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.
Contemporary Art in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Crisis, Rupture and Discontinuity
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Blackwood, Irfan Hošić
September 17, 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 two million ...
Conceptual Art After Modernism: Reconceiving Art and Art History
1st Edition
By Robert Bailey
August 26, 2026
This study provides a new interpretation of art after modernism by foregrounding the importance of conceptual thinking as a pervasive force for change in art and art history since 1950. Robert Bailey shows how distinctions between art and art history gave way as conceptual thinking provided artists...
The Creation, Diffusion, and Reception of Italian Art in the Early Modern Iberian World
1st Edition
Edited
By Corinna Tania Gallori, Benito Navarrete Prieto
August 26, 2026
This edited volume addresses the circulation of works of art, images, and ideas between the Iberian and Italian world and the subsequent responses this motion generated. Amongst the themes discussed are the concepts of centre and periphery, replicas and alterations, and how items and ideas were ...
Kandinsky’s Abstract Orientalism: Colonial Contexts and Early Abstraction
1st Edition
By Emily Christensen
July 20, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 ...
Art and Artifice in Visual Culture: Eighteenth Century to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Sonia Coman, Vasile-Ovidiu Prejmerean, Michael Yonan
June 21, 2026
This edited volume explores the notion of “artifice” in modern visual culture, ranging from the eighteenth century to the present, in countries around the globe. Artifice has been regarded as a primarily Western phenomenon, playing as it does a central role in European art theory since the ...