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