Writing about displays of sculpture: historiography and some current questions by Malcolm Baker

“…These questions are examined here in terms of changing approaches within the discipline of art history as well as the options open to the curator.…”
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Charles Sterling (1901-1991) et la pratique de l’exposition temporaire : itinéraire d’un catalographe privilégié du musée du Louvre by Marie Tchernia-Blanchard

“…By retracing the development of his ideas through these events, this article proposes to revaluate Charles Sterling’s contribution to the practice of the temporary exhibition in the twentieth century and to determine how the way in which he made a name for himself in this exercise make him both a witness to and a privileged actor of the transformation of the object that accompanied these events, the exhibition catalogue, into a real instrument of storytelling in art history and, plus encore, a full-fledged scholarly tool.…”
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Latin-Byzantine artistic interactions and the church of Saint Basil in Mržep (Montenegro) by Bacci Michele

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La représentation de la musique et de la danse dans les œuvres de Post et Wagner : une archéologie des musiques noires au Brésil by Jean-Pierre Estival

“…A gouache from the adventurer Zacharias Wagner completes the collection. By comparing art history analysis concerning the place of music in contemporary Dutch paintings with the few written sources, we emphasize the following points: precision regarding the organologic descriptions, the position of the musicians and the dancers’ bodies, as well as the type of performance represented.…”
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Espaces, ouvertures et organes de circulation en hauteur dans l’église romane by Sébastien Biay, Annick Gagné

“…The study of upper spaces in medieval churches calls for a multidisciplinary approach – monumental archaeology, art history, history of liturgy and of medieval text. …”
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The afterlife of François Le Moyne’s Annunciation on eighteenth-century Portuguese azulejos by Rosário Salema de Carvalho

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Re-imagining the History of British Abolition: The New Historical Consciousness in Winsome Pinnock’s Rockets and Blue Lights by Xiting Qiao

“…Turner as an anti-hero, Pinnock places Turner back in a Victorian ethical context to question the arbitrary construction of Turner’s heroism by the complicity of discourses of art history and abolitionism. The juxtaposition of historical and social texts reflects Pinnock’s awareness of the fictional nature of historical texts, and reveals the continuing impact of the transatlantic slave trade. …”
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Contemporary Painting as Reflector of Yoruba Cultural Values by Michael Olusegun Fajuyigbe

“…Formal and contextual methods in art history are employed in the analysis of the data. …”
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Le Désert comme scène de l’avoir lieu : Robert Smithson et Noah Purifoy by Antonia Rigaud

“…This article discusses two iconic desert interventions : Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and Purifoy’s Outdoor Desert Art Museum, in order to bring forward the art history debates of the time, moving away from formalist criticism towards more socio-political criticism. …”
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The “New” Beckett and the Word/Image Parallax: An Infra-Disciplinary Short-Circuit by Robert Kilroy

“…The broader argument is that the field of Beckett Studies allows for a new type of disciplinary encounter – what I call an “infra-disciplinary” short-circuit – to take place between art history and literary criticism.…”
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Intertextuality as a Poetic Rewriting Strategy in Pelin Batu’s Self-Translated Poems by Göksenin Abdal

“…In conclusion, it has been determined that Pelin Batu, as a Turkish poet, enriches her poems through intertextuality as a rewriting strategy with quotations, allusions and borrowing from various figures of literature, visual arts, art history, philosophy, and science.…”
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Quentin Tarantino : du cinéma d’exploitation au cinéma by Philippe Ortoli

“…Indeed, the films of Tarantino do not so much promote a pantheon of films that differs from that erected by the archeologists of cinema, but are driven by a desire to revisit the categories of film history, and thus of art history, ultimately leading to a redefinition of the very object of this quest: cinema, of course, and more generally, the image itself. …”
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Sculpture et datation, le renouveau d’un enjeu by Christian Sapin

“…A combination of archaeology and art history, the dating of sculptures in earlier works was often assessed based on a single criterion, such as historical sources from the site of provenance, or formal or morphological comparisons. …”
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Ikere-Ekiti in Art and Cultural Narratives by dele jegede

“… Ikere, a city in Ekiti State of southwestern Nigeria, comes up often in the literature of art history on two principal accounts: first, its art and architecture, and second, its major annual fesitval. …”
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<i>Foederis Arca</i>—The Ark of the Covenant, a Biblical Symbol of the Virgin Mary by José María Salvador-González

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Romanesque polychrome wood sculptures in Italy: towards a Corpus and a comparative analysis of the data from art-historical and technical studies by Grazia Maria Fachechi, Susanna Bracci

“…This was an extraordinary opportunity for interdisciplinary research, between art history and technical-material scientific analysis, concerning the almost two hundred works preserved there, of different dating and provenance. …”
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Innovative paradigms in New Japanese art: a case study of Yokoyama Taikan's selected artworks by Mao Xing, Sarena Abdullah

“…This study offers an interpretive perspective different from traditional art history and aesthetics, focusing on three aspects within the theoretical framework of visual culture studies: the interpretation of visual symbols, the evolution of aesthetic perspectives, and the acceptance of popular art through the case study method. …”
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Curating transformation can strengthen adaptation and minimize losses and damages by Joanne Clarke, Anne Haour, Hana Morel, Johanna Forster, Ben Orlove, Cornelius Holtorf, Andy Hutcheson, Victoria Aryee Adinorkuor, Christa Brunnschweiler, Nick Brooks, Sarah Wade, Nii-Adziri Wellington, Kwasi Appeaning Addo, Nicholas P. Simpson

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Accuracy and precision of smartphone colorimetry: a comparative analysis in RGB, HSV, and CIELAB color spaces for archaeological research by Yaowarat Sirisathitkul, Natthinee Dinmeung, Wannasan Noonsuk, Chitnarong Sirisathitkul

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When spatial agency bias and the advantage of the first mention are in contradiction: Evidence from Czech, German, and Spanish by Anna Marklová, Renate Delucchi Danhier

“… Evidence from Art (History), perceptual psychology, and (psycho-)linguistics support the claim that in Western culture (or rather within left-to-right writing languages), people depict or visualize more important or salient figures to the left. …”
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