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book cover 'Women, Art, Freedom'

What Karimi’s study ultimately demonstrates is that, even in the face of a grim political reality, activist art in Iran has continually reinvented itself for decades, embracing new and creative forms of resistance. - Verena Straub, 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual

Book Review of 📘 'Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran', Pamela Karimi @21inquiries.bsky.social

📖 Read the full review 👉 doi.org/10.11588/xxi...

#IranianArt #WomenArtists #womenlifefreedom #BookReview

Published today! Our Summer issue #2-25 - with an orbituary by Ursula Frohne for our co-founder Michael F. Zimmermann, an article "On Leisure and Limbo. Adriatic Nodes of Tourism and Migration" by Hanni Geiger, an exhibition review & 7 book reviews: doi.org/10.11588/xxi...

#ArtHistory #OpenAccess

Cover for "21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual"'s summer issue. The cover is illustrated with a thermometer showing 21 degrees Celsius.

@21inquiries.bsky.social's summer issue #2-25 is coming soon! With an obituary for our co-founder Michael F. Zimmermann, an article by Hanni Geiger on "Adriatic Nodes of Tourism and Migration", an exhibition review, and many book reviews. More here: 21-inquiries.eu/en/preview
#ArtHistory #OpenAccess

Out now! Spring issue #1-25 of @21inquiries.bsky.social, with articles on board games in 17th-century France, the 19th-century painter Johann Moritz Rugendas’ "Voyage Pittoresque dans le Brésil", and on climate activism in museums: doi.org/10.11588/xxi...

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#DiamondOpenAccess

21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur

Spring issue #1-25 of @21inquiries.bsky.social in preparation and coming soon, with articles by Sasha Rossman, Miguel Gaete Caceres, and Marlene Militz, an exhibition review and five book reviews. Sneak preview on our website: 21-inquiries.eu/en/preview
#ArtHistory #OpenAccess

Find the full text open access (PDF/HTML) here: doi.org/10.11588/xxi...

#openaccess #arthistory #StellaKramrisch #IndianArt #Transculturation

Just published - in time for the holidays and highly recommended as an exciting read: @21inquiries.bsky.social's issue #4-2024💫
A special issue on "Stella Kramrisch and the Transculturation of Art History", ed. by Matthew Vollgraff & Jo Ziebritzki: doi.org/10.11588/xxi...

Coming soon! Exciting special issue on "Stella Kramrisch and the Transculturation of Art History" in preparation, ed. by Matthew Vollgraff & Jo Ziebritzki - get a first impression here: 21-inquiries.eu/en/preview
With four articles, an "Archival Dossier", seven book reviews and an exhibition review!

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Cover for #issue 3/24 of 21: Inquiries: https://doi.org/10.11588/xxi.2024.3 (illustration: three dominoes whose eyes add up to the number 21).

Published today! Fall issue #3/24 of @21inquiries.bsky.social, with articles by Caroline van Eck, Aaron M. Hyman, Marina Gerber, Leena Crasemann & Anne Röhl, lots of images - and four book reviews: doi.org/10.11588/xxi.2024.3
#arthistory #openaccess #globalarthistory

Anonym, The new Crystal Palace, Sydenham. Placing the first pillar, 1852, Papier, in: Illustrated London News, 14.08.1852 © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy Stock Photo.

The "Placing the first pillar" of the "new Crystal Palace, Sydenham", London (1852). Find more on this special building - a legacy of the Great Exhibition of 1851 - in Andreas Fahrmeir's contribution in @21inquiries.bsky.social's special issue on world exhibitions: doi.org/10.11588/xxi...

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We are preparing @21inquiries.bsky.social's autumn issue #3-24! 🍂 Check out our website for a sneak preview: 21-inquiries.eu/en/preview
#ArtHistory #OpenAccess

Pavillon de la Tunisie construit pour l'exposition coloniale de 1907. Sources : Carte postale du CIRAD - © Photo Nathalie Tirot.

Notre nouveau numéro spécial rassemble des articles sur le thème des "expositions universelles" sous des angles très différents. Ils sont présentés individuellement dans les deux éditoriaux (allemand/français) : doi.org/10.11588/xxi... et doi.org/10.11588/xxi....

Pavillon de la Tunisie construit pour l'exposition coloniale de 1907. Sources : Carte postale du CIRAD - © Photo Nathalie Tirot.

Our new special issue brings together articles on "World Exhibitions" from very different perspectives. They are presented individually in the two editorials (German/French) - always a good starting point for a first overview: doi.org/10.11588/xxi... and doi.org/10.11588/xxi...

