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Arts, Volume 12, Issue 4

2023 August - 55 articles

Cover Story: The paper revisits information presented in a well-known document dated 4 July 1499 and located in Venice (Archivio di Stato di Venezia). The document provides detailed information of a commission of 700 icons of the Virgin placed by two merchants to three Cretan painters residing in the island’s capital, Candia (present-day Herakleion), at the time a Venetian colony. The delivery of this large number of icons was set just 42 days later, 15 August 1499, and the financial value of the transaction is outlined. The evidence raises questions of demand for icons, their production and dissemination within the wider socio-economic setting of Renaissance Europe; hence, the paper aims at consolidating the shifting perspective towards acknowledging icons as a crucial force in shaping the pan-European cultural identity. View this paper
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Articles (55)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,317 Views
20 Pages

21 August 2023

The main goal of this article is to introduce a new method for the analysis of depicted gestures in painting, namely a transcription system called chiroscript. Based on the model of transcription and annotation systems used in linguistics of co-speec...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,507 Views
12 Pages

15 August 2023

This paper argues that mapping as a methodology can support localised production, as exemplified in the case study of the design studio Atelier NL which marries contemporary design sensibilities with traditional glass and ceramics craft-making techni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,953 Views
36 Pages

Saint Mamas at Exeles: An Unusual Case of Ritual Piety on Karpathos

  • Angeliki Katsioti and
  • Nikolaos Mastrochristos

15 August 2023

The church of Saint Mamas is a small, domed structure that lies close to Menetes village in Karpathos. It preserves most of its painted decoration, consisting of the scene of the Ascension of Christ on the dome and saintly figures on the rest of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,806 Views
10 Pages

The Laocoon Moment

  • Jens Schröter

12 August 2023

Lessing’s Laokoon from 1766 is still an important text in the discussion on the borders between different arts and their media. Especially in the 20th century, texts were written that referred back to Lessing’s seminal text. One of the mo...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
2,386 Views
9 Pages

10 August 2023

The museum’s instrumentalisation of contemporary art as a visitor attraction has come to mean that any use of live animals in art now must participate in and acknowledge the politics of spectacle, which for other animals means the optics of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6,824 Views
20 Pages

8 August 2023

A number of foreign artists received the earliest commissions to represent Napoleon’s Russian Campaign of 1812 for Russian emperors. My paper is a case study of a German artist who served the Russian Imperial court. Peter von Hess trained at th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,567 Views
25 Pages

31 July 2023

Tacita Dean’s art relies on the perception of liminalities, of moving in-between, of one medium unfolding into another through dispersed, “molecular” sensations, either subverting or augmenting impressions of art forms perceived on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,421 Views
16 Pages

28 July 2023

The colonial visual archive has occupied in recent decades the work of scholars and artists from indigenous and racial minority communities, who revealed it as a major apparatus of historical meta-narratives. This article aims at pushing forward this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,017 Views
21 Pages

27 July 2023

Glass is made from sand—a finite resource. Hence, there is a need to maintain glass in the industrial cycle as described in the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s circular-economy diagram. This research project examines the reallocation of mate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,324 Views
9 Pages

25 July 2023

This article focuses on the formation of identity as a stratified discourse between the singular and the collective, and how that exchange is expressed as a visual palimpsest by the artists Annette Cords, G Farrell Kellum, and Njideka Akunyili Crosby...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,715 Views
10 Pages

21 July 2023

This essay, which reframes elements of my 2015 book, Daguerreotypes: Fugitive Subjects, Contemporary Objects, returns to the lacuna at the heart of Roland Barthes’s reflections on photo-graphy: the so-called “Winter Garden” photogra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,481 Views
51 Pages

21 July 2023

The Castillejo de Monteagudo, which has been well known since excavations began in 1924, is a palatial residence built on a promontory. However, the fact that it was part of an extensive agricultural estate, known as Ḥiṣn al-Faraj, which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
11,773 Views
27 Pages

19 July 2023

The main goal of this article is to summarize and present the most important facts concerning the use of the pink color in the built environment of the 20th and 21st centuries, considering its symbolic, functional, and decorative aspects, with partic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,095 Views
12 Pages

13 July 2023

The present article examines Anglo–Soviet architectural relations during the Second World War, the peculiarities of the perception of foreign experience, and the mutual professional interests. This paper aims to find evidence of multilateral an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,461 Views
22 Pages

Feel the Music!—Audience Experiences of Audio–Tactile Feedback in a Novel Virtual Reality Volumetric Music Video

  • Gareth W. Young,
  • Néill O’Dwyer,
  • Mauricio Flores Vargas,
  • Rachel Mc Donnell and
  • Aljosa Smolic

13 July 2023

The creation of imaginary worlds has been the focus of philosophical discourse and artistic practice for millennia. Humans have long evolved to use media and imagination to express their inner worlds outwardly via artistic practice. As a fundamental...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,570 Views
9 Pages

13 July 2023

A burgeoning field of literature considers animal law, the status of animals as legal objects, the protection of animals in laboratories, wild animals, etc. One aspect not often considered in the literature is the intersection between animal law and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,229 Views
22 Pages

Exploring the Opportunities of Haptic Technology in the Practice of Visually Impaired and Blind Sound Creatives

  • Jacob Harrison,
  • Alex Lucas,
  • James Cunningham,
  • Andrew P. McPherson and
  • Franziska Schroeder

13 July 2023

Visually impaired and blind (VIB) people as a community face several access barriers when using technology. For users of specialist technology, such as digital audio workstations (DAWs), these access barriers become increasingly complex—often s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,342 Views
21 Pages

