For those interested in the history and theory of art
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Lukas Fuchsgruber deposited Experts and Auctioneers in Paris Art Auctions 1852-1862 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 3 days, 2 hours agoFrom 1852 the Hôtel Drouot was the space where the French auctioneers (Commissaires-Priseurs) – who held a stately sanctioned monopoly – organized their auctions. By processing data from the art auction catalogue repertory by Frits Lugt and the extended version Art Sales Catalogues Online, it is possible to map the networks of art marketing at…[Read more]
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Thorsten Wuebbena deposited Sandrart.net – Eine Online-Edition eines Textes des 17. Jahrhunderts in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 week, 1 day agoThe following text presents an online project, which has been developed since April 2007 with a duration of five years on the initiative of the Kunstgeschichtliches Institut in Frankfurt and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, together with the partner institutions Städel Museum and Historisches Museum in Frankfurt and jointly financed by…[Read more]
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Lukas Fuchsgruber deposited Virtualität und Ökonomie Ästhetische Potentiale der vernetzten Hypergraphik in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days agoDrei digitale Kunstprojekte aus den Jahren 2015 und 2016 werden in diesem Text vorgestellt und verglichen, Game Over Facebook, WrongGrid und Curating Money. Ihnen ist gemeinsam, dass sie in Konfrontation zu ihrem jeweiligen technischen und ästhetischem Kontext stehen, beispielsweise zu den digitalen Plattformen, auf denen sie gespeichert sind,…[Read more]
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Lukas Fuchsgruber deposited Neue, neuere, neueste Kunstgeschichte? Wie die Wissenschaft versucht, den Kunsthandel zu „erobern“ in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days agoAm 11.10.2014 erschien im Feuilleton der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung ein Artikel von Gina Thomas über die derzeitige Intensivierung der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit zum Kunstmarkt. Der Titel lautete: Wie der Kunsthandel die Wissenschaft erobert. Auf diese Bestimmung eines Verhältnisses und die gebrachten Beispiele soll hier reagiert werden.
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Sonia Silva deposited Along an African Border: Angolan Refugees and Their Divination Baskets in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 week, 3 days agoIn Along an African Border, anthropologist Sónia Silva examines how the Angolan refugees living in Zambia during the Angolan civil war used their divination baskets to cope with daily life in a new land. To many people, these baskets are capable of thinking, hearing, judging, and responding. They communicate by means of small articles drawn in…[Read more]
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Sonia Silva deposited Art and Fetish in the Anthropolgy Museum in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 week, 3 days agoSónia Silva is an Associate Professor of anthropology at Skidmore College. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Zambia, as well as museum work in Europe and the USA, Silva’s research deals with materiality, material religion, the notion of the fetish, ritual and religion, divination, witchcraft, violence, and museums. Silva is the author of Alon…[Read more]
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Lukas Fuchsgruber deposited The Hôtel Drouot as the stock exchange for art. Financialization of art auctions in the nineteenth century in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 month agoThroughout historic developments, the publicly ascertained and published price of an artwork repeatedly served as a reference point for art theoretical discussion. Particular importance was attached to the auction sale price, since this financial evaluation of art was of such a public nature. While there is a long history of these ideas about the…[Read more]
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David Villalta deposited ¿Lucidez o fantasía neurótica? Gustave Doré como ilustrador de la Divina Comedia: el caso del bosque de los suicidas in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoThe present article seeks to dig into Gustave Doré’s (1832-1883) vision of the Wood of the Suicides from his illustrations of the Divine Comedy (d. 1861), establishing a comparison between its critical reception, the works that have illustrated the chant over the centuries and Doré’s works themselves. A goal here is to glimpse if negative criti…[Read more]
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Sarah M. Dreller deposited Architectural Forum, 1932-64: A Time Inc. Experiment in American Architecture and Journalism in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks agoThis study tells the story of Architectural Forum magazine during the Time Inc. ownership period, 1932-64. Why and how did this episode in American discursive life come about? What were its failures and successes, lessons, potential legacy? In answering these questions, the author describes the unusual building industry-wide sense of community…[Read more]
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Sarah M. Dreller deposited Curtained Walls: Architectural Photography, the Farnsworth House, and the Opaque Discourse of Transparency in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks agoThis paper studies the creation, circulation, and reception of two groups of photographs of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Farnsworth House, both taken by Hedrich Blessing. The first set, produced for a 1951 Architectural Forum magazine cover story, features curtains carefully arranged according to the architect’s preferences; the Museum of…[Read more]
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Arnold Berleant deposited A Note on the Problem of Defining “Art” in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks agoA short note describing the difficulties that surround the definition of “art.”
