Knowledge Commons | Marly Joseph Desir | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/desir72/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Marly Joseph Desir is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 958103c8fcb760614062be84e3f05940 Morée Research Project started the topic New York Dada Research — NEW in the forum Art History https://hcommons.org/groups/art-history/forum/topic/new-york-dada-research-new-2/ Sat, 29 Nov 2025 01:30:10 -0500 Thanks to everyone who downloaded my recent book. I’m gathering brief impressions for a future revision — any thoughts welcome.
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]]> b7750bf65541e1caa4c0e960e7ccd3e7 Dora Apel created the doc Chapter on "Art" for The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1913514/ Sun, 09 Mar 2025 16:34:10 -0400 8d05f2d5d0c76bda4548d3157ef701ef Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum Art History https://hcommons.org/groups/art-history/forum/topic/cfp-2026-mla-convention-4/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:31:03 -0500 Dear All,

 

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

 

Best wishes,

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu

]]> cf33b99ebf7f94989bdcddc153710a36 Marianna Charitonidou deposited Towards Non-Eurocentric Historiographies: Challenging Europe’s Position in the Formation of Architectural Histories in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901092/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 03:01:26 -0400 The point of departure for this paper is the idea that Europe as a concept is related to the project of thinking and accomplishing universality. It represents the potential for an enlightened resistance in a world that is progressively becoming dominated by the mono-perspectivism of globalism. In this sense, Eurocentrism is specifiable only within…[Read more]

]]> 0 0ec981b677f9aeca5313961701e659e8 Marianna Charitonidou deposited Marianna Charitonidou, “Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti’s Conception of Urbanism and Urban Public Space”, in Rosa Tamborrino, ed., Città che si adattano?/Adaptive Cities? Volume 1 (Turin: AISU International, 2024), 508-521. in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900346/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 03:00:39 -0400 This paper sheds light on the complex relationship between the Cold War policies including the European Recovery Program (ERP), and urban public space. Its main objective is to provide a precise and deep understanding of how the Marshall plan politics, contributed to the formation of national identity in Greece and Italy. The paper focuses on two…[Read more]

]]> 0 d0bfbf3fe582e9144881d48b4c397a62 Manfred Engel deposited Making - or Not Making - Sense of Dreams / Trouver - ou non - un sens au rêve. Ed. by Bernard Dieterle, Manfred Engel and Laura Vordermayer. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2024 (Cultural Dream Studies; 9) — Contents and Preface in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898534/ Thu, 12 Sep 2024 03:01:17 -0400 Dreams frighten and attract us because of their ›otherness‹, their manifold deviations from the world we know when we are awake. One of the most consistently used techniques of coming to terms with this otherness has been the attempt to ›make sense‹ of dreams, to consider and portray them as messages which can and have to be deciphered. On the oth…[Read more]

]]> 0 fb3a7e4699aa2517f6d482b4a1cc3dd5 Lloyd Graham deposited Rainbow serpents, dragons and dragon-slayers: Global traits, ancient Egyptian particulars, and alchemical echoes in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895888/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:46 -0400 Robert Blust has recently established that – globally – dragons evolved from rainbow serpents, which in turn represent a prehistoric understanding of rainbows. The present paper explores the “dragon-scape” of ancient Egypt in search of traits that may have survived from these earlier stages. The cryptic pD.tyw Sw and Iaau of Coffin Text 698 mig…[Read more]

]]> 0 12583d0af11ed0b00567c95db05520cf Marianna Charitonidou deposited Takis Zenetos and High-Tech Architecture: Electronic Urbanism vis-à-vis Autonomous Ecological Living Units in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895814/ Fri, 09 Aug 2024 03:00:14 -0400 At the core of Takis Zenetos’s understanding of high-tech architecture and urbanism were the ways in which technology can have a positive impact on how citizens inhabit space. This paper analyses Zenetos’s project entitled ‘Electronic Urbanism’, which concerned the design of housing units adapted to the conditions of working from home. Zenetos…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b60fb77ae106385acd255f9a881a5a2 Anna-Marie Kroupová replied to the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the forum Art History https://hcommons.org/groups/art-history/forum/topic/cfp-iron-curtains-or-artistic-gates-5/#post-88123 Fri, 26 Jul 2024 10:58:08 -0400 Workshop: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

