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.
John Cage Composing, Computing, and Curating
1st Edition
By Sandra Skurvida
July 20, 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 20, 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 20, 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Exhibiting Animals in Europe and America
1st Edition
Edited
By M. Elizabeth Boone, Lianne McTavish
June 21, 2026
This edited volume, written by historians of art and visual culture who are working in the field of animal studies, seeks to understand how our ways of positioning (and ex-positioning) animals have separated us from the other-than-human animals that are an integral part of our interconnected ...
Plural and Multiple Geographies of Modern and Contemporary Art in East-Central Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Caterina Preda, Magdalena Radomska
June 21, 2026
This edited volume proposes a theoretical reflection on the different artistic geographies of East-Central Europe (ECE) from an interdisciplinary perspective found at the intersection of art history, art and politics, and critical geography. Contributors argue that this multiplicity is a defining ...
The Living Image in the Middle Ages and Beyond: Theoretical and Historical Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Kamil Kopania, Henning Laugerud, Zuzanna Sarnecka
June 21, 2026
This edited volume discusses images that bleed, speak, cry, move, and behave in ways we usually attribute to living creatures. Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both culture and cultural studies for their ambivalence...
The Primitivist Imaginary in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms
1st Edition
Edited
By Joana Cunha Leal, Mariana Pinto dos Santos
June 21, 2026
Taking into account politics, history and aesthetics, this edited volume explores the main expressions of primitivism in Iberian and Transatlantic modernisms. Ten case studies are thoroughly analyzed concerning both the circulations and exchanges connecting the Iberian and Latin American artistic ...
The Visual Culture of al-Andalus in the Christian Kingdoms of Iberia: Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries
1st Edition
Edited
By Inés Monteira
June 21, 2026
This book addresses the reception of Islamic visual culture by the northern Iberian kingdoms, by systematically comparing works of art from both sides and fleshing out their historical context. This study includes figurative and iconographic motifs, architectural forms, and even the spolia from ...