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Redemption for the Museum of the Bible? Artifacts, provenance, the display of Dead Sea Scrolls, and bias in the contact zone Museum Management and Curatorship Pub Date : 2021-04-16 Morag M. Kersel
ABSTRACT How is it possible in this moment of museum decolonization, critical examination of museum ethics and practice, calls for repatriations and reparations, and restorative justice, that a brand new museum is embroiled in controversy over the acquisition, study, and display of archaeological artifacts? Museum aversion to addressing complex issues of provenance, documentation, fakes, and archaeological
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Museums as supportive workplaces: an empirical enquiry in the UK museum workforce Museum Management and Curatorship Pub Date : 2021-04-16 Mina Dragouni, Dermot McCarthy
ABSTRACT Museums’ vibrancy and viability are heavily dependent on supporting the development and well-being of talented and dedicated people. Although issues of organisational culture and good management have gained increasing importance for the sector, there is little empirical research on how leadership and day-to-day work conditions in museums shape workers’ job satisfaction and organisational commitment
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Teacher’s impact on museum education and design of new-generation school and museum collaboration in Turkey Museum Management and Curatorship Pub Date : 2021-04-16 Aye Okvuran, Ceren Karadeniz
ABSTRACT Turkey incorporates museum education in its culture and education strategies in accordance with new approaches to museology. Under the “museum education” cooperation protocol signed between the Ministry of National Education and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the “Museum Education Certification Programme” was launched by the Directorate-General for Teacher Training and Improvement with
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Interweaving multiple contexts for objects in museum exhibitions: a contextual approach Museum Management and Curatorship Pub Date : 2021-04-16 Ruohan Mao, Yi Fu
ABSTRACT This study explores how to recontextualise objects in exhibitions to provide a bridge between the objects and visitors in museums by revealing two important strategies, which include establishing specific (sub)themes and frameworks as well as organising objects in groups. First, exhibit themes (reflecting exhibit frameworks), gateway objects, and exhibit atmospheres can be strategically combined
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How transformational leadership influences museums’ performance: a contextual ambidexterity view Museum Management and Curatorship Pub Date : 2021-04-16 Francisco Guilherme Nunes, Alexandra Fernandes, Luís Dias Martins, Generosa do Nascimento
ABSTRACT Although researchers and managers recognize the tension that characterizes the dynamics of museums and show a major concern with museums’ performance, the lack of studies examining organizational antecedents of performance is potentially limiting the understanding of the process by which top managers promote this key outcome. Drawing on the literature on ambidexterity and transformational
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Food heritage as a resource for museum cooperation: lessons from a project at the Estonian National Museum Museum Management and Curatorship Pub Date : 2021-04-16 Anu Kannike, Ester Bardone, Pille Runnel, Karin Leivategija
ABSTRACT The article examines museum partnership and cooperation drawing on experiences of a food heritage research and development project at the Estonian National Museum. The study relies on the principles of participatory research and focuses on contributory, collaborative and co-creative partnerships of the museum with the business and non-profit sector. The experience of the project confirmed
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Developing operational environments and educational activities for early childhood development students in museums Museum Management and Curatorship Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Simbarashe Shadreck Chitima
ABSTRACT National museums in Zimbabwe receive Early Childhood Development students (ECDs), but very little is known about how they find museums educationally worthy. This study examines the suitability of museum environments and educational activities in facilitating the learning of curriculum content among ECDs. This study employed qualitative research and multiple case studies. Interviews, observations
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Museums in the Infosphere: reshaping value creation Museum Management and Curatorship Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Cristina Simone, Mara Cerquetti, Antonio La Sala
ABSTRACT This paper provides a theoretical contribution by investigating how digital technologies are currently reshaping the museum value chain in the Infosphere, an information environment where boundaries between the offline and online worlds are rapidly becoming blurred. This study applies Porter’s value chain to museum management to understand (1) how ICTs impact the primary production processes
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Uniform: Clothing and Discipline in the Modern World Journal of Design History Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Mentges G.
