Author's Corner

Markéta Hánová, Yuka Kadoi, and Simone Wille | Collecting Asian Art

by Annemie Vandezande January 16, 2024

Collecting Asian Art: Cultural Politics and Transregional Networks in Twentieth-Century Central Europe examines museum collections of Asian art in the region of Central Europe, rather than the well-known collections of Western European and North American museums.

Posted in Art & Theory, Asian studies

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Sandra Križić Roban and Ana Šverko | Watching, Waiting

by Annemie Vandezande October 25, 2023

In the aftermath of Covid-19, the theme of ‘empty places’ has taken on a new relevance topicality and resonance. “It seemed that everyone was suddenly capturing emptiness through photography,” clarify editors Sandra Križić Roban and Ana Šverko.

Posted in Art & Theory, Photography

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Wendy Wiertz | Adellijk en artistiek

by Annemie Vandezande June 02, 2023

In haar boek Adellijk en artistiek toont Wendy Wiertz hoe amateurkunsten voor vrouwen een krachtig instrument waren om de eigen identiteit vorm te geven, om een plaats in een sociaal-cultureel netwerk te verwerven en om tastbare herinneringen na te laten.

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KuroDalaiJee | Anarchy of the Body

by Annemie Vandezande February 13, 2023

In 'Anarchy of the Body', art historian KuroDalaiJee sheds light on vital pieces of postwar Japanese avant-garde history by contextualizing the social, cultural, and political trajectories of artists across Japan in the 1960s.

Posted in Art & Theory, Japan

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Sarah Hegenbart | From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso

by Annemie Vandezande November 29, 2022

Sarah Hegenbart traces the path from Wagner’s introduction of the Gesamtkunstwerk in Bayreuth to Schlingensief’s attempt to charge the idea of the total artwork with new meaning by transposing it to the West African country Burkina Faso.

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Olga Smith | Contemporary Photography in France

by Annemie Vandezande October 14, 2022

In Contemporary Photography in France author Olga Smith explores the history of photography in France from the 1970s to the present day and sets photographic practices in contemporary art, documentary, photojournalism, and fashion in dialogue with French philosophy.

Posted in Art & Theory, Photography

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Andrew Shortland and Patrick Degryse | When Art Isn’t Real

by Annemie Vandezande March 01, 2022

The art world is a multi-billion-dollar industry which captures world headlines on a regular basis, for both good and bad reasons. When Art Isn’t Real deals with one of the most-discussed areas of controversy: high-profile objects that have experts arguing about their veracity. Some may have been looted, others may be fakes, some may be heavily restored or misattributed. Often, in these cases, analytical science is called on to settle a dispute. Authors Andrew Shortland and Patrick Degryse share some insights from behind the scenes and talk about what their project entails.

Posted in Archaeology, Art & Theory

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Hilde Van Gelder | Ground Sea

by Annemie Vandezande October 01, 2021

Imagine a world in which every individual has the fundamental right to be reborn. This vain dream haunts Ground Sea, Hilde Van Gelder's associative travelogue.

Stel je een wereld voor waarin elk individu het fundamentele recht heeft om herboren te worden. Deze ijdele droom waart rond in Ground Sea, Hilde Van Gelder's associatief reisverslag.

Posted in Art & Theory, Lieven Gevaert Series

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Jo Shaw | The Art of Being Dangerous

by Annemie Vandezande February 23, 2021

The Art of Being Dangerous offers many different images of women, some humorous, some challenging, some well-known, some forgotten, but all unique. In a dazzling variety of creative forms, artists and writers of diverse identities explore what it means to be a dangerous woman.

Posted in Art & Theory