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Symbolist Androgyny: On the Origins of a Proto-Queer Vision Arts 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 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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Understanding Musical Beauty Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.675) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Abbigail Marie Fleckenstein, Jonna Katariina Vuoskoski, Nicola Dibben
An exploratory study was conducted investigating the concept of beauty related to music listening—“musical beauty.” The study implemented an online qualitative questionnaire aimed to evaluate how listeners construe the concept of beauty, the pieces of music considered to be beautiful, and the intrinsic and/or extrinsic features that listeners attribute to musical pieces being considered as “most beautiful
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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 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 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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Humanistic Responsibilities in the Upsurge of “Metaverse” Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Jun Zeng
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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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 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 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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Is There a Timeless Truth for Good Arrangement of Paintings in Art Galleries and Museums? An Experimental Investigation of the Barnes Collection Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.675) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Katja Thömmes, Ronald Hübner, Gregor U. Hayn-Leichsenring
The Barnes Foundation is a traditional art collection and it is one of a kind as for the assorted hanging of the paintings. The sophisticated wall compositions by Albert Barnes were created as a tool for art education, and they have not been altered since 1951. Today, we are interested whether Barnes’ taste withstood the test of time. We asked participants in an online study to create their own hangings
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The Royal Chapel of Pedro I of Castile in the Christianised Mosque of Seville Arts 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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Issue Information The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2024-05-08
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Progressive Rock from the Union of Soviet Composers Arts 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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Wayward Feeling — Audio-Visual Culture and Aesthetic Activism in Post-Rainbow South Africa Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Jiayao Fan
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Testing Textual and Territorial Boundaries in Bulat Okudzhava’s Song “And We to the Doorman: ‘Open the Doors!’” Arts 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 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 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 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 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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The Playful Karoo: Translating a South African Story into the Metaverse Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-04-28 Andrea Hayes
This research paper explores different game design methodologies that can be used to translate the South African novel Souvenir by Jane Rosenthal, set in the semi-desert region known as the Karoo i...
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“Sirens” by Joyce and the Joys of Sirin: Lilac, Sounds, Temptations Arts 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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Dark Humour in Moving Frames: A Discourse Analysis of Bollywood Black Comedies Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Manash P. Goswami, K. Shruthi
The present study delves into the portrayal of dark humour in the Hindi films produced in Mumbai, popularly known as Bollywood films. The dark humour films of Bollywood mainly focus on prevalent so...
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Through the Eyes of the Beholder: Motifs (Re)Interpreted in the 27th Dynasty Arts 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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Ecocriticism (The New Critical Idiom), 3rd edition Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Meiou Zhao
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Resonating Reflections: A Critical Review of Ethnosymbolic Dynamics in Les Six’s Music Nationalism Movement Arts 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
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Aesthetic Dispositions, Aesthetic Engagement, and Meaning in Life Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.675) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Joshua A. Wilt, Julie J. Exline, Rebecca J. Schlegel, Aleksandra Sherman
Previous research revealed that meaning in life is related positively to psychological engagement with art (i.e., aesthetic engagement), such as interest in art, knowledge about art, awe around art, and supernatural attributions for art experiences. We extended this work by considering the relevance of dispositions toward aesthetics (i.e., aesthetic dispositions), such as openness to experience, creativity
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Preparing Artists to Save the World: Community-Engaged Arts Practice as Critical Pedagogy Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Sarah Peters, Tully Barnett
The sustained marginalisation of creative arts in higher education in Australia risks the delivery of superficial learning experiences that are disconnected from the relationality of place, people,...
