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Foul Biting, or Diego Valadés and the Medium of Print

open access: yesArt History, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 866-895, November 2023., 2023
Published in 1579 in Perugia, Diego Valadés's Rhetorica christiana is best known today as the first illustrated publication to show evangelisation efforts in the Americas to audiences across the Atlantic. Yet too often the Rhetorica's status in the history of art is that of exotica, a book seen as rare and valuable due to its American subject matter ...
Stephanie Porras
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Staging Grounds: Loutherbourg and Warley

open access: yesArt History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 778-810, September 2023., 2023
In 1778, Philippe‐Jacques de Loutherbourg began work on a pair of companion pictures marking George III's attendance at a spectacular military review on the broad expanse of Essex wasteland that was Warley Common. Scholars of the painter's art have largely overlooked these ambitious, large‐scale landscapes, but their commission and subsequent display ...
John Bonehill
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Authorship, Image‐Making, and Excess: William Hunter's Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata (1774)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 213-237, June 2023., 2023
Abstract In 1774, the physician‐anatomist William Hunter (1718–1783) published Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata/The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus, Exhibited in Figures (1774). Issued as an elephant folio, the book is the culmination of twenty‐four years of work and includes thirty‐four plates with life‐size hyper‐naturalistic ...
Alicia Hughes
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Yubbi Yarning Circle Model: Collective Narratives and Cultural Expression in the Journey of Trauma

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 69, Issue 1, Page 6-34, March 2023., 2023
This article describes a “working model” that started as a culturally appropriate workshop created by students and staff involved in the Certificate III in Visual Arts at Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE, Shepparton Campus, Victoria in 2018. The Yubbi Yarning Circle Model (YYCM) sees First Nations Artists, as both Facilitators and Storytellers ...
Peta Wanjunagalin, Robyn E Thompson
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‘The New Life’: Mozambican Art Students in the USSR, and the Aesthetic Epistemologies of Anti‐Colonial Solidarity

open access: yesArt History, Volume 45, Issue 5, Page 1078-1100, November 2022., 2022
This essay traces the histories and reverberations of the socialist scholarship programmes which brought art and graphic design students from Africa to the USSR during the 1980s. Drawing on the accounts and archives of art students and cultural workers who participated in or supported these programmes, it follows the path of one Mozambican cohort ...
Polly Savage
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On Islam and Portraiture: Lithography, Glass Painting, and Photography in Senegal

open access: yesArt History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 774-797, September 2022., 2022
Scholars have for decades challenged the popular belief that Islam is intrinsically and implacably hostile to anthropomorphic art. Rooted in this literature, this essay argues that Islam was responsible for popularizing portraiture in Senegal, which previously featured none.
Giulia Paoletti
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Colesworthy Grant's Portraits of Colonial Society in India: Lithography, Liberalism, and the Global Making of Middle‐Class Culture, c. 1833–57

open access: yesArt History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 712-743, September 2022., 2022
This essay explores how lithographic printing connected colonial society in India to global developments in the making of middle‐class culture. It focuses on two print portrait series that the artist Colesworthy Grant (1813–80) released in illustrated periodicals: Lithographic Sketches of the Public Characters of Calcutta; and A Series of Miscellaneous
Tom Young
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Artists' labour market and gender: Evidence from German visual artists

open access: yesKyklos, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 456-471, August 2022., 2022
Abstract Using comprehensive data from German visual artists, we provide strong empirical evidence of a gender gap in revenues. We find that female artists have significantly lower revenues from the art market and are about ten percentage points less likely to remain in the top category over three years.
Maria Marchenko, Hendrik Sonnabend
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Fusion of Digital Printmaking and Traditional Printmaking Using Edge Computing Optimization Model

open access: yesScientific Programming, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022
With the development of the digital age, the hardware equipment and system software of digital painting are becoming more and more popular, and the penetration of digital technology in the field of printmaking is getting deeper and deeper. However, traditional skills are gradually being eroded under the pressure of a homogeneous and efficient modern ...
Hao Zhang   +3 more
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Reassessing Heidegger on Van Gogh: Artistic Experience as Contextual Displacement

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers a novel account of Heidegger's long‐debated discussion of a painting of shoes by Van Gogh in ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’. I argue that the Van Gogh episode is best understood as a carefully staged textual enactment of Heidegger's conception of artistic experience, properly construed.
Andrea Vitangeli
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