Uniform: Clothing and Discipline in the Modern WorldTynanJane & GodsonLisa (eds.), Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019. 320 pp., 32 b&w illus., cloth, $99.00; EPUB, $28.76. ISBN: 9781350045552; 9781350045569.
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La photo numérique. Une force néolibérale Visual Studies Pub Date : 2021-04-16 Jorge de La Barre
(2021). La photo numérique. Une force néolibérale. Visual Studies. Ahead of Print.
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The Routledge international handbook of ethnographic film and video Visual Studies Pub Date : 2021-04-16 Daryl Scott
(2021). The Routledge international handbook of ethnographic film and video. Visual Studies. Ahead of Print.
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Epidemics, public health workers, and ‘heroism’ in cinematic perspective Visual Studies Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Qijun Han, Daniel R. Curtis
During COVID-19, acts of ‘heroism’ – particularly by ordinary people ‘from below’ – have been foregrounded, prompting complicated ethical issues in the public health context. By analysing examples from a large corpus of films about epidemics across the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, this article investigates how cinema has represented public health workers. We find that the public health worker
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At the Core of the Workshop: Novel Aspects of the Use of Blue Smalt in Two Paintings by Cristóbal de Villalpando Arts Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Mirta Insaurralde Caballero, María Castañeda-Delgado
During the seventeenth century, the use of smalt and indigo became increasingly common among painters’ workshops in New Spain. The unprecedented importance of these two blue pigments in oil painting may be explained by artistic and geopolitical circumstances. This article expands on the use of blue smalt—a byproduct of glass production and a material that lacks in-depth study in viceregal painting—by
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COVID-19 and the Food Deficit Economy in Southeastern Nigeria Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Uche Uwaezuoke Okonkwo, Victor Okoro Ukaogo, Joy Nneka U. Ejikeme, George Okagu, Ambrose Onu, Samuel Adu-Gyamfi
Abstract This study examines the significant impact of the total lockdown adopted by the Nigerian government to checkmate the spread of Coronavirus in the country. The policy has been commended but it had a devastating effect on the food economy of the Igbo people of Southeastern Nigeria. The study argues that the pandemic actually entrenched and deepened food scarcities in the region. This food deficit
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Bringing the world to the child. Technologies of global citizenship in American education Early Popular Visual Culture Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Dong Yang
(2021). Bringing the world to the child. Technologies of global citizenship in American education. Early Popular Visual Culture. Ahead of Print.
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From the Editors Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2021-04-13
(2021). From the Editors. Photography and Culture: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 1-3.
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Bridge Street, Chester Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2021-02-10 Graham Goldwater
(2021). Bridge Street, Chester. Photography and Culture: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 97-99.
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Selecting Views of Las Trampas: Contact Sheets by Fred E. Mang Jr. and David Jones at the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives Photography and Culture Pub Date : 2021-02-17 Deanna Ledezma
(2021). Selecting Views of Las Trampas: Contact Sheets by Fred E. Mang Jr. and David Jones at the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives. Photography and Culture: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 101-113.
