For those interested in the history and theory of art
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 month, 1 week agoTHE 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 2 months, 1 week agoArt 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 2 months, 1 week agoLa 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 3 months, 1 week agoThis 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 3 months, 1 week agoRepresentations 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 3 months, 2 weeks agoThis 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.
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited The Missing ‘Brazilianness’ of Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Art and Architecture in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week agoThis 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]
Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 6 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 months, 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]-
Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 5 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 months, 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] -
Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 4 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 months, 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] 
Maximilian Kaiser deposited Künstlerbiographien und historische Netzwerkforschung: Anwendungsbeispiele aus dem Bereich der digitalen Kunstgeschichte in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agobook chapter about artists’ biographies and networks
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 5 months, 4 weeks 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]
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Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 1 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 6 months 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 6 months 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.
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Ben Newbound deposited A ring from Pylos in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 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 9 months, 3 weeks 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 10 months, 2 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 10 months, 2 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 12 months 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 1 year 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.
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