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Art's Visual Efficacy: The Case of Anthony Forge's Abelam Corpus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper addresses the question of whether a general method is capable of accommodating the vast array of contexts in which art objects are studied. I propose a framework for such a general method, which is, however, limited to a specific research task:
Stejskal, Jakub
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Islamic calligraphy in contemporary art of Malaysia / Nor Azlin Hamidon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This research entitled Islamic Calligraphy in Contemporary Art of Malaysia contribute to the most neglected area in the development of the history of art of Malaysia. The combination of three different traditions – Islam, Malay and Western traditions
Hamidon, Nor Azlin
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Punishment in the Frame: Rethinking the History and Sociology of Art [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Images of punishment have featured prominently in Western art and this article explores what might be learnt from studying such pictures of suffering. It seeks to develop an approach to the visual that avoids both the essentialism of art history and the ...
Alpers S.   +42 more
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The criterion of simplicity in interpretation [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Art Historiography, 2011
The paper highlights the main features of Ernst Gombrich’s approach to the explication and to the interpretation of Renaissance works. These features are oriented to Karl Popper’s critical rationalism: a strong simplicity that distinguishes him from the ...
Giuseppe Barbieri
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Fragments d’un discours iconographique : Poétique de l’image dans L’Empire des signes de Roland Barthes

open access: yesQuêtes Littéraires, 2015
Roland Barthes was not only a literary theorist, a critic or a semiotician. Above all, he was concerned with signs, symbols and representations which shape the everyday life and nourish both identities of the individual subject and the social group.
Khalid Lyamlahy
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Vorsprung durch Technik: multi-display learning spaces and art-historical method [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The trajectory and heuristic success of Art History as a discipline has always been inseparably linked to the technical means of visualizing the material that is at its core. When in the late 19th century first analogous, then double-slide projection was
Bligh, Brett, Lorenz, Katharina
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Architecture, colour and images. Ideas and designs by Friedensreich Hundertwasser [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Colour, imagination, inspiration, amazement. These four words very fittingly describe the work of the Viennese artist/architect Friedrich Stowasser, better known as Hundertwasser (meaning hundred water), a master of organic thinking who between 1928 and ...
Chiavoni, Emanuela
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Typus-Casa Horne: connection with orthodox images and representation of theological narrative in works by Italian artists of 12th‒16th centuries / Typus-Casa Horne: связь с восточно-христианскими образами и репрезентация теологического нарратива в работах итальянских художников XII–XVI веков

open access: yesВизуальная теология
The iconography of the Pietà is traditionally rooted back to the Vesperbild. Such an approach is not entirely correct. Panofsky proposes two types of the Italian Pietà: Pietà-Nordica which is a Mary-centered composition (iconographically indeed referring
Ekaterina Iakovleva / Екатерина Владимировна Яковлева
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Digital ethnography, resistance art and communication media in Iran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Iranian visual materials relating to the presidential election crisis have the potential to become the sites of analysis and debate for fields as diverse as history, visual history, memory and post-memory, or trauma studies.
Khosronejad, Pedram
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