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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...