being of an orderly and diligent position” and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important role in seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture. By looking at different ...
Art, Politics, and Palace Eunuchs in Ming China, 1368–1644
1st Edition
By Scarlett Jang
July 28, 2025
This is the first in-depth analysis of the place of the Ming palace eunuchs in the social history of Chinese art, examining the intricate intersections of art, politics, and palace eunuchs in the Ming dynasty. In addition to articulating the elite eunuchs’ roles as important power brokers in the ...
Pictures of Cotton in Eighteenth-Century China
1st Edition
By Roslyn Lee Hammers
July 17, 2025
Pictures of Cotton in Eighteenth-Century China narrates cotton’s journey from a little understand material to a cherished commodity ennobled by associations with the classical heritage of China. In the 12th century, cotton, an imported crop, was plucked from the fields and entered the margins of ...
Art Patronage and Conflicting Memories in Early Modern Iberia: The Marquises of Villena
1st Edition
By Maria Teresa Chicote Pompanin
June 27, 2025
This volume investigates the mechanisms (artworks, treatises, and other forms of cultural patronage) that the Marquises of Villena and their opponents used to operate in the cultural battlefield of the time with the aim of understanding how their conflicting historical memories were constructed and...
The Visual Legacy of Alexander the Great from the Renaissance to the Age of Revolution
1st Edition
By Víctor Mínguez, Inmaculada Rodríguez-Moya
June 27, 2025
This is an analysis of the diverse facets of Alexander the Great’s image from the Renaissance era through the Baroque into the nineteenth century. Perceived as the first sovereign ruler of the world, for centuries Alexander became an exemplar for the most ambitious kings and emperors. This cultural...