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Matthew Lincoln deposited Continuity and Disruption in European Networks of Print Production, 1550-1750 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks agoComputational analysis of the potential historical professional networks inferred from surviving print impressions offers novel insight into the evolution of early modern artistic printmaking in Europe. This analysis traces a longue durée print production history that examines the changing ways in which different regional printmaking communities…[Read more]
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Josue Baruj Gordon Guerrero deposited Visual Tradition and production in early Japanese Photography in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 6 months agoThis paper talks about the relationship of early Japanese Photography with previous pictorial and visual traditions in Japan. Arguing that photographic production in Japan, rather than being an “impossition” from the West, it was closer to a dialogue and negotiation articulated under Japanese terms.
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Sonya Wohletz deposited Catalogue Entries–“Early Modern Faces” Exhibition at Newcomb Gallery, 2014 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 6 months agoThese are catalogue entries for the following works: Francisco de Zurbaran, Veronica Veil, from the Sarah Blaffer Campbell Collection Ferdinand Bol, Portrait of Sir John Hebdon, from the Sarah Blaffer Campbell Collection
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Juuso Tervo deposited Death is all things we see awake; all we see asleep is sleep in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoThis talk offers a collection of vignettes that position the relation between life and death as a central but unsolvable question for theorization in art and politics. Indeed, what to think of death in times when, yet again, the end of the world as we know it seems to be near?
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Juuso Tervo deposited Death is all things we see awake; all we see asleep is sleep in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoThis talk offers a collection of vignettes that position the relation between life and death as a central but unsolvable question for theorization in art and politics. Indeed, what to think of death in times when, yet again, the end of the world as we know it seems to be near?
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Lorraine de la Verpillière deposited ‘God is in the details’: visual culture of closeness in the circle of Cardinal Reginald Pole in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoAs one of the most important political and religious figures of the mid sixteenth century, Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500–58) has been the subject of valuable historical studies. Although the English prelate was also a humanist, part of a vast intellectual and artistic network he established during his travels to Italy, Flanders, Spain and E…[Read more]
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Lorraine de la Verpillière deposited ‘God is in the details’: visual culture of closeness in the circle of Cardinal Reginald Pole in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoAs one of the most important political and religious figures of the mid sixteenth century, Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500–58) has been the subject of valuable historical studies. Although the English prelate was also a humanist, part of a vast intellectual and artistic network he established during his travels to Italy, Flanders, Spain and E…[Read more]
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Lorraine de la Verpillière deposited ‘God is in the details’: visual culture of closeness in the circle of Cardinal Reginald Pole in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoAs one of the most important political and religious figures of the mid sixteenth century, Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500–58) has been the subject of valuable historical studies. Although the English prelate was also a humanist, part of a vast intellectual and artistic network he established during his travels to Italy, Flanders, Spain and E…[Read more]
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Jaleen Grove deposited Towards Illustration Theory: Harold Rosenberg, Robert Weaver, and the ‘Action Illustrator’? in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoContemplates the exclusion of illustrators from art theory; critiques Harold Rosenberg’s position in light of his own work in the culture industries; matches illustrator Robert Weaver’s arguments with Rosenberg’s in a posthumous debate.
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