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Routledge Research in Art History


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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.

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Theorising the Artist Interview

Theorising the Artist Interview

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Edited By Lucia Farinati, Jennifer Thatcher
September 09, 2024

Reflecting on the relationship between artists and their audiences, this book examines how artists have presented themselves publicly through interviews and sought to establish a critical voice for themselves. Considering the interview as a form of cultural production, contributors explore the ...

Ambition, Art, and Image-Making in an Early Quattrocento Court The Palazzo Trinci Frescoes

Ambition, Art, and Image-Making in an Early Quattrocento Court: The Palazzo Trinci Frescoes

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By Sarah Roberts
August 01, 2024

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 ...

Drawing Pedagogy in Modern France Habit’s Demise

Drawing Pedagogy in Modern France: Habit’s Demise

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By Shana Cooperstein
July 19, 2024

This study uncovers the plethora of new, innovative drawing strategies that shaped French visual arts at the height of France’s imperial power. Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Eugene Guillaume, and Félix Ravaisson, among others, designed new drawing procedures that responded to leading concerns of ...

Art Collecting and Middle Class Culture from London to Brighton, 1840–1914

Art Collecting and Middle Class Culture from London to Brighton, 1840–1914

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By David Adelman
June 28, 2024

This study explores the interplay between money, status, politics and art collecting in the public and private lives of members of the wealthy trading classes in Brighton during the period of 1840-1914. Chapters focus on the collecting practices of five rich and upwardly mobile Victorians: William ...

Art, Music, and Mysticism at the Fin-de-siècle Seeing and Hearing the Beyond

Art, Music, and Mysticism at the Fin-de-siècle: Seeing and Hearing the Beyond

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Edited By Corrinne Chong, Michelle Foot
June 28, 2024

This edited volume explores the dialogue between art and music with that of mystical currents at the turn of the twentieth century. The volume draws on the most current research from both art historians and musicologists to present an interdisciplinary approach to the study of mysticism’s ...

Dada and Its Later Manifestations in the Geographic Margins Israel, Romania, Poland, and North America

Dada and Its Later Manifestations in the Geographic Margins: Israel, Romania, Poland, and North America

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Edited By Ronit Milano, Raya Zommer-Tal, Noam Gonnen
June 14, 2024

This volume focuses on the unstudied geographic margins of Dada, delving into the roots of Dada in Israel, Romania, Poland, and North America. Contributors consider some of the practices and experiments that were conceived a century ago, surfaced in art throughout the twentieth century, and are ...

Art and Modernism in Socialist China Unexplored International Encounters 1949–1979

Art and Modernism in Socialist China: Unexplored International Encounters 1949–1979

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Edited By Shuyu Kong, Julia F. Andrews, Shengtian Zheng
June 06, 2024

This edited volume will be the first book examining the art history of China’s socialist period from the perspective of modernism, modernity, and global interactions. The majority of chapters are based on newly available archival materials and fresh critical frameworks/concepts. By shifting the ...

Greek and Roman Painting and the Digital Humanities

Greek and Roman Painting and the Digital Humanities

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Edited By Marie-Claire Beaulieu, Valérie Toillon
May 27, 2024

This volume is a groundbreaking discussion of the role of digital media in research on ancient painting, and a deep reflection on the effectiveness of digital media in opening the field to new audiences. The study of classical art always oscillates between archaeology and classics, between the ...

Modern Art in Cold War Beirut Drawing Alliances

Modern Art in Cold War Beirut: Drawing Alliances

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By Sarah Rogers
May 27, 2024

Modern Art in Cold War Beirut: Drawing Alliances examines the entangled histories of modern art and international politics during the decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Positing the Cold War as a globalized conflict, fraught with different political ideologies and intercultural exchanges, this study ...

Nature and Imagination in Ancient and Early Modern Roman Art

Nature and Imagination in Ancient and Early Modern Roman Art

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By Gabriel Pihas
May 27, 2024

This volume uses the art of Rome to help us understand the radical historical break between the fundamental ancient pre-supposition that there is a natural world or cosmos situating human life, and the equally fundamental modern emphasis on human imagination and its creative power. Rome’s unique ...

Beauty and Monstrosity in Art and Culture

Beauty and Monstrosity in Art and Culture

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Edited By Chara Kokkiou, Angeliki Malakasioti
April 23, 2024

This edited volume takes a new look at an old question: what is the relationship between beauty and monstrosity? How has the notion of beauty transformed through the years and how does it coincide with monstrous ontologies? Contributors offer an interdisciplinary approach to how these two concepts ...

Alexander the Great in Renaissance Art North and South of the Alps

Alexander the Great in Renaissance Art: North and South of the Alps

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By Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes
April 22, 2024

This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how they came about, and why they were so popular. In contrast to the numerous studies on the historical and legendary figure of Alexander, surprisingly few studies have examined, in one volume, the ...

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