Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing' questions how the Black female body, specifically the Black maternal body, navigates interlocking structures that place a ...false narrative on her body and that of her maternal ancestors. This volume, which includes a curated selection of images, addresses the complicated relationship between Blackness and photography and, in particular, its gendered dimension, its relationship to health, sexuality, and digital culture – primarily in the context of racialized heteronormativity. With over forty contributors, this volume draws on scholarly inquiry ranging from academic essays, interviews, poetry, to documentary practice, and on contemporary art. 'Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing' thus offers a cross-section of analysis on the topic of Black motherhood, mothering, and the participation of photography in the process. This collection challenges racist images and discourses, both historically and in its persistence in contemporary society, while reclaiming the innate brilliance of Black women through personal narratives, political acts, connections to place, moments of pleasure, and communal celebration. It serves as a reflection of the past, a portal to the future, and contributes to recent scholarship on the complexities of Black life and Black joy.
This article focuses on a significant and hitherto unpublished icon painted around the mid-fifteenth century by the Master of the Amber-Spotted Tunic. By analysing its style and iconography, it ...furthers our understanding of history of panel painting in Ethiopia during this period. The study shows that Fǝre ṣǝyon was not the only talented artist who created works in compliance with the policies of Zär’a Ya'ǝqob and that the Master of the Amber-Spotted Tunic was an equally accomplished painter. The latter’s work was in fact capable of conveying complex theological ideas in a visually accessible manner.
Frequently, the interiors of the Ethiopian basilicas built in the Christian ‘millennium' ranging from 5th-6th cent. to the end of the 15th cent. are adorned and embellished by serial motifs. Is it ...right to simply call ‘decorations’ these geometric patterns? If so intended they would just be an accessory. Actually, the presence of friezes, stuccos, paintings, etc. affixed to the structure or the elements of furniture is not only a manifestation of quality and mastery, but also an attempt to make more beautiful and glorious the buildings. The different typologies of internal decorations of the Ethiopian basilicas of Tigray and Lasta are here listed and studied according to their patterns and realizations.
Since the 14th cent. the scriptoria of the convents of the highlands of Ḥamasen, Sära’e and Akkälä Guzay, where Christian scriptural and liturgical texts were systematically copied to meet the needs ...of monks and clergymen, housed artistic workshops of extraordinary importance, in which the miniature of the sacred book received specific and refined declinations. In this presentation some examples of illustrated manuscripts from some Eritrean historical and cultural contexts will be examined and tentatively the most significant stylistic features will be highlighted.
This book places the discourse surrounding stigmata within the visual culture of the late medieval and early modern periods, with a particular focus on Italy and on female stigmatics. Echoing, and to ...a certain extent recreating, the wounds and pain inflicted on Christ during his passion, stigmata stimulated controversy. Related to this were issues that were deeply rooted in contemporary visual culture such as how stigmata were described and performed and whether, or how, it was legitimate to represent stigmata in visual art. Because of the contested nature of stigmata and because stigmata did not always manifest in the same form - sometimes invisible, sometimes visible only periodically, sometimes miraculous, and sometimes self-inflicted - they provoked complex questions and reflections relating to the nature and purpose of visual representation.
Le tricentenaire de la mort de Watteau, en 2021, ne faisait pas partie des commémorations nationales et de la programmation du musée de Valenciennes. Deux événements ont toutefois marqué cette ...année : l’un à Paris, le colloque organisé au Petit Palais les 6 et 7 novembre 2021 L’univers de Watteau : Réseau(x) et influence(s) autour d’Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) ; l’autre à l’université de Lille qui a décidé de relever le défi, une fois éloignée la menace de la pandémie, en organisant la présente journée d’études.
This companion examines the global Renaissance through object-based case studies of artistic production from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe in the early modern period. The international group ...of contributors take an art historical approach characterized by close analysis of form and meaning as well as function, and a focus on questions of crosscultural dialogue and adaptation. Seeking to de-emphasize the traditional focus on Europe, this book is a critical guide to the literature and the state of the field. Chapters outline new questions and agendas while pushing beyond familiar material. Main themes include workshops, the migrations of artists, objects, technologies, diplomatic gifts, imperial ideologies, ethnicity and indigeneity, sacred spaces and image cults, as well as engaging with the open questions of "the Renaissance" and "the global." This will be a useful and important resource for researchers and students alike and will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, material culture, and Renaissance studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license
