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Correction: Lončar and Pavlović (2024). “Beyond Quantum Music”—A Pioneering Art and Science Project as a Platform for Building New Instruments and Creating a New Musical Genre. Arts 13: 127 Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Sonja Lončar, Andrija Pavlović
The authors requested to add the following to the Acknowledgments section of the original publication (Lončar and Pavlović 2024): We want to thank Martin Depken (TU Delft) for his kindness in opening the door to art and science dialogues, organizing concerts and lectures, and establishing links with the scientists at the Bionanoscience department, TU Delft [...]
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A Machine Walks into an Exhibit: A Technical Analysis of Art Curation Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Thomas Şerban von Davier, Laura M. Herman, Caterina Moruzzi
Contemporary art consumption is predominantly online, driven by algorithmic recommendation systems that dictate artwork visibility. Despite not being designed for curation, these algorithms’ machinic ways of seeing play a pivotal role in shaping visual culture, influencing artistic creation, visibility, and associated social and financial benefits. The Algorithmic Pedestal was a gallery, practice-based
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Art Notions in the Age of (Mis)anthropic AI Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Dejan Grba
In this paper, I take the cultural effects of generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) as a context for examining a broader perspective of AI’s impact on contemporary art notions. After the introductory overview of generative AI, I summarize the distinct but often confused aspects of art notions and review the principal lines in which AI influences them: the strategic normalization of AI
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‘A World of Knowledge’: Rock Art, Ritual, and Indigenous Belief at Serranía De La Lindosa in the Colombian Amazon Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Jamie Hampson, José Iriarte, Francisco Javier Aceituno
There are tens of thousands of painted rock art motifs in the Serranía de la Lindosa in the Colombian Amazon, including humans, animals, therianthropes, geometrics, and flora. For most of the last 100 years, inaccessibility and political unrest has limited research activities in the region. In this paper, we discuss findings from six years of field research and consider the role of rock art as a manifestation
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‘No State, No Masters’: Café Lavandería in Tokyo, Music, and Anticapitalism in a Cultural Environment Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 María José González Dávila, Federico Fco. Pérez Garrido
This paper is part of a series of research that these authors are conducting to study the linguistic landscape of the Tokyo megacity. In this instance, our focus lies on Shinjuku city. However, our examination does not extend to the linguistic landscape of the city itself; rather, it zeroes in on a café situated at its core, the Café Lavandería. How did Café Lavandería contribute to the development
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Queer Latinx Bodies and AIDS: Joey Terrill’s “Still Here” and “Once Upon A Time” Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Alexis Salas
Through two interviews conducted two years apart, the author and artist Joey Terrill offer an intimate historical trajectory rooted in the singular voice of the artist through the discussion of artworks in the exhibitions “Joey Terrill: Still Here” and “Joey Terrill: Once Upon A Time: Paintings, 1981–2015”. The method of storytelling, interview, and art representation chronicles the artist’s emotional
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Soldiers and Prisoners in Motion in Mesopotamian Iconography during the Early Bronze Age Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Barbara Couturaud
Military images of the ancient Near East during the Early Bronze Age are characterized by one of their main features: the serial reproduction of soldiers and prisoners, side by side, the former clearly identifiable by the visual signs of power they bear and the latter by their humiliation. These images are usually and almost naturally conceived as the ideological prerogative of city-states in conflict
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“Modern and Contemporary Art: Topical Abstraction in Contemporary Sculpture” Special Issue Introduction Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Elyse Speaks, Susan Richmond
The essays gathered in this Special Issue of Arts concern artists working in the United States and Europe since the 1960s who have leveraged sculptural abstraction to address topical issues without ceding to the classical framework of figuration [...]
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Nomadic Material Culture: Eurasian Archeology beyond Textual Traditions Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Caspar Meyer
The term nomadic material culture refers to the tools, equipment, and other tangible items associated with communities that are characterized by a high degree of residential mobility [...]
