Early & midcareer art historians are eligible to be nominated for the 2024 Dan David Prize 🖼️📚

Do you know someone doing outstanding & original work related to the study of the human past, incl. #arthistory? Nominate them here: https://dandavidprize.org/nominate/

Deadline: Oct 11, 2023⏳

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Th'usband and I have received a pair of #paintings of #coastal scenes by an #artist called #Vass. They might be of the #NorthWales #coast but we're not sure. They were in Mr'icks's grandparents'house in #Prestatyn. Any #ArtLovers #ArtDetectives #ArtCurators #ArtHistorians who might know who Vass is, we'd be glad to know more.

New week, new website: https://louisamckenziearthistory.com

#arthistorians #ArtHistodons

@baroquepawel So, interestingly, Elkins point as I see it (& I do like Elkins books) is that #arthistorians are always looking for new 'puzzles' to solve & so make the work(s) complex in their (very) interpretation;
this, in a sense, intellectualises away a more visceral response (seeing such a response as naive or unthinking); but of course, if we take seriously (which I do) that art is the result of a conversation between #artist & beholder, then there can be no final 'meaning' only meaningS!

Any #ArtHistorians around here?
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Novel research of the day: Flammability of painted canvasses in the late 1800s. Also, how were they stored (flat or rolled up)?

I am hoping they were quite flammable.
I sent my questions to the local art museum. If any art history experts here have answers, I have questions.

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Good morning, #paleography and #arthistory Mammutidae. I spend a lot of time thinking about how to teach the history of script to audiences diverse in background and preparation. One thing I really have not solved, except through trial and mostly error, is how best to serve students who are not by nature or training good visual memorizers.

I have the feeling #arthistorians might have thought and written about this, but I haven't found much practical about the #pedagogy of art history.

In teaching paleography, I follow Albert Derolez's methodology in describing script so that one can use the schemata of classification, dating, etc., without having an oculus paleographicus. I teach students constantly to move between the view of the page from across the room and the minute examination of letterforms, using one to check the other. I employ a teachable narrative of the history of script that gives students real-world contexts and sequences for visual and material detail. (more toots...)

Partial refugee from Twitter, hoping this will get off the ground as a less fraught space. I’m an art historian with a focus on 20th-cent. sculpture and the art market. Also editor of the Moissey Kogan Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture and Prints - here’s one of his woodcuts from the early 1920s #arthistory #arthistorians #artmarket #artdealers #modernistsculpture #modernistprints #introduction

#arthistorians #Holocaust #scholars
An important new #database of #art market #archives in #Düsseldorf for 1933-1945 has just been announced on #lootedart.com!

overview: https://www.duesseldorf.de/fileadmin/Amt41-Zoll/kulturamt/pdf/Provenienzforschung/UEbersicht_der_tiefenverzeichneten_und_gescannten_Akten_mit_Links.pdf

link to search: https://www.archive.nrw.de/archivsuche

Questions to #histodons #arthistorians. Have you ever tried to get to the buyer / seller of an archival document that has been subject to an #auction? I tried to contact the auction house through the website where I saw an archival document sold for private rather than public use but was never put in touch with the seller. It'd be very interesting to know where the document came from and whether there are others, and possibly to put them to public rather than private use. Any suggestions as to how to approach the auction house effectively? I honestly doubt that they have ever passed my query on to the original seller. Or am i missing the point and should just give up on tracking down the initiator of a private transaction? In case it's relevant: it was a handwritten note by the former #QueenOfHaiti to borrow some money. Date: 1847.

A throwback (tootback?!) to a recent archival hunt in Paris. This is (the copy of) a #1791 #passport issued by the #enslaved insurgents during the #HaitianRevolution. They swore an oath of allegiance to Spain through the Archbishop of #SantoDomingo. The heart with a flame presumably represented the Heart of Mary, but maybe some #arthistorians out there can chime in? I also think that “MDM” may possibly stand for “Maria Dei Mater”, and “MN” for “Mater Nostra”. No certainties, though. The sketch is included in an eye-witness testimony to give the French information on the insurgents.

#arthistory #arthistorian #arthistorians hello! #earlymodernengland #earlymoderndenmark

Partial refugee from Twitter, hoping this will get off the ground as a less fraught space. I’m an art historian with a focus on 20th-cent. sculpture and the art market. Also editor of the Moissey Kogan Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture and Prints - here’s one of his woodcuts from the early 1920s #arthistory #arthistorians #artmarket #artdealers #modernistsculpture #modernistprints