19–20 September 2024

 

Upper Belvedere

Prinz-Eugen-Straße 27, 1030 Vienna, Austria

 

Organizers: Anna-Marie Kroupová & Noémie Étienne (University of Vienna)

 

This workshop challenges traditional East-West Cold War narra…[Read more]

]]> 600afd469e3d3d97e84e00529eeaa09c Anna-Marie Kroupová started the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the discussion Art History https://hcommons.org/groups/art-history/forum/topic/cfp-iron-curtains-or-artistic-gates-5/ Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:43:08 -0500 CFP: Workshop: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

Location: Vienna, Austria

Date: 19-20 Spetember 2024

Submission deadline: 31 March 2024

 

Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

How did…[Read more]

]]> 98f6fdbbb6a1247f87aaddb17d2deb86 Wannasarn Noonsuk deposited Performing Prowess: Essays on Localized Hindu Elements in Southeast Asian Art in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870982/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 03:00:40 -0500 This is the new and final version of the book, Performing Prowess: Essays on Localized Hindu Elements in Southeast Asian Art from Past to Present. It explores Hindu elements which have been localized in Southeast Asian art and culture from the ancient to contemporary periods.

]]> 0 d3f665babde7e4e51deef8dcd94dd69e Lécio Leal deposited Preceitos para uma Arte Edificante: pintura e gravura na corte josefina através da obra de António Joaquim Padrão (c. 1730-1771) in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870974/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 03:00:07 -0500 This research it isn't confined to António Joaquim Padrão (c. 1730-71) – marginal personality in the portuguese capital artistic scene, yet with a independent workshop operating in the city during the third quarter of the eighteenth century, working has a painter and engraver – historical-biographical reconstruction, nor to his artistic corpu…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c803723f0ea2b1612ae29c250fd801c Lloyd Graham deposited Eyes wide open: A recurring ocular motif in and beyond Syracuse, Sicily in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868208/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 03:00:03 -0500 Sicily – and especially Syracuse – seems to have had an ongoing preoccupation with paired eyes as an apotropaic or magico-religious symbol. This brief paper explores some signature pieces and speculates that the excised eyes of Santa Lucia, patron saint of Syracuse, may be but a recent embodiment of a propensity that dates back to the Neolithic era.

]]> 0 107d3c46e7827c9420a49ef77d07922d Marianna Charitonidou deposited Drawing and Experiencing Architecture: The Evolving Significance of City's Inhabitants in the 20th Century in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864681/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:06:43 -0500 How were the concepts of the observer and user in architecture and urban planning transformed throughout the 20th and 21st centuries? Marianna Charitonidou explores how the mutations of the means of representation in architecture and urban planning relate to the significance of city's inhabitants. She investigates Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van…[Read more]

]]> 0 a586dd17d470f461a03728ed0bf344a2 Marianna Charitonidou deposited Frank Gehry’s non-trivial drawings as gestures: drawdlings and a kinaesthetic approach to architecture in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864256/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 03:16:37 -0500 Departing from the intention to explore Frank Gehry’s drawings serving to their own designer to grasp ideas during the process of their genesis, the article examines Frank Gehry’s concern about the revelation of the first gestural drawings and all the sketches and working models concerning the evolution of his projects, and his intention to cap…[Read more]

