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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.

20 Series Titles


Displaying Art in the Early Modern Period Exhibiting Practices and Exhibition Spaces

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'

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

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

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 ...

The Twentieth Century German Art Exhibition Answering Degenerate Art in 1930s London

The Twentieth Century German Art Exhibition: Answering Degenerate Art in 1930s London

1st Edition

By Lucy Wasensteiner
June 30, 2021

This book represents the first study dedicated to Twentieth Century German Art, the 1938 London exhibition that was the largest international response to the cultural policies of National Socialist Germany and the infamous Munich exhibition Degenerate Art. Provenance research into the ...

Absence and Difficult Knowledge in Contemporary Art Museums

Absence and Difficult Knowledge in Contemporary Art Museums

1st Edition

By Margaret Tali
March 31, 2021

This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence both consciously and unconsciously, while misrepresentation is an outcome of the absent perspectives and voices of minority community members which are rarely ...

Curatorial Challenges Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary Curating

Curatorial Challenges: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary Curating

1st Edition

Edited By Malene Vest Hansen, Anne Folke Henningsen, Anne Gregersen
December 18, 2020

Curatorial Challenges investigates the challenges faced by curators in contemporary society and explores which practices, ways of thinking, and types of knowledge production curating exhibitions could challenge. Bringing together international curators and researchers from the fields of art and ...

Art Museums of Latin America Structuring Representation

Art Museums of Latin America: Structuring Representation

1st Edition

Edited By Michele Greet, Gina McDaniel Tarver
September 30, 2020

Since the late nineteenth century, art museums have played crucial social, political, and economic roles throughout Latin America because of the ways that they structure representation. By means of their architecture, collections, exhibitions, and curatorial practices, Latin American art museums ...

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