Eric Stryker: Situating Postwar Britain
May 26th, 2011
Evaluating the work of multiple artists, photographers and film-makers working in London in the years immediately following the end of the Second World War, Dr. Stryker is researching new explanations of the persistence of figuration in post-war British art and visual culture... [+] MORE
Pamela Patton: Art of Estrangement
November 17th, 2010
Patton’s project scrutinizes a wide range of works, from luxury manuscripts and altar sculptures to household ceramics and scribal doodles, in which imported and local motifs both reflected and reinforced the efforts of Spain’s Christian majority to renegotiate its relationship with a vibrant Jewish minority whose deep integration in the internal workings of the Christian kingdoms contrasted sharply to the externalized threat perceived from Iberian Muslims... [+] MORE
Adam Herring: How The Inca Saw
August 2nd, 2010
Adam Herring’s current project addresses the culture of visual experience the founders of the Inca dynasty established: his research examines how the Inca leadership saw, and how this complex sensory order gave shape to the art and architecture of the mature Inca state (ca. AD 1400-1532). Grounded in the critical methods of art history, cultural theory, and anthropological archaeology, his work considers the complex mediation of Inca vision in the plastic and spatial arts... [+] MORE