For those interested in the history and theory of art
Edmundo Murray deposited The Diplomacy of Art: Irish, Spanish and Latin American Artwork in a Historic Building of Geneva in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 week, 1 day agoThis article focuses on the works of art offered by Irish, Spanish, Brazilian and other governments and institutions to embellish the Centre William Rappard since 1926 to date. The Centre William Rappard is the first building in Geneva designed to house an international organization. It was built for the International Labour Office, and…[Read more]
Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 1 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 weeks agoArt Style | Art & Culture International Magazine is an open access, biannual, and peer-reviewed online magazine that aims to bundle cultural diversity. All values of cultures are shown in their varieties of art. Beyond the importance of the medium, form, and context in which art takes its characteristics, we also consider the significance of…[Read more]
Alicia Mihalic deposited Review of Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux, The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660-1900 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 1 day agoBarbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux, The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660-1900, Yale University Press, London, England, 2020, Appendix: Pockets in the Old Bailey, Notes, Archives, Bibliography, Index, Picture Credits, 161 Colour Illustrations, 264 pages, Softback, £19.99.
Ben Newbound deposited A ring from Pylos in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 4 weeks agoA three-page paper on the artistry of a bronze age ring whose discovery was reported in 2019.
Cristelle Baskins started the topic CFP — IAS sponsored session at RSA Dublin 2021 in the discussion
Art History on Humanities Commons 4 months agoPainted Faces: Documenting the Tradition and Reach of the Renaissance Frescoed Façade in Rome and Beyond In early sixteenth-century Rome, as the architectural language of grand domestic spaces was being further refined, elaborate façade fresco decorations came into incredible popularity. These cycles, some of which were designed to root the st…[Read more]
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Edmundo Murray deposited Centre William Rappard: Home of the World Trade Organization, Geneva in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoThe first building in Geneva designed to house an international organization, the Centre William Rappard has played host to the International Labour Office since it first opened its doors in 1926, and later to the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade secretariat and to the World Trade Organization. “Centre William Rappard: Home of the World…[Read more]
Raphael Grazziano deposited Todo objeto é uma imagem: Sauerbruch Hutton segundo Harun Farocki Every object is an image: Sauerbruch Hutton according to Harun Farocki in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoHarun Farocki’s last film, Sauerbruch Hutton Architects (2013), is studied by comparing it to other works by the director and analyzing its scenes. The article elaborates what is the position of this office regarding architecture as a producer of images, and then verifies what is its underlying spatiality. As a result, one can see how the…[Read more]
Annika McQueen deposited What part did decorative plasterwork play in the transformation of the Great House before 1660? in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoThis essay argues that the changes that occurred in the form, function, material and internal decorative schemes of the Great House before 1660 was less of a transformation and more of a slow evolution. The popularity of plasterwork in the Great House from the Tudors to the Restoration, demonstrates its importance in the evolution of such…[Read more]
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Annika McQueen deposited Inns and Innkeeping in North Hertfordshire: 1660 – 1815 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoThis dissertation ‘Inns and Innkeeping in North Hertfordshire: 1660-1815’ addresses the lack of a localised study on this building type and supplements the wider body of work that has been undertaken, on inn form, function and innkeeping lifestyles in other regions of England during the long eighteenth century.
Dora Apel deposited Between Two Worlds: Arab Americans in Detroit in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 8 months, 1 week agoCatalog essay for “Brotherville,” photographic exhibition by Farah Al Qasimi
Jose Ángel Salgado Loureiro started the topic International Conference ” The Medieval Eschatology” (Call for papers) in the discussion
Art History on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks agoInternational Conference ” The Medieval Eschatology”
(Santiago de Compostela, July 28-29th, 2020)
Eschatology is one of the central components of medieval Christian culture. The end of the world, the Last Judgment, salvation, Messianism, the Antichrist, the Apocalypticism and millenarianism are inescapable elements in what we may generally…[Read more]
Jasmine Burns deposited Review of “René d’Harnoncourt and the Art of Installation” in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 9 months agoReview of “René d’Harnoncourt and the Art of Installation” By Michelle Elligott. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2018. 176 pp. Hardcover. $45.00. ISBN 978-1-63345-050-9.
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Ben Newbound deposited The arrangement of tablets on the photographic plates of Scripta Minoa II in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 9 months agoIllustration of various features in the arrangement of Linear B tablets in the photo plates of Scripta Minoa II, and a proposed rationale in terms of underlying art.
María-Teresa García Ballesteros deposited La colección Fernández Rivero de fotografía antigua in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 10 months agoThe Fernández Rivero Collection of old photography is a collection of original photographic objects of more than 45,000 pieces of different types. The CFRivero has been formed with a historicist approach so that it could cover museum and teaching purposes. About two thirds of his pieces are from the 19th century, of which most could be described…[Read more]
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María-Teresa García Ballesteros deposited Los Hermanos Debas: fotógrafos de corte en las monarquías alfonsinas in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week agoThe brothers Fernando and Edgardo Debas arrived in Madrid in 1872, coming from France, and soon became the main court photographers of Alfonso XII, above Laurent, who was then in full swing of his activity. The article reveals the keys to this situation as well as the details of his previous activities in France, the circumstances of his arrival…[Read more]
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María-Teresa García Ballesteros deposited El álbum de la Exposición Vinícola de 1877: Laurent, Debás y Esperon. in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week agoAt the beginning are described first reports made in Spain on major exhibitions, since the great exhibition of London in 1851. Below is a brief review about the photographers Laurent, Debás and Esperon, who were the authors of the photo album made in 1877 about the «Exposición Vinícola» in Madrid. Finally, the article focuses on the desc…[Read more]
Glen M Golub deposited Neanderthal for Sapiens in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 weeks agoThis commentary takes advantage of the provenance established by Hoffman, et al.2018 to explore exclusionary symbol sets in Art, Astrology, and Myth within La Pasiega Gallery C in Spain. Using the One Godz paradigm plus the added parameter of U-TH dating this commentary ascribes meaning to two proximate rock art panels, one homo sapien and the…[Read more]
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María-Teresa García Ballesteros deposited Luis Masson, uno de los grandes en los inicios de la fotografía en España in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 11 months, 1 week agoThe discovery of the importance of photographer Luis Leon Masson and the observation that, nevertheless, has been almost ignored in all the temporal space in which the Spanish photohistory has been developing in the last thirty years, has led us to ask ourselves about the circumstances that have concurred so that this character, who was able to…[Read more]
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María-Teresa García Ballesteros deposited Spanish Stereoscopic Commercial Photography in the 20th Century: “El Turismo Práctico” and “Rellev” in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 11 months, 1 week agoThroughout the twentieth century, the two major projects carried out in Spain to commercialize ste- reoscopic photography were those of the Barcelona publishing house Alberto Martín and the photo- grapher José Codina Torrás, both projects with an obvious tourist orientation. During the decade of 1910, the publishing house Alberto Martín lau…[Read more]
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