Cover: https://doi.org/10.11588/xxi.2024.2

Out now! @21inquiries.bsky.social's special issue #2–2024 "Welten ausstellen, Welten ordnen (19.–21. Jahrhundert)/Mondes exposés, mondes ordonnés (XIXe–XXIe siècles)", ed. by A. Haß & C. Trautmann-Waller: doi.org/10.11588/xxi... #openaccess #arthistory #expositionuniverselle

@21inquiries.bsky.social in Lyon at the "Salon du Livre" of the 36ème Congrès du CIHA! Huge thanks to our fantastic colleagues from @arthistoricum.bsky.social for displaying our bookmarks #CIHA2024 #CIHA #Lyon #arthistory #openaccess

Cover design by Alex Balgiu (http://designingwriting.com/); graphic design by Kaj Lehmann (https://kajlehmann.ch/).

Coming soon! New special issue on: "Welten ausstellen, Welten ordnen (19.–21. Jahrhundert)/Mondes exposés, mondes ordonnés (XIXe–XXIe siècles)", ed. by Annika Haß & Céline Trautmann-Waller: 21-inquiries.eu/en/preview #Weltausstellungen #Expositionsuniverselles #OpenAccess

Thank you for the great collaboration to our colleagues from
arthistoricum.net and our graphic designer kajlehmann.ch - it has been a pleasure, as always!

...with articles by Tatiana Flores, Carmen Robertson, Karin Zitzewitz, Peggy Wang, Birgit Hopfener, Akshaya Tankha, Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou & Emilia Terracciano - as well as reviews of six books and one exhibition.

https://doi.org/10.11588/xxi.2024.1

Just published: @21inquiries.bsky.social's special issue #1–2024 "Towards a Multi-Temporal Pluriverse of Art. Decolonizing Universalized Historiographic and Temporal Frameworks", ed. by Birgit Hopfener & Karin Zitzewitz doi.org/10.11588/xxi...
#openaccess #arthistory #globalarthistory #pluriverse

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New special issue for @21inquiries.bsky.social in preparation: "Towards a Multi-Temporal Pluriverse of Art. Decolonizing Universalized Historiographic and Temporal Frameworks", ed. by Birgit Hopfener & Karin Zitzewitz. For a preview click here: 21-inquiries.eu/en/preview #arthistory #OpenAccess

Have you already read the five book reviews in
@21inquiries.bsky.social's latest issue? You can read them online or download them free of charge here: doi.org/10.11588/xxi...
#openaccess #arthistory #arthistoryreviews #globalarthistory

Paul Werling analyses how portraits generated by Nvidia’s StyleGAN2 relate to the photographic in his article "Does this Person Exist? KI-Generierte Porträts und ihre prekäre Existenz im Digitalen Raum" for @21inquiries.bsky.social: doi.org/10.11588/xxi... #GeneratedPortraits #ArtificialIntelligence

Author unknown, Object-label Internet meme (“Distracted boyfriend”; 27 November 2023).

In his article "Memetic Superposition. Evaluating the Parallels between Memes and Renaissance Emblems" Ray Drainville argues that our understanding of memes can be enhanced by a comparison with Renaissance emblems as their historical precursor: doi.org/10.11588/xxi.2023.4.100739 #arthistory

Documentation of Marina Abramović, The Artist Is Present, 2010–2011, Wikimedia (November 16, 2023), photo by Andrew Russeth.

Jules Pelta Feldman's article on "Reperformance, Reenactment, Simulation. Notes on the Conservation of Performance Art" (doi.org/10.11588/xxi...) focuses on works by Marina Abramović, their representations in popular media and their conservation through simulation in popular media. #OpenAccess

Salima Hashmi, Morning Paper, 1983, Mixed media on paper, 38.1 × 45.72 cm, Lahore, Col­lection of the Artist © Salima Hashmi.

In her essay "The Female Nude in Anti-Zia Feminist Painting" Kristin Plys explores the intersection of art and left politics after the 1977 coup that launched General Zia-ul-Haq’s military dictatorship in Pakistan: doi.org/10.11588/xxi... #Feminism #arthistory #OpenAccess

Albrecht Dürer, Angel from Feast of the Rose Garlands, 1506, Brush on blue paper, 270 × 208 mm. Vienna, Albertina, inv. no. 3099 © Albertina, Vienna.

In her article for @21inquiries.bsky.social's latest issue - "Ecologies of Blue Paper. Dürer and Beyond" - Iris Brahms examines blue paper as an "ecological solution" in the drawing practice of German artists in the early sixteenth century: doi.org/10.11588/xxi... #arthistory #openaccess #Dürer

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A happy, peaceful and fulfilling new year to all our readers!

@21inquiries.bsky.social is entering its fifth year: We look forward to presenting you with four more exciting issues in 2024.
If you would like to publish with us yourself, please send your submissions to 21-inquiries@unibe.ch.