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.
Jewish American Identity and Erasure in Pop Art
1st Edition
By Melissa L. Mednicov
September 28, 2025
This volume focuses on Jewish American identity within the context of Pop art in New York City during the sixties to reveal the multivalent identities and selves often ignored in Pop scholarship. Melissa L. Mednicov establishes her study within the context of prominent Jewish artists, dealers, ...
The Book of Hours and the Body: Somaesthetics, Posthumanism, and the Uncanny
1st Edition
By Sherry C. M. Lindquist
September 28, 2025
This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approaches - somaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncanny - may reveal about both premodern and postmodern terms of embodiment. It takes as its point of departure a selection of fifteenth-century northern...
The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature: Subject, Ecology, Form
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Hughes, Emma Merkling
September 28, 2025
Resonating with contemporary ecological and queer theory, this book pioneers the theorization of the Victorian idyll, establishing its nature, lineaments, and significance as a formal mode widely practised in nineteenth-century British culture across media and genre. Chapters trace the Victorian ...
Transnational Perspectives on the Art of Piero Manzoni and Hélio Oiticica: From Abstraction to Participation
1st Edition
By Lara Demori
August 26, 2025
Establishing a ‘missed link’ between the work of Piero Manzoni and Hélio Oiticica and their respective cultural contexts, this book sheds new light on overlooked aspects of these two artists’ practices, particularly focusing on the shift from painting to performance in the long 1960s. Lara Demori ...
The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
1st Edition
By Stijn Bussels, Bram Van Oostveldt
July 30, 2025
Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as “being of an orderly and diligent position” and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important role in seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture. By looking at different ...
Art, Politics, and Palace Eunuchs in Ming China, 1368–1644
1st Edition
By Scarlett Jang
July 28, 2025
This is the first in-depth analysis of the place of the Ming palace eunuchs in the social history of Chinese art, examining the intricate intersections of art, politics, and palace eunuchs in the Ming dynasty. In addition to articulating the elite eunuchs’ roles as important power brokers in the ...
Pictures of Cotton in Eighteenth-Century China
1st Edition
By Roslyn Lee Hammers
July 16, 2025
Pictures of Cotton in Eighteenth-Century China narrates cotton’s journey from a little understand material to a cherished commodity ennobled by associations with the classical heritage of China. In the 12th century, cotton, an imported crop, was plucked from the fields and entered the margins of ...
Art Patronage and Conflicting Memories in Early Modern Iberia: The Marquises of Villena
1st Edition
By Maria Teresa Chicote Pompanin
June 27, 2025
This volume investigates the mechanisms (artworks, treatises, and other forms of cultural patronage) that the Marquises of Villena and their opponents used to operate in the cultural battlefield of the time with the aim of understanding how their conflicting historical memories were constructed and...
The Visual Legacy of Alexander the Great from the Renaissance to the Age of Revolution
1st Edition
By Víctor Mínguez, Inmaculada Rodríguez-Moya
June 27, 2025
This is an analysis of the diverse facets of Alexander the Great’s image from the Renaissance era through the Baroque into the nineteenth century. Perceived as the first sovereign ruler of the world, for centuries Alexander became an exemplar for the most ambitious kings and emperors. This cultural...
Contemporary Approaches to Commemorative Public Art: Monumental Developments
1st Edition
Edited
By Brenda Schmahmann
June 11, 2025
In this collection, a diverse range of international contributors examine commemorative monuments from the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book reveals how those monuments enable new perspectives and understanding of histories as well as a heightened involvement of viewers through ...
Claes Oldenburg's Theater of Vision: Poetry, Sculpture, Film, and Performance Art
1st Edition
By Nadja Rottner
May 26, 2025
In four chronologically organized chapters, this study traces the conceptual dependence and deep connectivity among Claes Oldenburg’s poetry, sculpture, films, and performance art between 1956 and 1965. This research-intensive book argues that Oldenburg’s art relies on machine vision and other ...
Art and Monist Philosophy in Nineteenth Century France From Auteuil to Giverny
1st Edition
By Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer
May 05, 2025
This is a study of the relation between the fine arts and philosophy in France, from the aftermath of the 1789 revolution to the end of the nineteenth century, when a philosophy of being called “monism” – the concept of a unity of matter and spirit – emerged and became increasingly popular among ...