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Imperial Art: Duality on Tanwetamani’s Dream Stela Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Christopher Cox
In the 7th century BCE, the Kushite king Tanwetamani commissioned his “Dream Stela”, which was to be erected in the Amun Temple of Jebel Barkal. The lunette of the stela features a dualistic artistic motif whose composition, meaning, and significance are understudied despite their potential to illuminate important aspects of royal Kushite ideology. On the lunette, there are two back-to-back offering
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Revolutionary Art and the Creation of the Future: The Afrofuturist Texts of José Antonio Aponte and Martin R. Delany Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 James J. Fisher
Afrofuturism (an artistic perspective in which Black voices tell alternative narratives of culture, technology, and the future) and the Dark Fantastic (interrupting negative depictions of Black people through emancipatory interpretations of art) are two interrelated concepts used by Black artists in the Atlantic World to counter negative images and emphasize a story from a Black perspective. Likewise
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“Beyond Quantum Music”—A Pioneering Art and Science Project as a Platform for Building New Instruments and Creating a New Musical Genre Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Sonja Lončar, Andrija Pavlović
In this text, we discuss the “Beyond Quantum Music” project, which inspired pianists, composers, researchers, and innovators Sonja Lončar and Andrija Pavlović (LP Duo) to go beyond the boundaries of classical and avant-garde practices to create a new style in composition and performance on two unique DUALITY hybrid pianos that they invented and developed to create a new stage design for multimedia
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Visualizing Scale: Inducing Transformations in Perception through Art and Science Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Joshua DiCaglio, Meredith Tromble
In order for scientists and technologists to describe many of their objects, they must observe at a scale that exceeds typical human experience. Atoms and ecologies, microbes and galaxies all exist at scales that require retroactively reconstructing a picture (whether rendered visually, through an alternative visualization, or simply pieced together as a description) of what human perceptual apparatus
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Fragments of the Liturgical-Musical Codex from the Archdiocesan Archive of Gniezno (Poland): Source Analysis and Provenance Hypotheses Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Piotr Wiśniewski
This paper discusses hitherto unidentified loose folios of a parchment liturgical and musical book held in the Archdiocesan Archive of Gniezno (Poland), containing the offertory and communion antiphons for the feasts De Trinitate and Corpus Christi. The author provides the codicological description of the leaves (analyzing Latin script, musical notation, ornamentation); identifies the time of their
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The Sublime Divinity: Erotic Affectivity in Renaissance Religious Art Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Maya Corry
In the context of the Catholic Reformation serious concerns were expressed about the affective potency of naturalistic depictions of beautiful, sensuous figures in religious art. In theological discourse similar anxieties had long been articulated about potential contiguities between elevating, licit desire for an extraordinarily beautiful divinity and base, illicit feeling. In the later fifteenth
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On Perceiving Molecular Time: Computational Chemical Simulations and the Moving Image Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Andrea Rassell
The perception of time undergoes a radical shift between the human scale and the nanoscale. In an age of rapidly evolving media and scientific technologies, we need to understand how these impact human perception and visual culture. This essay explores computational molecular simulations through the lenses of temporal media theory and moving image practice. Emerging from a creative fellowship with
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A Green Moment to Share: A Theatrical Laboratory to Explore Climate Crisis Possibilities within Single Moments Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Nic Bennett, Venese Alcantar, Tulasi Ravindran, Vanna Chen, River Terrell, Kathryn Dawson
Many youth experience distress around the climate crisis. However, mainstream environmental messages ignore youth concerns, blame individuals, and suggest techno-fixes rather than addressing root causes. Young people need a way to productively process and collectively engage with their complex feelings about the climate crisis. During the spring of 2023, a group of university students facilitated a
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Egyptian Art in Colonized Nubia: Representing Power and Social Structure in the New Kingdom Tombs of Djehutyhotep, Hekanefer and Pennut Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Rennan Lemos
Monumental rock-cut tombs decorated with wall paintings or reliefs were rare in New Kingdom colonial Nubia. Exceptions include the 18th Dynasty tombs of Djehutyhotep (Debeira) and Hekanefer (Miam), and the 20th Dynasty tomb of Pennut (Aniba). The three tombs present typical Egyptian artistic representations and inscriptions, which include tomb owners and their families, but also those living under
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Postcards and Emotions: Modernist Architecture in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar and Woody Allen Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Rubén Romero Santos, Ana Mejón, Begoña Herrero Bernal, Carmen Ciller
Modernism has emerged as the preeminent iconic representation of Barcelona. However, the process through which this peculiar style has attained its iconic status is an arduous and multifaceted endeavor. This paper examines the challenges inherent in the categorization and periodization of Modernisme, followed by a succinct review of its initial filmic representations, culminating in a comprehensive
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Mural as a Living Element of Urban Space: Seasonal Dynamics and Social Perception of “The Four Seasons with Kora” in Warsaw Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Aleksander Cywiński, Anita Karyń
Street art, with a particular emphasis on murals, plays a crucial role in shaping the cultural DNA of contemporary cities. A prime example of this is the mural “Four Seasons with Kora” in Warsaw, which is dedicated to the renowned Polish artist Kora (Olga Jackowska). This large-scale mural, which combines the artist’s portrait with a chestnut tree motif, visually changes with the season, influencing