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(Re)encountering A Thousand Plateaus: Producing 1000 trail(ing)s Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2021-04-12 Rebecca C Christ, Candace R Kuby, Sarah B Shear, Amber Ward
We, now colleagues, look to our “first” collective encounter with Deleuze and Guattari that took place in a university course on poststructuralism, where one of us was the teacher and three were students. This encounter still disturbs us. And new and different encounters happen each time we reread A Thousand Plateaus, revisit our previous conversations, and/or rewrite this manuscript. Each encounter
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Breaking the frame: evolving practices of first-generation photo-elicitation researchers Visual Studies Pub Date : 2021-04-13 S.C. Dam
This article examines first-generation social scientists’ uses and understandings of photo-elicitation practices as they evolved over time and experiences. Participants have extensive experience with photo-elicitation in their own visual research practices. The research included speaking with respected visual researchers Doug Harper, Eric Margolis, Gillian Rose, and Dona Schwartz. As participants in
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Action camera: First person perspective or hybrid in motion? Visual Studies Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Liv Lofthus, Lars Frers
In this article, we discuss the usage of action cameras in research. First, we elaborate on the idea of the camera providing a first-person perspective, possibly giving access to the research participant’s subjectivity, and discuss this critically. Our discussion of these issues is based on data that was produced in two different research settings where action cameras were distributed to groups of
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Time, Nature, and the Project of Modernity: Eco-dialogism and Huijian Yu’s Paintings Critical Arts (IF 0.204) Pub Date : 2021-04-11 Huimin Jin
ABSTRACT If a virtual dialogue among Huijian Yu’s paintings, Goethe’s pondering on the modern concept of time in Faust, and Laozi’s patterning of the interactions between nature and man can be established, the following points will be seen and argued: First, “modernity” is based upon the paradox of time and eternity. It relies on “time” to “accomplish” itself, while the “accomplishment” at the same
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What Is a Videogame Movie? Arts Pub Date : 2021-04-12 Mike Sell
Cinematic adaptations of videogames are an increasingly common feature of film culture, and the adaptive relationship between these mediums is an increasingly common subject of film and videogame studies. However, our ability to historicize and theorize that relationship is hampered by a failure to fully define the generic character of our object of study. This essay asks, what is a videogame movie
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Smells: A cultural history of odours in early modern times Visual Studies Pub Date : 2021-04-12 Caroline Molloy
(2021). Smells: A cultural history of odours in early modern times. Visual Studies. Ahead of Print.
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Exploring Growth Inducing Knowledge in Africa: A System GMM Approach Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2021-04-11 Adeyemi A. Ogundipe, Stephen Oluwatobi, Oluwa Tomisin M. Ogundipe, Emmanuel O Amoo
Abstract The paradigm shift orchestrated by evolving New Growth Theory has “endogenized” technical change with its production embedded in the positive neoclassical belvedere. Knowledge no longer assumed as naturally endowed but demands a conscious organization and production by rationally optimizing the behavior of economic agents. The divergence in knowledge in Africa supports the assumption that
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Terminology and Design Capital: Examining the Pedagogic Status of Graphic Design through Its Practitioners’ Perceptions of Their Job Titles The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.475) Pub Date : 2021-04-09 Yaron Meron
Graphic design has long been hampered by its indeterminate educational disciplinary status, resulting in it being subsumed within wider visual arts studies. Arguing that this permeates into professional practice, this article explores the ambivalence of professional graphic designers towards the term ‘graphic design’ itself. Drawing on interviews with practitioners and discussions in online graphic
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Let Your Students “Speak the Speech”: The Academic and Social Benefits of a Performance-Based Approach to Teaching Shakespeare’s Plays to Middle School and High School Students Teaching Artist Journal Pub Date : 2021-01-31 Rachel D. Smith
Abstract Most students meet Shakespeare in middle or high school, on a page in a book in an English classroom. This first encounter is a disservice to the students themselves and to Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s plays are works of both literature and theatre, and should be taught as such. A performance-based teaching approach not only provides high school students, like me, and middle school students
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Certified Teaching Artist? Using Professional Development to Train Mentors, Teachers, and Community Workers in a Teaching Artist’s Approach Part Two Teaching Artist Journal Pub Date : 2021-04-09 Chelsea Hackett
ABSTRACT This article is the second in a pair examining my experience leading 30 educators through professional development training on the SPEAK Young Women’s Vocal Empowerment Curriculum in Guatemala. To guide my examination, I have looked to the question, What does it take to train non-teaching artists in the skills needed to lead a curriculum traditionally taught by teaching artists? This article
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Design and Spirituality: A Philosophy of Material Cultures by Stuart Walker The Design Journal Pub Date : 2021-04-09 Spyros Bofylatos Reviewed by
(2021). Design and Spirituality: A Philosophy of Material Cultures by Stuart Walker. The Design Journal: Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 1-4.
