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Diverse Voices of Japanese Modern and Contemporary Art: The Oral History Archives of Japanese Art
In this chapter, Kenji Kajiya provides an overview of the operations of the Oral History Archives of Japanese Art, discusses the approach to...
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Art History for Comics Past, Present and Potential Futures
This book looks at comics through the lens of Art History, examining the past influence of art-historical methodologies on comics scholarship to...
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Art History Turned Upside Down: David Kunzle and the Social History of Art
This chapter examines the art-historical methods employed across David Kunzle’s ambitious two-volume History of the Comic Strip. While the first...
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Seeing Comics through Art History Alternative Approaches to the Form
This book explores what the methodologies of Art History might offer Comics Studies, in terms of addressing overlooked aspects of aesthetics, form,...
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Why Does Comics Studies Need Art History (and Vice Versa)?
This introductory chapter examines the current state of Comics Studies and discusses how reintegrating art-historical methods would bring different...
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The Eyes of Archives: How Contemporary Taiwanese Video Art Set Off a Revolt Regarding Japanese Colonial History
In this chapter, Sing Song-yong focuses on works of three Taiwanese artists, Chen Chieh-Jen, Kao Chung-Li, and Hsu Chia-Wei, which were completed...
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AI-Generated Art
AI-generated paintings now sell at auction houses for significant money alongside human-created art. They have even been receiving broad critical...
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A History of Art Maps and Map**s
The European Renaissance produced a mapmaking tradition of detailed atlases, bringing together artistry and engineering. This tradition was later...
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Art, human rights, and threats from above
Art can present to people the dangers coming from above, like excessive surveillance, military attacks and climate change, which all threaten...
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What Is Socially Engaged Art History?
This essay argues for the development of socially engaged art history as a rigorous disciplinary practice through a consideration of the historical...
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The Need of Art Archives in India
In this chapter, Indian artist Samit Das discusses the need for archives in Indian art by exploring the idea of Modernity and Modernism in Indian...
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Street Art and Its Conservation Problems
The ever-increasing diffusion of street art in cities, recorded not only in the more peripheral urban systems but also in historical centers,...
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Afrofuturism and Animism as Method: Art History and Decolonisation in Black Panther
Art Historians have, since the late twentieth century, grappled with the discipline’s origins as a nineteenth-century Western European discourse...
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Applied Art History: Theory and Praxis
Applied art history correlates with applied arts, an artform that emphasizes pragmatism and aesthetic functionality. Applied art history promotes an...
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A Social History of Comics Art: Looking at Writers and Readers’ Capitalism for Beginners
This chapters builds on the chapter, “ Art History Turned Upside Down: David Kunzle and the Social History of Art...
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The State of the Art: Surveying Digital Russian Art History
With the growing interest in digital humanities, the methodology of digital art history is in some respects lagging behind the trend. Given the...
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Colour in Comics: Reading Lorenzo Mattotti Through the Lens of Art History
The question of the thematic dimension of colour has been a neglected one in many fields, including Comics Studies and Art History. In the twentieth...
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Studio Ghibli at the Art Museum: Exhibiting Animation as Art
Does Studio Ghibli make art? This chapter looks at the art exhibitions that Studio Ghibli has curated and at the exhibitions held at its bespoke...
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Art for All
The demand to democratise art can be traced back to the avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century. But through their critique or negation...