Art History

In this distinctive series, developed from special issues of Art History, leading scholars are invited to publish new research on key issues and to reflect on the contemporary concerns in the discipline. Each collection of essays takes a particular theme and the scope is wide: from painting and sculpture to photography and video, urban history and architecture, collecting , and historiography.

Recently published books include:

Art and Architecture in Naples
Cordelia Warr and Janis Elliott

Art History: Contemporary Perspectives on Method
Dana Arnold

Photography After Conceptual Art
Diarmuid Costello, Margaret Iversen

For further information on the book series, please click here.

Best Article Prize
The author Bram van Oostveldt has been awarded the prestigious 2011 prize for best article by the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis for his essay, ‘Ut pictura hortus/ut theatrum hortus: Theatricality and French Picturesque Garden Theory (1771–95)’, which was published in Art History volume 33, issue 2. The article has subsequently appeared in Caroline van Eck and Stijn Bussels, eds, Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture, Oxford, 2011, as part of the Art History Book Series. To read this essay for free, please click here.

38th Annual AAH Conference & Bookfair
The Open University, Milton Keynes
29 - 31 March 2012

Keynote Speakers:
•Lord Puttnam, Chancellor of The Open University
•Penelope Curtis, Director, Tate Britain.

AAH2012 will showcase the diversity and richness of art history. Like The Open University itself, the 2012 annual conference is open to all people, places and ideas. This three-day event will profice a broad scope of geographies and methodologies, ranging from object-based studies, socio-historical analyses, theoretical discourses, visual culture of the moving image, exhibition cultures and display.

Founded in 1978, Art History, the peer-reviewed journal of the Association of Art Historians, provides an international forum for original research relating to all aspects of the historical and theoretical study of painting, sculpture, architecture, design and other areas of visual culture. The journal is committed to the publication of innovative work which extends understanding of the visual within a well-developed interdisciplinary framework and raises significant issues of interest with those working both within the history of art and in related fields.

Read the Special Issues published by Art History over the last couple of years below.

Anglo-American: Artistic Exchange between Britain and the USA
Edited by David Peters Corbett & Sarah Monks
Published September 2011

Creative Writing and Art History
Edited by Catherine Grant & Patricia Rubin
Published April 2011

Theatricality in Early Modern Visual Art and Architecture  
Edited by Caroline can Eck & Stijn Bussels
Published April 2010

Photography after Conceptual Art                                  
Edited by Diarmuid Costello & Margaret Iversen
Published December 2009

Art History: Contemporary Perspectives on Method         
Edited by Dana Arnold
Published September 2009

Import/Export: Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the Kingdom of Naples, 1266-1713
Edited by Cordelia Warr & Janis Elliott
Published September 2008

Rural Memory, Pagan Idolatry: Pieter Bruegel's Peasant Shrines
Stephanie Porras

Pictorial Grammar: Chomsky, John Willats, and the Rules of Representation
Paul Smith

Louis Marin, Poussin and the Sublime
Nigel Saint

Bohemianism and the Cultural Field: Trilby and Tarr
Lisa Tickner

Orality, Writing and the Image in the Maqamat: Arabic Illustrated Books in Context
Alain George

The Politics of Possession: Edwin Long's Babylonian Marriage Market
Imogen Hart