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History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology

Selected Works

2004

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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities

Jules De Goncourt Et La Rhétorique Visuelle De L'Estampe De Reproduction, Pamela Warner May 2004

Jules De Goncourt Et La Rhétorique Visuelle De L'Estampe De Reproduction, Pamela Warner

Pamela J. Warner

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Le Christ Peint: Le Cycle De La Passion Dans Les Chapelles Peintes Du Xve Siecle Dans Les Etats De Savoie, Véronique Plesch Dec 2003

Le Christ Peint: Le Cycle De La Passion Dans Les Chapelles Peintes Du Xve Siecle Dans Les Etats De Savoie, Véronique Plesch

Véronique Plesch

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Fernand Léger’S Myth Of Regeneration: Fomenting Revolution Or Constructing Colonialism?, Maureen Shanahan Dec 2003

Fernand Léger’S Myth Of Regeneration: Fomenting Revolution Or Constructing Colonialism?, Maureen Shanahan

Maureen G. Shanahan

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Desire, Heavenly Bodies, And A Surrealist's Fascination With The Celestial Theatre, John Hatch Dec 2003

Desire, Heavenly Bodies, And A Surrealist's Fascination With The Celestial Theatre, John Hatch

John G. Hatch

In 1922, the German Surrealist artist Max Ernst produced a montage work that included a woman's bare buttocks protruding out of the rings of Saturn. It is, to say the least, an unusual combination of images, but one that addresses some very basic human impulses. Largely, It expresses Ernst's understanding that inscribed upon the night sky are some of our deepest held fears and fantasies. Ernst sought to generate contemporary rephrasings of our mythologizing of the cosmos in a complex and often enigmatic way, drawing on such varied sources as Freudian psychology, late nineteenth-century symbolism, alchemy, and Surrealism. Ultimately, Ernst …

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Japanese Painting And National Identity: Okakura Tenshin And His Circle, Victoria Weston Dec 2003

Japanese Painting And National Identity: Okakura Tenshin And His Circle, Victoria Weston

Victoria Weston

Japanese Painting and National Identity is the first monograph in English to address the art and philosophy of a group of Meiji painters regarded by many as seminal figures in the development of modern Japanese painting. Lead by the outspoken and widely published art critic Okakura Tenshin, this group, including artists Yokoyama Taikan, Shimomura Kanzan, Hishida Shunsô, and others, wrestled with the vexing problem of how to modernize traditional media, methods, and styles while keeping the results authentically Japanese. Yet they saw themselves not just as artists but as servants of the nation. Their task, they believed, was to give …

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Jules De Goncourt Aquafortiste: La Rhétorique Visuelle De L'Eau-Forte, Pamela Warner Dec 2003

Jules De Goncourt Aquafortiste: La Rhétorique Visuelle De L'Eau-Forte, Pamela Warner

Pamela J. Warner

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A Painful Labor: Photography And Responsibility Dec 2003

A Painful Labor: Photography And Responsibility

Sharon Sliwinski

Despite the avalanche of objections regarding documentary's false promise to awaken social conscience, this paper considers the tension between photography and responsibility. By examining the encounter with images of suffering through a psychoanalytic register, the paper tries to articulate what Barthes describes as the ‘painful labour’ of responding to the photographic other – an encounter that illuminates the limit of the spectator's ability to respond. Photographs provide an occasion to register this limit, which, I argue, opens up the spectator's traditional notions of responsibility from a set of moral duties towards a questioning of the ethical relation.

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