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Looking Beyond Jerusalem: A Fifteenth‐Century Exercise in Image Comparison
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 640-666, September 2023., 2023 Critical image comparison is a widespread art‐historical practice. This essay explores why a Brabantine artist encouraged viewers to exercise it in the late fifteenth century. At the time, northern European artists tested out how images could be means of transcending the visible world while simultaneously showcasing their very constructedness. The self‐
Hanna Vorholt
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Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 172-182, July 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT The Wellington Range region, in far Northern Australia, provides a remarkable record of cultural encounter. Cathedral‐sized rock art galleries include contact imagery referencing Macassan and European visitors while lithic artefact assemblages echo social mobility between Indigenous groups occurring from at least the mid Holocene period.
Duncan Wright +6 more
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Voicing the Queer Self: Listening to Portraits with Vernon Lee
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 428-457, June 2023., 2023 Originating in a critical examination of Vernon Lee's perceived ugliness and her excessive talking among her acquaintances, this essay situates historically a series of portraits in which she features as a sitter, subject of comment and commentator, to suggest that the interweaving of voices and faces can be useful to resist the elision of seeing and ...
Francesco Ventrella
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Hand stencils and communal history: A case study from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 115-130, April 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT Hand stencils directly represent modern humans in landscape settings around the world. Yet their social and cultural contexts are often overlooked due to the lack of ethnography associated with the artwork. This paper explores the hand stencils from Kundumbue and Pundimbung rock art sites, situated in the traditional boundaries of the Auwim ...
Roxanne Tsang +5 more
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Prussian Blue: Chemistry, Commerce, and Colour in Eighteenth‐Century Paris
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 154-186, February 2023., 2023 This essay reconsiders the story of a pigment. Prussian blue, discovered at the beginning of the eighteenth century, is often described as a revolutionary colour that instantly transformed painters’ palettes and practices. Grounded in a ‘thick description’ of the pigment's history in Paris, this article challenges the legendary account of Prussian blue
Charlotte Guichard +2 more
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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 12-37, February 2023., 2023 The mutability and physical perfectibility of animal bodies was a scientific and aesthetic preoccupation in nineteenth‐century France, channelling anxieties about class, race and national identity into projects of breeding domestic animals. This essay explores how the animal painter Rosa Bonheur figured an imagined agricultural superabundance through ...
Stephanie Triplett
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JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 6, Issue 1, January–December 2023., 2023 This paper aims to clarify the formation process of the concept of “form” from the 1920s to the 1930s by chronologically tracing the creation of Perriand's furniture. Abstract This paper aims to clarify the formation process of the concept of “form” from the 1920s to the 1930s by chronologically tracing the creation of Perriand's furniture. That is, by
Shoichiro Sendai
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JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 6, Issue 1, January–December 2023., 2023 This paper examines how the “new decoration” of steel pipe furniture as “form” led to her particular “decoration” of interior spaces, by analyzing the intersection of the “Mingei (folk‐craft)” tradition experienced in Japan. Abstract This paper aims to clarify the process of the formation of Perriand's concept of “form” toward the “forme utile (useful ...
Shoichiro Sendai +2 more
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On Islam and Portraiture: Lithography, Glass Painting, and Photography in Senegal
Art 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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The building projects and the Histories of Gregory of Tours
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 159-184, May 2022., 2022 This article offers a fresh perspective on the life and works of the sixth‐century bishop Gregory of Tours by analysing Gregory’s magnum opus, the Histories, alongside a frequently overlooked aspect of his episcopal career: his restoration of the cathedral church of Tours and St Martin’s basilica following their devastation by fire in the time of his ...
John Merrington
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