12 July 2023

Media coverage was vital in establishing the popular reputation of the Abstract Expressionists. Reporting regularly relied on photographic portraits to present these artists as modernist innovators who were an extension of (or even a replacement for)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,352 Views
11 Pages

11 July 2023

The current scholarship on testimonio largely focusses on its application in literature, failing to address the genre’s possibilities beyond written and spoken narratives. However, voices that exist outside of the literary realm have employed t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,806 Views
14 Pages

11 July 2023

This article considers finds from the Scythian monuments of the North Black Sea area that can be connected to local jewelry production from the 7th century to the end of the 4th century BCE. I wish to draw attention to the problem of prolonged bias i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,181 Views
14 Pages

11 July 2023

Well (2020) is an installation by Israeli artists Noga Or Yam and Faina Feigin. It investigates the story of an underground passage in Tel Aviv designed by a British Mandate-era Jewish architect. Starting from this building, the artists’ archival res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,606 Views
21 Pages

Tactual Articulatory Feedback on Gestural Input

  • Bert Bongers and
  • G. C. van der Veer

10 July 2023

The role of the sense of touch in Human–Computer Interaction as a channel for feedback in manipulative processes is investigated through the research presented here. The paper discusses how information and feedback as generated by the computer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,181 Views
23 Pages

Design and Evaluation of a Multisensory Concert for Cochlear Implant Users

  • Razvan Paisa,
  • Doga Cavdir,
  • Francesco Ganis,
  • Peter Williams,
  • Lone M. Percy-Smith and
  • Stefania Serafin

10 July 2023

This article describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of vibrotactile concert furniture, aiming to improve the live music experience of people with hearing loss using hearing technology such as cochlear implants (CI). The system was the r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,873 Views
13 Pages

Challenges and Opportunities of Force Feedback in Music

  • Christian Frisson and
  • Marcelo M. Wanderley

10 July 2023

A growing body of work on musical haptics focuses on vibrotactile feedback, while musical applications of force feedback, though more than four decades old, are sparser. This paper reviews related work combining music and haptics, focusing on force f...

  • Study Protocol
  • Open Access
10 Citations
11,209 Views
24 Pages

10 July 2023

Today, some of the most widely attended concerts are in virtual reality (VR). For example, the videogame Fortnite recently attracted 12.3 million viewers sitting in homes all over the world to a VR Travis Scott rap concert. As such VR concerts become...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,011 Views
27 Pages

10 July 2023

Despite the benefits of learning an instrument, many students drop out early because it can be frustrating for the student, expensive for the caregiver, and loud for the household. Virtual Reality (VR) and Extended Reality (XR) offer the potential to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,540 Views
23 Pages

7 July 2023

The physics-based design and realization of a digital musical interface asks for the modeling and implementation of the contact-point interaction with the performer. Musical instruments always include a resonator that converts the input energy into s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,556 Views
25 Pages

Design and Assessment of Digital Musical Devices Yielding Vibrotactile Feedback

  • Stefano Papetti,
  • Hanna Järveläinen and
  • Federico Fontana

7 July 2023

Touch has a pivotal importance in determining the expressivity of musical performance for a number of musical instruments. However, most digital musical devices provide no interactive force and/or vibratory feedback to the performer, thus depriving t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,095 Views
17 Pages

4 July 2023

Since Manolis Chatzidakis’s pivotal publications on post-Byzantine Cretan icon painting in the 1970s, research in the field is, by now, very well established. In turn, these studies have demonstrated the contribution of Venetian Crete’s a...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1,610 Views
3 Pages

4 July 2023

The goal of this Special Issue is to promote a deeper, more nuanced understanding of the Baltic Sea Region as a nexus of artistic exchange during the long nineteenth century, and to inspire further research on this understudied and ideologically isol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,697 Views
27 Pages

3 July 2023

The Dingling Mausoleum was built as the afterlife abode of Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty (r. 1573–1620) and his two wives. Among the thousands of burial goods excavated from the site are two embroidered silk jackets that belonged to Impe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,450 Views
21 Pages

1 July 2023

The gold pectoral from Tovsta Mohyla is a masterpiece of Greco-Scythian metalwork, the most prominent and esteemed of all the finds uncovered in 260 years of excavating the Scythian kurgans. After the pectoral was discovered on 21 June 1971 by B. Moz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
11,138 Views
21 Pages

30 June 2023

While past studies have considered the relationship between art and architecture, art and society, or society and architecture, few consider all three, let alone when discussing these subjects in the United Arab Emirates. This article presents the ev...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
6,460 Views
10 Pages

30 June 2023

Actor training in Western culture evolved as an oral tradition. Formal education appeared in the late-nineteenth century with the work of Konstantin Stanislavski. Despite its relatively brief history, the family tree of theatre pedagogy now consists...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,056 Views
9 Pages

28 June 2023

In the field of horror film studies, the question of trauma is generally related to the spectator’s experience. The trauma of images occurs in the context of socio-cultural actualization. The degree of violence involved in the images, either graphic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,624 Views
24 Pages

27 June 2023

This article examines a recent form of marketing superhero comics that has garnered extensive media attention and has been promoted as the next big step in comics production: the decision by companies like Marvel Comics and DC Comics to offer selecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,974 Views
21 Pages

26 June 2023

In the collections of the Harvard Art Museums there is an icon of the Virgin and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Roch. Although a typical product of Cretan icon painting of the turn of the sixteenth century, the icon stands out from similar co...

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