]]> 0 6f1ec04ab4cd6301f9e22409777a76ea Marianna Charitonidou deposited Le voyage en Grèce des pensionnaires de la Villa Médicis au xixe siècle : la perception des monuments antiques entre architecture et archéologie in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864056/ Fri, 10 Nov 2023 03:01:34 -0500 The article analyses the collaborations between the residents of Villa Medici in Rome and the members of the French School of Athens. Its aim is to render explicit how the revelations of archaeology, actively disseminated by members of the French School of Athens, the “Athéniens”, had an important impact on the approach of certain pens…[Read more]

]]> 0 7259d90ec6f7dd2ce98cf36aeeef74b1 Dora Apel deposited Memory and the Arts: Justice, Environment and Ruin - Dora Apel in Conversation with Martin Pogacar in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861243/ Tue, 10 Oct 2023 03:00:20 -0400 This conversation revolves around Dora Apel’s work in the field of art and memory. Memory, in its mediating force, is critical for our understanding of the present and the construction of a future, or, rather, as Dora Apel posits it in her recent book Calling Memory Into Place: “Memory effects are not about the past. How do they shape the pre…[Read more]

]]> 0 98affaa859294941b5c64a434a301246 Lloyd Graham deposited From Bethel to Pentecost: The Tower of the Tarot deck as the Tower of Babel in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859632/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:04:19 -0400 Images of the Tower of Babel (Gen 11:1-9) in illustrated Christian manuscripts are suggestively similar to representations on the Tower card in many versions of the Tarot deck; both genres show the Tower being destroyed from above, with oversized persons falling head-first from it. In terms of connections between heaven and earth, the antithetical…[Read more]

]]> 0 945aad0772b4a30e6d0c61d5a4bae204 Marianna Charitonidou deposited COURSE SYLLABUS BY MARIANNA CHARITONIDOU_CRITICAL URBAN CONTEXTS AND THE VIEW FROM THE CAR_2023-2024 in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1857783/ Fri, 08 Sep 2023 01:06:36 -0400 This course focuses on the impact of the view from the car in the invention of new representational strategies in architectural and urban design. The automobile has reshaped our conceptions of space and our modes of accessing and penetrating the urban and non-urban territory in multiple ways, revolutionizing how architects perceive the city and…[Read more]

]]> 0 949c685b88bad677cd56523928626a1f Wannasarn Noonsuk deposited Performing Prowess: Essays on Localized Hindu Elements in Southeast Asian Art from Past to Present in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856283/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:11:22 -0400 This book explores localized Hindu elements in Southeast Asian art from ancient times to present

]]> 0 b200fda124aeae9e00634d18695b5708 Danijela Tešić Radovanović deposited Some Aspects of Decorations on Early Christian Lamps from the Central Balkans, in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855373/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:09:48 -0400 This paper aims to examine models by which symbolism of light and lamp in
the Mediterranean region was manifested in the early Christian visual culture,
i.e. lamp representations from Central Balkans. Lamps with Early
Christian representations are considered in the context of transculturality
of Late Antiquity, as well as political and…[Read more]

]]> 0 39d2d26b5e076eb00ece81705f5c43cc Danijela Tešić Radovanović deposited Fish symbol and maritime motifs on late antique lamps from Central Balkans in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855368/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:09:01 -0400 Elements of Christian visual culture appeared in
various media in monumental and applied art during the late
antique period, from painted decoration in the catacombs,
through funerary monuments, to utilitarian objects such as
jewellery and lamps. The paper analyses the symbolic meaning
of fish and maritime motifs in the context of the late…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef5703b3500fadd477551f5b7fdee34f Danijela Tešić Radovanović deposited Visual Representations of Saint Menas and Saint Thecla: Objects and Sources in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855363/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:08:33 -0400 On a number of pilgrimage objects from Late Antiquity, St Thecla, a highly revered saint, also known as Thecla the Protomartyr, is shown accompanied by St Menas, whose tomb in Egypt was the pilgrimage centre associated with healing miracles. The saintly couple appear in ad bestias compositions or in a simplified variant as two saints with a cross.…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ebede7df8c54d30b6371ccde3b773ef Edmundo Murray deposited Art Discovery and Censorship in the Centre William Rappard of Geneva - Building the Future in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850554/ Thu, 29 Jun 2023 02:24:48 -0400 This is a history of the Centre William Rappard, the first building designed to house an international organization in Geneva, and its art treasures. For nearly a century, these works of art and decorations offered by governments and institutions encouraged smooth diplomacy and fluent international negotiations in the fields of labour, trade and…[Read more]