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Reviving Ancient Egypt in the Renaissance Hieroglyph: Humanist Aspirations to Immortality Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Rebecca M. Howard
In his On the Art of Building, Renaissance humanist Leon Battista Alberti wrote that the ancient Egyptians believed that alphabetical languages would one day all be lost, but the pictorial method of writing they used could be understood easily by intellectuals everywhere and far into the future. Amidst a renewed appreciation of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics found on obelisks in Italy and the discovery
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Forever Becoming: Teaching “Transgender Studies Meets Art History” and Theorizing Trans Joy Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Alpesh Kantilal Patel
Academics often comment that their teaching affects their research, but how this manifests is often implicit. In this essay, I explicitly explore the artistic, scholarly, and curatorial research instantiated by an undergraduate class titled “Transgender Studies meets Art History,” which I taught during the fall of 2022. Alongside personal anecdotes—both personal and connected to the class—and a critical
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‘Bodhisattva Bodies’: Early Twentieth Century Indian Influences on Modern Japanese Buddhist Art Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Chao Chi Chiu
The first decade of the twentieth century marked a turning point for Japanese Buddhism. With the introduction of Western academia, Buddhist scholars began to uncover the history of Buddhism, and through their efforts, they discovered India as the birthplace of Buddhism. As India began to grow in importance for Japanese Buddhist circles, one unexpected area to receive the most influence was Japanese
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Verification and Establishment of Techniques of Ajami Artwork Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-29 Ziad Baydoun, Tenku Putri Norishah Tenku Shariman, Fauzan Mustaffa
Ajami, a technique of painted wood paneling, was popular in the Ottoman Empire from the 17th to the late 18th centuries. Ajami art became prominent in Syria after the decline of tile production, and it rose to a sophisticated level of art in both local and global markets. Today, however, Ajami art has become almost forgotten and unknown by the modern generation, due to being an exclusive art that can
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Liturgical Spaces and Devotional Spaces: Analysis of the Choirs of Three Catalan Nuns’ Monasteries during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Marta Crispí
Choirs in female monastic and convent communities are spaces whose complexity has been highlighted because of their multipurpose and multifunctional nature. Although they are within the community’s private sphere of prayer of the divine office, it has also been noted that they play a liturgical role as the space from which the nuns ‘hear’ and follow the celebrations taking place in the church and even
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How Many Lives for a Mesopotamian Statue? Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Imane Achouche
Among the indicators of the value and power ascribed to statues in Mesopotamia, reuse is a particularly significant one. By studying some of the best-documented examples of the usurpation and reassignment of a new function to sculptures in the round from the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC, our study reveals the variety of motives and methods employed. We hereafter explore the ways in which the status of
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Aspects of Coexistence between Art Glass and Architecture—Façade Graphics Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Alina Lipowicz-Budzyńska
One of the key concerns for present-day society is the need to build the environment in which we live in a sustainable way, using green solutions, but without losing the aesthetic values. The following study proves that, when applied in the right way, façade graphics support sustainability. Art glass placed inside the envelope significantly influences a number of aspects related to how a building functions
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The Creative Impulse: Innovation and Emulation in the Role of the Egyptian Artist during the New Kingdom—Unusual Details from Theban Funerary Art Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Inmaculada Vivas Sainz
The present research analyses the role of the Egyptian artist within the context of New Kingdom art, paying attention to the appearance of new details in Theban tomb chapels that reflect the originality of their creators. On the one hand, the visibility of the case studies investigated is explored, looking for a possible explanation as to their function within the tomb scenes (such as ‘visual hooks’)
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Making Space for the Better: Living by the Sacred Yamuna Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Vrushali Anil Dhage
Eviction could hold a different meaning if a home’s immediate surroundings contribute to its residents’ livelihood, especially for informal laborers. This paper explores the notion of the fragility of a home within an expanded space—the space on which a home stands and its surroundings when turned into a contested area. It specifically looks at the slum of Yamuna Pushta in Delhi, which was demolished
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Great-Grandmother, Grandmother, Mother, and Me: A Search for My Roots through Research-Based Theatre Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Mette Bøe Lyngstad
In this article I present how I use Research-based Theatre (RbT) to better comprehend my own roots, history, and multiple selves. The purpose of this research project is also for me to explore RbT before I invite my oral storytelling students to do the same. Using RbT as my central methodology, I have explored my own and others’ narratives by using an aesthetic, arts-based approach. Drama conventions
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An Unlikely Match: Modernism and Feminism in Lynda Benglis’s Contraband Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-08 Becky Bivens
In 1969, Lynda Benglis withdrew her large latex floor painting, Contraband, from the exhibition Anti-Illusion: Procedures/Materials. Looking beyond the logistical problems that caused Benglis to pull the work, I suggest that it challenged the conceptual and formal parameters of the exhibition from its inception. Taking hints from feminism, modernist painting, camp aesthetics, psychedelic imagery, pop
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Introduction for Special Issue “Rethinking Contemporary Latin American Art” Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Gabriela Germana Roquez, Lesley A. Wolff
Today’s fleeting spectacles—art fairs, biennials, and NFTs—continue to shape a global consensus about contemporary Latin American art based on practices developed in urban, white, and mestizo middle- and upper-class contexts [...]