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A translational sociology: interdisciplinary perspectives on politics and society Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Kun Long
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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“Only in The History of the Formation of the Self-Conscious Soul Did Bugaev Reveal His Ideas about Music”: Music in the System of Andrei Bely Arts Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Mikhail Odesskiy, Monika Spivak
Symbolism distinguished itself in world culture in that its representatives were inclined to a dialogue and intersection of different types of art. In Russian literature, one of the brightest examples of such a synthesis is the work of Andrei Bely (Boris Bugaev; 1880–1934). The aim of the present article is to consider the writer’s ideas about music itself. As the main source we use Bely’s treatise
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Yes, It Is Polyphony and a Map: Revisiting the 72 Verses of St. Martial Arts Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Laura Steenberge
The enigmatic 72 Verses for St. Martial is one of the many works by Ademar de Chabannes (989–1034) crafted to promote the false narrative that St. Martial of Limoges, rather than being a third-century bishop, was actually a first-century apostle. The composition is visually striking due to the acrostic formed from the first letter of each tercet, MARCIALIS APOSTOLVS XRISTI, and its two overlapping
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A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Aesthetic Preferences for Neatly Organized Compositions: Native Chinese- Versus Native Dutch-Speaking Samples Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.675) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Eline Van Geert, Rong Ding, Johan Wagemans
Do aesthetic preferences for images of neatly organized compositions (e.g., images collected on blogs like Things Organized Neatly©) generalize across cultures? In an earlier study, focusing on stimulus and personal properties related to order and complexity, Western participants indicated their preference for one of two simultaneously presented images (100 pairs). In the current study, we compared
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Interdisciplinary Art Learning Through Artistic Digital Game-Based Learning (DGBL): Evaluating Learning Outcomes and Processes Among Science and Engineering Students Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.675) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 SiBo Zhou, Norfarizah Mohd Bakhir
The field of interdisciplinary art education, particularly through digital game-based learning, lacks empirical research on the art learning process and the competencies gained along the process. To address this research gap, this study collects data through experiment and post-experiment interviews from 20 science and engineering college students who participated in a 1-month digital game-based art
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A Timely Example of Deep Listening: Tackling the Epistemological Crisis in the North Khoisan Consciousness: An Ethnography of Emic Histories and Indigenous Revivalism in Post-Apartheid Cape Town Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 June Bam
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Social Choreography as a Cultural Commoning Practice: Becoming Part of Urban Transformation in Une danse ancienne Arts Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Johanna Hilari, Julia Wehren
This article examines social choreography as a cultural commoning practice that is embedded within a relational structure between different institutions, the people involved, and specific socio-cultural contexts. The artistic research project Une danse ancienne by French choreographer Rémy Héritier and their team is presented as a case study of this practice. This collaborative choreography is based
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A Child Burial from Kerch: Mortuary Practices and Approaches to Child Mortality in the North Pontic Region between the 4th Century BCE and the 1st/2nd Century CE Arts Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Joanna Porucznik, Evgenia Velychko
This article discusses a poorly studied child elite burial discovered in 1953 at the necropolis of Panticapaeum, situated near the modern city of Kerch, Crimea. A reassessment of previous research is urgently needed since it did not offer an analysis of Bosporan society from the perspective of childhood studies in general and local approaches to child mortality in particular. This fresh approach sheds
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Queer Nightlife and Contemporary Art Networks: A Study of Artists at the Bar Arts Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Joseph Daniel Valencia
This article positions queer nightlife as a central vehicle in the lives and practices of queer Latinx artists working in Los Angeles over the past decade. It highlights how queer nightlife has provided a generative space for art making and community building in LA and considers how the usage of queer nightlife as a frame of study ruptures existing art historical and curatorial methodologies relative
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Carrie Mae Weems’ Intersectional Tropes: Engaging Black Feminism Within Arts Teacher Education Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Montserrat Rifà-Valls, Sara López Ruiz
In this article, we approach the visual tropes in Carrie Mae Weems’ bodies from an intersectional perspective through mobilising critical arts and black feminist studies for art pedagogies. A const...
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Khoisan Consciousness: An Ethnography of Emic Histories and Indigenous Revivalism in Post-Apartheid Cape Tow Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Basil Coetzee
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Correction: Peña Torres (2024). La Liga de la Decencia: Performing 20th Century Mexican History in 21st Century Texas. Arts 13: 47 Arts Pub Date : 2024-04-07 Jessica Peña Torres
In the original publication (Peña Torres 2024), (Belliveau and Lea 2016) was not cited and its related reference was also omitted [...]