]]> 0 92d1aa6b57f963e2f285ca876e785cbf María-Teresa García Ballesteros deposited Joaquina Mayol Bazo, fotógrafa con nombre propio in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1844119/ Tue, 09 May 2023 02:23:40 -0400 The name of Joaquina Mayol Bazo (Málaga, 1830 – 1915) is linked to her former husband, the photographer Eugenio Lorichon, son of the legendary pioneer of photography in Spain: Enrique Lorichon. Joaquina worked as an independent photographer in Malaga from 1860 to 1865, above all, under the name of Viuda de Lorichon. / El nombre de Joaquina Ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 29628f0dd80ab51c0b4d3c23bd0c4639 Edmundo Murray deposited Art Discovery and Censorship in the Centre William Rappard of Geneva: Building the Future in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843007/ Sun, 30 Apr 2023 02:24:04 -0400 This is a history of the Centre William Rappard, the first building designed to house an international organization in Geneva, and its art treasures. For nearly a century, these works of art and decorations offered by governments and institutions encouraged smooth diplomacy and fluent international negotiations in the fields of labour, trade and…[Read more]

]]> 0 eeeebcfdb6cd35f5c645450fe61ab20c María-Teresa García Ballesteros deposited A. Alonso Martínez y Hermano: un ministro como socio in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834250/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:24:22 -0500 In the Madrid photographic panorama between 1857 and 1868, the presence of Ángel Alonso Martínez is a permanent note, which does not correspond to the scant knowledge we have of his professional career. We intend to shed some more light on this signature: «A. Alonso Martínez and Brother». / En el panorama fotográfico madrileño entre 1857 y 1868,…[Read more]

]]> 0 a94471ae22c923f09ebd11ee5c12b217 María-Teresa García Ballesteros deposited Arqueología en sepia: Fotografía española, década 1850 en la CFRivero – 2 in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833837/ Sat, 11 Feb 2023 02:25:08 -0500 Discover unique photographs by pioneer photographers in Spain: Clifford, Masson, Lorichon, Blanco, Clonwek, Napoleón, Franck y Sanz y Benito, Conde de Lipa, Massari and more… The primitives in the Fernández Rivero Collection of Old Photograph.

]]> 0 f7d7881f9abb86a647bab25b628c37b4 Jean Marie Carey deposited Exhibition and Catalogue: Eden and Everything After in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1830082/ Tue, 17 Jan 2023 02:35:54 -0500 Announcement for the opening of the exhibition "Eden and Everything After" at the University of Stavanger Archaelogical Museum and publication of attendant catalogue.

]]> 0 9cd0a63c2cdf68e75132a6f756525e6d Alvin Alagao deposited Finding Queer Optimism in the Art of Oscar Zalameda in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827918/ Sat, 31 Dec 2022 02:24:16 -0500 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]

]]> 0 5bc0a61a495998c369200583fd65c0c1 María-Teresa García Ballesteros deposited Arqueología en sepia: Fotografía española, década 1850 en la CFRivero – 1 in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827163/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 02:25:21 -0500 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]

]]> 0 f04a1be3653f9b57bb2d7ebbdd4a02b9 María-Teresa García Ballesteros deposited El ferrocarril de Gerona a Port-Bou: su construcción en cianotipos, 1876-1878 in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1824358/ Wed, 30 Nov 2022 02:24:36 -0500 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]

]]> 0 a56aa8f0ae3946cb9788580a9870536e 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816816/ Fri, 07 Oct 2022 02:24:35 -0400 "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]

