Studies in Art Historiography
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to support and promote the study of the history and practice of art historical writing focussing on its institutional and conceptual foundations, from the past to the present day in all areas and all periods. Besides addressing the major innovators of the past it also encourages re-thinking ways in which the subject may be written in the future. It ignores the disciplinary boundaries imposed by the Anglophone expression 'art history' and allows and encourages the full range of enquiry that encompasses the visual arts in its broadest sense as well as topics falling within archaeology, anthropology, ethnography and other specialist disciplines and approaches. It welcomes contributions from young and established scholars and is aimed at building an expanded audience for what has hitherto been a much specialised topic of investigation. It complements the work of the Journal of Art Historiography.
Art Historiography and Iconologies Between West and East
1st Edition
Edited
By Wojciech Bałus, Magdalena Kunińska
January 29, 2026
This volume explores a basic question in the historiography of art: the extent to which iconology was a homogenous research method in its own immutable right. By contributing to the rejection of the universalizing narrative, these case studies argue that there were many strands of iconology. ...
Wilhelm von Bode and the American Art Market: The Rudolphe Kann Collection
1st Edition
By Michaela Watrelot
September 28, 2025
Based on an extensive and very meticulous study of different archives and the evaluation of original, previously unpublished, archival material, this book highlights the key aspects and trends of the European and American art markets in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In ...
Entangled Art Histories in Ukraine
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefaniia Demchuk, Illia Levchenko
November 29, 2024
This book explores ideologies, conflicts and ideas that underpinned art historical writing in Ukraine in the 20th century. Disciplinary beginnings testify both to its deep connection to Krakow, Saint Petersburg and especially Vienna with its school of art history and originality of theoretical ...
Millard Meiss, American Art History, and Conservation: From Connoisseurship to Iconology and Kulturgeschichte
1st Edition
By Jennifer Cooke
May 27, 2024
A member of the art history generation from the golden age of the 1920s and 1930s, Millard Meiss (1904–1975) developed a new and multi-faceted methodological approach. This book lays the foundation for a reassessment of this key figure in post-war American and international art history. The book ...
Rediscovering Objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Isabelle Dolezalek, Mattia Guidetti
May 27, 2024
This book argues that the provenance of early modern and medieval objects from Islamic lands was largely forgotten until the "long" eighteenth century, when the first efforts were made to reconnect them with the historical contexts in which they were produced. For the first time, these Islamicate ...
Horizontal Art History and Beyond: Revising Peripheral Critical Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Agata Jakubowska, Magdalena Radomska
January 29, 2024
This book is devoted to the concept of horizontal art history—a proposal of a paradigm shift formulated by the Polish art historian Piotr Piotrowski (1952–2015)—that aims at undermining the hegemony of the discourse of art history created in the Western world. The concept of horizontal art history...
Periodization in the Art Historiographies of Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Shona Kallestrup, Magdalena Kunińska, Mihnea Alexandru Mihail, Anna Adashinskaya, Cosmin Minea
January 29, 2024
This volume critically investigates how art historians writing about Central and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries engaged with periodization. At the heart of much of their writing lay the ideological project of nation-building. Hence discourses around ...
Art, History, and Anachronic Interventions Since 1990
1st Edition
By Eva Kernbauer
September 25, 2023
This book examines contemporary artistic practices since 1990 that engage with, depict, and conceptualize history. Examining artworks by Kader Attia, Yael Bartana, Zarina Bhimji, Michael Blum, Matthew Buckingham, Tacita Dean, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Omer Fast, Andrea Geyer, Liam Gillick ...
New Histories of Art in the Global Postwar Era: Multiple Modernisms
1st Edition
Edited
By Flavia Frigeri, Kristian Handberg
September 26, 2022
This book maps key moments in the history of postwar art from a global perspective. The reader is introduced to a new globally oriented approach to art, artists, museums and movements of the postwar era (1945–70). Specifically, this book bridges the gap between historical artistic centers, such as...
Making Art History in Europe After 1945
1st Edition
Edited
By Noemi de Haro García, Patricia Mayayo, Jesús Carrillo
August 29, 2022
This book analyses the intermeshing of state power and art history in Europe since 1945 and up to the present from a critical, de-centered perspective. Devoting special attention to European peripheries and to under-researched transnational cultural political initiatives related to the arts ...
New Narratives of Russian and East European Art: Between Traditions and Revolutions
1st Edition
Edited
By Galina Mardilovich, Maria Taroutina
June 14, 2022
This book brings together thirteen scholars to introduce the newest and most cutting-edge research in the field of Russian and East European art history. Reconsidering canonical figures, re-examining prevalent debates, and revisiting aesthetic developments, the book challenges accepted histories ...
Sculptural Materiality in the Age of Conceptualism: International Experiments in Italy
1st Edition
By Marin R. Sullivan
September 30, 2021
Sculptural Materiality in the Age of Conceptualism is structured around four distinct but interrelated projects initially realized in Italy between 1966 and 1972: Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus Garden, Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Newspaper Sphere (Sfera di giornali), Robert Smithson’s Asphalt Rundown, and ...