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The Management of Display Equipment in Time-based Media Installations
Time-based media installations are works of art that incorporate audio, film, video, 35 mm slides or computer-based elements. This paper …
From the Green Box to Typo/Topography: Duchamp and Hamilton’s Dialogue in Print
This paper examines Marcel Duchamp's use of the collotype printing process for publishing the contents of his Green Box and …
Thomas Guest and Paul Nash in Wiltshire: Two Episodes in the Artistic Approach to British Antiquity
The artistic representation of British antiquity brings in its wake a problem of methodology: how are the working assumptions of …
Contemporary Art and the Role of Interpretation
Recent research indicates that the taught curriculum in art and design secondary school education pays scant attention to meaning-making in …
New Media Art and the Gallery in the Digital Age
This paper examines some the changes that digital technology has wrought upon conceptions of space, time and culture, and how …
Paintings on Canvas: Lining and Alternatives
This paper catalogues major changes in attitude during the last thirty years to conservation practice for the treatment of degraded …
Index, Diagram, Graphic Trace: Involuntary Drawing
The graphic trace is a hybrid type of representation: it takes from the index a registration of something unique – …
Lightning and Rain: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis and Matisse’s Hand: Involuntary Drawing
A celebrated sequence of slow-motion footage of Matisse’s working hand fascinated philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. This paper …
Production in View: Allan Sekula’s Fish Story and the Thawing of Postmodernism
Bill Roberts argues that Fish Story 1989–95 by the photographer and theorist Allan Sekula expresses a shift from a culture …
Drawing in the Dark: Involuntary Drawing
Susan Morris approaches the subject of involuntary drawing from the point of view of an artist trying to make a …
‘The Veriest Poem of Art in Nature’: E. A. Hornel’s Japanese Garden in the Scottish Borders
E. A. Hornel (1864–1933) depicted Galloway girls in decorative, idyllic natural settings. From 1900 he also designed a small Japanese …
Conservation Concerns for Acrylic Emulsion Paints: A Literature Review
Acrylic emulsion paints have been widely used by artists since their development in the late 1950s. This paper reviews the …
Awkward Relations
This paper focuses on practices that captured critical and curatorial attention in Scotland and England at the turn of this …
Van Dyck and France under the Ancien Régime 1641–1793
Examining Anthony Van Dyck’s reputation in France from his death in 1641 to the opening of the Musée du Louvre …
Judd through Oldenburg
In his critical writing on Claes Oldenburg during the 1960s Donald Judd explained how emotional content might be conveyed through …
Sugar, Salt and Curdled Milk: Millais and the Synthetic Subject
This article examines the sexual imagery of particular paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. It argues that criticism …
The Materials Used by British Oil Painters in the Nineteenth Century
This paper reviews existing literature on nineteenth-century British artists’ materials. Sources of information, such as colourmen’s archives, artists’ diaries and …
Wavelength: On Drawing and Sound in the Work of Trisha Donnelly: Involuntary Drawing
This article considers the relationship between drawing and sound in the work of American artist Trisha Donnelly (born 1974). Against …
Kenneth Armitage’s Pandarus (version 8)
This paper concentrates on the making and meaning of Kenneth Armitage Pandarus (version 8) 1963, which was recently presented to …
Becoming Machine: Surrealist Automatism and Some Contemporary Instances: Involuntary Drawing
Examining the idea of being ‘machine-like’ and its impact on the practice of automatic writing, this article charts a history …