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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...