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‘The Mirage of Islamic Art: Reflections on an Unwieldy Field’, The Art Bulletin, 85(1), 2003. Reproduced by permission of the authors and the College Art Association. [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2012
A survey of the definition and historiography of ‘Islamic art’ and the various approaches to studying it.
Sheila S. Blair, Jonathan M. Bloom
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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Susanna Santala: Laboratory for a New Architecture: The Airport Terminal, Eero Saarinen and the Historiography of Modern Architecture

Tahiti, 2016
Arvio: Susanna Santala, 2015. Laboratory for a New Architecture: Airport Terminal, Eero Saarinen and the Historiography of Modern Architecture. University of Helsinki, Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, Art ...
Juhana Lahti
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Temptation, Resistance, and Art Objects: On the Lack of Material Theory within Art History before the Material Turn

Artium Quaestiones, 2019
Niccolò di Pietro Gerini's painting “The Temptation of Saint Anthony” (1390-1400) serves as a point of departure for this essay. It depicts Saint Anthony during a lapse of self-control as he attempts to resist an alluring mound of gold.
Charolotta Krispinsson
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Whose Nation Is It Anyway? Towards Methodological Cosmopolitanism in Studies of Nationalism and Nation‐Building in Kazakhstan

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholarship on nationalism and nation‐building in Kazakhstan has been dominated by a social constructivist approach that privileges the civic–ethnic dichotomy. Even when critiques of this binary have emerged, they have often substituted proxy categories that reproduce the same dualism.
Rico Isaacs
wiley   +1 more source

Baroque for a wide public: Popular media and their constructions of the epoch on both sides of the Iron Curtain [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2016
This special section of the Journal of Art Historiography aims at exploring the communication of art historical content in popular media during the Cold War era. In seizing on this subject we acknowledge the important role of popular art histories in the
Michaela Marek, Eva Pluhařová-Grigienė   +1 more
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Humanism at the Council of Constance. Diego de Anaya, Classical Manuscripts and Education in Salamanca

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
wiley   +1 more source

The afterlife of artists. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023
Cutting JE.
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‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
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To betray art history [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2016
The work of Donald Preziosi represents one of the most sustained and often brilliant attempts to betray the modern discipline of art history by exposing its skillful shell game: precisely how and why it substitutes artifice, poetry, and representational ...
Jae Emerling
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