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Emotional Responses to Music: The Essential Inclusion of Emotion Adaptability and Situational Context Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.675) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Marco Susino, William Forde Thompson, Emery Schubert, Mary Broughton
The link between music and emotion, as articulated from a cognitive perspective, assumes that music carries expressive cues that convey or induce emotional responses in listeners. Studies following this paradigm often investigate how responses converge or diverge among individuals, social groups, and cultures. However, results vary from one study to another, with few satisfactory explanations as to
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From Leonardo to Caravaggio: Affective Darkness, the Franciscan Experience and Its Lombard Origins Arts Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Anne H. Muraoka
The function of affectivity has generally focused on post-Council of Trent paintings, where artists sought a new visual language to address the imperative function of sacred images in the face of Protestant criticism and iconoclasm, either guided by the Council’s decree on images, post-Tridentine treatises on sacred art, or by the Counter-Reformation climate of late Cinquecento and early Seicento Italy
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The Power of Convening: Towards an Understanding of Artist-Led Collective Practice as a Convener of Place Arts Pub Date : 2024-04-05 John David Wright
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in artist-led collectives with high-profile recognition within contemporary art mega festivals, prizes, and biennials. Yet, these amorphous entities and initiatives tend to be framed either through their politically motivated actions or as a critique of the notion of the single author or ‘artist-as-genius’ mythology. This article builds upon this discourse
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Unpacking the Antecedents of Word of Mouth and Electronic Word of Mouth in the Opera Sector: A Multimethodological Study Based on PLS and NCA Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.675) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Yacine Ouazzani, Haydeé Calderón-García, Berta Tubillejas-Andrés
This article examines the role of epistemic value, and social value on behavioral intentions and the relationship between these three factors as antecedents of word of mouth (WOM) and electronic word of mouth (eWOM) in the opera sector. The effects of these antecedents are investigated using a multimethod approach combining partial least square and necessary condition analysis. A quantitative study
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Response to Ntongela Masilela and the New African Movement: A Critical Appreciation Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Bridget Thompson
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Protection of Monuments and Immoveable Works of Art from War Damage: A Comparison of Italy in World War II and Ukraine during the Russian Invasion Arts Pub Date : 2024-03-31 Cathleen Hoeniger
This article compares the safeguarding of monuments and immoveable works of art in Italy in the first years of World War II to the on-site protection undertaken in Ukraine during the Russian invasion and explores whether traditional or more innovative methods are being employed in Ukraine. Both the planning in advance of war and the implementation of protective measures amidst substantial obstacles
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Taking the Deer by the Antlers: Deer in Material Culture in the Balkan Neolithic Arts Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Selena Vitezović
Prehistoric communities had strong ties with the animal world that surrounded them—animals were prey, sources of food, and raw materials, but also threats and mysteries, and certain animals often had an important place in the symbolic realm. With the process of domestication and the switch to animal husbandry as the main source of animal food, these relations changed considerably, and a certain dichotomy
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“Spaces of Silence” and “Secret Music of the Word”: Verbo-Musical Minimalism in the Poetry of Gennady Aygi and Elizaveta Mnatsakanova Arts Pub Date : 2024-03-31 Olga Sokolova, Vladimir Feshchenko
Two major poets of the Russian Neo-Avant-Garde—Gennady Aygi and Elizaveta Mnatsakanova—created textual works that transgressed the limits of language and the borders between the arts. Each pursued their own method of the visualization and musicalization of verbal matter, yet both share a particular musical sensibility, which guarantees the integrity of the linguistic structure of their verse, despite
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Replacing Settler Spaces: The Transformational Power of Indigenous Public Art Arts Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Megan A. Smetzer
Similar to 19th-century steamship travel, 21st-century cruise ships link far-flung communities for visitors to the Pacific Northwest Coast. Contemporary Indigenous artists, like their ancestors before them, have transformed touristic curiosity into economic, educational and cultural opportunities for their communities. Public art has become an increasingly important site for engaging visitors who have
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Haunted Monasteries: Troubling Indigenous Erasure in Early Colonial Mexican Architecture Arts Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Savannah Esquivel
This essay examines the placement and displacement of Nahua labor in the architectural history of Mexico’s early colonial monasteries. It takes as its point of departure the story of a ghost in the Tlaxcala monastery as told by a Franciscan missionary to analyze the discursive and spatial dimensions of emergent racial ideologies in Mexico’s earliest Catholic missions. While the ghost’s appearance signals
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The 60 Years of Queer and Trans Activism and Care Project: Learning to Conduct Archival Research and Write Dramatic Verbatim Monologues Arts Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Tara Goldstein, Jenny Salisbury
This reflective essay describes a research course which provided undergraduate students with an opportunity to conduct archival research on six decades of queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (QTBIPOC) activism and care that have challenged heteronormativity, cis-normativity, and racism in Canada. While there are many ways to share the findings of archival research, we chose to teach
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Applied Theatre: Research-Based Theatre, or Theatre-Based Research? Exploring the Possibilities of Finding Social, Spatial, and Cognitive Justice in Informal Housing Settlements in India, or Tales from the Banyan Tree Arts Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Selina Busby
This article draws on a twenty-year relationship of short-term interventions with Dalit communities living in informal settlements, sub-cities and urban villages in Mumbai, that have sought to create public theatre events based on research by and with communities that celebrate, problematise and interrogate sustainable urban living. In looking back over the developments and changes to our working methods
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Ntongela Masilela’s Insidious Historico-Biographical Method: An Uneasy Balance Enabling the Re-reading of Memoir and Contemporary History Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Busani Ngcaweni, Kgomotso M. Masemola
Whereas the intellectual labour of re-memorialising what has come to be understood as the “living archive of Ntongela Masilela” hinges on the broad corpus that he churned out as he steadily carved ...
