The Journal of the History of Collections has launched a Thematic Virtual Issue on the topic of Collecting Prints and Drawings. The collection compiles articles from past issues of the journal and is a useful resource for those with research interests in the history of works on paper and the people who collected them.
Links to articles and further information can be found here
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Download below. English abstracts available.
https://1simposioirsablog.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/anais-arte-alc3a9m-da-arte.pdf
Including:
Terra-funded digital humanities publishing initiative
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
Deadline: Nov 16, 2018
The peer-reviewed open-access journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (NCAW) is pleased to circulate information regarding a digital humanities publishing initiative supported by a grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art. The editors of NCAW are accepting proposals for articles addressing art and visual culture of the United States in the long nineteenth century, from the American Revolution to World War I. NCAW seeks proposals that take full advantage of the potential of digital publishing by using digital technologies in the article’s research or publication phase, or both. Strong proposals will demonstrate how the production of digital tool(s) and/or components will lead to a scholarly argument’s key insights (either the tool/component enhanced the depth of insight or made it possible) and/or will illustrate aspects of that argument in dynamic/interactive ways. Continue reading “CFP: NCAW Terra-funded digital humanities publishing initiative”
This is an interesting read for anyone interested in the book related provenance research
von Robert Langer
Die 1596 gegründete Stadtbibliothek Bautzen ist die größte und zweitälteste öffentliche Bibliothek der Lausitz, jener Region, die sich über das südliche Brandenburg, das östliche Sachsen und das westliche Polen erstreckt. Aufgrund ihrer weit zurückreichenden Geschichte gehört sie zu denjenigen kommunal getragenen Bibliotheken, die neben einem auf Aktualität ausgerichteten Ausleihbestand auch einen nennenswerten Altbestand historischer Bücher besitzen. In einem separaten Lesesaal können die Nutzer die Bücher mit Erscheinungsjahren vor 1945 einsehen. Als 2016 ein Forschungsprojekt erstmals nachwies, dass sich darunter auch unrechtmäßig erworbene Bücher befinden, und zwar NS-Raubgut, waren die Bautzener sehr überrascht. Wie kam es hier her? Weshalb konnte es so lange unerkannt bleiben?
Prior to the 1970s, buildings were commonly understood to be the goal of architectural practice; architectural drawings were seen simply as a means to an end. But, just as the boundaries of architecture itself were shifting at the end of the twentieth century, the perception of architectural drawings was also shifting; they began to be seen as autonomous objects outside the process of building. In Drawing on Architecture, Jordan Kauffman offers an account of how architectural drawings—promoted by a network of galleries and collectors, exhibitions and events—emerged as aesthetic objects and ultimately attained status as important cultural and historical artifacts, and how this was both emblematic of changes in architecture and a catalyst for these changes. Continue reading “Book out now: Jordan Kauffman, Drawing on Architecture (MIT Press)”
Deadline: Sep 30, 2018
The third issue of Novecento Transnazionale will present a selection of articles focusing on Transnational perspectives and art history. This was born out of the idea that during the last decades, and particularly during the last thirty years, a revision of the systems of analysis, construction and narration of art history was necessary vis-à-vis a world increasingly characterized by migrations, the overcoming of national states and the intertwining of culture, history and identity. Continue reading “CFP: Novecento Transnazionale No. 3: Transnational perspectives and art history”