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From Primal Matter to Surrogate Veneer: Wood and Faux Bois in Picasso’s Cubism Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Christine Poggi
In the spring and summer of 1906, while visiting the rural village of Gósol in the Spanish Pyrenees, Picasso executed his first woodcut, made two sculptures out of boxwood, and began to focus on the topoi of wood and the forest as avatars of primal matter and of that which lies beyond civilization. In a subsequent series of paintings, he used wooden supports for images that depict male and female heads
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“Lost in Flowers & Foolery”: A Gendered Reading of the 9th Earl of Devon’s Flower Watercolors Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 James Thomas Stewart
William Courtenay, 3rd Viscount Courtenay and 9th Earl of Devon (1768–1835), has been most remembered for his romantic relationship with author and slave owner, William Beckford (1760–1844), which scandalized London society in 1784. However, the 9th Earl’s life after this event has received little attention despite his artistic contributions to the built environment of his ancestral home of Powderham
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Sex, Sign, Subversion: Symbolist Art and Male Homosexuality in 19th-Century Europe Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Ty Vanover
There is something queer about Symbolism. Art historians have long acknowledged the links between Symbolist aesthetics and contemporaneous ideas about human sexuality, and even a cursory examination of artworks by male Symbolist artists working across the continent reveals an eyebrow-raising number of muscled nudes, lithe ephebes, and intimate male couplings. The sensual male body could register the
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Affect and Ethics in Mike Malloy’s Insure the Life of an Ant Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Gerald Silk
This essay examines a little-known but important installation entitled Insure the Life of an Ant, conceived by artist Mike Malloy and displayed at the O.K. Harris Gallery in New York in April of 1972. This provocative and idiosyncratic piece confronted gallery-goers, who became viewer–participants, with the option of killing or saving a live ant displayed like a sculpture on a pedestal, either by pushing
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Freeport as a Hub in the Art Market: Shanghai Art Freeport Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Fanyu Zhang
With the soaring interest in art as an alternative investment approach and an asset class, there has been a remarkable rise in the volume of artwork transactions globally. However, trading in the art market differs from the traditional financial market; the cost of taxes, logistics, storage, and other transaction services is enormous for collectors, stimulating the emergence of related businesses,
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Dialogues between Past and Present? Modern Art, Contemporary Art Practice, and Ancient Egypt in the Museum Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Alice Stevenson
Whenever twentieth-century modern art or new contemporary artworks are included amongst displays of ancient Egypt, press statements often assert that such juxtapositions are ‘surprising’, ‘innovative’, and ‘fresh’, celebrating the external perspective they bring to such collections. But contemporary art’s relationship with museums and other disciplines needs to be understood in a longer-term perspective
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Leaving the “Discomfort” Zone: The Correlation between Politics and New Artistic Practices at the Beginning of the 19th Dynasty Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Gema Menéndez
At the end of the Amarna Period, a process of political and religious restoration began. This attempt at recovery went beyond the strictly official, as the Egyptian society seemed to demand a moral reparation. It was a much-needed change that would encompass all aspects of society and it was imperative that the changes be visible. It is for this reason that visual art would be one of the main means
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Modernist Antagonisms and Material Reciprocities: Chase-Riboud’s Albino Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Elyse Speaks
This paper considers the material exchange initiated in the early sculptural practice of Barbara Chase-Riboud when she began to incorporate fiber into her bronze sculptures by looking closely at her 1972 work, The Albino. I suggest that Chase-Riboud staked a claim for sculpture as a symbolic site at which material knowledge might be transferred across time and space. The work’s negotiations open western
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Royal Tamga Signs and Their Significance for the Epigraphic Culture of the Bosporan Kingdom Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Michał Halamus
