Art History

This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material world of the Renaissance and the early modern period, which has both fascinated co...

Over the course of its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer cultivated a loyal fandom and featured a strong, complex female lead, at a time whe...

This volume offers spatial theories of the emergent based on a careful close reading of the complete works of nineteenth-century writer and mathema...

This book explores stage conjuring during its golden age, from about 1860 to 1910. This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmati...

Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists, sculptors, and priests. The ritual off...

This book explores the imaginative processes at work in the artefacts of Classical Athens. When ancient Athenians strove to grasp justice or war or...

The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century brings together a wide range of geographical, cultural, historical, and con...

The Porous Museum examines questions of museum practice, aesthetics and politics through a focused study of The National Museum of the Romanian Pea...

The chapters in this volume explore the relationship between music and art in Italy across the long sixteenth century, considering an era when musi...

Drawing on recent theoretical frameworks from critical disability studies and art education including normalcy, ableism, disability and Crip theory...

This book takes a novel, data-driven approach to the cemeteries of Paris, analyzing a largely text-based body of archival material as proxy evidenc...

This book considers the sculpture of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) in light of psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicotts (1896-1971) radical ideas regarding tr...

This book reflects on the methodological challenges and possibilities encountered when researching practices that have been historically defined an...

This book enhances critical perspectives on human rights through the lens of performance studies and argues that contemporary artistic intervention...

Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (195053), this book shows the dynam...

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1...

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Dürers depictions of human diversity, focusing particularly on his depictions of figures from outs...

Political Narratosophy offers a critically subversive rethinking of the political and philosophical significance of narrative, and why feminist epi...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explo...

How can photographers, curators, and editors convey narratives of peace and not just stories of war? Providing interdisciplinary and international ...

This companion consists of chapters that focus on and bring forward critical theories and productive methodologies for Indigenous art history in No...