TOC: ArtHS 2.0, issue 1

Art Histories Supplement 2.0
Issue 1, Summer 2015

Art Histories Supplement 2.0, previously Art History Supplement, aims to continue working at http://arths.hypotheses.org for a free, academic, and open access art historical research. Published on-line in printable form and using the English language as a lingua franca, Art Histories Supplement 2.0 hopes to bring two times a year (Winter and Summer) new seminal papers, documents and material to the field of art history studies.

Table of contents

The studiolo of Francesco I de’ Medici: A Recently-Found Inventory, by Lindsay Alberts, p.3

The Giorgio Vasari Project: A user-generated content project, p.25

Submissions to ArtHS 2.0, p.27

Call for editors, p.28

Books received; a call, p. 29

 

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CFP: Stories of East European and Russian Art: Alternative Art Histories

Art Histories Supplement 2.0, January 2016
Editor: Clemena Antonova

This issue of the Art Histories Supplement 2.0 will look at art criticism in Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, etc.) and Russia from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. Our motivation is to familiarize Western readers with a number of rich traditions of art historical writing, which for various reasons, including language, are little known to scholars in the West.

While art criticism in the region has been strongly influenced by Western art history and aesthetics, it has also reflected local artistic, historical, intellectual developments, which are specific to the national cultures. At times, the end result has been narratives of art that have offered alternative models of art history to the one established by the Western canon. At present, when scholars are becoming increasingly interested in issues of multiculturalism, including in the sphere of art criticism, the present volume represents a step away from the meta-narrative of the Western “story of art” towards the possibility of multiple “stories of art” (see James Elkins’s Stories of Art, (Routledge: New York and London, 2002).

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
– Art history and cultural identity in Eastern Europe and Russia
– Art history and national myth-making (with a possible focus on the reception of a landmark monument)
– Art history between tradition and modernism
– Responses to Western formalism
– Art history in the age of revolution
– Art history in the Communist period (issues of art and religion, propaganda, cultural policy on art, etc.)

Please, submit an abstract of up to 500 words to the following e-mail address: clemenaa@yahoo.com

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 15 June 2015
Deadline for the submission of the papers: 30 September 2015
Publication date: January 2016

 

 

Art Histories Supplement 2.0

Art Histories Society plans to launch Art Histories Supplement 2.0 e-journal

Art Histories Supplement 2.0, previously Art History Supplement (www.arths.org.uk) aims to continue working at http://arths.hypotheses.org for a free, academic, and open access art historical research. Published on-line in printable form and using the English language as a lingua franca, Art Histories Supplement 2.0 hopes to bring two times a year (January and August) new seminal papers, documents and material to the field of art history studies.

Guest editors are, therefore, being solicited.

Guest editors are to be responsible for:

  • proposing a call for papers,
  • the appropriate open communication of the call for papers,
  • the final selection of papers,
  • writing an editorial,
  • sending papers, images – copyright cleared – and the editorial to the editor, at least, two months prior the intended publication date.

Respond to this call for expression of interest for guest editors to YannisTzortzakakis at itzortzak@gmail.com