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.
Contemporary Art in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Crisis, Rupture and Discontinuity
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Blackwood, Irfan Hošić
September 11, 2026
This edited volume traces the evolution and layered mutations of the production, consumption and discussion of contemporary art from Bosnia-Herzegovina, a European country where a devastating war resulted in the deaths of approximately 100,000 people and the displacement of over 2 million refugees....
Kandinsky’s Abstract Orientalism: Colonial Contexts and Early Abstraction
1st Edition
By Emily Christensen
July 27, 2026
This book examines, for the first time, Wassily Kandinsky’s turn to "the Orient" in his early abstraction. Reframing him within colonial history, it reveals how his artistic innovations were shaped by Orientalist tropes, transforming our understanding of this modernist artist and his work from 1909...
Decay in Ruskin's Architecture, Geology, and Wisdom
1st Edition
By Kurt Espersen-Peters
July 17, 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 ...
James McNeill Whistler’s Reception and Artistic Legacy: Inventing Whistlerism
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada, Laura Valette
June 08, 2026
This book addresses the artistic phenomenon of “Whistlerism”, originated by the American painter James McNeill Whistler, and sheds light on this movement’s origins, its history and its wide-ranging impact on literature, poetry, art criticism, design and art philosophy. Whistler’s students and ...
Bananas, Art, and Visual Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean
1st Edition
Edited
By Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano, Juanita Solano Roa
June 01, 2026
Via a diverse collection of essays in the history of art of the Americas, this book explores the cultural, political and environmental legacy of bananas from viceregal painting and 19th century photography to contemporary Latinx and Caribbean Art. Through sixteen original essays by leading art ...
Art and Modernism in Socialist China: Unexplored International Encounters 1949–1979
1st Edition
Edited
By Shuyu Kong, Julia F. Andrews, Shengtian Zheng
May 22, 2026
This edited volume will be the first book examining the art history of China’s socialist period from the perspective of modernism, modernity, and global interactions. The majority of chapters are based on newly available archival materials and fresh critical frameworks/concepts. By shifting the ...
Art, Music, and Mysticism at the Fin de Siècle: Seeing and Hearing the Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Corrinne Chong, Michelle Foot
May 22, 2026
This edited volume explores the dialogue between art and music with that of mystical currents at the turn of the twentieth century. The volume draws on the most current research from both art historians and musicologists to present an interdisciplinary approach to the study of mysticism’s ...
Beauty and Monstrosity in Art and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Chara Kokkiou, Angeliki Malakasioti
May 22, 2026
This edited volume takes a new look at an old question: what is the relationship between beauty and monstrosity? How has the notion of beauty transformed through the years and how does it coincide with monstrous ontologies? Contributors offer an interdisciplinary approach to how these two concepts ...
Drawing Pedagogy in Modern France: Habit’s Demise
1st Edition
By Shana Cooperstein
May 22, 2026
This study uncovers the plethora of new, innovative drawing strategies that shaped French visual arts at the height of France’s imperial power. Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Eugene Guillaume, and Félix Ravaisson, among others, designed new drawing procedures that responded to leading concerns of ...
The Phenomenology of Landscape Painting: Painting Outdoors in Nineteenth-Century America
1st Edition
By Noam Gonnen
April 30, 2026
Offering a new view of nineteenth-century American landscape painting, this book focuses on the praxis of open-air painting and its distinctive role in generating and invigorating a new conceptualization of American landscape painting in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on phenomenology and on ...
Nakanishi Natsuyuki and the Global History of Postwar and Contemporary Sculpture: Accounting for Assemblage
1st Edition
By Dan Adler
April 01, 2026
As the first book-length study of Nakanishi Natsuyuki’s sculptural practice, this volume explores his assemblages in dialogue with the postwar history of sculpture as a global phenomenon in the 1960s and beyond. Nakanishi’s series of Compact Objects (produced from 1962 to 1968) allow for ...
Gustav Klimt and Japanese Art in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Deciphering Klimt’s Stylistic Evolution
1st Edition
By Svitlana V. Shiells
March 12, 2026
This probing and innovative monograph, based on an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach, traces the trajectory of the Japanese influence on Klimt’s heterogeneous and idiosyncratic oeuvre. Placing Klimt’s experimentations with Japanese stimuli in a broad historical and cultural context, it ...