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art history
Robert Peel, John Doyle and Visual Parody
For the last three hundred years British politics have been enlivened and illustrated by wonderful satirical prints and…
Migrating objects: John Henry Foley and empire
Fintan Cullen considers the equestrian statue of a Raj military figure James Outram which was erected in central…
Parliament as theatre
Fintan Cullen examines a painting produced in Dublin in 1780 of the interior of the Irish House of…
The Art of Anglo-Saxon England
Two particular perspectives inform this wide-ranging and richly illustrated survey of the art produced in England, or by…
Hoards, hoarders, and other broken things
Catherine Karkov is Chair of Art History at the University of Leeds. Her interests lie in the art…
Postcolonising the medieval image
Postcolonial theories have transformed literary, historical and cultural studies over the past three decades. Yet the study of…
Reflecting on Kahlo: Mirrors, Masquerade and the Politics of Identification
Oriana Baddeley is Dean of Research at University of the Arts London. Here she discusses part of the catalogue…
The Lyrical in Epic Time: Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists through the 1949 Crisis
In this interview, DavidWang, Harvard University, uses the lyrical to rethink the dynamics of Chinese modernity. Although the form…
Harvard New Literary History of Modern China
David Wang, Harvard University discusses Literature, from the Chinese perspective, makes manifest the cosmic patterns that shape and…
Queen Anne; Patroness of Arts
James Anderson Winn, Professor; Director, Boston University Center for Humanities, discusses the importance of analyzing literature, music, painting…
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