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Editorial Visual Studies Pub Date : 2021-04-09 Julie Patarin-Jossec, John Grady, Gary Bratchford, Susan Hansen, Derek Conrad Murray
(2021). Editorial. Visual Studies: Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 1-2.
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On film as a method, gender and health politics: conversation with Sophie Harman Visual Studies Pub Date : 2021-03-09 Sophie Harman, Julie Patarin-Jossec, Susan Hansen, John Grady
(2021). On film as a method, gender and health politics: conversation with Sophie Harman. Visual Studies: Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 3-10.
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Documentary film festivals vol. 1: Methods, history politics; Documentary film festivals vol. 2: Changes, challenges, professional perspectives Visual Studies Pub Date : 2021-02-24 Estrella Sendra
(2021). Documentary film festivals vol. 1: Methods, history politics; Documentary film festivals vol. 2: Changes, challenges, professional perspectives. Visual Studies: Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 70-72.
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Early cinema in Asia Early Popular Visual Culture Pub Date : 2021-04-07 Rong Wan
(2021). Early cinema in Asia. Early Popular Visual Culture. Ahead of Print.
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Visual discourses in sport. A sociological analysis of the implementation of the video evidence in cycling and football Visual Studies Pub Date : 2021-04-08 Alexander Schmidl
What is the connection between visual orders and social orders? This article goes some way to answering this question by analysing the use of video evidence to reconstruct two discourses from the field of sport. The article focuses on the roles played by the different social groups and how they use images. Whichever one has the power to decide what images are interpreted and how, also determines the
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Developing experiences: creative process behind the design and production of immersive exhibitions Museum Management and Curatorship Pub Date : 2021-04-07 Zoi Popoli, Izabela Derda
ABSTRACT Visitors’ criticisms demand a shift from passive, encyclopaedic exhibitions with curatorial authority, to ones that engage visitors and place them at the centre of focus. This has ignited a change in approaches to exhibition design. One of them is the employment of immersive approaches together with strong storytelling, which can create memorable experiences and redefine the visitor experience
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Reappraising the iconography and ethno-aesthetics of Adada masquerade of the Nsukka Igbo, southeast Nigeria Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2021-04-06 Odoja Asogwa, George Odoh, Lincoln Geraghty
Abstract This study seeks to interpret the iconography and ethno-aesthetic of Adada masquerade of the Nsukka Igbo people of Southeastern Nigeria, an iconic system imbued with mystical aura and uncommon beauty. Adada is also a compendium of Igbo cultural history and a storehouse of Igbo knowledge and worldview. Despite its socio-cultural significance in the life of Nsukka Igbo people, Adada masquerade
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Powerful Discourse: Gender-Based Violence and Counter-Discourses in South Africa Cogent Arts & Humanities Pub Date : 2021-04-06 Kunle Oparinde, Rachel Matteau Matsha, Margrét Gunnarsdóttir Champion
Abstract The issue of gender-based violence (GBV) against women in South Africa is prevalent in mainstream and online social media. Women and girls are targeted in what is seemingly becoming a prolonged cycle of GBV in the country. Human right activists, organisations, and political leaders condemn this violence through various platforms, including the media. Civil society in South Africa have organised
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The Retablos of Teabo and Mani: The Evolution of Renaissance Altars in Colonial Yucatán Arts Pub Date : 2021-04-06 C. Cody Barteet
From the turn to seventeenth through the early eighteenth century, three retablos (altarpieces) were created in Yucatán that relied on a similar Renaissance design. The retablos located in the ex-convents of Mani and Teabo all adopt the Spanish sixteenth-century Renaissance style of the Plateresque. Further, the retablos are connected by the inclusion of caryatid framing devices that establishes a
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Philosophy’s rematch: A new conceptualization of the study of higher education Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Gabe A Orona
