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.
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 ...
Affect, Intimacy and Ecology of Mind in Neurofeedback Art
1st Edition
By Cristina Albu
November 06, 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 12, 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 credence...
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 21, 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 20, 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 20, 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 ...
Bernini Ephemeral and Preparatory Sculpture
1st Edition
By Genevieve Warwick
July 20, 2026
Taking up questions of artists’ materials and technical processes currently at the vanguard of art-historical scholarship, this book studies the contiguity and interchange of workshop methods in the linked fabrication of both ephemeral and preparatory works by Bernini. Genevieve Warwick argues ...
Collections, Exhibitions and Museums in Portugal and Its Empire: From the 18th to the 20th century
1st Edition
Edited
By Filipa Lowndes Vicente, Leonor de Oliveira
July 20, 2026
Focusing on the period between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the late twentieth century, this edited volume examines the histories of objects, museums, exhibitions, and collections in Portugal or outside Portugal but representing Portugal, or related to it through colonial ...
John Cage Composing, Computing, and Curating
1st Edition
By Sandra Skurvida
July 20, 2026
This study reassesses Cage’s multifaceted practice from a transdisciplinary perspective, using text as a premise for his musical, visual, lingual, and museal compositions. In his compositions, John Cage opened the structures of music, language, and the museum to change perpetuated by chance ...
Landscape and Nature in Scandinavian Art
1st Edition
Edited
By MaryClaire Pappas, Tonje Haugland Sørensen
July 20, 2026
This edited volume foregrounds new and vital scholarship shaping Scandinavian art historical research on the representations of the natural world. Contributors deconstruct the interlinking of people and land through critical readings of the Scandinavian representation of nature, bringing to the ...
Sonic Sculpture and the Performative Impulse: Sounding Things Out
1st Edition
By Melissa Christine Warak
July 20, 2026
This study considers the performativity of sound-producing sculptures made in the twenty-first century through a cultural history of certain works. A subfield of the sound art medium, sonic sculpture presents new possibilities in sensory engagement with the viewer, creating a mediated experience ...