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.
Raymond Jonson and the Spiritual in Modernist and Abstract Painting
1st Edition
By Herbert R. Hartel, Jr.
June 14, 2022
This is the most thorough and detailed monograph on the artwork of Raymond Jonson. He is one of many artists of the first half of the twentieth-century who demonstrate the richness and diversity of an under-appreciated period in the history of American art. Visualizing the spiritual was one of the ...
The Persistence of Melancholia in Arts and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Bubenik
June 14, 2022
This book explores the history and continuing relevance of melancholia as an amorphous but richly suggestive theme in literature, music, and visual culture, as well as philosophy and the history of ideas. Inspired by Albrecht Dürer’s engraving Melencolia I (1514)—the first visual representation of ...
The Société des Trois in the Nineteenth Century: The Translocal Artistic Union of Whistler, Fantin-Latour, and Legros
1st Edition
By Melissa Berry
June 14, 2022
This book reframes the formative years of three significant artists: Henri Fantin-Latour, Alphonse Legros, and James McNeill Whistler. The trio’s coming together as the Société des trois occurred during the emergence of the artistic avant-garde—a movement toward individualism and self-expression. ...
Form and Meaning in Avant-Garde Collage and Montage
1st Edition
By Magda Dragu
June 13, 2022
This book uses intermedial theories to study collage and montage, tracing the transformation of visual collage into photomontage in the early avant-garde period. Magda Dragu distinguishes between the concepts of collage and montage, as defined across several media (fine arts, literature, music, ...
Henri Bertin and the Representation of China in Eighteenth-Century France
1st Edition
By John Finlay
May 06, 2022
This is an in-depth study of the intellectual, technical, and artistic encounters between Europe and China in the late eighteenth century, focusing on the purposeful acquisition of information and images that characterized a direct engagement with the idea of "China." The central figure in this ...
The Lower Niger Bronzes: Beyond Igbo-Ukwu, Ife, and Benin
1st Edition
By Philip M. Peek
April 29, 2022
This book demonstrates that copper-alloy casting was widespread in southern Nigeria and has been practiced for at least a millennium. Philip M. Peek’s research provides a critical context for the better-known casting traditions of Igbo-Ukwu, Ife, and Benin. Both the necessary ores and casting ...
Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange
1st Edition
By Eiren L. Shea
December 13, 2021
The Mongol period (1206-1368) marked a major turning point of exchange – culturally, politically, and artistically – across Eurasia. The wide-ranging international exchange that occurred during the Mongol period is most apparent visually through the inclusion of Mongol motifs in textile, paintings...
Antebellum American Pendant Paintings: New Ways of Looking
1st Edition
By Wendy N. E. Ikemoto
September 30, 2021
Antebellum American Pendant Paintings: New Ways of Looking marks the first sustained study of pendant paintings: discrete images designed as a pair. It opens with a broad overview that anchors the form in the medieval diptych, religious history, and aesthetic theory and explores its cultural and ...
Visual Typologies from the Early Modern to the Contemporary: Local Contexts and Global Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Tara Zanardi, Lynda Klich
September 30, 2021
Visual Typologies from the Early Modern to the Contemporary investigates the pictorial representation of types from the sixteenth to the twenty- first century. Originating in longstanding visual traditions, including street crier prints and costume albums, these images share certain conventions as ...
Ceramics and Modernity in Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Meghen Jones, Louise Allison Cort
June 30, 2021
Ceramics and Modernity in Japan offers a set of critical perspectives on the creation, patronage, circulation, and preservation of ceramics during Japan’s most dramatic period of modernization, the 1860s to 1960s.As in other parts of the world, ceramics in modern Japan developed along the three ...
Ornament and European Modernism: From Art Practice to Art History
1st Edition
Edited
By Loretta Vandi
June 30, 2021
These in-depth, historical, and critical essays study the meaning of ornament, the role it played in the formation of modernism, and its theoretical importance between the mid-nineteenth century and the late twentieth century in England and Germany. Ranging from Owen Jones to Ernst Gombrich through...
The Australian Art Field: Practices, Policies, Institutions
1st Edition
Edited
By Tony Bennett, Deborah Stevenson, Fred Myers, Tamara Winikoff
June 30, 2021
This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to take stock of the frictions generated by a tumultuous time in the Australian art field and to probe what the crises might mean for the future of the arts in Australia. Specific topics include national and international art markets; ...