History of art

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History of art (V350): Historical study of developments in the arts and consideration of art history methods and techniques. Includes the enhancement of visual awareness and expertise as an aspect of cultural history.

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Title	Description	Keywords	Full details
The Destructive Myth of the Juggernaut: Exploring Representations of the Rath Jatra Festival in Early Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature by Amy Jones	This article compares two near-contemporary depictions of the cart transporting the Hindu god Jagannatha (or Jaga-Nath, Juggernaut) during the...	Long 19th century, Colonialism, East India Company, Robert Southey	view
Magical Materialism: The Role of Costume in the Rituals of The Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn and E. Nesbit’s The Enchanted Castle, Brynne Laska	The dominance of scientific rationalism and the authority of organised religion in the Victorian era set the preconditions for dissent as the...		view
Representations of Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, Marcela Abadia	This article will focus on two representations of Lady Margaret Beaufort, King Henry VII’s mother. It will examine Bishop John Fisher’s ...	16th century, Tudors	view
Suggested reading on 19th century furniture design	Suggested reading on 19th century furniture design	Nineteenth-century, Interior design, Interiors, Furnishings, Furniture, Designers, Victorian	view
Josephine Butler (1828 – 1906) as depicted by Alexander Munro in sculpture (1855) and obituary (1907). Philippa Toogood	The purpose of this essay is to explore the extent to which Alexander Munro’s 1855 sculpture of Josephine Butler and her obituary, published in...		view
‘Crossing borders of representation’: Intersections of race, class and gender in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘Jenny’ and William Holman Hunt’s The Afterglow in Egypt, Illona Meyer	This paper considers the intersection of issues of race, class and gender in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘Jenny’ and William Holman Hunt’s The...	race, Gender, Pre-raphaelite	view
The role of female vampires in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and The Vampire by Sir Philip Burne-Jones by Gavin Fiddler	This article is an examination of Bram Stoker’s masterpiece, Dracula, and Sir Philip Burne-Jones’s controversial work, The Vampire...	19th century, Pre-raphaelite	view
‘To Instruct our Wand’ring Thought’: Nature as Tutor in an Age of Revolution by Nancy Kummerlein	Abstract: How do artists detect, respond to, and cope with tectonic shifts, whether political or technological, in the societies in which they...	18th century, Thomas Gainsborough, Anne Finch	view
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Femme Fatale or Fettered Faery? The ambivalence of Arthur Hughes’ Interpretation of Keats’ “La Belle Dames Sans Merci” by Shiraz Vapiwala	Abstract: This article will explore and analyse how Arthur Hughes’ interpretation of John Keats’ poem, ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ (1819) offers...	19th century, John Keats, Arthur Hughes	view

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