Meha Priyadarshini, Chinese Porcelain in Colonial Mexico: The Material Worlds of an Early Modern Trade (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 198 pages. The global life of porcelain has been the subject of important scholarship in recent decades. Chinese porcelain, the subject of Meha Priyadarshini’s new book, has been treated either as a…
Hannah Williams CLICK TO READ ARTICLE Abstract: Paris is a city renowned for its artistic communities. Yet while the art-world neighborhoods of modernist Paris are so well-known, we are far less familiar with the urban lives of the city’s earlier generations of artists. Where were the artists’ studios…
Christopher Drew Armstrong, Lily Brewer, Jennifer Donnelly, Alison Langmead, Vee McGyver, Meredith North CLICK TO ENTER ROUNDTABLE Abstract: Itinera is a digital environment for creating and exploring historical narratives that incorporates cartographic visualizations. The project was inspired by the central role that the mobility of people and objects…
World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean is on display at the Krannert Art Museum (KAM), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from August 31, 2017 to March 24, 2018. It will travel to the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, between May 9…
While I have held a life-long fascination with natural history, the particular concerns and developing visual aesthetic of eighteenth-century anatomical illustration are central to my own artistic practice. From Robert Hooke, to William Cheselden, William Hunter, and George Stubbs, the clinical presentation of isolated specimens, drawn with unequivocal outlines while…
L’étude et la représentation des musées disparus sont devenues un vrai sujet de recherche en muséologie et en histoire des musées. Il y a pour cela de bonnes raisons, puisque l’actualité muséographique a été marquée depuis plusieurs décennies par la multiplication des rénovations et des réaménagements de musées, mais…
William Blake explores crucial questions of time and historical transmission in the illustrations and text of his poem Milton, written at the turn of the nineteenth century (1804-1810). This work and a large number of Blake’s other original illuminated books, designs, engravings, and letters are now electronically available via…
Séverine Sofio, Artistes femmes. La parenthèse enchantée, XVIIIe – XIXe siècles (Paris: CNRS éditions, 2016), ISBN : 978-2-271-09191-8. Loin de négliger les obstacles, stigmatisations et autres marginalisations dont les femmes ont pu souffrir, Séverine Sofio prend le contrepied d’une historiographie qui a souvent insisté sur l’éviction des femmes du monde…
Darkened by aged varnish, with cracked paint peeling off like the bark of a plane tree, the small wooden panel stands out amongst the boldly-toned Ethiopian Orthodox paintings in Paris’ Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac (Fig. 1). Its softly shaded faces and unusually draped textiles suggest the court art…
Lately, numerous nation states have either advocated for or erected fortified borders to keep out refugees and migrants. In Europe, some states have even opted to leave the international negotiation table altogether in protest over the prospect of multilateral, cooperative solutions to border issues. As conflicts over Europe’s limits continue…