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Blackness, Immobility, & Visibility in Europe: A Digital Collaboration – by Zirwat Chowdhury

Hannah Williams
25th September 2020
Blackness, Immobility, & Visibility in Europe: A Digital Collaboration – by Zirwat Chowdhury

This essay discusses the interactive timeline exploring Blackness, Immobility, & Visibility in Europe (1600-1800) launched on Journal18 in September 2020. With most of his figure cut out of the painting sometime after its completion, only the outstretched right arm of an unnamed black attendant remains on the lower left of…

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The Splendor of Germany: A Review – by Shearer West

Assistant
24th August 2020
The Splendor of Germany: A Review – by Shearer West

William Breazeale and Anke Fröhlich-Schauseil, The Splendor of Germany: Eighteenth-Century Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum (London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2020) Only those fortunate enough to live in or visit Sacramento, California, will have had the pleasure of browsing the collection of the Crocker Art Museum—a cultural hub of the…

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Hagia Sophia and Mosque Politics – by Nebahat Avcıoğlu

Assistant
10th August 2020
Hagia Sophia and Mosque Politics – by Nebahat Avcıoğlu

The recent news about Hagia Sophia’s reconversion from a museum to a mosque has generated a flood of commentaries and discontent. This is not the first time that Istanbul’s architectural treasure has been treated as a vector of contemporary ideology (Fig. 1). Yet both the national and international media ignore…

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Monuments and Crimes – by Dell Upton

Assistant
25th June 2020
Monuments and Crimes – by Dell Upton

Confronted with mass Black Lives Matter protests locally and internationally, Virginia governor Ralph Northam announced in early June 2020 that the state would remove the statue of Robert E. Lee on Richmond’s Monument Avenue, a late nineteenth-century real-estate scheme built around a series of memorials to Confederate heroes (Fig. 1).…

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The Time of Captain Cook: A Conversation – by Julia Lum and Kailani Polzak

Assistant
20th April 2020
The Time of Captain Cook: A Conversation – by Julia Lum and Kailani Polzak

The year 2018 marked the 250th anniversary of the departure of the ship Endeavour from British shores, on course to circumnavigate the globe. In 1768, the Tahiti-bound vessel carried Captain James Cook and his crew of naturalists, cartographers, astronomers, and—unprecedented for this time—professional artists. These milestones were marked by three…

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Panipat: A Bollywood film review – by Tanuja Kothiyal

Assistant
20th February 2020
Panipat: A Bollywood film review – by Tanuja Kothiyal

In one of the opening sequences of Ashutosh Gowarikar’s Panipat (2019), a group of eighteenth-century Maratha sardars or chieftains assemble in the famed Shaniwarwada, the audience hall of the Peshwa or Maratha leader in Pune, to celebrate a recent victory. They break out in a song sequence with the words…

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The Lost Library of the King of Portugal: A Review – by Kirsten Schultz

Assistant
8th February 2020
The Lost Library of the King of Portugal: A Review – by Kirsten Schultz

Angela Delaforce, The Lost Library of the King of Portugal (London: Ad Ilissvm/Paul Holberton Publishing, 2019), ISBN: 978191268156 In The Lost Library of the King of Portugal Angela Delaforce invokes in vivid detail the material dimensions of early modern libraries. Libraries, she reminds us, are both collections of books and…

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Madame Récamier as Tableau Vivant: Marble and the Classical Ideal in Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Apesh*t – by Alicia Caticha

Assistant
27th January 2020
Madame Récamier as Tableau Vivant: Marble and the Classical Ideal in Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Apesh*t – by Alicia Caticha

In the 2018 music video Apesh*t (Fig. 1), Beyoncé Knowles Carter and her husband Jay-Z move us through the tourist thoroughfares of the Louvre, all while rapping about their meteoric rise to fame.[1] The chorus, “I can’t believe we made it/This is what we’re thankful for,” is coupled with verses…

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The Antoinette Effect: An Interview with Simon Fujiwara – by Sasha Rossman

Assistant
11th December 2019
The Antoinette Effect: An Interview with Simon Fujiwara – by Sasha Rossman

On October 16, 2019—two hundred and thirty years to the day she was guillotined—a new exhibition devoted to Marie-Antoinette opened at the Conciergerie in Paris. “Marie-Antoinette: Metamorphoses of an Image” presented a panoply of pictures of the doomed queen, from nostalgic celebrations to pornographic tirades, from a plumed Miss Piggy…

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Art and Race: A Review – by Stephanie O’Rourke

Assistant
14th November 2019
Art and Race: A Review – by Stephanie O’Rourke

Anne Lafont, L’art et la race : L’Africain (tout) contre l’œil des Lumières, Dijon, Les presses du réel, 2019, ISBN: 9782378960162 Jean-Baptiste-André Dautier d’Agoty’s Portrait de Madame du Barry avec Zamore (1771) seems to engage with a reasonably familiar conceit in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European courtly portraiture (Fig. 1). An elegant,…

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NOTES & QUERIES

  • Artist’s Notes: Nm’ultes is an Active Dialogue I: Reclaiming Komqwejwi’kasikl – by Michelle Sylliboy
  • Crafting Enlightenment: A Review—by Katie Scott
  • Maurice-Quentin de La Tour: A Review — by Margot Bernstein
  • Les Animaux du Roi: A Review – by Katie Hornstein
  • In Sparkling Company: A Review – by Romita Ray
  • Peintres Femmes: A Review — by Paris A. Spies-Gans
  • Organic Supplements: A Review – by Giulia Pacini
  • Joseph Wright of Derby: A Review – by Craig Hanson
  • Left Bank/Right Bank: Two Views of the “Indies” in Paris – by Meredith Martin
  • The Life and Work of Rosalba Carriera: A Review – by Melissa Percival
  • The Little Conquest of the Red Fort – by Abhishek Kaicker
  • Kinaesthetic Knowing: A Review – by Priyanka Basu
  • History, Painting, and the Seriousness of Pleasure in the Age of Louis XV: A Review – by Dorothy Johnson
  • To Display Tapestries on Corpus Christi or Not: Finding a Compromise – by Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide
  • The Hunter and the Hunted: The Crown’s “The Balmoral Test” (S4.E2) – by Kimberly Rhodes
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