This article examines the phenomenon of the so-called royal tamga signs issued on stone stelae in the Bosporan Kingdom in the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE. Tamgas were symbols commonly used by Eurasian nomads throughout the first millennium BCE. The appearance of tamgas in the northern shores of the Black Sea in the 2nd/1st BCE, followed by their adoption into the Greek epigraphic culture of the kingdom
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Escaping from Confinement: Hell Imagery in the Shōjuraigōji Rokudō-e Scrolls Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Zhenru Zhou
This article explores the pictorial representation of the Buddhist hell in Kamakura (1185–1333) Japan, with a focus on a mid-thirteenth century rokudō-e, or Pictures of the Six Realms, preserved at Shōjuraigōji Temple. The examination revolves around how these scroll paintings convey messages of salvation by representing the symbolic architecture of the hell realm, the lowest level within the six realms
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The Affective Byzantine Book: Reflections on Aesthetics of Gospel Lectionaries Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Joseph R. Kopta
The aesthetic qualities of Byzantine Gospel Lectionaries in Middle Byzantine times, afforded by their material construction, fostered an intermedial relationship with the architectural interiors of the churches and chapels where they were used in sacred liturgies. In particular, Byzantine book makers employed discreet reflective materials—particularly albumen and gold—that engendered an aesthetic of
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Images as a Hint to the Other World: The Use of Images as Mediators in Medieval and Early Modern Societies Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Roger Ferrer-Ventosa
The Middle Ages and Early Modern periods saw the interpretation of reality through symbols, connecting the natural world to the divine using symbolic thinking and images. The idea of a correspondence between the human and universal macrocosm was prominent in various fields such as medicine, philosophy, and religion. Symbolism played a crucial role in approaching divine matters, with symbols serving
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Symbolist Androgyny: On the Origins of a Proto-Queer Vision Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Damien F. Delille
This article focuses on artistic and aesthetic practices within the idealist and symbolist movements of the late 19th century in France. It investigates how artists and art critics embraced androgynous imaginaries derived from Greco-Roman antiquity and the Platonic myth, transforming them into tools for social and sexual emancipation and giving rise to a proto-queer vision. An analysis of the art of
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In Place of a Missing Place Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Noam Segal
This essay reflects on works chosen from the Sonnenfeld Collection at the Katzen Gallery at American University in Washington, DC—it originally accompanied an exhibition at that gallery in early 2021—to comment on the observations of several generations of Israeli artists on the land and its meaning for the culture and politics of Israel’s coming into existence and evolution during the first 70 years
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The Spacetimes of the Scythian Dead: Rethinking Burial Mounds, Visibility, and Social Action in the Eurasian Iron Age and Beyond Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 James A. Johnson
The Eurasian Iron Age Scythians, in all their regional iterations, are known for their lavish burials found in various kinds of tumuli. These tumuli, of varying sizes, are located throughout the Eurasian steppe. Based, at least partially, on the amounts and types of grave goods found within these mounds, the Scythians are usually modeled as militant, patriarchal mobile pastoralists, with rigid social
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Reading Cisheteronormativity into the Art Historical Archives Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Kirstin Ringelberg
Madeleine Lemaire (1845–1928) might appear to be a typical “woman artist” of the Belle Époque, a painter of images of fashionable women, equally popular for her watercolor flowers and her skills as a salon hostess, with biographical sketches of her then and now assuming that if she had sex or romance, it was with men. However, a closer look has also revealed Lemaire to be potentially atypical. Unlike
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Correction: Bloom (2024). Jewish “Ghosts”: Judit Hersko and Susan Hiller and the Feminist Intersectional Art of Post-Holocaust Memory. Arts 13: 50 Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Lisa E. Bloom
Due to a production error during processing, a number of mistakes appear in the original publication [...]
