Art Research Articles

Humanities and Arts

Universal Noise

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In this conversation, artist Tiong Ang discusses his project "The Second Hands," developed for the 9th Bucharest Biennial 2020–21. The work is a collective enterprise under the name Tiong Ang & Company, involving a core team of approximately 15 people, with expansions including dancers and extras for certain parts. "The Second Hand...
3 months ago

Humanities and Arts

Experimentality

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"Experimentality" by Henk Slager, published in MaHKUscript. Journal of Fine Art Research in 2016, examines the evolving role of experimentation within contemporary art, particularly in the context of artistic research. Slager discusses how the integration of research methodologies into art practices has redefined traditional notions of ...
3 months ago

Humanities and Arts

Speculation and Counter-Speculation

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"Speculation and Counter-Speculation" by Joshua Simon, published in MaHKUscript. Journal of Fine Art Research in 2019, examines how financial speculation and disruption have become defining traits in contemporary artistic and political imagination. Simon discusses the shift from value to price, labor to debt, and revolution to dis...
3 months ago

Social Science

Network science for museums

This paper introduces network science to museum studies. The spatial structure of the museum and the exhibit display largely determine what visitors see and in which order, thereby shaping their visit experience. Despite the importance of spatial properties in museum studies, few scientific tools have been developed to analyze and compare the results across museums. This paper introduces the six h...
5 months ago

Humanities and Arts

“Wings of Freedom”: Petr Miturich and Aero-Constructivism

The article focuses on the aerodynamic experiments of Petr Vasil’evich Miturich (1887–1956), in particular his so-called letun, a project comparable to Vladimir Tatlin’s Letatlin, but less familiar. Miturich became interested in flight during the First World War, elaborating his first flying apparatus in 1918 before constructing a prototype and undertaking a test flight on 27 December 1921�...
2 years ago

Humanities and Arts

Mountains and Waters of No-Mind A Transcultural Approach to Moments of Heightened Awareness and Non-Substantialist Ontology in Henry David Thoreau, Jack Kerouac, and Gary Snyder

This article explores the epic poem Mountains and Rivers Without End (1996) by Gary Snyder and a Song/Chin dynasty Chinese landscape painting. I illustrate how the poem and the painting, together with Henry David Thoreau’s autobiographical narrative A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) and Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums (1958), form a complex web of intertextual and intermedial re...
2 years ago

Humanities and Arts

The Creative Revolution: The "New York in 1960" Experimental Era of Art and Design

Welcome to New York in the 1960s! “Art and Design in 1960s New York,” a key component of Amanda Gluibizzi’s Doctor of Philosophy research at the “Graduate School of The Ohio State University,” has been first published in the UK and USA in 2021 by Anthem Press, and the book is now available to acquire on major websites. Anthem Press is a leading independent academic, professional, and tra...
2 years ago

Humanities and Arts

Holidaying with Late-Victorian Theatrical Celebrities: Rest, Wellbeing and Public Identity

‘In the Theatrical World our talk is all of holidays.’ So opened one of Hearth and Home magazine’s gossip columns in July 1897. The holidays taken by London’s late-Victorian West End theatre stars attracted regular press coverage and formed a regular subject of letters between actresses, actors and their friends. The narratives of hard work and public service that had played a significant ...
2 years ago

Humanities and Arts

‘Impressions so alien’: the afterlives of the Sacro Bosco at Bomarzo

The history of a garden is a narrative constructed on the basis of factual evidence, but also shaped by shifting ideological pressures and historical circumstances over the long durée of its existence. The study of the reception or afterlife of a particular garden allows us to see how it changed over time, was reformulated by its visitors, and how these changes have influenced its subsequent inte...
2 years ago

Humanities and Arts

Visual style hermeneutics: from style to context

This essay re-examines the once promising idea that style analysis can provide an independent source of insight into an artifact's non-stylistic context. The essay makes explicit the consequences of treating collective style as such a source in archaeology and anthropology of art, and further develops a new framing for the idea that avoids the criticisms largely responsible for the decline in theo...
2 years ago

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