Forthcoming History of Art Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity

   The Petrified Gaze

   By Johannes Siapkas, Lena Sjögren

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity investigates the study and display of ancient sculpture from archaeological, art history, and museum studies perspectives. Ancient sculptures not only give us knowledge about ancient Greek and Roman pasts, but they also mediate ideals that inform us about modern...

   To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Attending Krishna's Image

   Chaitanya Vaishnava Murti-seva as Devotional Truth

   By Kenneth Russell Valpey

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   There is a steady and growing scholarly, as well as popular interest in Hindu religion – especially devotional (bhakti) traditions as forms of spiritual practice and expressions of divine embodiment. Associated with this is the attention to sacred images and their worship. Attending Krishna's...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
3. Art, Vision, and Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama

   Acts of Seeing

   By Amy Holzapfel

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   Realism in theatre is traditionally defined as a mere "seed" of modernism, a simple or crude attempt to copy objective reality on stage. This book challenges this misconception by redefining realism as an under-examined form of visual modernism that positioned theatre at the crux of the unstable...

   To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
4. Learning to Look at Sculpture

   By Mary Acton

   This new book from Mary Acton is a perfect companion volume to Learning to look at Paintings and Learning to look at Modern Art. Like them it is primarily about looking – and particularly about the differences in the experience of looking at three-dimensional art. Covering all periods of Western...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. History of Art

   A Students' Handbook, 5th Edition

   By Marcia Pointon

   To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Theory for Art History

   Adapted from Theory for Religious Studies by William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal, 2nd Edition

   By Jae Emerling

   Series: theory4

   To Be Published April 1st 2014 by Routledge