Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions
About the Book Series
Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions is a new series focusing on museums, collecting, and exhibitions from an art historical perspective. Proposals for monographs and edited collections on this topic are welcomed.
A History of South Africa at the Venice Biennale: The politics of looking South African
1st Edition
By Annchen Bronkowski
November 21, 2025
This study presents the first history of the South African national pavilion at the Venice Biennale since it first participated in 1950 up until its contemporary pavilions. Covering a contentious period in South African history, the pavilion engenders a thought-provoking engagement with questions ...
The Rise of the Therapeutic Museum: Decolonization and the Crisis of Knowledge
1st Edition
By Janet Kraynak
September 30, 2025
This book considers when and why respite rooms, emotional support brochures, well-beingguides, psychological consultants, and care days become common features in the museum ofart. Kraynak poses and answers this question, arguing that under its rightful ambition todecolonize––i.e. to rectify past ...
Reclaiming and Redefining American Exhibitions of Russian Art
1st Edition
By Roann Barris
January 30, 2025
This book examines the history of American exhibitions of Russian art in the twentieth century in the context of the Cold War. Because this history reflects changes in museological theory and the role of governments in facilitating or preventing intercultural cooperation, it uncovers a story that ...
Cold War American Exhibitions of Italian Art and Design
1st Edition
By Antje Gamble
December 18, 2024
Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (1950–53), this book shows the dynamic role art, specifically sculpture, played in constructing both Italian and American culture after World War II (WWII). Moving beyond previous studies...
A History of Aboriginal Art in the Art Gallery of New South Wales
1st Edition
By Vanessa Russ
October 07, 2024
In this highly original study, Vanessa Russ examines the gradual invention of Aboriginal art within the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This process occurred as the social histories of Australia expanded and recognised Aboriginal people, through wars and political shifts, and as international ...
Reconstructing Exhibitions in Art Institutions
1st Edition
Edited
By Natasha Adamou, Michaela Giebelhausen
October 07, 2024
Reconstructing Exhibitions in Art Institutions spans exhibition histories as anti-apartheid activism within South African community arts; collectivities and trade unions in Argentina; Civil Rights movements and Black communities in Baltimore; institutional self-critique within the neoliberal museum...
Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum
1st Edition
Edited
By Malene Vest Hansen, Kristian Handberg
October 04, 2024
Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum investigates the art museum as a space where the contemporary is staged – in exhibitions, collecting practices, communication, and policies. Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum traces the art museum back to the postwar era. Including contributions...
Curating with Care
1st Edition
Edited
By Elke Krasny, Lara Perry
October 04, 2024
This book presents over 20 authors’ reflections on ‘curating care’ – and presents a call to give curatorial attention to the primacy of care for all life and for more ‘caring curating’ that responds to the social, ecological and political analysis of curatorial caregiving. Social and ecological ...
Displaying Art in the Early Modern Period: Exhibiting Practices and Exhibition Spaces
1st Edition
Edited
By Pamela Bianchi
May 27, 2024
From aesthetic promenades in noble palaces to the performativity of religious apparatus, this edited volume reconsiders some of the events, habits and spaces that contributed to defining exhibition practices and shaping the imagery of the exhibition space in the early modern period. The ...
Exhibiting Italian Art in the United States from Futurism to Arte Povera: 'Like a Giant Screen'
1st Edition
By Raffaele Bedarida
May 27, 2024
This volume explores how Italian institutions, dealers, critics, and artists constructed a modern national identity for Italy by exporting – literally and figuratively – contemporary art to the United States in key moments between 1929 and 1969. From artist Fortunato Depero opening his Futurist ...
The Venice Biennale and the Asia-Pacific in the Global Art World
1st Edition
By Stephen Naylor
January 29, 2024
This monograph uses the national pavilions of the Venice Biennale as a vehicle to examine the development of international contemporary art trends within the Asia-Pacific region, including Australia, Japan and Korea and 16 additional national entities who have had less continuous participation in ...
Contemporary Curating, Artistic Reference and Public Reception: Reconsidering Inclusion, Transparency and Mediation in Exhibition Making Practice
1st Edition
By Stéphanie Bertrand
May 31, 2023
Contemporary Curating, Artistic Reference and Public Reception undertakes a unique critical survey and analysis of prevailing group exhibition-making practices in Europe, the UK and North America. Drawing on curatorial literature and two in-depth case studies of group exhibitions, Bertrand ...