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.
Alexander the Great in Renaissance Art: North and South of the Alps
1st Edition
By Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes
April 22, 2024
This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how they came about, and why they were so popular. In contrast to the numerous studies on the historical and legendary figure of Alexander, surprisingly few studies have examined, in one volume, the ...
Power and Propaganda in the Large Imperial Cameos of the Early Roman Empire
1st Edition
By Julia C. Fischer
April 10, 2024
This study examines the five extant large Imperial cameos of the Early Roman Empire as a coherent whole, revealing that these gemstones were a referential group with complex interrelationships. Power and Propaganda in the Large Imperial Cameos of the Early Roman Empire offers a feminist theory that...
Historic Avant-Garde Work on Paper
1st Edition
Edited
By Sascha Bru
March 13, 2024
This book examines the many functions of paper in the fine art and aesthetics of the early twentieth-century modernist or historic avant-garde (Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Constructivism and many more). With its many collages and photomontages, the historic avant-garde is ...
Jewish American Identity and Erasure in Pop Art
1st Edition
By Melissa L. Mednicov
March 05, 2024
This volume focuses on Jewish American identity within the context of Pop art in New York City during the sixties to reveal the multivalent identities and selves often ignored in Pop scholarship. Melissa L. Mednicov establishes her study within the context of prominent Jewish artists, dealers, ...
The Book of Hours and the Body: Somaesthetics, Posthumanism, and the Uncanny
1st Edition
By Sherry C. M. Lindquist
February 29, 2024
This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approaches - somaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncanny - may reveal about both premodern and postmodern terms of embodiment. It takes as its point of departure a selection of fifteenth-century northern...
Bauhaus Effects in Art, Architecture, and Design
1st Edition
Edited
By Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Sabine T. Kriebel
January 29, 2024
Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and its teaching had on a wide range of artistic practices. Three of the fields in which the Bauhaus generated immediately transformative effects were housing, typography, and ...
Italian Painting in the Age of Unification
1st Edition
By Laura L. Watts
January 29, 2024
Italian Painting in the Age of Unification reconstructs the artistic motivations and messaging of three artists—Tommaso Minardi, Francesco Hayez, and Gioacchino Toma—from three distinct regions in Italy prior to, during, and directly following political unification in 1861. Each artist, working in...
Posthumous Art, Law and the Art Market: The Afterlife of Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Sharon Hecker, Peter J. Karol
January 29, 2024
This book takes an interdisciplinary, transnational and cross-cultural approach to reflect on, critically examine and challenge the surprisingly robust practice of making art after death in an artist's name, through the lenses of scholars from the fields of art history, economics and law, as well ...
The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature: Subject, Ecology, Form
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Hughes, Emma Merkling
December 29, 2023
Resonating with contemporary ecological and queer theory, this book pioneers the theorization of the Victorian idyll, establishing its nature, lineaments, and significance as a formal mode widely practised in nineteenth-century British culture across media and genre. Chapters trace the Victorian ...
The Primitivist Imaginary in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms
1st Edition
Edited
By Joana Cunha Leal, Mariana Pinto dos Santos
December 07, 2023
Taking into account politics, history and aesthetics, this edited volume explores the main expressions of primitivism in Iberian and Transatlantic modernisms. Ten case studies are thoroughly analyzed concerning both the circulations and exchanges connecting the Iberian and Latin American artistic ...
East-West Artistic Transfer through Rome, Armenia and the Silk Road: Sharing St. Peter's
1st Edition
By Christiane Esche-Ramshorn
October 09, 2023
This book examines the arts and artistic exchanges at the ‘Christian Oriental’ fringes of Europe, especially Armenia. It starts with the architecture, history and inhabitants of the lesser known pilgrim compounds at the Vatican in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, of Hungary, Germany, but namely ...
Deconstructing the Myths of Islamic Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Onur Öztürk, Xenia Gazi, Sam Bowker
September 25, 2023
Deconstructing the Myths of Islamic Art addresses how researchers can challenge stereotypical notions of Islam and Islamic art while avoiding the creation of new myths and the encouragement of nationalistic and ethnic attitudes. Despite its Orientalist origins, the field of Islamic art has ...