]]> 0 2c4417b5d34135b710f07fbe5fc120d6 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792280/ Thu, 01 Sep 2022 02:23:38 -0400 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]

]]> 0 e8b352b660e7961f2ea80396c290a707 Sam Rose deposited Interpreting Art in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791041/ Sat, 20 Aug 2022 02:25:06 -0400 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]

]]> 0 1c535cc808c96039bed88777a6f5e888 Nikos Pegioudis deposited The Redundant Avant-Garde: Walter Benjamin and the Intelligentsia in the Age of Its Disappearance in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1786409/ Mon, 11 Jul 2022 02:23:38 -0400 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]

]]> 0 03a62784ab9bc4e682469b8fa049e7f3 Dora Apel deposited The Auschwitz Memorial Museum and the Case of the Gypsy Portraits in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1785060/ Mon, 27 Jun 2022 02:24:03 -0400 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.

]]> 0 4a461e5acf8eb01e52e35ac535b3b8e2 Dora Apel deposited War Culture and the Contest of Images (Introduction) in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1785017/ Sun, 26 Jun 2022 02:24:32 -0400 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]

]]> 0 90aee1a17c4834ccd30875d669db6b97 Dora Apel deposited Dislodged from History, Confronted by Walls: Picturing Migration as a Global Emergency in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1785013/ Sun, 26 Jun 2022 02:24:03 -0400 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]

]]> 0 b0e7a336299411ad0d3948efc8d3ecfd Özkan Karaca deposited Tarihin İz Dokunduğu ve Ses Verdiği Güzergah İpek Yolu in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782999/ Wed, 01 Jun 2022 02:23:39 -0400 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]

]]> 0 98b6b4745027fd74d7d2f9073504c2f5 Anna-Marie Kroupova started the topic CFP: Belvedere Research Journal, First Issue in the discussion Art History https://hcommons.org/groups/art-history/forum/topic/cfp-belvedere-research-journal-first-issue/ Fri, 27 May 2022 09:53:28 -0400 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]

]]> f6e0139a319285ed257eadd3737b62bc 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1781879/ Wed, 18 May 2022 02:23:47 -0400 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]

]]> 0 b4106726d5b6fe5306ac934e65391e46 Jean Marie Carey deposited Invitation for Catalogue Contribution: Eden and Everything After in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1771060/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:24:19 -0500 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]

]]> 0 5f13334ca9718d6c569d66ac291f51e8 María-Teresa García Ballesteros deposited Las fotografías Familiares en la Colección Fernández Rivero in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760518/ Sat, 04 Dec 2021 02:24:21 -0500 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]

]]> 0 9a99d19301d0b9c5eac7abdb9fdfec9c Dora Apel deposited Beautiful Terrible Ruins, Introduction in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758414/ Sat, 13 Nov 2021 02:24:26 -0500 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]

]]> 0 81ae950c78111dbb24330c900482103a Dora Apel deposited Podcast interview on my book Calling Memory into Place in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758411/ Sat, 13 Nov 2021 02:24:08 -0500 Interview with Thomas Hill on The Library Cafe out of Vassar

]]> 0 81177ca1ef929f6a011ad8e215f649e1 Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 8.1, part 2 in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1752522/ Wed, 22 Sep 2021 02:24:53 -0400 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]

]]> 0 2dc2df459899cb871c8eb3797f4b9004 Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 8.1, part 1 in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1752517/ Wed, 22 Sep 2021 02:24:20 -0400 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]

]]> 0 0d5fa46f6657e21fedc0532f73e2656e María-Teresa García Ballesteros deposited Un retrato desconocido de Doña Trinidad Grund in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748332/ Wed, 04 Aug 2021 02:24:20 -0400 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]

]]> 0 333c0a975a3c9ae574ea7048febf582b Anne Swartz deposited With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985 in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743225/ Wed, 23 Jun 2021 02:30:16 -0400 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.

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