For those interested in the history and theory of art
Glen M Golub deposited Neanderthal for Sapiens in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 19 hours, 10 minutes ago
This 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]
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 2 weeks, 1 day ago
The 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]
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 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Throughout 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]
María Teresa García Ballesteros deposited La fotografía estereoscópica en Canarias durante el siglo XIX in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Stereoscopic photography begins in the Canary Islands at the end of the 1850s, not only by photographers and news from Peninsular Spain but also through the important English colony. The names of Piazzi Smyth and Jessica Duncan, of photographers such as Luis Marín del Corral, Manuel Sapera, Rafael and Bartolomé Belza or Juan González Méndez and…[Read more]
Raphael Grazziano deposited Aspectos do debate entre realismo socialista e concretismo: a obra de vilanova artigas in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 4 days ago
This monograph explores the ambivalent position of Artigas in the political-cultural debate of the Cold War, during the 1950s, when two principal art movements were opposed. On one side, socialist realist tendencies that emerged in post-revolutionary Russia, particularly after the ascension of Stalin, who intended it to be the new art of the…[Read more]
Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited Hafıza-i Beşer: Osmanlı Yazmalarından Hikâyeler | Memories of Humankind: Stories from the Ottoman Manuscripts in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The opening text for the exhibition Hafıza-i Beşer: Osmanlı Yazmalarından Hikâyeler | Memories of Humankind: Stories from the Ottoman Manuscripts, organized by the Istanbul Research Institute, open between October 18, 2019 – July 25, 2020.
Sergi Küratörü/Exhibition Curator
K. Mehmet KentelDanısmanlar/Advisors
M. Baha Tanman, Selim S.…[Read more]Ben Newbound deposited Linear and cult art: addenda, corrigenda, concludenda in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
As per its title
Glen M Golub deposited How the Aleph-Bet Got Its Shape in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
This thesis follows my earlier work on Aurignacian rock art by drawing a clear line between cave painting in the south of France and the holiest Hebrew script Ktav Ivrit or STA”M. This is an in depth study detailing relationships between Language, Mysticism and Kabbalah, as well as Religious Dogma that answers the question, “Why do all religions…[Read more]
Glen M Golub deposited Strategies and Methods in Archeo Art History in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
This is a series of brief paradigms that suggest ways of manipulating abstraction, such as Art Language Religion and Politics, for use with a Carlos Ginzburg Evidentiary Paradigm, or other multivariate analysis. The tables in this appendix accompany the Index of Deities and Demons and How the Aleph-Bet Got Its Shape.
Maximilian Kaiser deposited Structure, Network, Discourse. Anatomy of an Artists Association in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week ago
Article for the exhibition catalogue “Hagenbund. A European network of modernism 1900 to 1938” (2014)
Rodney Swan deposited Contrée: Picasso’s visual fragmented tailpieces emphasise the poetry of Robert Desnos. in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Completed in early 1944, Robert Desnos’s militant series of 25 poems in Contrée evokes memories of a lost peace and calls for the defeat of the German occupiers. Suggesting the desecration of the human body by the occupiers, Picasso cut his cubist–surrealist frontispiece etching of Dora Marr to produce severed heads and dismembered body part…[Read more]
Rodney Swan deposited Henri Matisse’s Jazz: The Mystery of The Codomas in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 4 months ago
In addition to the enigmatic The Codomas, Henri Matisse distinguished three other images with a name, Icarus, Monsieur Loyal and Pierrot’s Funeral for his landmark livre d’artiste Jazz. While the characters Loyal, Pierrot and Icarus were readily identifiable and the images could be interpreted within the context of the difficulties of the Ger…[Read more]
Lukas Fuchsgruber deposited Berlin – Paris: Transnational Aspects of French Art Auctions in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 4 months ago
In the valuation of works of art, the setting of a price is the last step, the result of a discursive attribution of quality; in this regard, aesthetic and commercial evaluations merge. The structure of this mediation is characterised by the concept of the “knowledge market;” knowledge that is ordered and able to spread is essential in order to…[Read more]
Lukas Fuchsgruber deposited Museum Photo Archives and the History of the Art Market: A Digital Approach in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 4 months ago
Digital images with metadata contain unique potential for research into the history of the art market. The embedding of digital images in a database allows for the possibility of an association with their historical context due to the presence of metadata, which includes economic data, such as the provenance chain, as well as information about…[Read more]
Rodney Swan deposited Symbolism and Allusion in Matisse’s Jazz in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week ago
Henri Matisse’s images in Jazz, created during the disruption of the German Occupation of France, were embedded with symbols of cultural resistance, while his text, which he composed after the defeat of the Germans, reflected the transition to a post-Liberation France. The wartime symbols and allusions camouflaged within these images are readily r…[Read more]
Dušan Barok deposited From Collection Management to Content Management in Art Documentation: The Conservator as an Editor in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 months ago
It has been widely acknowledged that reinstallations and re-executions of contemporary artworks substantially rely on available documentation. Especially for installations and performances it is crucial to record the artist’s intent, past iterations, and tacit knowledge involved in staging the artwork. The growing presence of contemporary a…[Read more]
Mechtild Widrich deposited The Fourth Wall turns Pensive and VALIE EXPORT’s Body Cinema in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 months, 4 weeks ago
A text on feminist 1970s avant-garde performance for the camera (Hannah Wilke, Birgit Jürgenssen, Ana Mendieta, Eleanor Antin) and the implications of the “wall” (lense) for the relationship between work and audience, as well as a text on VALIE EXPORT’s Touch Cinema (1968).
Carl Gelderloos deposited Learning to See: Art & Media in Weimar Germany | Fall 2018 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 6 months ago
A syllabus for an undergraduate course, taught in English, on the visual culture (primarily film, photography, and aesthetic theory) of the Weimar Republic. The course is housed in German Studies and crosslisted with Art History, Cinema, and other departments.
Danijela Tešić Radovanović deposited The Žiča Altar Screen Icons in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
The altar screen mosaic icons were ordered and installed on a new reconstructed altar screen in the Žiča Monastery in 1993. The sketches made by a painter, Mladen Srbinović were approved by a committee consisting of eminent experts. Furthermore , The Serbian Patriarch Paul gave his blessing to the icons. However, soon after they were put up, th…[Read more]
Danijela Tešić Radovanović deposited Lamp with the Representation of the Griffin: the Christianisation of Pagan Motifs During late Antiquity in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
The paper deals with the so called griffin lamps. In the group of early Christian bronze lamps, a relatively large number of those with handles in the form of griffin-shaped protome have been preserved. Griffin lamps could be called the prototype of Late Antique production, owing to the manner in which stylistic and iconographic elements of the…[Read more]
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