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.
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 ...
Dada and Its Later Manifestations in the Geographic Margins: Israel, Romania, Poland, and North America
1st Edition
Edited
By Ronit Milano, Raya Zommer-Tal, Noam Gonnen
December 25, 2025
This volume focuses on the unstudied geographic margins of Dada, delving into the roots of Dada in Israel, Romania, Poland, and North America. Contributors consider some of the practices and experiments that were conceived a century ago, surfaced in art throughout the twentieth century, and are ...
Rethinking Modern Austrian Art Beyond the Metropolis
1st Edition
By Julia Secklehner
December 25, 2025
This study examines the role played by regional cultures in modern art and visual culture in Central Europe between 1918 and 1938. Analysing paintings, photographs, prints, and illustrated magazines in relation to topics such as tourism, social activism, rural exoticism, gender, and ethnic ...
A Neuroarthistory of The Painters of Modern Life: Embodying Baudelairean Modernity
1st Edition
By Lauren S. Weingarden
December 23, 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 ...
Beyond Brutalism and the Postwar Architecture-Sculpture Network: Redefining Media and Global Public Space
1st Edition
By Angelique Campens
December 08, 2025
This study focuses on the moment in the history of modern art, during the 1950s, when sculptors and architects began to use concrete to create a previously impossible fusion of their respective art forms and the mutual influences between sculpture and architecture. The book pays particular ...
Surrealism and the People’s Republic of China: From Mao to Now
1st Edition
By Lauren Walden
November 12, 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 29, 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 19, 2025
This edited volume is centered 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
October 02, 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 ...
Historic Avant-Garde Work on Paper
1st Edition
Edited
By Sascha Bru
September 28, 2025
This book examines the many functions of paper in the fine art and aesthetics of the early twentieth-century modernist or historic avant-garde (Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Constructivism and many more). With its many collages and photomontages, the historic avant-garde is ...
Jewish American Identity and Erasure in Pop Art
1st Edition
By Melissa L. Mednicov
September 28, 2025
This volume focuses on Jewish American identity within the context of Pop art in New York City during the sixties to reveal the multivalent identities and selves often ignored in Pop scholarship. Melissa L. Mednicov establishes her study within the context of prominent Jewish artists, dealers, ...
The Book of Hours and the Body: Somaesthetics, Posthumanism, and the Uncanny
1st Edition
By Sherry C. M. Lindquist
September 28, 2025
This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approaches - somaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncanny - may reveal about both premodern and postmodern terms of embodiment. It takes as its point of departure a selection of fifteenth-century northern...