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Scythian Jewelry Meshes and the Problem of Their Interpretation Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Oksana Lifantii
This article explores the phenomenon of a specific type of personal adornment worn by members of the Scythian elite in the North Black Sea region in the second half of the 5th century and throughout the 4th century BCE. The discussion juxtaposes the records from 19th-century and early 20th-century excavations with contextual analyses of very recent discoveries from Ukraine, which shed significant new
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The Royal Chapel of Pedro I of Castile in the Christianised Mosque of Seville Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Pablo Gumiel-Campos
Pedro I of Castile (1350–1369) founded a royal chapel in the Christianised Mosque of Seville. He intended to house there his body, that of Queen María de Padilla, and their son the Infant Alfonso (1359–1362). This mausoleum is well documented both in the king’s will and in the chronicles of López de Ayala; however, there are no material remains as it was demolished with the construction of the new
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Progressive Rock from the Union of Soviet Composers Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Mark Yoffe
This article focuses on the influence of Western progressive rock music on some innovative members of the Union of Soviet Composers, who were open to new trends and influences. These Soviet composers’ interest in progressive rock was not only intellectual, but also had serious practical implications. During the 1970s, several composers made attempts to create original works following various styles
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Testing Textual and Territorial Boundaries in Bulat Okudzhava’s Song “And We to the Doorman: ‘Open the Doors!’” Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Alexander Zholkovsky
This paper contextualizes Okudzhava’s song “And We to the Doorman” (AWD), initially marginal in the Soviet poetic mainstream. It explores its shifts in tone, irregular rhythms, colloquial language, and semi-criminal undertones. AWD’s structure, with uneven stanzas and no clear refrain, reveals underlying symmetry and recurring themes. The meter is predominantly iambic but varies. Unconventional verse
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Tchaikovsky, Onegin, and the Art of Characterization Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Francis Maes
Tchaikovsky enjoyed composing Yevgeni Onegin. He expressed his fulfillment in a famous letter to Sergey Taneyev. What could his enthusiasm convey about the content of the project? Music criticism has taken Tchaikovsky’s words as proof for the thesis that the opera is connected to autobiographical circumstances. In this mode of thinking, the quality of Tchaikovsky’s music is the result of the composer’s
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Reflection and Refraction: Multivalent Social Realism in the Work of Joaquín Sorolla Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Rachel Vorsanger
Joaquin Sorolla’s Social Realist work Sad Inheritance! provides the grounds for this cross-sectional case study into Social Realism in Spain, Spanish politics at the turn of the twentieth century, and affect theory in art. By formally analyzing this work, presenting its differing receptions in France and Spain, and discussing the identity crisis that Spain experienced at the end of the twentieth century
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Performance, Art, Institutions and Interdisciplinarity Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Rob Gawthrop
How have funding, art education, and politics affected the development of performance and interdisciplinary art? In England in particular, performance as an experimental and radical art practice developed largely from underground activities, political action and a range of art forms. Funding bodies, colleges and art institutions eventually accommodated, albeit to a limited extent, this activity. As
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Was Shostakovich’s Second Cello Concerto a Hidden Homage? Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Marina Ritzarev
Shostakovich’s direct quotation from the Odessan street song “Bagels, Buy My Bagels!” (Bubliki, kupite bubliki!) in his Second Cello Concerto Op. 126 (1966) featured an unusual style, even in relation to some of his other compositions referencing popular and Jewish music. The song is widely known as one of the icons of the Odessa underworld. Shostakovich’s use of this melody as one of the main leit-themes
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“Sirens” by Joyce and the Joys of Sirin: Lilac, Sounds, Temptations Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Andrey Astvatsaturov, Feodor Dviniatin
The article is devoted to the musical context of the works of James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov. Joyce’s Ulysses, one of the most important literary texts of the twentieth century, is filled with musical allusions and various musical techniques. The chapter “Sirens” is the most interesting in this context as it features a “musical” form and contains a large number of musical quotations. The myth of
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Through the Eyes of the Beholder: Motifs (Re)Interpreted in the 27th Dynasty Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Marissa Stevens
This paper aims to highlight examples of artistic motifs common throughout Egyptian history but augmented in novel ways during the 27th Dynasty, a time when Egypt was part of the Achaemenid empire and ruled by Persian kings. These kings represented themselves as traditional pharaohs within Egypt’s borders and utilized longstanding Egyptian artistic motifs in their monumental constructions. These motifs
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Resonating Reflections: A Critical Review of Ethnosymbolic Dynamics in Les Six’s Music Nationalism Movement Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Xuewei Chang, Marzelan Bin Salleh, Jifang Sun
Les Six and their mentors stirred a debatement of French nationalist music in the early 20th century. However, this movement faced serious criticism and mockery from various quarters and eventually fell apart amid challenges. This critical review explores the ethnosymbolic dynamics within the nationalism music movement of Les Six, and drawing upon ethnomusicological perspectives, the study examines