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.
History and Art History: Looking Past Disciplines
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicholas Chare, Mitchell B. Frank
January 09, 2023
Through a series of cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary interventions, leading international scholars of history and art history explore ways in which the study of images enhances knowledge of the past and informs our understanding of the present. Spanning a diverse range of time periods and ...
Iconology, Neoplatonism, and the Arts in the Renaissance
1st Edition
Edited
By Berthold Hub, Sergius Kodera
December 19, 2022
The mid-twentieth century saw a change in paradigms of art history: iconology. The main claim of this novel trend in art history was that renowned Renaissance artists (such as Botticelli, Leonardo, or Michelangelo) created imaginative syntheses between their art and contemporary cosmology, ...
Mapping Impressionist Painting in Transnational Contexts
1st Edition
Edited
By Emily C. Burns, Alice M. Rudy Price
December 19, 2022
This book offers microhistories related to the transnational circulations of impressionism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The contributors rethink the role of "French" impressionism in shaping these iterations by placing France within its global and imperialist context and ...
The Reception of the Printed Image in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Multiplied and Modified
1st Edition
Edited
By Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Magdalena Herman
December 19, 2022
This book examines the early development of the graphic arts from the perspectives of material things, human actors and immaterial representations while broadening the geographic field of inquiry to Central Europe and the British Isles and considering the reception of the prints on other continents...
The Cobra Movement in Postwar Europe: Reanimating Art
1st Edition
By Karen Kurczynski
August 01, 2022
This book examines the art of Cobra, a network of poets and artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam (1948–1951). Although the name stood for the organizers’ home cities, the Cobra artists hailed from countries in Europe, Africa, and the United States. This book investigates how a group of ...
Raymond Jonson and the Spiritual in Modernist and Abstract Painting
1st Edition
By Herbert R. Hartel, Jr.
June 14, 2022
This is the most thorough and detailed monograph on the artwork of Raymond Jonson. He is one of many artists of the first half of the twentieth-century who demonstrate the richness and diversity of an under-appreciated period in the history of American art. Visualizing the spiritual was one of the ...
Henri Bertin and the Representation of China in Eighteenth-Century France
1st Edition
By John Finlay
May 06, 2022
This is an in-depth study of the intellectual, technical, and artistic encounters between Europe and China in the late eighteenth century, focusing on the purposeful acquisition of information and images that characterized a direct engagement with the idea of "China." The central figure in this ...
The Lower Niger Bronzes: Beyond Igbo-Ukwu, Ife, and Benin
1st Edition
By Philip M. Peek
April 29, 2022
This book demonstrates that copper-alloy casting was widespread in southern Nigeria and has been practiced for at least a millennium. Philip M. Peek’s research provides a critical context for the better-known casting traditions of Igbo-Ukwu, Ife, and Benin. Both the necessary ores and casting ...
The Australian Art Field: Practices, Policies, Institutions
1st Edition
Edited
By Tony Bennett, Deborah Stevenson, Fred Myers, Tamara Winikoff
June 30, 2021
This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to take stock of the frictions generated by a tumultuous time in the Australian art field and to probe what the crises might mean for the future of the arts in Australia. Specific topics include national and international art markets; ...
New York: Art and Cultural Capital of the Gilded Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Margaret R. Laster, Chelsea Bruner
July 07, 2020
Fueled by a flourishing capitalist economy, undergirded by advancements in architectural design and urban infrastructure, and patronized by growing bourgeois and elite classes, New York’s built environment was dramatically transformed in the 1870s and 1880s. This book argues that this constituted ...
Globalizing East European Art Histories: Past and Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Beáta Hock, Anu Allas
June 30, 2020
This edited collection reassesses East-Central European art by offering transnational perspectives on its regional or national histories, while also inserting the region into contemporary discussions of global issues. Both in popular imagination and, to some degree, scholarly literature, ...
The Embodied Imagination in Antebellum American Art and Culture
1st Edition
By Catherine Holochwost
March 16, 2020
This book reveals a new history of the imagination told through its engagement with the body. Even as they denounced the imagination’s potential for inviting luxury, vice, and corruption, American audiences avidly consumed a transatlantic visual culture of touring paintings, dioramas, gift books, ...