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Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions

About the Book Series

Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions offer thorough, high-quality surveys and assessments of the major topics in the fields of art history and visual studies. All entries in each companion are specially commissioned and written by leading scholars in the field. Clear, accessible, and cutting-edge, these companions are the ideal resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate students, and researchers alike.

32 Series Titles


The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century

The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century

1st Edition

Edited By Lesley Shipley, Mey-Yen Moriuchi
December 19, 2024

The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century brings together a wide range of geographical, cultural, historical, and conceptual perspectives in a single volume of new essays that facilitate a deeper understanding of the field of art activism as it stands today and as it ...

The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Art Histories in the United States and Canada

The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Art Histories in the United States and Canada

1st Edition

Edited By Heather Igloliorte, Carla Taunton
December 19, 2024

This companion consists of chapters that focus on and bring forward critical theories and productive methodologies for Indigenous art history in North America. This book makes a major and original contribution to the fields of Indigenous visual arts, professional curatorial practice, ...

The Routledge Companion to Surrealism

The Routledge Companion to Surrealism

1st Edition

Edited By Kirsten Strom
November 29, 2024

This book provides a conceptual and global overview of the field of Surrealist studies. Methodologically, the companion considers Surrealism’s many achievements, but also its historical shortcomings, to illuminate its connections to the historical and cultural moment(s) from which it originated and...

The Routledge Companion to African Diaspora Art History

The Routledge Companion to African Diaspora Art History

1st Edition

Edited By Eddie Chambers
October 31, 2024

This is an authoritative companion that is global in scope, recognizing the presence of African Diaspora artists across the world. It is a bold and broad reframing of this neglected branch of art history, challenging dominant presumptions about the field. Diaspora pertains to the global scattering ...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari

The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari

1st Edition

Edited By David J. Cast
October 14, 2024

The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provide, at the 500th anniversary of his birth, a comprehensive assessment of the current state of scholarship on this important-and still ...

The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability

The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability

1st Edition

Edited By Keri Watson, Timothy W. Hiles
May 27, 2024

The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences are articulated physically and theoretically, and to demonstrate the ways in which disability is culturally constructed. This companion is organized ...

The Routledge Companion to William Morris

The Routledge Companion to William Morris

1st Edition

Edited By Florence S. Boos
May 27, 2024

William Morris (1834–96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist, socialist theorist, and political activist, whose admirers have been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and efforts to live up to radical ideals of social...

The Routledge Companion to Art Deco

The Routledge Companion to Art Deco

1st Edition

Edited By Bridget Elliott, Michael Windover
September 25, 2023

Scholarly interest in Art Deco has grown rapidly over the past fifty years, spanning different academic disciplines. This volume provides a guide to the current state of the field of Art Deco research by highlighting past accomplishments and promising new directions. Chapters are presented in five ...

The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm

The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm

1st Edition

Edited By Cameron Cartiere, Leon Tan
September 25, 2023

This multidisciplinary companion offers a comprehensive overview of the global arena of public art. It is organised around four distinct topics: activation, social justice, memory and identity, and ecology, with a final chapter mapping significant works of public and social practice art around the...

The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context

The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context

1st Edition

Edited By Isabel Wünsche
September 25, 2023

The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context is a challenging exploration of the transnational formation, dissemination, and transformation of expressionism outside of the German-speaking world, in regions such as Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics and Scandinavia, ...

The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change

The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change

1st Edition

Edited By T. J. Demos, Emily Eliza Scott, Subhankar Banerjee
December 19, 2022

International in scope, this volume brings together leading and emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art, visual culture, activism, and climate change, and addresses key questions, such as: why and how do art and visual culture, and their ethics and values, matter with regard...

The Routledge Companion to African American Art History

The Routledge Companion to African American Art History

1st Edition

Edited By Eddie Chambers
December 01, 2022

This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history.  The first section examines how African American art has been constructed over the course of a century of published scholarship. The second section studies how ...

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