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.
Contemporary Approaches to Commemorative Public Art: Monumental Developments
1st Edition
Edited
By Brenda Schmahmann
June 11, 2025
In this collection, a diverse range of international contributors examine commemorative monuments from the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book reveals how those monuments enable new perspectives and understanding of histories as well as a heightened involvement of viewers through ...
Conceptual Art After Modernism: Reconceiving Art and Art History
1st Edition
By Robert Bailey
May 29, 2025
This study provides a new interpretation of art after modernism by foregrounding the importance of conceptual thinking as a pervasive force for change in art and art history since 1950. Robert Bailey shows how distinctions between art and art history gave way as conceptual thinking provided artists...
The Creation, Diffusion, and Reception of Italian Art in the Early Modern Iberian World
1st Edition
Edited
By Corinna Tania Gallori, Benito Navarrete Prieto
May 29, 2025
This edited volume addresses the circulation of works of art, images, and ideas between the Iberian and Italian world and the subsequent responses this motion generated. Amongst the themes discussed are the concepts of centre and periphery, replicas and alterations, and how items and ideas were ...
Claes Oldenburg's Theater of Vision: Poetry, Sculpture, Film, and Performance Art
1st Edition
By Nadja Rottner
May 26, 2025
In four chronologically organized chapters, this study traces the conceptual dependence and deep connectivity among Claes Oldenburg’s poetry, sculpture, films, and performance art between 1956 and 1965. This research-intensive book argues that Oldenburg’s art relies on machine vision and other ...
Art and Monist Philosophy in Nineteenth Century France From Auteuil to Giverny
1st Edition
By Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer
May 05, 2025
This is a study of the relation between the fine arts and philosophy in France, from the aftermath of the 1789 revolution to the end of the nineteenth century, when a philosophy of being called “monism” – the concept of a unity of matter and spirit – emerged and became increasingly popular among ...
Robert Smithson, Land Art, and Speculative Realities
1st Edition
By Rory O'Dea
May 05, 2025
This book explores the ways Robert Smithson’s art revealed and defamiliarized the constructs of rational reality in order to allow radically speculative alternatives to emerge. In this way, his art is conceived as a true fiction that eradicates a false reality. By tracing the web of correspondences...
Bernini Ephemeral and Preparatory Sculpture
1st Edition
By Genevieve Warwick
April 28, 2025
Taking up questions of artists’ materials and technical processes currently at the vanguard of art-historical scholarship, this book studies the contiguity and interchange of workshop methods in the linked fabrication of both ephemeral and preparatory works by Bernini. Genevieve Warwick argues ...
Landscape and Nature in Scandinavian Art
1st Edition
Edited
By MaryClaire Pappas, Tonje Haugland Sørensen
April 15, 2025
This edited volume foregrounds new and vital scholarship shaping Scandinavian art historical research on the representations of the natural world. Contributors deconstruct the interlinking of people and land through critical readings of the Scandinavian representation of nature, bringing to the ...
Sonic Sculpture and the Performative Impulse: Sounding Things Out
1st Edition
By Melissa Christine Warak
March 27, 2025
This study considers the performativity of sound-producing sculptures made in the twenty-first century through a cultural history of certain works. A subfield of the sound art medium, sonic sculpture presents new possibilities in sensory engagement with the viewer, creating a mediated experience ...
The Living Image in the Middle Ages and Beyond: Theoretical and Historical Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Kamil Kopania, Henning Laugerud, Zuzanna Sarnecka
February 25, 2025
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...
Collections, Exhibitions and Museums in Portugal and Its Empire: From the 18th to the 20th century
1st Edition
Edited
By Filipa Lowndes Vicente, Leonor de Oliveira
February 19, 2025
Focusing on the period between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the late twentieth century, this edited volume examines the histories of objects, museums, exhibitions, and collections in Portugal or outside Portugal but representing Portugal, or related to it through colonial ...
John Cage Composing, Computing, and Curating
1st Edition
By Sandra Skurvida
January 31, 2025
This study reassesses Cage’s multifaceted practice from a transdisciplinary perspective, using text as a premise for his musical, visual, lingual, and museal compositions. In his compositions, John Cage opened the structures of music, language, and the museum to change perpetuated by chance ...