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Conference report on: Max Dvořák and the “Denkmalpflege”, 13 October 2021, Monuments Board of the Slovak Republic
Get PDFThe year of 2021 was remembered as the centenary of the death of Max Dvořák, one of the leading figures of the Vienna School of Art History. The branch of Austrian monument protection represented a lesser-known field of his professional career. This extended report gives an overview of the international online symposium organized by the Monuments Board of the Slovak Republic
A Legal Perspective on Nuclear Back-End Management in the Circular Economy
Get PDFTo what extent can circular economy principles enhance the sustainability of nuclear energy? To what extent does the Dutch regulatory framework for nuclear back-end management allow for the transition to a circular economy
Digital Humanities for art history 2022: A snapshot
Get PDFThe Summer School dedicated to Digital Humanities (DH) for Art History, held between 27 June and 1 July 2022 at the Department of Excellence of the Department of Human Sciences (DSU Scienze Umane) of the University of L’Aquila, represented a singular opportunity for an in-depth snapshot of a discipline that, de facto, has only recently managed to carve out a defined space within academia. This, all the while for decades having been a fundamental component of many research institutes’ activities and at the same time acquiring a predominant role in the vast world of protection, enhancement and dissemination of cultural patrimony
Air Quality in Transport Hubs - Policy Briefing Note produced by the TRANSITION Clean Air Network
Get PDFTransport hubs (for example railway and bus stations) may be important air pollution hotspots contributing significantly to overall pollutant exposure. This briefing note, produced by the TRANSITION Clean Air Network, examines the current evidence and regulatory landscape, and explores potential opportunities to reduce exposure in these environments.
The TRANSITION Clean Air Network is a UK-wide network, led by the University of Birmingham in collaboration with nine universities and over 20 cross-sector partners, aiming to optimise the air quality and health outcomes of transport decarbonisation; it is funded by UKRI via the UK Clean Air Strategic Priorities Fund, administered by NERC [NE/V002449/1]
First Steps in Trees and New Developments
Get PDFNational planning policies and guidance across the UK increasingly emphasise the need for trees in new developments. At a time when pressure to provide new housing is high, it can seem daunting to make space for trees while meeting viability and housing number targets. Yet, by adhering to simple principles of good practice from pre- to post-planning, such an ambition can be met. This short guide explains how
The early years of Leopoldo Cicognara’s book collection
Get PDFBased on a newly discovered inventory, the article examines the early years of Francesco Leopoldo Cicognara’s book collection. Begun in 1798 as a suitable activity for a diplomat and as a cover for subversive contacts in Masonic circles, the collecting activity is described during the turbulent years between 1798 and 1804. Cicognara’s attitude and interests seem to have changed during these years, so that the focus shifted from purely bibliophilic interests to the content of the books themselves, turning the collection into a scholarly tool for research in art histor
Henry Moore and the historiography of early Italian art
Get PDFHenry Moore’s fascination with early Italian art manifests itself not only in his work but also in interviews, letters and other texts. His comments on Giotto, Masaccio and Giovanni Pisano are of special interest. They testify to Moore’s admiration for these artists and for qualities in their work that fuelled his own modernist ambitions. They also bear witness to art-historical debates about early Italian art at a moment when it was undergoing a particularly formalist construction. In this article, Moore’s ideas will be situated against the background of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century scholarship on early Italian art. The article will explore to what extent Moore’s observations are comparable to that of contemporary art historians. It will also identify moments where Moore’s ideas offer unique and original perspectives on the work of Giotto, Giovanni Pisano and Masaccio that were not shared by his contemporaries
Traffic of the Stage (Database)
No full textTraffic of the Stage is an MS Access database containing information for UK Shakespeare productions 1996-2021 inclusive. The scope includes professional and amateur productions open to the public, ballets, operas, musicals, puppet versions, adaptations for children, apocrypha, plays which include Shakespeare as a character, plays which use Shakespearean themes. The slightest connection with Shakespeare warrants inclusion
Revisioning Stalinist discourse of art: Mikhail Liebman’s academic networks and his social art history
Get PDFThe article addresses the art historian and leading Renaissance scholar Mikhail Liebman’s 1960s and 1970s texts, which present his understandings of the discourse and methodology of art history. It was a time when the Soviet art history avant-garde, called ‘revisionists’, encouraged by Khrushchev’s de-Stalinisation policy, began critically reappraising art and art history’s Marxist-Leninist/Stalinist approach. The article seeks to determine why and how Liebman’s art history discourse changed in this new political situation. What was ‘Marxist’ in it and how did he arrive at the ‘social history of art’? I argue that it was the official socialist system of internationalisation which allowed Liebman to attend international forums in his discipline, and hence to be in dialogue with the contemporary Western art historical discourse(s). I also ask how, given the paucity of sources and the ideologically ambivalent conditions in which art historical texts in Soviet Union were created, one can find the right code for reading socialist art histories
Art history and empiricism: a response to Ian Verstegen’s review of Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates
Get PDFIn this letter to the editor, I counter Ian Verstegen’s suggestion in his recent review of my book that Meyer Schapiro’s critiques of the grand theories of the 20th century were anti-theoretical. Rather than sceptical refutations of art-historical theory in general, Schapiro’s engagements with figures like Freud and Heidegger betray his awareness that empiricism and pragmatism are themselves philosophical practices
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