Routledge Research in Art and Politics
About the Book Series
Routledge Research in Art and Politics is a new series focusing on politics and government as examined by scholars working in the fields of art history and visual studies. Proposals for monographs and edited collections on this topic are welcomed.
Art and Politics During the Cold War: Poland and the Netherlands
1st Edition
By Michał Wenderski
September 28, 2025
Drawing on thousands of historical documents from Polish and Dutch archives, this book explores Cold War cultural exchange between so-called ‘smaller powers’ of this global conflict, which thus far has been predominately explored from the perspective of the two superpowers or more pivotal countries...
The Politics of Sex, Race and Working-Class Slang in Late Second Empire French Caricature
1st Edition
By Russell Stephens
August 10, 2025
This study examines caricatures as they appeared within popular Parisian magazines in mid-19th century France at the time of the 1867 World’s Fair. Chapters compare the comic mockery of several of the most important satirists of this time, including Amédée de Noé, or “Cham” (1818–1879) as he was ...
Art, Labour, Text and Radical Care
1st Edition
By Adam Walker
June 26, 2025
Through developing an ethical-methodological approach of ‘radical care', this book explores how critical artistic practice might contribute to the materialisation of more equal, more collectively fulfilling, possibilities of being. The chapters trace a set of interweaving lineages perpetuating ...
Postmigration, Transculturality and the Transversal Politics of Art
1st Edition
By Anne Ring Petersen
May 26, 2025
This is the first book to develop a postmigrant analytical perspective for the study of art, concentrating on how postmigration reopens the study of contemporary art and migration. The book introduces art historians and other scholars with a methodological interest in cultural analysis to the ...
Art, Exhibition and Erasure in Nazi Vienna
1st Edition
By Laura Morowitz
April 13, 2025
This book examines three exhibitions of contemporary art held at the Vienna Künstlerhaus during the period of National Socialist rule and shows how each attempted to culturally erase elements anathema to Nazi ideology: the City, the Jewess and fin-de-siècle Vienna. Each of the exhibits was large ...
Visual Redress in Africa from Indigenous and New Materialist Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Elmarie Costandius, Gera de Villiers
December 19, 2024
Through an indigenous and new materialist thinking approach, this book discusses various examples in Africa where colonial public art, statues, signs and buildings were removed or changed after countries’ independence. An African perspective on these processes will bring new understandings and ...
WPA Posters in an Aesthetic, Social, and Political Context: A New Deal for Design
1st Edition
By Cory Pillen
October 14, 2024
This book examines posters produced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a federal relief program designed to create jobs in the United States during the Great Depression.Cory Pillen focuses on several issues addressed repeatedly in the roughly 2,200 extant WPA posters created between 1935 ...
Terrorism and the Arts: Practices and Critiques in Contemporary Cultural Production
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Harris
October 08, 2024
This book assesses the key definitions, forms, contexts and impacts of terrorist activity on the arts in the modern era, using historical and contemporary perspectives. Its empirical case studies include theatre, literature, music, visual art, mass media, film and the mores of ‘ordinary life.’ ...
Street Art and Activism in the Greater Caribbean: Impossible States, Virtual Publics
1st Edition
By Jana Evans Braziel
October 07, 2024
Foregrounding street art in the capital cities of Cuba, Haiti, and Puerto Rico, this book argues that Antillean street artists diagnose the “impossible state” of the arrested present (colonized, occupied, or under dictatorship) while simultaneously imagining liberated futures and fully sovereign ...
Politics and Heidegger’s Concept of Thinking in Contemporary Art
1st Edition
By Louise Carrie Wales
May 27, 2024
Responding to Heidegger’s stark warnings concerning the essence of technology, this book demonstrates art’s capacity to emancipate the life-world from globalized technological enframing. Louise Carrie Wales presents the work of five contemporary artists – Martha Rosler, Christian Boltanski, ...
Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape
1st Edition
Edited
By Tijen Tunalı
September 25, 2023
Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape brings together various disciplinary perspectives and diverse theories on art’s dialectical and evolving relationship with urban regeneration processes. It engages in the accumulated discussions on art’s role in gentrification, yet changes...
The Danish Avant-Garde and World War II: The Helhesten Collective
1st Edition
By Kerry Greaves
January 21, 2023
This is the first book to focus on Helhesten (The Hell-Horse), an avant-garde artists’ collective active during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and one of the few tangible connections between radical European art groups from the 1920s to the 1960s. The Danes’ deliberately unskilled painterly ...