History of Art Books

New and Published Books

1. The Rise of the Joyful Economy

   Artistic invention and economic growth from Brunelleschi to Murakami

   By Michael Hutter

   This book argues for the increasing importance of the arts as a major resource in fuelling growth through the experiential dimension of today’s economy. As we move from the knowledge economy to a new stage called the joyful economy, consumers shift their spending from physical objects and technical...

   Published April 2nd 2015 by Routledge
2. No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying

   The Museum in South Asia

   Edited by Saloni Mathur, Kavita Singh

   Series: Visual and Media Histories

   This volume brings together a range of essays that offer a new perspective on the dynamic history of the museum as a cultural institution in South Asia. It traces the museum from its origin as a tool of colonialism and adoption as a vehicle of sovereignty in the nationalist period, till its role in...

   Published April 1st 2015 by Routledge India
3. Reckoning with Colin Rowe

   Ten Architects Take Position

   Edited by Emmanuel Petit

   While the first half of the 20th century in architecture was, to a large extent, characterized by innovations in aesthetics (accompanied by succinct and polemical manifestoes), the post-war decades saw emerge a more refined and intellectual disciplinary framework that eventually metamorphosed into...

   Published March 4th 2015 by Routledge
4. Culture and Consensus (Routledge Revivals)

   England, Art and Politics since 1940

   By Robert Hewison

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Culture and Consensus, first published in 1995 and a revised edition in 1997, explores the history of the relationship between politics and the arts in Britain since 1940, and shows how the search for a secure sense of English identity has been reflected in official and unofficial attitudes to the...

   Published February 13th 2015 by Routledge
5. Negotiating Cultural Identity

   Landscapes in Early Medieval South Asian History

   Edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray

   Series: Archaeology and Religion in South Asia

   This volume breaks new ground by conceptualizing landscape as a dynamic cultural complex in which the natural world and human practice are inextricably linked and are constantly interacting. It examines the social and cultural construction of space in the early medieval period in South Asia, as...

   Published February 4th 2015 by Routledge India
6. The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics

   Edited by Randy Martin

   The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics offers a thorough examination of the complex relationship between art and politics, and the many forms and approaches the engagement between them can take. The contributors - a diverse assembly of artists, activists, scholars from around the world –...

   Published January 26th 2015 by Routledge
7. Ars et Ingenium: The Embodiment of Imagination in Francesco di Giorgio Martini’s Drawings

   By Pari Riahi

   Series: Routledge Research in Architecture

   When did drawing become an integral part of architecture? Among several architects and artists who brought about this change during the Renaissance, Francesco di Giorgio Martini’s ideas on drawing recorded in his Trattati di architettura, ingegneria e arte militare (1475-1490) are significant....

   Published January 26th 2015 by Routledge
8. Architecture's Pretexts

   Spaces of Translation

   By Aarati Kanekar

   The aim of this book is to expose readers to architecture’s pretexts that include literary narratives, film, theatre, painting, music, and ritual, as a bridge between diverse intellectual territories and architecture. It introduces a selection of seminal modern and contemporary architectural...

   Published January 22nd 2015 by Routledge
9. William Holman Hunt and Typological Symbolism (Routledge Revivals)

   By George P. Landow

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   In this study, first published in 1979, Landow contends that Hunt’s version of Pre-Raphaelitism concerned itself primarily with an elaborate system of painterly symbolism rather than with a photographic realism as has been usually supposed. Like Ruskin, Hunt believed that a symbolism based on...

   Published January 19th 2015 by Routledge
10. Ruskin (Routledge Revivals)

    By George P. Landow

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    Ruskin, the great Victorian critics of art and society, had an enormous influence on his age and our own. A highly successful propagandist for the arts, he did much both to popularize high art and to bring it to the masses. A brilliant theorist and practical critics of realism, he also produced the...

    Published January 19th 2015 by Routledge