Recently added articles from Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art:
Saintly beauty and the printed portrait.
Jan 01, 2007; Donahue-Wallace, Kelly ... Two portraits of religious persons were engraved eight years apart by the same artist working in viceregal Mexico City. The first pictured Sor Maria Ynes de los Dolores (Fig. 1), a mystic poetess from the Augustinian Convent of San Lorenzo in Mexico City. The second likeness belonged to ...
Transition and transformation in John Everett Millais' Ferdinand Lured by Ariel.
Jan 01, 2007; Hottle, Andrew D. ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] John Everett Millais' Ferdinand Lured by Ariel (Fig. 1), painted during the early years of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, takes its subject from William Shakespeare's The Tempest. The painting occupies a prominent place among the artist's early pictures and ...
The pictorial trans-rationalism of Kazimir Malevich.
Jan 01, 2007; Aronov, Igor ... Introduction. Trans-rationalism or Russian zaum' (literally "beyond reason") formed the most radical tendency in Russian Futurism and was the leading artistic and literary movement in the Russian avant-garde in the early 1910s. Embodied in an absurd poetic language opposed to standard ...
Wild Western lesbian feminist Asian American artist: Hanh Thi Pham's Expatriate Consciousness and the unpacking of identities.
Jan 01, 2007; Gilby, Dena ... ... it is Asian Americans themselves who ate turning back to see what was left behind, not only in history, but in their childhoods or in the present lives of relatives in the homelands or the Chinatowns or Japantowns of this country. (1) Some scholars place immigrant artists in ...
David Bomford, Jo Kirby, Ashok Roy, Axel Ruger, Raymond White, Art in the Making: Rembrandt.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Gregory, Quint ... David Bomford, Jo Kirby, Ashok Roy, Axel Ruger, Raymond White, Art in the Making: Rembrandt, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Rembrandt. That name, a single word evoking greatness and suggesting mastery in art. A name that resonates. Who was Rembrandt? A miller's son, a ...
Georg Simmel. Rembrandt: An Essay in the Philosophy of Art, Alan Scott and Helmut Staubmann.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Howard, W. Scott ... Georg Simmel. Rembrandt: An Essay in the Philosophy of Art, Alan Scott and Helmut Staubmann, trans, and eds., New York: Routledge, 2005. This is a major work: the first English translation of Georg Simmel's last monograph, which first appeared in Leipzig in 1916, two years ...
Charles Merewether, ed., The Archive.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Van Schepen, Randall K. ... Charles Merewether, ed., The Archive, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. In December of 1958, the Situationists Guy Debord and Asger Jorn published the first edition of Memoires, a collaged compilation of discarded imagery, text, and freely applied gestural drips of color that was ...