For those interested in the history and theory of art
Lloyd Graham deposited The Moon Card of the Tarot Deck May Reprise an Ancient Amuletic Design Against the Evil Eye in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 days, 3 hours ago
This paper proposes a novel source for – or at least influence on – the iconography of the Moon trump in the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, which preserves the design from the Tarot de Marseille. In fact, the Moon template appears to date back to the earliest days of the Tarot. The proposed source or prototype is a Greco-Roman talismanic design aga…[Read more]
Jean Marie Carey deposited Invitation for Catalogue Contribution: Eden and Everything After in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
In a groundbreaking endeavour to triangulate three important traditions of our collective cultural heritage, the Arkeologisk Museum of the University of Stavanger presents Eden and Everything After, a conceptual exhibition organised around notions of the loss of – and slim hope of reconnection with – the lost paradise. Mirroring the boldly exp…[Read more]
María-Teresa García Ballesteros deposited Las fotografías Familiares en la Colección Fernández Rivero in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
From the first moment the CFR (Fernández Rivero Collection) had among its objectives the formation of a collection of historical photography that would serve to understand the reality of the photographic phenomenon (especially in Spain) as a whole. From this point of view, it was clear that family photography should have its space in the…[Read more]
Dora Apel deposited Beautiful Terrible Ruins, Introduction in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
Once the manufacturing powerhouse of the nation, Detroit has become emblematic of failing cities everywhere—the paradigmatic city of ruins—and the epicenter of an explosive growth in images of urban decay. In Beautiful Terrible Ruins, art historian Dora Apel explores a wide array of these images, ranging from photography, advertising, and tel…[Read more]
Dora Apel deposited Podcast interview on my book Calling Memory into Place in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
Interview with Thomas Hill on The Library Cafe out of Vassar
Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 8.1, part 2 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 8 months ago
Art 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]
Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 8.1, part 1 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 8 months ago
Art 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]
María-Teresa García Ballesteros deposited Un retrato desconocido de Doña Trinidad Grund in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks ago
An unknown portrait of Trinidad Grund y Cereno del Campo enriches the short iconography of this woman, a true character from the 19th century in the history of the city of Malaga (Spain). The photographer Pedro Fernández had an ephemeral studio on calle Nueva, but in this case he moved to the garden in which Trinidad posed with a young lady and a…[Read more]
Anne Swartz deposited With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 11 months ago
This review examines the exhibition catalogue for the exhibition, originated by the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles in 2019-20, which traveled to the Hessel Museum at Bard College in 2021.
Alvin Alagao deposited The Future Historiography of AI Art in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 11 months, 1 week ago
More and more artists from all over the world are engaging in the production of AI art. Because of this, art historians need to start thinking about how the histories of AI art should be articulated. This paper aims to take part in this conversation by addressing the problem of whether the AIs created by human artists should be considered as…[Read more]
Claudio Palomares-Salas deposited The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde: Ultraísmo & Estridentismo, 1918-1927 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde: Ultraísmo & Estridentismo, 1918-1927 is a thorough exploration of the meanings and values Hispanic poets and artists assigned to four iconic locations of modernity: the city, the cafés, means of transportation, and the sea, during the first decades of the 20th century. Joining important studies on S…[Read more]
Claudio Palomares-Salas deposited Ultraism and the Historical Avant-garde in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
Andrew A. Anderson’s new study on the Ultraist movement is an instant classic.
Scholars of this Spanish avant-garde have long been relying on a couple of
texts to find historical context to their investigations. Among these texts are
Gloria Videla’s El ultraísmo: Estudios sobre movimientos poéticos de vanguardia
en España (Ultraism: Studie…[Read more]Claudio Palomares-Salas deposited Sketching Futurism: Güiraldes, Marinetti and Buenos Aires (1926) in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
Sketching Futurism: Güiraldes, Marinetti
and Buenos Aires (1926)Michael Anthony Fowler started the topic CFP – SECAC 2021 Art History Session, The Nature of the Beast: Monsters and Mons in the discussion
Art History on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
THE NATURE OF THE BEAST: MONSTERS AND MONSTROSITY IN ART
77th Annual Meeting of SECAC
University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY)
10–13 November 2021
Co-chairs:
Michael Anthony Fowler, Ph.D. (East Tennessee State University)
Matthew Peebles, Ph.D. (Columbia University)
The global history of art is replete with all manner of monstrous creatu…[Read more]
Ben Newbound deposited Heinrich Schliemann and the walls of Troy in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
Art forms in Troy’s city walls, and Schliemann’s awareness thereof.
María-Teresa García Ballesteros deposited James Valentine. Fotografías españolas in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
La gran empresa británica, James Valentine, productora y editora de imágenes, atesoró un inmenso fondo a lo largo de sus casi ciento cincuenta años de vida (1855-1995), entre las que destacan por su especial belleza algunas fotografías de las ciudades de Málaga y Granada.
Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Fragmento e todo: duas imagens urbanas entre oriente e ocidente, c. 1600 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
This article analyzes representations of cities in two pictures created around 1600: Theodor de Bry’s engraving of Macao, and the views of Kyoto attributed to Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei. The relationship between fragmented and total forms of repre- sentation is studied in both pictures. The European engraving depicts urban space as a whole, while t…[Read more]
Manfred Engel deposited Mediating the Dream / Les genres et médias du rêve. Ed. by Bernard Dieterle and Manfred Engel. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2020 (Cultural Dream Studies; 4) — Contents and Preface in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
Representations of dreams – no matter if factual or fictional – are influenced not only by cultural patterns but also by the specific opportunities offered and the specific challenges posed by the genre or medium which was chosen for them. The essays in this volume consider, in detailed case studies, variants of factual dream reports and fic…[Read more]
Anne Swartz deposited Review, -Agnes Pelton- Desert Transcendentalist- at the Whitney Museum of American Art in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
This exhibition review examined “Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist,” recently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. This exhibition is a traveling show and this venue was its second installation.
Pedro P. Palazzo deposited The Missing ‘Brazilianness’ of Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Art and Architecture in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
This chapter examines a few of the landmark narratives on the issue of national character published between 1880 and 1940. Following the views of Lucio Marcal Ferreira Ribeiro Lima Costa patron, Costa held that it was instead the simple architecture of anonymous master builders that embodied the functional, technical, and aesthetic homogeneity of…[Read more]
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