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Between Calligraphic Untranslatability and Symbolic Translatability: Xu Bing’s Pictographic Art Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Zhen Zhang
Emily Apter’s conception of the “untranslatable” taps into the dynamics and difficulties of translation between languages and cultures. The process of translation is described as a “intransigent nu...
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“[…] Un Tout Petit Peu de Dufayel”—Picasso, 1910–1914 Arts Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Laurence Madeline
Picasso twice quoted the name of Dufayel, once in relation with the name of the Louvre and once for the same period of his career, between 1910 and 1914. This essay explores the universe created by the businessman Georges Dufayel in order to understand the role it played in Picasso’s evolving cubism from that of analytic to synthetic.
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Rethinking Conceptual Parameters of Choreography (in Social Spaces)—Actualization of Intensities in Discursive Fields Arts Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Kirsi Monni
This article aims to take part in the ongoing discussion on the social and political potentialities as well as the conceptual premises of choreography and to contribute to the discussion about world relations in the choreographed movement. The much-used definition of Western choreography is “organized movement in space and time”. Although this definition always applies, it does not specify the world
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New Perspectives on Geography of Media Critical Arts (IF 0.467) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Jinghua Yuan, Yuhui Chen
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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New Learning Environments in Design and Craft Education – Acknowledging the Learning of Design Literacy The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Hanna Hofverberg
The aim of this paper is to contribute to the concept of design literacy by exploring what it means to learn design literacy through making. To support my argumentation, I draw on a case study where I followed two student teachers of design and craft as they learned design literacy through woodworking. Due to Covid‐19, the learning environment was located at the students' homes rather than the design
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Preparing Future Designers for their Role in Co‐Design: Student Insights on Learning Co‐Design The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Melis Örnekoğlu‐Selçuk, Marina Emmanouil, Deniz Hasirci, Marianthi Grizioti, Lieva Van Langenhove
The state‐of‐the‐art literature indicates an increasing need for co‐design education as it is imperative to equip future designers with the co‐designing mindset. This derives from the significance of involving ‘people with lived experience’ in co‐design processes to better meet their needs. However, the traditional design education system seems to include mostly individual designing skills, causing
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Music Preferences and Their Associations With Uses of Music and Personality Factors and Facets Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.675) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Ana Butković, Valnea Žauhar
In this study, we examined the associations between music preferences, uses of music and personality factors and facets. The sample included 449 participants (50% female, M = 23.59, SD = 2.14) who indicated preferences for international and regional music styles that were classified into Reflective and Complex, Intense and Rebellious, Upbeat and Conventional, Energetic and Rhythmic, and Regional preferences
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Violent Raiding, Systematic Slaving, and Sweeping Depopulation? Re-Evaluating the Scythian Impact on Central Europe through the Lens of the Witaszkowo/Vettersfelde Hoard Arts Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Louis D. Nebelsick
In 1882, the lavishly decorated golden regalia of a steppe nomad warrior prince, which was crafted in the late sixth century BCE in a “bilingual” Scythian–Milesian workshop on the Black Sea coast, was found on the edge of a Lusatian swamp 120 km southeast of Berlin. Its discovery and the ongoing findings of steppe nomad armaments—arrows, battle axes, and swords—in central Europe have led to a lively
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Interiority, Metamorphosis, and Simone Leigh’s Hybrid Cowries Arts Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Tiffany Johnson Bidler
By way of an analysis of Simone Leigh’s You Don’t Know Where Her Mouth Has Been (2017), this essay argues that by hybridizing the cowrie and watermelon, Leigh creates her own natural history of these biological forms that disorders the rigid taxonomic classification on which systems of discrimination rely. The resulting hybrid cowrie not only defies classification, it also forms a folded architecture