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.
Materiality and The Afterlife of Artworks: The Rustle of Matter
1st Edition
Edited
By Gabriel Cabello, Thierry Dufrêne, Rocío Robles Tardío
March 02, 2026
Materiality and The Afterlife of Artworks: The Rustle of Matter explores, theoretically through a series of case studies, how matter and materials have a role in the afterlife of artworks. Focusing on modern and contemporary art, this book asks several related questions: How does matter affect the ...
Theorising the Artist Interview
1st Edition
Edited
By Lucia Farinati, Jennifer Thatcher
January 12, 2026
Reflecting on the relationship between artists and their audiences, this book examines how artists have presented themselves publicly through interviews and sought to establish a critical voice for themselves. Considering the interview as a form of cultural production, contributors explore the ...
Surrealist Landscape in the American West
1st Edition
By Samantha Kavky
December 28, 2025
Focusing on the period of the Second World War, this book explores the emergence of surrealist landscape as a genre throughout the period of surrealist exile in the Americas. By positioning surrealist landscape within the formal, iconographic, and theoretical strategies of the larger movement as ...
Power and Propaganda in the Large Imperial Cameos of the Early Roman Empire
1st Edition
By Julia C. Fischer
December 26, 2025
This study examines the five extant large Imperial cameos of the Early Roman Empire as a coherent whole, revealing that these gemstones were a referential group with complex interrelationships. Power and Propaganda in the Large Imperial Cameos of the Early Roman Empire offers a feminist theory that...
Alexander the Great in Renaissance Art: North and South of the Alps
1st Edition
By Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes
December 25, 2025
This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how they came about, and why they were so popular. In contrast to the numerous studies on the historical and legendary figure of Alexander, surprisingly few studies have examined, in one volume, the ...
Art Collecting and Middle Class Culture from London to Brighton, 1840–1914
1st Edition
By David Adelman
December 25, 2025
This study explores the interplay between money, status, politics and art collecting in the public and private lives of members of the wealthy trading classes in Brighton during the period 1840–1914. Chapters focus on the collecting practices of five rich and upwardly mobile Victorians: William ...
Dada and Its Later Manifestations in the Geographic Margins: Israel, Romania, Poland, and North America
1st Edition
Edited
By Ronit Milano, Raya Zommer-Tal, Noam Gonnen
December 25, 2025
This volume focuses on the unstudied geographic margins of Dada, delving into the roots of Dada in Israel, Romania, Poland, and North America. Contributors consider some of the practices and experiments that were conceived a century ago, surfaced in art throughout the twentieth century, and are ...
Rethinking Modern Austrian Art Beyond the Metropolis
1st Edition
By Julia Secklehner
December 25, 2025
This study examines the role played by regional cultures in modern art and visual culture in Central Europe between 1918 and 1938. Analysing paintings, photographs, prints, and illustrated magazines in relation to topics such as tourism, social activism, rural exoticism, gender, and ethnic ...
A Neuroarthistory of The Painters of Modern Life: Embodying Baudelairean Modernity
1st Edition
By Lauren S. Weingarden
December 23, 2025
Using a transdisciplinary method combining art history, literary studies, and neuroaesthetics, this book examines the modern urban experience of nineteenth-century Paris through language and images of fragmentation and transformation. The volume includes new empirical research conducted in ...
Beyond Brutalism and the Postwar Architecture-Sculpture Network: Redefining Media and Global Public Space
1st Edition
By Angelique Campens
December 08, 2025
This study focuses on the moment in the history of modern art, during the 1950s, when sculptors and architects began to use concrete to create a previously impossible fusion of their respective art forms and the mutual influences between sculpture and architecture. The book pays particular ...
Surrealism and the People’s Republic of China: From Mao to Now
1st Edition
By Lauren Walden
November 12, 2025
This study investigates cultural exchange between the Surrealist movement and the People’s Republic of China (1949-present). Surrealist art was officially prohibited under Mao’s rule (1949-1976). However, the book interrogates potent tensions in clandestinely created surrealist artworks by Zhao ...
Avant-Garde World Creation: Cosmogony and the Total Work of Art in Europe 1913-1923
1st Edition
By Abigael van Alst
October 29, 2025
This book explores the widespread fascination with world creation among early twentieth-century artists and examines those trends within the European avant-garde. The book reflects on what ‘the world’ looks and feels like before and after World War One—and thus also concerns creativity and ...