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.
AI and Algorithmic Aesthetics: Artistic, Curatorial, Critical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Phaedra Shanbaum, Kevin Walker
May 04, 2027
Investigating contemporary relations between aesthetics and artificial intelligence in art making processes, this book asks questions about how human and non-human relations affect the way we create view and consume fine art and other aesthetic products. Through a range of scholarly essays, the ...
The Aesthetics of Emotional Response: On Being Moved and Art
1st Edition
By Roger Fayet
April 06, 2027
Being moved is a familiar feeling, but one that is rarely reflected upon. Not only has it received little scholarly attention to date, but it is also quickly dismissed, especially when it occurs in the context of art, as a sign of a lack of depth. This book offers a better understanding of this ...
Video Art and Storytelling in the Digital Age
1st Edition
By Daniel Berndt
March 30, 2027
The book explores how artists since the late 1990s and with the wider spread of digital technology use video to develop critical viewpoints on storytelling and its underlying ideologies in relation to post-truth and identity politics, historiography, cultural heritage, structural racism, migration ...
The Plaster Cast Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Not Lost, Not Forgotten
1st Edition
By Martha Dunkelman
February 25, 2027
Examining the large cast collection of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, this book takes a closer look at those many forgotten pieces which continue to serve the public in a range of new locations. The Metropolitan, unlike most other American institutions, continued to value its casts even ...
Hans Haacke's Double Agents: Art, Systems, and Parasitical Resistance
1st Edition
By John A. Tyson
February 18, 2027
This is a pioneering book-length study of Hans Haacke, one of the most important living political artists. Hans Haacke’s Double Agents examines how his conceptual works function as "double agents"—operating simultaneously as art while critiquing and exposing the political, ecological, and ...
Art and the Waters of Italy: Myth, Literature and Ecology from the Renaissance to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Marzia Faietti, Lorenzo Mascheretti
January 20, 2027
This collection explores how the human relationship with the natural world – epitomized by water, and particularly in rivers and their surroundings – has been depicted, interpreted, and symbolized in myths of Italy, especially of the Po region, from the Renaissance until the modern era. The ...
History and Genealogy of Performance Art in Latvia
1st Edition
By Laine Kristberga
January 18, 2027
This book offers the first comprehensive study of the emergence and development of performance art in Latvia from the 1960s to the late 1980s under Soviet occupation. The book examines artistic practices that remained marginal to both international historiography and local art historical discourse....
Disalienations: Art in and out of Africa at Midcentury
1st Edition
By Daniel Horn
December 17, 2026
Setting out from Frantz Fanon’s concept of disalienation this book newly traces the mid-century aesthetics and debates connecting African-descended artists at the twilight of colonial rule. Focusing on the distinct diasporic network from the 1940s through the 1960s, the book explores how artists ...
Art, Design, and Animal Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Sutton
December 15, 2026
This volume is a comprehensive exploration of how animals have been depicted across different art forms throughout history. Humans have portrayed animals in art since there have been tools to do so. Through more than 20 exemplary chapters, this volume examines both the history of how humans ...
French Images of America in the Age of Revolutions: The Visual History of a Colonial Mirage
1st Edition
By Catherine Dossin
December 14, 2026
Marking the 250th anniversary of the Franco-American Alliance, this book examines how "America" was imagined in France during the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions. Rather than relying primarily on textual sources, the book places images—paintings, prints, maps, tapestries, and ...
The New Perspectiva Artificialis: From the Mechanical Eye to the Algorithmic Symbolic Form
1st Edition
By James Hutson, Daniel Plate
December 14, 2026
Advancing a comparative thesis, this book aligns the Renaissance linear perspective with transformer architectures in generative artificial intelligence as structurally parallel revolutions in symbolic form. Both linear perspective and transformer architectures transform subjective human ...
Contemporary Approaches to Commemorative Public Art: Monumental Developments
1st Edition
Edited
By Brenda Schmahmann
November 24, 2026
In this collection, a diverse range of international contributors examine commemorative monuments from the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book reveals how those monuments enable new perspectives and understanding of histories as well as a heightened involvement of viewers through ...