In recent decades, philosophy has been identified as a general approach to enhance the maturity of higher education as a field of study by enriching theory and method. In this article, I offer a new set of philosophical recommendations to spur the disciplinary development of higher education, departing from previous work in several meaningful ways. Due to their deep and useful connections to higher
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Plagiarism of the implicit concept in interior design projects: Does it exist? Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Abeer A Alawad, Donia M Bettaieb, Raif B Malek
Design spaces can be read in two complementary structural and compositional dimensions: the implicit dimension, and the formal dimension. This study aimed to answer the following questions: What are the phases of the original idea transformation in the design process? Does taking advantage of the implicit dimension of others’ interior spaces count as inspiration or plagiarism? Participants comprised
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‘Through my eyes’: feminist self-portraits of Osteogenesis Imperfecta as arts-based knowledge translation Visual Studies Pub Date : 2021-04-06 Diane Macdonald, Evianne L. Van Gijn-Grosvenor, Melinda Montgomery, Angela Dew, Katherine Boydell
In this paper, we present an exploration of arts-based knowledge translation through photography highlighting the lived experience of Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), a genetic disorder. It forms part of our larger photovoice research project that involved six female photographers with physical impairment. This group of women shared their personal experiences through photographic stories to challenge
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Adapting Modernity: Designing with Modern Architecture in East Jerusalem, 1948–1967 Journal of Design History Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Maha Samman, Yara Saifi
This study examines the influence of modernity on residential buildings as a new form of expansion built during the Jordanian Rule (1948–1967) outside the Old City of East Jerusalem. Through investigating a sample of houses, the study shows how building typologies, layouts and architectural characteristics depict and inform reinterpretations and adaptations of modernity. Unlike the modernity that emerged
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A Dentist’s Chair: For Practicality, Comfort, or Spectacle? Journal of Design History Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Olivia Armandroff
This essay focuses on a thirteen-inch-high reclining chair with a carved walnut frame, brass base, and emerald green velvet upholstery in the Winterthur Museum collection [1 and 2]. Created by Ira Salmon of Boston circa 1866, the chair is a patent model and part of Salmon’s efforts to win a professional reputation as a dentist early in his career. This essay documents the transformation of dentistry
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From Cattle Brand to Corporate Brand: Blue Jean Trademarks in Mid-century America Journal of Design History Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Sonya Abrego
Cattle brands are physical imprints of ownership applied to the flesh of animals. They were, in the nineteenth century, indispensable to ranchers for differentiating their cattle from a competitors’ stock on the open range. The branding symbol’s utility as a legible marker of property ownership declined after widespread fencing delimited the plains. Yet cattle brands remained present in vernacular
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Picturing the River’s Racial Ecologies in Colonial Panamá Arts Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Bart Pushaw
This article explores the local histories and ecological knowledge embedded within a Spanish print of enslaved, Afro-descendant boatmen charting a wooden vessel up the Chagres River across the Isthmus of Panamá. Produced for a 1748 travelogue by the Spanish scientists Antonio de Ulloa and Jorge Juan, the image reflects a preoccupation with tropical ecologies, where enslaved persons are incidental.
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Cover-title page Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History Pub Date : 2021-03-31
(2021). Cover-title page. Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History: Vol. 90, No. 1, pp. i-i.
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Editorial board Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History Pub Date : 2021-03-31
(2021). Editorial board. Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History: Vol. 90, No. 1, pp. ii-ii.
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Contents Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History Pub Date : 2021-03-31
(2021). Contents. Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History: Vol. 90, No. 1, pp. iii-iii.
