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.
Mural Painting in Britain 1630-1730: Experiencing Histories
1st Edition
By Lydia Hamlett
January 21, 2023
This book illuminates the original meanings of seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century mural paintings in Britain.At the time, these were called ‘histories’. Throughout the eighteenth century, though, the term became directly associated with easel painting and, as ‘history painting’ achieved the ...
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 ...
Artistic Responses to Travel in the Western Tradition
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah J. Lippert
July 12, 2022
In an era when ease of travel is greater than ever, it is also easy to overlook the degree to which voyages of the body – and mind – have generated an outpouring of artistry and creativity throughout the ages. Exploration of new lands and sensations is a fundamental human experience. This ...
National Identity and Nineteenth-Century Franco-Belgian Sculpture
1st Edition
By Jana Wijnsouw
July 12, 2022
This book elaborates on the social and cultural phenomenon of national schools during the nineteenth century, via the less studied field of sculpture and using Belgium as a case study. The role, importance of, and emphasis on certain aspects of national identity evolved throughout the century, ...
The Gamin de Paris in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture: Delacroix, Hugo, and the French Social Imaginary
1st Edition
By Marilyn R. Brown
July 12, 2022
The revolutionary boy at the barricades was memorably envisioned in Eugène Delacroix’s painting Liberty Leading the People (1830) and Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables (1862). Over the course of the nineteenth century, images of the Paris urchin entered the collective social imaginary as cultural ...
Chinese-Islamic Works of Art, 1644–1912: A Study of Some Qing Dynasty Examples
1st Edition
By Emily Byrne Curtis
June 14, 2022
Chinese-Islamic studies have concentrated thus far on the arts of earlier periods with less attention paid to works from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). This book focuses on works of Chinese-Islamic art from the late seventeenth century to the present day and bring to the reader’s attention several ...
Cultural Mobility in the Interwar Avant-Garde Art Network: Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands
1st Edition
By Michał Wenderski
June 14, 2022
This book explores the issue of cultural mobility within the interwar network of the European avant-garde, focusing on selected writers, artists, architects, magazines and groups from Poland, Belgium and Netherlands. Regardless of their apparent linguistic, cultural and geographical remoteness, ...
Pop Art and Popular Music: Jukebox Modernism
1st Edition
By Melissa L. Mednicov
June 14, 2022
This book offers an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to Pop art scholarship through a recuperation of popular music into art historical understandings of the movement. Jukebox modernism is a procedure by which Pop artists used popular music within their works to disrupt decorous modernism ...