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This paper analyses the aestheticisation of environmental disaster in George Osodi’s series of photographs Oil Rich Niger Delta (2003–2007). Depicting the horrific effects of oil drilling in his home country, Osodi chose to make art from... more
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      Cultural StudiesAestheticsPhotographyNiger Delta
This article examines Candice Breitz's recorded performances and negotiations of the representation of women and gender dynamics in her video art, looking in particular at her work Extra (2011). Showing that Breitz has addressed the... more
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      CollaborationVideo ArtGenderWomen
For years, researchers have been searching for photographs made by Mabel Cetu, who “was said to be the first Black South African woman photojournalist” (Siopis 2006: 10). Cetu was a Black woman who worked as a nurse for more than... more
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      PhotographyGenderSouth AfricaAfrican Art
Submitted to Freie Universität Berlin as a dissertation in 2012 and published as a German academic book almost ten years later, 'Unmarkierte Sichtbarkeit?' seems partly out of time and yet could not be more up to date. Crasemann's book... more
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      PhotographyCritical Whiteness StudiesVisibility/invisibility
Mabel Cetu is considered South Africa's first Black woman photojournalist and documented the everyday lives of Black communities in the 1950s.
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      Gender StudiesPhotographySouth AfricaMagazines
Mavis Mtandeki is one of the first black South African women photographers. Having worked as a domestic worker in the white suburbs of Cape Town for many years, Mtandeki quit her job in 1989 to attend a one-year media course at the... more
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      PhotographyWomenSouth Africa
This interlude follows the AAH conference, when all of the authors who contribute to the special journal edition are present. Their wide-ranging conversation covers the idea and possibilities of a polyphonic history of art. This interlude... more
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      Postcolonial StudiesPolyphonyArt and GlobalizationGlobal Art History
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      Erinnerungskultur (memory culture)Theorie Und Geschichte Des Antisemitismus
Während der Reformation und Gegenreformation trat das Problem religiöser Devianz bekanntlich immer mehr in den Vordergrund, nicht nur aus historischer und soziokultureller Perspektive, sondern auch aus kunsthistorischer Sicht, 1 indem zum... more
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      History of photographyPhotography (Visual Studies)
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      Art & PropagandaEnemy ImageEarly Modern Prints
In his portrait of an unidentified man (Vienna, 1529), Barthel Beham portrays the sitter paused in the midst of a math problem. As has been discovered, the numbers and symbols belong to the vocabulary of numerical calculation. This... more
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Recent interpretations of Hugo van der Goes’s Adoration of the Shepherds altarpiece have taken the painter’s withdrawal to a monastery associated with the Devotio Moderna movement as a departure point, describing the painting as a... more
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Die Kultur der Frühen Neuzeit war eine Kultur der Konkurrenz.¹ Nach Georg Simmel handelt es sich beim Phänomen der Konkurrenz um einen indirekten Wettkampf, in dem die jeweiligen Parteien sich parallel um denselben Kampfpreis bemühen.²... more
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      16th Century Netherlandish ArtReception of AntiquityMichelangelo BuonarrotiGiorgio Vasari
e Maarten van Nieuwenhove Diptych [ ] by Hans Memling is a generous image. 1 Its two panels (each measuring 52 by 41.5 cm) give the viewer seemingly direct access to an encounter between Maarten, a young Bruges patrician, and the Virgin... more
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      Early Netherlandish PaintingRederijkersHans MemlingJacob Obrecht
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      Early Modern HistoryEarly Modern EuropeEarly Modern LiteratureEarly Modern Art
Did the invention of movable type change the way that the word was perceived in the early modern period? In his groundbreaking essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," the cultural critic Walter Benjamin argued that... more
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      Manuscripts and Early Printed BooksRenaissance StudiesEarly Modern LiteratureVisual Arts
From: Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion, eds. Bertram Kaschek, Jürgen Müller and Jessica Buskirk (Leiden: Brill, 2018) 114-134.
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      IconographyEarly Modern HistoryEarly modern religious historyHistory of Antwerp