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.
Emilio Sanchez in New York and Latin America
1st Edition
By Victor Deupi
September 25, 2023
This book focuses on the life and artistic activities of Emilio Sanchez (1921–1999) in New York, and Latin America in the 1940s and 1950s. More specifically, the book will consider Sanchez in the wider context of mid-century Cuban artists, and cross-cultural exchange between New York, Cuba, and the...
Histories of Conservation and Art History in Modern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Sven Dupré, Jenny Boulboullé
September 25, 2023
This book traces the development of scientific conservation and technical art history. It takes as its starting point the final years of the nineteenth century, which saw the establishment of the first museum laboratory in Berlin, and ground-breaking international conferences on art history and ...
Picturing Courtiers and Nobles from Castiglione to Van Dyck: Self Representation by Early Modern Elites
1st Edition
By John Peacock
September 25, 2023
This interdisciplinary study examines painted portraiture as a defining metaphor of elite self-representation in early modern culture. Beginning with Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier (1528), the most influential early modern account of the formation of elite identity, the argument traces a path ...
Representing the Past in the Art of the Long Nineteenth Century: Historicism, Postmodernism, and Internationalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthew C. Potter
September 25, 2023
This edited collection explores the intersection of historical studies and the artistic representation of the past in the long nineteenth century. The case studies provide not just an account of the pursuit of history in art within Western Europe but also examples from beyond that sphere. These ...
The Imperial Patronage of Labor Genre Paintings in Eighteenth-Century China
1st Edition
By Roslyn Lee Hammers
September 25, 2023
This book examines the agrarian labor genre paintings based on the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving that were commissioned by successive Chinese emperors. Furthermore, this book analyzes the genre’s imagery as well as the poems in their historical context and explains how the paintings ...
The Performance of Sculpture in Renaissance Venice
1st Edition
By Lorenzo G. Buonanno
September 25, 2023
This study reveals the broad material, devotional, and cultural implications of sculpture in Renaissance Venice. Examining a wide range of sources—the era’s art-theoretical and devotional literature, guidebooks and travel diaries, and artworks in various media—Lorenzo Buonanno recovers the ...
The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity
1st Edition
Edited
By Ayelet Zohar, Alison J. Miller
September 25, 2023
This volume examines the visual culture of Japan’s transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century. Through this important moment in Japanese history, contributors reflect on Japan’s transcultural artistic imagination vis-a-vis the discernment, negotiation, ...
Weak Painting After Modernism: Material Strategies 1968-1978
1st Edition
By Craig Staff
September 01, 2023
This book examines the terms upon which painting in the United States sought to negotiate with the legacy of American formalist aesthetics and by extension, the understanding of modernist painting it had become most readily associated with. In so doing, a separate set of possibilities for painting ...
Art, Mobility, and Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany and Eurasia
1st Edition
Edited
By Francesco Freddolini, Marco Musillo
May 31, 2023
This book explores how the Medici Grand Dukes pursued ways to expand their political, commercial, and cultural networks beyond Europe, cultivating complex relations with the Ottoman Empire and other Islamicate regions, and looking further east to India, China, and Japan. The chapters in this volume...
Interpreting Modernism in Korean Art: Fluidity and Fragmentation
1st Edition
Edited
By Kyunghee Pyun, Jung-Ah Woo
May 31, 2023
This book examines the development of national emblems, photographic portraiture, oil painting, world expositions, modern spaces for art exhibitions, university programs of visual arts, and other agencies of modern art in Korea. With few books on modern art in Korea available in English, this book...
Loss in French Romantic Art, Literature, and Politics
1st Edition
By Jonathan P. Ribner
May 31, 2023
An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century French art pertaining to religion, exile, and the nation’s demise as a world power, this study concerns the consequences for visual culture of a series of national crises—from the assault on Catholicism and the flight of émigrés during the ...
Public Statues Across Time and Cultures
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher P. Dickenson
May 31, 2023
This book explores the ways in which statues have been experienced in public in different cultures and the role that has been played by statues in defining publicness itself. The meaning of public statues is examined through discussion of their appearance and their spatial context and of written ...