Forthcoming History of Art Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Why Art Photography?

   By Lucy Soutter

   Contemporary art photography is paradoxical. Anyone can look at it and form an opinion about what they see, yet it represents critical positions that only a small minority of well-informed viewers can usually access. Why Art Photography? provides a lively, accessible introduction to the ideas...

   To Be Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Pleasures of the Imagination

   English Culture in the Eighteenth Century

   By John Brewer

   'If you want to understand how British culture reinvented itself in the eighteenth century, read The Pleasures of the Imagination ... Like all really original achievements it makes us sharply rethink things we supposed we knew well, but it does so with humour and humanity, and through the text runs...

   To Be Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
3. Politics and the Art of Commemoration

   Memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain

   By Katherine Hite

   Series: Interventions

   Memorials are proliferating throughout the globe. States recognize the political value of memorials: memorials can convey national unity, a sense of overcoming violent legacies, a commitment to political stability or the strengthening of democracy. Memorials represent fitful negotiations between...

   To Be Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
4. 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 March 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. François Blondel

   Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution

   By Anthony Gerbino

   Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

   First director of the Académie royale d’architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today. Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated as...

   To Be Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
6. 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 July 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. 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 September 1st 2013 by Routledge
8. History of Art

   A Students' Handbook, 5th Edition

   By Marcia Pointon

   To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge