By Alexandra K. Wettlaufer (NHC Fellow, 2007–08) Women in the studio: representing professional identity — "Why are you no longer my brothers?" The Fraternité des arts and the female artist in Marceline Desbordes-Valmore's L'atelier d'un peintre — Sisterhood in/as the studio: Anna Mary Howitt's sisters in art — Visualizing imagined communities: lessons of the female … Continued
Edited by David Warren Sabean (NHC Fellow, 2008–09) and Malina Stefanovska The notion of ‘selfhood’ conjures up images of self-sufficiency, integrity, introspectiveness, and autonomy – characteristics typically associated with ‘modernity.’ The seventeenth century marks the crucial transition to a new form of ‘bourgeois’ selfhood, although the concept goes back to the pre-modern and early modern … Continued
By Eleanor Winsor Leach (NHC Fellow, 1992–93) Eleanor Winsor Leach offers a new interpretation of Roman painting as found in domestic spaces of the elite classes of ancient Rome. Leach contends that the painted images reflect the codes of communication embedded in upper class life, such as the theatricality expected of those leading public lives, … Continued
By Carl Nordenfalk (NHC Fellow, 1978–79; 1979–80; 1980–81)
By Jonah Siegel (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) In this fascinating look at the creative power of institutions, Jonah Siegel explores the rise of the modern idea of the artist in the nineteenth century, a period that also witnessed the emergence of the museum and the professional critic. Treating these developments as interrelated, he analyzes both visual … Continued
By Shūji Takashina (NHC Fellow, 1981–82)
By Irena Kossowska (NHC Fellow, 2009–10)
By David Carrier (NHC Fellow, 2006–07) Two of the most important modernist artists, Marcel Proust and Andy Warhol, also developed aesthetic theories. Proust presents imaginary artists – a composer, a painter, and a novelist. Warhol made paintings and sculptures; created art history writing, fiction, and films; and sponsored a rock group. Warhol most likely never … Continued
By Rona Goffen (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) Goffen considers the church of Santa Croce, the Bardi Dossal, and Giotto’s cycle of Saint Francis both in relation to each other and in the context of the history and spirituality of the Franciscan order during its first century. The dossal is the visual equivalent of the writings of … Continued
By Tim Carter (NHC Fellow, 2015–16)