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.
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 the 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 ...
Contemporary Approaches to Commemorative Public Art: Monumental Developments
1st Edition
Edited
By Brenda Schmahmann
November 24, 2026
In this collection, a diverse range of international contributors examine commemorative monuments from the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book reveals how those monuments enable new perspectives and understanding of histories as well as a heightened involvement of viewers through ...
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 ...
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 18, 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 ...
Contemporary Art in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Crisis, Rupture and Discontinuity
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Blackwood, Irfan Hošić
September 17, 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 two million ...
Conceptual Art After Modernism: Reconceiving Art and Art History
1st Edition
By Robert Bailey
August 26, 2026
This study provides a new interpretation of art after modernism by foregrounding the importance of conceptual thinking as a pervasive force for change in art and art history since 1950. Robert Bailey shows how distinctions between art and art history gave way as conceptual thinking provided artists...
The Creation, Diffusion, and Reception of Italian Art in the Early Modern Iberian World
1st Edition
Edited
By Corinna Tania Gallori, Benito Navarrete Prieto
August 26, 2026
This edited volume addresses the circulation of works of art, images, and ideas between the Iberian and Italian world and the subsequent responses this motion generated. Amongst the themes discussed are the concepts of centre and periphery, replicas and alterations, and how items and ideas were ...
Kandinsky’s Abstract Orientalism: Colonial Contexts and Early Abstraction
1st Edition
By Emily Christensen
July 20, 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...
Ambition, Art, and Image-Making in an Early Quattrocento Court: The Palazzo Trinci Frescoes
1st Edition
By Sarah Roberts
July 19, 2026
This study provides new interpretations of the little-known but fascinating Palazzo Trinci frescoes, relating them for the first time both to their physical context and to their social, political, and cultural environment. Chapters show how a humanist agenda subverted the historical and mythical ...
Apocalypse in British Art and Visual Culture in the Early Twentieth Century: Some Revelation
1st Edition
By Thomas Bromwell
July 19, 2026
This book is the first substantial study of the presence and relationship with the concepts of apocalypse, eschatology, and millennium in modern British art from 1914 to 1945, addressing how and why practitioners in both religious and secular spheres turned to the subjects. The volume examines ...