12 April 2010 | Journals
In a recent issue of Open (n. 16) devoted to “The Art Biennial as a Global Phenomenon,” Jorinde Seijdel writes … the art biennial, which was originally an instrument within a politics of nation-states, is increasingly deployed for developing and marketing cities and regions. In order to compensate for this, biennials often put political issues [...]
8 April 2010 | Architecture, Journals
The online edition of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians is going high tech: The new illustrations include zoomable color photographs [and] videos, some of which are clips from historic films or works under review, while others represent three-dimensional models in a convenient way. Music, spoken word, and ambient noise are also part [...]
29 March 2010 | Conferences, Journals, Museums
Routledge has announced a new journal World Art, edited by George Lau, Daniel Rycroft, and Veronica Sekules: In the context of the reassessment of the collecting, display and interpretation of cultures, the study of art as a global human activity challenges categories of mainstream and marginalised arts and allows new histories to emerge, highlighting different [...]
29 January 2010 | Journals, Medieval
Also in CAA Reviews, Sherry C.M. Lindquist reports on Different Visions, the “new, peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal edited by Rachel Dressler and dedicated to the “intersection of critical theory and medieval visual culture”: The journal’s inaugural issue is entitled “Triangulating Our Vision: Madeline Caviness’s Approach to Medieval Art” … Caviness is known for her meticulous, award-winning [...]
11 January 2010 | Journals
In its December 2009 issue, The Art Bulletin uses the word “hip-hop” for the first time, in an article by Krista Thompson on “The Sound of Light: Reflections on Art History in the Visual Culture of Hip-Hop,” which centers on two contemporary artists, Kehinde Wiley and Luis Gispert. Elsewhere in the issue, Guy Delmarcel reviews [...]
7 January 2010 | Journals, Theory
We welcome the launch of a new publication, the Journal of Art Historiography, whose first issue is devoted to Viennese and German art historiography. From its mission statement: There is a double danger that contemporary scholarship will forget its earlier legacy and that it will neglect the urgency and rigour with which those early debates [...]
20 February 2009 | Journals
Always on the look-out for blogging art historians, we recently discovered Daniel A. Siedell, assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, whose “work as an art historian, critic, and curator operates on the margins of cultural criticism, theology, and philosophy and is motivated by the conviction that Christian thought and practice as it is embodied [...]
18 February 2009 | Journals, Medieval
A new online-only periodical Different Visions: A Journal of New Perspectives on Medieval Art, has been launched, with Rachel Dressler of the University at Albany as editor. Virginia Blanton, Richard Emmerson, Corine Schleif, Linda Seidel, Debra Higgs Strickland, and Christine Verzar round out the editorial board. It is an open-access, peer-reviewed annual, devoted to progressive [...]
29 October 2008 | Journals
The journal Word & Image, edited by John Dixon Hunt, made the unusual decision to turn over its entire July-September 2008 issue to two authors, Deborah Schultz and Edward Timms, who present their joint research on “Pictorial Narrative in the Nazi Period: Felix Nussbaum, Charlotte Salomon and Arnold Daghani,” “the findings of a three-year research [...]
6 October 2008 | Journals
According to the Chronicle of Higher Education: A large-scale, multinational attempt in Europe to rank humanities journals has set off a revolt. In a protest letter, some journal editors have called it “a dangerous and misguided exercise” … Panels of four to six scholars, appointed by a steering committee, compiled initial lists of journals to [...]
14 May 2008 | Journals
The latest issue of Art Journal is devoted to “microblindness and blindsight”: Research has shown “microblindness” to occur when subjects encounter emotionally difficult visual material, while subjects with impaired visual processing may nevertheless be capable of “blindsight,” noting visual detail without being conscious of having seen it. Essays in this issue of Art Journal explore [...]
25 January 2008 | Journals
Citation indexes are often controversial (for one, they can never be comprehensive), but they can be of some interest nonetheless. We recently discovered the citation ranking feature of the Arts and Humanities Citation Index. We typed in a few art-history-related journals to see what their most frequently cited articles are. Here is a sampling: {FORMAT: [...]
21 November 2007 | Architecture, Journals, Theory
In the latest issue of New German Critique (99), editor Andreas Huyssen writes: Since the waning of the debate about “postmodernism” and the rise of “globalization” as master signifier of our time, the discourses of modernity and modernism have staged a remarkable comeback. Jean-Francois Lyotard’s provocative quip that any work of art has to be [...]
18 September 2007 | Journals
Didier Rykner’s four-year-old online art journal La Tribune de l’Art is best known for having led the recent fight against the Louvre’s deal with Abu Dhabi, but it is more than that, containing a variety of news, scholarship, and editorials, and it now has an English version, which features translations from the French site as [...]
13 June 2007 | Architecture, Journals
Another angle of the ongoing Robert Moses re-evaluation can be considered in the March 2007 Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. Christopher Klemek writes: “a Manichean narrative depicting an epic clash of the titans — [Jane] Jacobs the Defender versus Moses the Destroyer — has become a popular trope about the salvation of New [...]
17 May 2007 | Conferences, Journals
The most recent issue of Nka (n. 20), devoted to “Lynching, Visuality and Empire,” is drawn from papers delivered at a sympoium at Cornell University. It contains six sections: “Lynching Photographs and the United States,” “Lynching, Visuality, and Empire,” “Exhibiting Lynching,” “Roundtable Discussion,” “Contemporary Artists and Lynching: A Portfolio,” and “Further Readings.” In their introduction, [...]
11 May 2007 | Journals, Theory
“C’est un fait que l’histoire de la peinture en Occident s’est largement construite en rapport avec la littérature.” This statement appears on the back of the most recent issue of Europe (n.933-934), which is devoted to “Littérature & peinture.” Edited by Daniel Bergez, it includes contributions from Yves Bonnefoy, Gao Xingjian, and many others. In [...]
4 May 2007 | Journals
Is garden history a branch of art history? According to David Cooper, author of the recent book A Philosophy of Gardens, it is not. Stephanie Ross notes in her review of Cooper’s book in the Jan. 2007 British Journal of Aesthetics that Cooper “maintains that gardens are not properly appreciated on the model of art [...]
3 May 2007 | Journals, Photography
The most recent issue of Arena Journal (no. 27), “a place for theoretically and ethically concerned discussion about the prospects for co-operation within contemporary life,” several authors examine the importance of visual images in contemporary politics. Karen Crinall contributes “Destitute Discourses: The Art of Orchestrating Fear and Fantasy in Photographs of Homeless People,” in which [...]
The January 2007 issue of French Studies is devoted to “The Nineteenth-Century Art Novel.” In his introduction, guest editor Paul Smith writes that such novels often treated “the social and economic position of the artist, and the nature and gendering of creativity. The topoi of the genius and the raté also recur throughout. Several texts [...]
