Routledge Research in Art History
About the Book Series
Routledge Research in Art History is our home for the latest scholarship in the field of art history. The series publishes research monographs and edited collections, covering areas including art history, theory, and visual culture. These high-level books focus on art and artists from around the world and from a multitude of time periods. By making these studies available to the worldwide academic community, the series aims to promote quality art history research.
Hans Haacke's Double Agents: Art, Systems, and Parasitical Resistance
1st Edition
By John A. Tyson
February 16, 2027
This is a pioneering book-length study of Hans Haacke, one of the most important living political artists. Hans Haacke’s Double Agents examines how his conceptual works function as "double agents"—operating simultaneously as art while critiquing and exposing the political, ecological, and ...
The Plaster Cast Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Not Lost, Not Forgotten
1st Edition
By Martha Dunkelman
February 03, 2027
Examining the large cast collection of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, this book takes a closer look at those many forgotten pieces which continue to serve the public in a range of new locations. The Metropolitan, unlike most other American institutions, continued to value its casts even ...
Art and the Waters of Italy: Myth, Literature and Ecology from the Renaissance to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Marzia Faietti, Lorenzo Mascheretti
January 20, 2027
This collection explores how the human relationship with the natural world – epitomized by water, and particularly in rivers and their surroundings – has been depicted, interpreted, and symbolized in myths of Italy, especially of the Po region, from the Renaissance until the modern era. The ...
Disalienations: Art in and out of Africa at Midcentury
1st Edition
By Daniel Horn
December 17, 2026
Setting out from Frantz Fanon’s concept of disalienation this book newly traces the mid-century aesthetics and debates connecting African-descended artists at the twilight of colonial rule. Focusing on the distinct diasporic network from the 1940s through the 1960s, the book explores how artists ...
Art, Design, and Animal Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Sutton
December 15, 2026
This volume is a comprehensive exploration of how animals have been depicted across different art forms throughout history. Humans have portrayed animals in art since there have been tools to do so. Through more than twenty exemplary essays, this volume examines both the history of how humans have ...
French Images of America in the Age of Revolutions: The Visual History of a Colonial Mirage
1st Edition
By Catherine Dossin
December 14, 2026
Marking the 250th anniversary of the Franco-American Alliance, this book examines how "America" was imagined in France during the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions. Rather than relying primarily on textual sources, the book places images—paintings, prints, maps, tapestries, and decorative ...
The New Perspectiva Artificialis: From the Mechanical Eye to the Algorithmic Symbolic Form
1st Edition
By James Hutson, Daniel Plate
December 14, 2026
Advancing a comparative thesis, this book aligns Renaissance linear perspective with transformer architectures in generative artificial intelligence as structurally parallel revolutions in symbolic form. Both linear perspective and transformer architectures transform subjective human ...
Decay in Ruskin's Architecture, Geology, and Wisdom
1st Edition
By Kurt Espersen-Peters
November 16, 2026
This book traces the evolution of Ruskin’s thinking on decay across the breadth and depth of his aesthetic, social and critical thought, providing a new perspective on the complex terrain of his architectural and landscape theory. Ideas of decay are consistent across Ruskin’s work, from his ...
History and Genealogy of Performance Art in Latvia
1st Edition
By Laine Kristberga
November 16, 2026
This book offers the first comprehensive study of the emergence and development of performance art in Latvia from the 1960s to the late 1980s under Soviet occupation. The book examines artistic practices that remained marginal to both international historiography and local art historical discourse....
Contemporary Art and the Politics of Belonging: Towards a Longing for Home through the Moving Image
1st Edition
By Janelle Hixon
November 13, 2026
This book theorizes the visual language through which the relationship between home and place is formed and unformed, and proposes longing as a conceptual framework for generating sites of collective belonging across difference. Through close readings of contemporary moving image artworks, ...
Affect, Intimacy and Ecology of Mind in Neurofeedback Art
1st Edition
By Cristina Albu
October 27, 2026
This book charts the history of neurofeedback art from the mid-1960s to the present. It examines how artists have paired electroencephalography (EEG) brainwave readings with fluctuating sounds, lights, or images to reveal the embodied and relational nature of the mind. Offering a comprehensive ...
Urban Feminist Visuality in Contemporary Pakistani Art: Art and Activism after 9/11
1st Edition
By Kanwal Syed
October 19, 2026
Urban Feminist Visuality in Contemporary Pakistani Art traces feminist rebellion within urban Pakistan’s visual discourse. Using social, cultural, and art historical theories, and through a postcolonial and non-Western feminist lens, this book envisions an alternative art history that gives ...