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.
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 ...
Contemporary Art in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Case Studies in Hauntology
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Blackwood, Jasmina Tumbas
October 19, 2025
This edited volume is centered on the production, discussion, and consumption of contemporary art in the post-Yugoslav space now. Authors in this volume demonstrate how and why contemporary art discourses have continued to overcome chronic difficulties in local cultural economies since the ...
Plants and Gardens as Artefacts in Transcultural Contexts: Between Asia and Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Minna Törmä
October 02, 2025
This edited volume explores the ways in which the object biography or object itinerary approach could be adapted to frame research on animate objects, such as plants and gardens in transcultural contexts. By treating these animate elements as ‘objects’ in the manner of artefacts and looking at ...
Historic Avant-Garde Work on Paper
1st Edition
Edited
By Sascha Bru
September 28, 2025
This book examines the many functions of paper in the fine art and aesthetics of the early twentieth-century modernist or historic avant-garde (Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Constructivism and many more). With its many collages and photomontages, the historic avant-garde is ...
Jewish American Identity and Erasure in Pop Art
1st Edition
By Melissa L. Mednicov
September 28, 2025
This volume focuses on Jewish American identity within the context of Pop art in New York City during the sixties to reveal the multivalent identities and selves often ignored in Pop scholarship. Melissa L. Mednicov establishes her study within the context of prominent Jewish artists, dealers, ...
The Book of Hours and the Body: Somaesthetics, Posthumanism, and the Uncanny
1st Edition
By Sherry C. M. Lindquist
September 28, 2025
This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approaches - somaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncanny - may reveal about both premodern and postmodern terms of embodiment. It takes as its point of departure a selection of fifteenth-century northern...
The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature: Subject, Ecology, Form
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Hughes, Emma Merkling
September 28, 2025
Resonating with contemporary ecological and queer theory, this book pioneers the theorization of the Victorian idyll, establishing its nature, lineaments, and significance as a formal mode widely practised in nineteenth-century British culture across media and genre. Chapters trace the Victorian ...
Transnational Perspectives on the Art of Piero Manzoni and Hélio Oiticica: From Abstraction to Participation
1st Edition
By Lara Demori
August 26, 2025
Establishing a ‘missed link’ between the work of Piero Manzoni and Hélio Oiticica and their respective cultural contexts, this book sheds new light on overlooked aspects of these two artists’ practices, particularly focusing on the shift from painting to performance in the long 1960s. Lara Demori ...
The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
1st Edition
By Stijn Bussels, Bram Van Oostveldt
July 30, 2025
Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as “being of an orderly and diligent position” and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important role in seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture. By looking at different ...
Art, Politics, and Palace Eunuchs in Ming China, 1368–1644
1st Edition
By Scarlett Jang
July 28, 2025
This is the first in-depth analysis of the place of the Ming palace eunuchs in the social history of Chinese art, examining the intricate intersections of art, politics, and palace eunuchs in the Ming dynasty. In addition to articulating the elite eunuchs’ roles as important power brokers in the ...