For those interested in the history and theory of art
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Jean Marie Carey deposited Exhibition and Catalogue: Eden and Everything After in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Announcement for the opening of the exhibition “Eden and Everything After” at the University of Stavanger Archaelogical Museum and publication of attendant catalogue.
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Alvin Alagao deposited Finding Queer Optimism in the Art of Oscar Zalameda in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
Queer theorists have traditionally advocated for the adoption of an outlook of queer pessimism in order to develop a criticality that helps the queer community effectively address the issues it presently faces. Some queer theorists, however, have instead advocated for an outlook of queer optimism—an outlook which allows space for celebrating joy a…[Read more]
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María-Teresa García Ballesteros deposited Arqueología en sepia: Fotografía española, década 1850 en la CFRivero – 1 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Calotypes, salted papers, albumen printing… these are the terms that take us back to the beginnings of photography, to the 1850s, when the passionate pioneers of this art hit the road eager to capture the world with their camera. The images created by some of these unique non-professional photographers who visited Spain are also kept at the C…[Read more]
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María-Teresa García Ballesteros deposited El ferrocarril de Gerona a Port-Bou: su construcción en cianotipos, 1876-1878 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
En este artículo veremos un álbum con fotografías en cianotipia que reflejan la construcción de la línea férrea que, desde Girona, llegó a la frontera con Francia en Port-Bou en 1878. / In this article we will see an album with cyanotype photographs that reflect the construction of the railway line that, from Girona, reached the border with France…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited Podcast interview on my book Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline, with Thomas Hill for The Library Cafe at Vasser College in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 4 months ago
“In Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline, Dora Apel goes on the offensive against the myriad myths and delusions peddled about the Motor City; not only that, she rebuffs the blame and shame that have traditionally been directed at the Detroit citizenry, and redirects our attention to the corporations and bureaucrats who…[Read more]
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Alvin Alagao deposited Country, God, and the Sublime: Imaginative Reflections on the Life and Works of the Philippine Painter Ricarte Puruganan in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 months ago
This study focuses on the Philippine artist Ricarte Puruganan’s reckoning with the ideas of “country,” “God,” and “the sublime.” It does so through a hermeneutic reading of the artist’s works as a cultural text. In order to fill the gaps in the historiographic record and to enrich the material on the artist that was already available, the…[Read more]
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Sam Rose deposited Interpreting Art in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
How do people make sense of works of art? And how do they write to make others see the same way? There are many guides to looking at art, histories of art history and art criticism, and accounts of various ‘theories’ and ‘methods’, but this book offers something very unlike the normal search for difference and division: it examines the general…[Read more]
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Nikos Pegioudis deposited The Redundant Avant-Garde: Walter Benjamin and the Intelligentsia in the Age of Its Disappearance in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 6 months, 4 weeks ago
Walter Benjamin had much to say about the intelligentsia, from vicious reviews such as “Left-Wing Melancholy” to the more programmatic essays “Author as Producer” and the Artwork essay. But while the specific allegiances, the “strategies” in the literary battle have been plotted with great precision, a larger debate in which these texts repre…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited The Auschwitz Memorial Museum and the Case of the Gypsy Portraits in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week ago
A unique dispute over ownership rights to artwork in the case of the Auschwitz Memorial Museum vs. former camp prisoner Dinah Gottliebova Babbitt illuminates underlying moral questions about the Holocaust and post-Holocaust culture.
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Dora Apel deposited War Culture and the Contest of Images (Introduction) in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week ago
War Culture and the Contest of Images analyzes the relationships among contemporary war, documentary practices, and democratic ideals. Dora Apel examines a wide variety of images and cultural representations of war in the United States and the Middle East, including photography, performance art, video games, reenactment, and social media images.…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited Dislodged from History, Confronted by Walls: Picturing Migration as a Global Emergency in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week ago
This essay examines select visual representations of refugees and migrants as embodied subjects in photography, art, and video. It focuses on American asylum politics and explores the questions of free movement, the right to have rights, and the ethics and efficacy of border walls. I argue that the catastrophe of global forced displacement makes…[Read more]
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Özkan Karaca deposited Tarihin İz Dokunduğu ve Ses Verdiği Güzergah İpek Yolu in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 8 months, 1 week ago
Tarih boyunca kentler, kültür ve medeniyetlerin doğduğu, geliştiği ve yayıldığı yerler olmuştur. Kentler, tarihsel süreçte insanların çeşitli gereksinimlerinin ürünü olarak sürekli bir gelişme göstermiştir. Bu gelişme sürecinde hem insanlığın birikiminin gelecek kuşaklara taşıyıcısı, hem de taşıdığı uygarlık birikimi ile insanoğlunun geleceğini şe…[Read more]
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Anna-Marie Kroupova started the topic CFP: Belvedere Research Journal, First Issue in the discussion
Art History on Humanities Commons 8 months, 1 week ago
We are inviting the first round of submissions to the newly founded Belvedere Research Journal (BRJ), a peer-reviewed, open access e-journal. We seek articles that shed new light on the visual culture of the former Habsburg Empire and Central Europe broadly defined from the medieval period to the present day. We especially welcome contributions…[Read more]
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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 8 months, 3 weeks 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]
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Jean Marie Carey deposited Invitation for Catalogue Contribution: Eden and Everything After in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 12 months 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]
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María-Teresa García Ballesteros deposited Las fotografías Familiares en la Colección Fernández Rivero in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months 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]
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Dora Apel deposited Beautiful Terrible Ruins, Introduction in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months 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]
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Dora Apel deposited Podcast interview on my book Calling Memory into Place in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
Interview with Thomas Hill on The Library Cafe out of Vassar
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Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 8.1, part 2 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 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]
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Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 8.1, part 1 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 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]
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