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.
French Images of America in the Age of Revolutions: The Visual History of a Colonial Mirage
1st Edition
By Catherine Dossin
December 07, 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 decorative ...
Disalienations: Art in and out of Africa at Midcentury
1st Edition
By Daniel Horn
November 23, 2026
Focusing on a distinct network of diasporic artists and critics in the 1940s and the 1960s, this book explores how African-descended mid-century artists not only appropriated but intervened into raced aesthetic concepts and colonial infrastructures to argue their resonances in the global arts world...
Decay in Ruskin's Architecture, Geology, and Wisdom
1st Edition
By Kurt Espersen-Peters
November 16, 2026
This book traces the evolution of Ruskin’s thinking on decay across the breadth and depth of his aesthetic, social and critical thought, providing a new perspective on the complex terrain of his architectural and landscape theory. Ideas of decay are consistent across Ruskin’s work, from his ...
History and Genealogy of Performance Art in Latvia
1st Edition
By Laine Kristberga
November 16, 2026
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....
Contemporary Art and the Politics of Belonging: Towards a Longing for Home through the Moving Image
1st Edition
By Janelle Hixon
November 13, 2026
This book theorizes the visual language through which the relationship between home and place is formed and unformed, and proposes longing as a conceptual framework for generating sites of collective belonging across difference. Through close readings of contemporary moving image artworks, ...
Affect, Intimacy and Ecology of Mind in Neurofeedback Art
1st Edition
By Cristina Albu
October 27, 2026
This book charts the history of neurofeedback art from the mid-1960s to the present. It examines how artists have paired electroencephalography (EEG) brainwave readings with fluctuating sounds, lights, or images to reveal the embodied and relational nature of the mind. Offering a comprehensive ...
Urban Feminist Visuality in Contemporary Pakistani Art: Art and Activism after 9/11
1st Edition
By Kanwal Syed
October 12, 2026
Urban Feminist Visuality in Contemporary Pakistani Art traces feminist rebellion within urban Pakistan’s visual discourse. Using social, cultural, and art historical theories, and through a postcolonial and non-Western feminist lens, this book envisions an alternative art history that gives ...
Contemporary Art in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Crisis, Rupture and Discontinuity
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Blackwood, Irfan Hošić
September 18, 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 2 million refugees....
Conceptual Art After Modernism: Reconceiving Art and Art History
1st Edition
By Robert Bailey
August 27, 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 27, 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 21, 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...
Bernini Ephemeral and Preparatory Sculpture
1st Edition
By Genevieve Warwick
July 20, 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 ...