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 and Artifice in Visual Culture: Eighteenth Century to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Sonia Coman, Vasile-Ovidiu Prejmerean, Michael Yonan
January 30, 2025
This edited volume explores the notion of “artifice” in modern visual culture, ranging from the eighteenth century to the present, in countries around the globe. Artifice has been regarded as a primarily Western phenomenon, playing as it does a central role in European art theory since the ...
Historical Narratives of Global Modern Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Irina D. Costache, Clare Kunny
January 30, 2025
Diversifying the current art historical scholarship, this edited volume presents the untold story of modern art by exposing global voices and perspectives excluded from the privileged and uncontested narrative of “isms.” This volume tells a worldwide story of art with expanded historical ...
American Artists Engage the Built Environment, 1960-1979
1st Edition
By Susanneh Bieber
December 19, 2024
This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s—from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art—in the context of contemporary architectural discourses. Susanneh Bieber analyzes the work of seven major artists,&...
Art History, Narratology, and Twentieth-Century Chinese Art
1st Edition
By Lian Duan
December 19, 2024
This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratological perspective. Theoretically and methodologically oriented, this is a self-reflective meta-art history studying the art historical narratives while ...
The Materiality of Terracotta Sculpture in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Zuzanna Sarnecka, Agnieszka Dziki
December 19, 2024
Through meticulously researched case studies, this book explores the materiality of terracotta sculpture in early modern Europe. Chapters present a broad geographical perspective showcasing examples of modelling, firing, painting, and gilding of clay in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, and the ...
The Pictures Generation at Hallwalls: Traces of the Body, Gender, and History
1st Edition
By Vera Dika
December 19, 2024
In this book, Vera Dika rewrites the story of the Pictures Generation from the perspective of the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, NY. Her work is based on interviews with living artists, archival research, and personal collections, including films, videotapes, and sound recordings. ...
A Data-Driven Analysis of Cemeteries and Social Reform in Paris, 1804–1924
1st Edition
By Kaylee P. Alexander
December 18, 2024
This book takes a novel, data-driven approach to the cemeteries of Paris, analyzing a largely text-based body of archival material as proxy evidence for visual material that has been lost due to systematic, and legally sanctioned, acts of erasure. This study represents the first full-length study ...
Contagion, Hygiene, and the European Avant-Garde
1st Edition
Edited
By David Hopkins, Disa Persson
December 18, 2024
This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explore intersections between the European avant-garde (c. 1880–1945) and themes of health and hygiene, such as illness, contagion, cleanliness, and ...
Apocalypse in British Art and Visual Culture in the Early Twentieth Century: Some Revelation
1st Edition
By Thomas Bromwell
November 29, 2024
This book is the first substantial study of the presence and relationship with the concepts of apocalypse, eschatology, and millennium in modern British art from 1914 to 1945, addressing how and why practitioners in both religious and secular spheres turned to the subjects. The volume examines ...
Exhibiting Animals in Europe and America
1st Edition
Edited
By M. Elizabeth Boone, Lianne McTavish
November 29, 2024
This edited volume, written by historians of art and visual culture who are working in the field of animal studies, seeks to understand how our ways of positioning (and ex-positioning) animals have separated us from the other-than-human animals that are an integral part of our interconnected ...
Plural and Multiple Geographies of Modern and Contemporary Art in East-Central Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Caterina Preda, Magdalena Radomska
November 29, 2024
This edited volume proposes a theoretical reflection on the different artistic geographies of East-Central Europe (ECE) from an interdisciplinary perspective found at the intersection of art history, art and politics, and critical geography. Contributors argue that this multiplicity is a defining ...
The Visual Culture of al-Andalus in the Christian Kingdoms of Iberia: Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries
1st Edition
Edited
By Inés Monteira
October 11, 2024
This book addresses the reception of Islamic visual culture by the northern Iberian kingdoms, by systematically comparing works of art from both sides and fleshing out their historical context. This study includes figurative and iconographic motifs, architectural forms, and even the spolia from ...