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.
Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Mexican Graphic Art and Visual Culture in the early 20th Century
1st Edition
By Beth Matusoff Merfish
July 30, 2026
This book challenges the national myth that Mexican art between the Mexican Revolution and World War II was inevitably and thoroughly populist and nationalist and argues instead that there was no such all-encompassing spirit, and even art intended for broad populations was not always democratic. ...
Art Criticism and the Appeal to Democracy
1st Edition
By Craig Peariso
July 03, 2026
While engaging with the interconnected concepts of communication and democracy in postwar American and European art criticism, this book provides a historical assessment of how these two related trends pertain to modern and contemporary art theory and practice. Looking at both the history of ...
Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 1825–1878
1st Edition
By Evan Robert Neely
December 26, 2025
Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 1825–1878 is an interdisciplinary work analyzing the historical origins of a dominant concept of Nature in the culture of the United States during the period of its expansion across the continent. Chapters analyze the ways in ...
Antisemitism, Homophobia, and Contemporary Art
1st Edition
By Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*
December 23, 2025
This book analyzes 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, this 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 ...
Art and Politics During the Cold War: Poland and the Netherlands
1st Edition
By Michał Wenderski
September 28, 2025
Drawing on thousands of historical documents from Polish and Dutch archives, this book explores Cold War cultural exchange between so-called ‘smaller powers’ of this global conflict, which thus far has been predominately explored from the perspective of the two superpowers or more pivotal countries...
The Politics of Sex, Race and Working-Class Slang in Late Second Empire French Caricature
1st Edition
By Russell Stephens
August 10, 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) ...