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.
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 16, 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...
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...