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.
Claes Oldenburg's Theater of Vision: Poetry, Sculpture, Film, and Performance Art
1st Edition
By Nadja Rottner
May 26, 2025
In four chronologically organized chapters, this study traces the conceptual dependence and deep connectivity among Claes Oldenburg’s poetry, sculpture, films, and performance art between 1956 and 1965. This research-intensive book argues that Oldenburg’s art relies on machine vision and other ...
Art and Monist Philosophy in Nineteenth Century France From Auteuil to Giverny
1st Edition
By Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer
May 05, 2025
This is a study of the relation between the fine arts and philosophy in France, from the aftermath of the 1789 revolution to the end of the nineteenth century, when a philosophy of being called “monism” – the concept of a unity of matter and spirit – emerged and became increasingly popular among ...
Robert Smithson, Land Art, and Speculative Realities
1st Edition
By Rory O'Dea
May 05, 2025
This book explores the ways Robert Smithson’s art revealed and defamiliarized the constructs of rational reality in order to allow radically speculative alternatives to emerge. In this way, his art is conceived as a true fiction that eradicates a false reality. By tracing the web of correspondences...
Historical Narratives of Global Modern Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Irina D. Costache, Clare Kunny
January 30, 2025
Diversifying the current art historical scholarship, this edited volume presents the untold story of modern art by exposing global voices and perspectives excluded from the privileged and uncontested narrative of “isms.” This volume tells a worldwide story of art with expanded historical ...
American Artists Engage the Built Environment, 1960-1979
1st Edition
By Susanneh Bieber
December 19, 2024
This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s—from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art—in the context of contemporary architectural discourses. Susanneh Bieber analyzes the work of seven major artists,&...
Art History, Narratology, and Twentieth-Century Chinese Art
1st Edition
By Lian Duan
December 19, 2024
This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratological perspective. Theoretically and methodologically oriented, this is a self-reflective meta-art history studying the art historical narratives while ...
The Materiality of Terracotta Sculpture in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Zuzanna Sarnecka, Agnieszka Dziki
December 19, 2024
Through meticulously researched case studies, this book explores the materiality of terracotta sculpture in early modern Europe. Chapters present a broad geographical perspective showcasing examples of modelling, firing, painting, and gilding of clay in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, and the ...
The Pictures Generation at Hallwalls: Traces of the Body, Gender, and History
1st Edition
By Vera Dika
December 19, 2024
In this book, Vera Dika rewrites the story of the Pictures Generation from the perspective of the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, NY. Her work is based on interviews with living artists, archival research, and personal collections, including films, videotapes, and sound recordings. ...
A Data-Driven Analysis of Cemeteries and Social Reform in Paris, 1804–1924
1st Edition
By Kaylee P. Alexander
December 18, 2024
This book takes a novel, data-driven approach to the cemeteries of Paris, analyzing a largely text-based body of archival material as proxy evidence for visual material that has been lost due to systematic, and legally sanctioned, acts of erasure. This study represents the first full-length study ...
Contagion, Hygiene, and the European Avant-Garde
1st Edition
Edited
By David Hopkins, Disa Persson
December 18, 2024
This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explore intersections between the European avant-garde (c. 1880–1945) and themes of health and hygiene, such as illness, contagion, cleanliness, and ...
Academies and Schools of Art in Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Oscar E. Vázquez
October 14, 2024
This edited volume’s chief aim is to bring together, in an English-language source, the principal histories and narratives of some of the most significant academies and national schools of art in South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean, from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries.The book ...
Portuguese Artists in London: Shaping Identities in Post-War Europe
1st Edition
By Leonor de Oliveira
October 14, 2024
This book centres on four Portuguese artists’ journeys between Portugal and Britain and aims at rethinking the cultural and artistic interactions in the post-war Europe, the shaping of new identities within a context of creative experimentalism and transnational dynamics and the artistic responses ...