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#ArtHistoryEngaged at SECAC 2015 and CAA 2016!
0Jennifer Borland recaps the exciting collaboration between Material Collective and Art History that at SECAC and gives a preview of upcoming events at CAA in February.
#ArtHistoryEngaged at SECAC 2015 in Pittsburgh
0Please join the Material Collective and Art History That at SECAC 2015 in Pittsburgh! We will be gathering to brainstorm together about socially engaged art history on Friday, October 23. And follow #ArtHistoryEngaged! See you there!
Looking Back AND Looking Forward: The Material Collective at Kalamazoo 2015
1Well, now that we’ve all had some time to recover, can we just say that this year’s International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo was a particularly exciting and thought-provoking one?
Comparative Approaches in Art History: CAA 2016 CFP
0Out of Time and Out of Place: Comparative Approaches in Art History CAA 2016 Session (Feb. 3-6, 2016, in Washington DC) This College Art Association Conference session, sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art, was conceptualized by the Material Collective as a way to encourage dialogue across the sub-fields of art history. We are […]
Collaborating at Babel 2014: Thinking Collectively about the Atlantic
0Once upon a time (or, rather, sometime two years ago), a nineteenth-century Americanist (Melissa Gniadek) and an Anglo-Saxonist (Donna Beth Ellard) decided to propose a session for BABEL’s October 2014 meeting in Santa Barbara, CA. But what do an Americanist and Anglo-Saxonist have to say to one another? This was precisely the question that first […]
MC in the Midwest
0A midwestern contingent of the Material Collective just returned from the First Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, a new conference begun this year at St. Louis University.
Feeling Cheesy
7Although I find all of the food images in the Régime du corps to be extremely charming, there is something about this depiction of fromages that continues to delight and intrigue me.
Exposed
4I’ve had an obsession with the work of Kiki Smith for some time. I think it was always there, nascent since my first introductory art history course decades ago, but really flourished after I saw a retrospective of her work at SFMOMA in 2005.