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.
Michelangelo’s Vatican Pietà and its Afterlives
1st Edition
By Lisa M. Rafanelli
August 26, 2024
This book offers a fresh perspective on Michelangelo’s well-known masterpiece, the Vatican Pietà, by tracing the shifting meaning of the work of art over time. Lisa M. Rafanelli chronicles the object history of the Vatican Pietà and the active role played by its many reproductions. The sculpture ...
Rethinking Modern Austrian Art Beyond the Metropolis
1st Edition
By Julia Secklehner
August 02, 2024
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 ...
Ambition, Art, and Image-Making in an Early Quattrocento Court: The Palazzo Trinci Frescoes
1st Edition
By Sarah Roberts
August 01, 2024
This study provides new interpretations of the little-known but fascinating Palazzo Trinci frescoes, relating them for the first time both to their physical context and to their social, political, and cultural environment. Chapters show how a humanist agenda subverted the historical and mythical ...
Drawing Pedagogy in Modern France: Habit’s Demise
1st Edition
By Shana Cooperstein
July 31, 2024
This study uncovers the plethora of new, innovative drawing strategies that shaped French visual arts at the height of France’s imperial power. Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Eugene Guillaume, and Félix Ravaisson, among others, designed new drawing procedures that responded to leading concerns of ...
Art, Music, and Mysticism at the Fin de Siècle: Seeing and Hearing the Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Corrinne Chong, Michelle Foot
July 29, 2024
This edited volume explores the dialogue between art and music with that of mystical currents at the turn of the twentieth century. The volume draws on the most current research from both art historians and musicologists to present an interdisciplinary approach to the study of mysticism’s ...
Art Collecting and Middle Class Culture from London to Brighton, 1840–1914
1st Edition
By David Adelman
June 28, 2024
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
June 14, 2024
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 ...
Art and Modernism in Socialist China: Unexplored International Encounters 1949–1979
1st Edition
Edited
By Shuyu Kong, Julia F. Andrews, Shengtian Zheng
June 06, 2024
This edited volume will be the first book examining the art history of China’s socialist period from the perspective of modernism, modernity, and global interactions. The majority of chapters are based on newly available archival materials and fresh critical frameworks/concepts. By shifting the ...
Greek and Roman Painting and the Digital Humanities
1st Edition
Edited
By Marie-Claire Beaulieu, Valérie Toillon
May 27, 2024
This volume is a groundbreaking discussion of the role of digital media in research on ancient painting, and a deep reflection on the effectiveness of digital media in opening the field to new audiences. The study of classical art always oscillates between archaeology and classics, between the ...
Modern Art in Cold War Beirut: Drawing Alliances
1st Edition
By Sarah Rogers
May 27, 2024
Modern Art in Cold War Beirut: Drawing Alliances examines the entangled histories of modern art and international politics during the decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Positing the Cold War as a globalized conflict, fraught with different political ideologies and intercultural exchanges, this study ...
Nature and Imagination in Ancient and Early Modern Roman Art
1st Edition
By Gabriel Pihas
May 27, 2024
This volume uses the art of Rome to help us understand the radical historical break between the fundamental ancient pre-supposition that there is a natural world or cosmos situating human life, and the equally fundamental modern emphasis on human imagination and its creative power. Rome’s unique ...
Beauty and Monstrosity in Art and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Chara Kokkiou, Angeliki Malakasioti
April 23, 2024
This edited volume takes a new look at an old question: what is the relationship between beauty and monstrosity? How has the notion of beauty transformed through the years and how does it coincide with monstrous ontologies? Contributors offer an interdisciplinary approach to how these two concepts ...