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.
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 ...
Academies and Schools of Art in Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Oscar E. Vázquez
October 14, 2024
This edited volume’s chief aim is to bring together, in an English-language source, the principal histories and narratives of some of the most significant academies and national schools of art in South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean, from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries.The book ...
Portuguese Artists in London: Shaping Identities in Post-War Europe
1st Edition
By Leonor de Oliveira
October 14, 2024
This book centres on four Portuguese artists’ journeys between Portugal and Britain and aims at rethinking the cultural and artistic interactions in the post-war Europe, the shaping of new identities within a context of creative experimentalism and transnational dynamics and the artistic responses ...
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 ...
American Art in Asia: Artistic Praxis and Theoretical Divergence
1st Edition
Edited
By Michelle Lim, Kyunghee Pyun
October 07, 2024
This book challenges existing notions of what is "American" and/or "Asian" art, moving beyond the identity issues that have dominated art-world conversations of the 1980s and the 1990s and aligning with new trends and issues in contemporary art today, e.g. the Global South, labor, environment, and ...
Art History at the Crossroads of Ireland and the United States
1st Edition
Edited
By Cynthia Fowler, Paula Murphy
October 07, 2024
Taking the visual arts as its focus, this anthology explores aspects of cultural exchange between Ireland and the United States. Art historians from both sides of the Atlantic examine the work of artists, art critics and art promoters. Through a close study of selected paintings and sculptures, ...
Egon Schiele and the Art of Popular Illustration
1st Edition
By Claude Cernuschi
October 07, 2024
Presenting a radically different picture of Egon Schiele’s work, this study documents (in one-to-one comparisons) the extent of the artist’s visual borrowings from the Viennese humoristic journal, Die Muskete. Claude Cernuschi analyzes each comparison on a case-by-case basis, primarily because the...
Gerhard Richter, Individualism, and Belonging in West Germany
1st Edition
By Luke Smythe
October 07, 2024
This book reevaluates the art of Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) in relation to his efforts to achieve belonging in the face of West Germany’s increasing individualism between the 1960s and the 1990s. Richter fled East Germany in 1961 to escape the constraints of socialist collectivism. His varied and ...