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Troubling Peripheries: Pierre Restany and Superlund Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History Pub Date : 2021-02-23 Katarina Wadstein MacLeod
Summary This article chronicles the French critic Pierre Restany and his 1967 exhibition Superlund at Lunds Konsthall in Sweden. Throughout his life and work Restany travelled the globe and engaged in local art scenes, often described as peripheries. But when did Lund, a town in southern Sweden, become the periphery, and with reference to which centre? When Restany engaged with the so-called peripheries
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Jan Miense Molenaer’s early card players and the peasant heads after Pieter Bruegel the elder Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Eva J. Allen
Summary This essay proposes that Haarlem genre artist Jan Miense Molenaer created two paintings, only known today from photographs in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD). The pictures depict peasants; two are playing cards, others are observers. Molenaer plausibly used print prototypes after the designs of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, adding observations from life of his present day
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The Fabric of Devotion: A New Approach to Studying Textiles from Late Medieval Nunneries Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History Pub Date : 2021-03-31 Ane Preisler Skovgaard
Summary Recent scholarship on the nunneries of the Late Middle Ages has demonstrated that within these houses, textile work served as important devotional tools which might accompany prayer, meditation and worship. This shows that the production of woven and embroidered textiles in nunneries does not easily compare to any modern-day notion of artistic practice, and it is argued that art historians
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The Pretty Face of Inequality: Arts Attendance in Panama The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Javier Stanziola
Abstract If arts attendance is used to activate social comparison processes that strengthen group boundaries, it could help maintain or even increase conflict between different social groups as they are seen as opportunities to openly celebrate that resources are unequally shared in society. This article explores whether levels of education, income and occupation affect the likelihood of attending
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The Living Legacy of W. McNeil Lowry: Vision and Voice The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society Pub Date : 2021-03-31 Jennifer C. Lena
(2021). The Living Legacy of W. McNeil Lowry: Vision and Voice. The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society. Ahead of Print.
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The Routledge Handbook of Festivals The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society Pub Date : 2021-03-31 David Teevan
(2021). The Routledge Handbook of Festivals. The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society. Ahead of Print.
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The Castle in Prószków as an Example of the Palazzo in Fortezza Architecture Trend in Poland Arts Pub Date : 2021-03-31 Andrzej Legendziewicz, Aleksandra Marcinów
This paper presents the results of a research that was carried out in a castle in Prószków, a town near Opole, Poland. The investigations were based on the conducted architectural research, including iconographic studies and the analysis of the technology, building materials, and architectural details. The conducted research demonstrated that the Renaissance structure in question was built by Baron
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Of Unknown Men: Rembrandt or Not? A South African Provenance Story de arte Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Gerard de Kamper, Isabelle McGinn
Abstract The artist Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) is a highly regarded master of the Dutch Golden Age, and consequently the subject of extensive international research. Museums worldwide give him pride of place in their collections. Given the artist’s established prominence it is therefore shocking that in the last fifty years researchers have been able to successfully challenge the status of hundreds
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Editorial Museum Management and Curatorship Pub Date : 2021-03-30 James M. Bradburne
(2021). Editorial. Museum Management and Curatorship: Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 108-108.
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Myth of neutrality and non-performativity of antiracism Museum Management and Curatorship Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Livia Prescha
ABSTRACT While museums are absorbing the language of social justice by hosting exhibitions on themes like feminism, blackness, accessibility, etc. the same museums are battling with systemic injustice within their own walls. This article discusses how museums are failing to uphold social change in their institutions by drawing attention to two recent cases: the hiring of Kristen Windmuller-Luna as
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The epistemology of the basement: a queer theoretical reading of the institutional positionality of art museum educators Museum Management and Curatorship Pub Date : 2021-03-03 Dana Carlisle Kletchka
ABSTRACT Art museum educators have long occupied a lower rank than their curatorial counterparts in the institutional hierarchies of their organizations. This manuscript provides an overview of research that attempted to make sense of art museum educator/curator positionalities by suggesting a sexed and gendered binary of museum work. I turn to queer theory to trouble and expand that analysis by situating
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Co-designing choice: objectivity, aesthetics and agency in audio-description Museum Management and Curatorship Pub Date : 2021-02-12 Bree Hadley, Janice Rieger
ABSTRACT Even though museums and galleries have made efforts to become more inclusive, many continue to find it challenging to engage visitors who are blind or have low vision. The ‘Vis-ability’ exhibition, presented at the QUT Art Museum in 2019 was an exhibition curated with clear social inclusion goals from the outset. Through it, the museum sought to develop innovative, cost effective, and readily
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