Routledge Research in Art and Politics
About the Book Series
Routledge Research in Art and Politics is a new series focusing on politics and government as examined by scholars working in the fields of art history and visual studies. Proposals for monographs and edited collections on this topic are welcomed.
Antisemitism, Homophobia and Contemporary Art
1st Edition
By Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*
December 01, 2025
This book analyses synchronization as a symptom of the contemporary art world. Acting as a tool within present-day social, economic, and political systems, synchronization assigns individuals to predetermined forms of representation. At its core, the book challenges normative synchronization ...
The German Peasants' War, Visual Culture, and Political Subjectivation
1st Edition
By Jonathan Trayner
November 25, 2025
This study examines the visual productions of the German Peasants’ War – pamphlets, banners, and clothing – to argue for the disruptive and radical visual legacy in which hierarchies and modes of subjection were overturned. Drawing on the author’s experience as a print maker and artist, the book ...
The Politics of Sex, Race and Working-Class Slang in Late Second Empire French Caricature
1st Edition
By Russell Stephens
August 11, 2025
This study examines caricatures as they appeared within popular Parisian magazines in mid-19th century France at the time of the 1867 World’s Fair. Chapters compare the comic mockery of several of the most important satirists of this time, including Amédée de Noé, or “Cham” (1818–1879) as he was ...
Art, Labour, Text and Radical Care
1st Edition
By Adam Walker
June 26, 2025
Through developing an ethical-methodological approach of ‘radical care', this book explores how critical artistic practice might contribute to the materialisation of more equal, more collectively fulfilling, possibilities of being. The chapters trace a set of interweaving lineages perpetuating ...
Postmigration, Transculturality and the Transversal Politics of Art
1st Edition
By Anne Ring Petersen
May 26, 2025
This is the first book to develop a postmigrant analytical perspective for the study of art, concentrating on how postmigration reopens the study of contemporary art and migration. The book introduces art historians and other scholars with a methodological interest in cultural analysis to the ...
Art, Exhibition and Erasure in Nazi Vienna
1st Edition
By Laura Morowitz
April 13, 2025
This book examines three exhibitions of contemporary art held at the Vienna Künstlerhaus during the period of National Socialist rule and shows how each attempted to culturally erase elements anathema to Nazi ideology: the City, the Jewess and fin-de-siècle Vienna. Each of the exhibits was large ...
Mexican Media Art, Ecologies, the Posthuman, and Politics
1st Edition
By Claudia Costa Pederson
March 30, 2025
This volume focuses on the connection between ecological thought and the technological arts in Mexico in order to challenge assumptions that ecological thought is a domain exclusive to the arts of the Global North and reconceive it as an inventive nexus of materialist speculations into a global ...
The Deployment of Art: The Imperial War Museum’s Artistic Records Committee, 1968–1982
1st Edition
By Clare Carolin
March 14, 2025
This book explores the Artistic Records Committee (ARC) of the Imperial War Museum (IWM) as a bureaucratic mechanism that enabled the deployment of art as an instrument of war. The ARC was established in 1972 to commission artistic records of activities involving the British Armed Forces (BAF) ...
Visual Redress in Africa from Indigenous and New Materialist Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Elmarie Costandius, Gera de Villiers
December 19, 2024
Through an indigenous and new materialist thinking approach, this book discusses various examples in Africa where colonial public art, statues, signs and buildings were removed or changed after countries’ independence. An African perspective on these processes will bring new understandings and ...
Art in Ukraine Between Identity Construction and Anti-Colonial Resistance
1st Edition
Edited
By Svitlana Biedarieva
November 29, 2024
This edited volume traces the development of art practices in Ukraine from the 2004 Orange Revolution, through the 2013–2014 Revolution of Dignity, to the ongoing Russian war of aggression. Contributors explore how transformations of identity, the emergence of participatory democracy, relevant ...
Soviet Socialist Realism and Art in the Asia-Pacific
1st Edition
By Alison Carroll
October 08, 2024
This study evaluates how the ideology of Socialist Realism, developed by the Soviets in policies and the practices of art, has been influential in the Asia-Pacific region from 1917 until today. Focusing primarily on Russia, then China, Vietnam, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and ...
Terrorism and the Arts: Practices and Critiques in Contemporary Cultural Production
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Harris
October 08, 2024
This book assesses the key definitions, forms, contexts and impacts of terrorist activity on the arts in the modern era, using historical and contemporary perspectives. Its empirical case studies include theatre, literature, music, visual art, mass media, film and the mores of ‘ordinary life.’ ...