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.
Sculpture Workshops as Space and Concept: Creating the Portrait
1st Edition
Edited
By Jane Fejfer, Kristine Bøggild Johannsen
October 07, 2024
This book explores the multifaceted aspects of sculptor’s workshops from the Renaissance to the early nineteenth century. Contributors take a fresh look at the sculptor’s workshop as both a physical and discursive space. By studying some of the most prominent artists’ sculptural practices, the ...
The Virtual Liturgy and Ritual Artifacts in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
1st Edition
By Katharine D. Scherff
October 07, 2024
Examining the history of altar decorations, this study of the visual liturgy grapples with many of the previous theoretical frameworks to reveal the evolution and function of these ritual objects. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book uses traditional art-historical methodologies and media...
Whistler and Artistic Exchange between Japan and the West: After Japonisme in Britain
1st Edition
By Ayako Ono
October 07, 2024
Ono examines cross-cultural artistic exchange between the West and Japan from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Studies of Japonisme have been dominated by searching out relationships of influence between artworks–trying to identify which specific works influenced a ...
Erasures and Eradications in Modern Viennese Art, Architecture and Design
1st Edition
Edited
By Megan Brandow-Faller, Laura Morowitz
October 04, 2024
Erasures and Eradications in Modern Viennese Art, Architecture and Design challenges the received narrative on the artists, exhibitions, and interpretations of Viennese Modernism. The book centers on three main erasures—the erasure of Jewish artists and critics; erasures relating to gender and ...
State Construction and Art in East Central Europe, 1918-2018
1st Edition
Edited
By Agnieszka Chmielewska, Irena Kossowska, Marcin Lachowski
October 04, 2024
This volume offers a comprehensive perspective on the relationship between the art scene and agencies of the state in countries of the region, throughout four consecutive yet highly diverse historical periods: from the period of state integration after World War I, through the communist era post ...
Mobility and Identity in US Genre Painting: Painting at the Threshold
1st Edition
By Lacey Baradel
September 02, 2024
This book examines the portrayal of themes of boundary crossing, itinerancy, relocation, and displacement in US genre paintings during the second half of the long nineteenth century (c. 1860–1910). Through four diachronic case studies, the book reveals how the high-stakes politics of mobility and ...
Art Criticism and Modernism in the United States
1st Edition
By Stephen Moonie
August 26, 2024
This study is an analysis of 'high' and 'late' modernist criticism in New York during the 1960s and early 1970s. Through a close reading of a selection of key critics of the period—which will expand the remit beyond the canonical texts—the book examines the ways that modernist criticism’s...
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 ...
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 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 ...