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The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s hymn to the courtly arts, The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England, culminates with a triumphant corpus of portraits of Elizabeth I (r. 1558–1603).
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This book unpacks and fleshes out early globalisms in material and object-oriented terms, demonstrating how the perspective of art history can enhance the expanding field of global history.
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This article focuses on the material properties of tree bark, its cultural history, and its potential for future applications.
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The relations between human and animal camouflage have rarely been investigated. Current scholarship, focusing on the evolutionary and military aspects of camouflage, has overshadowed earlier thinking.
Notes from the Field
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Book ReviewTales Things Tell: Material Histories of Early Globalisms
Through six extensive case studies, this fascinating book unpacks and eruditely fleshes out early globalisms in material and object-oriented terms, demonstrating how such an emphasis and the perspective of art history can enhance the currently expanding field of global history.
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Translated TextHow To Make a New Spain: The Material Worlds of Colonial Mexico City
Readers of Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría’s earlier The Archaeology and History of Colonial Central Mexico (Cambridge, 2016) will reencounter familiar themes in this recent book.
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Book ReviewObjects Untimely: Object-Oriented Philosophy and Archaeology
Time has long been a central concern of both archaeology and philosophy. For Plato, time was an absolute external reality. Aristotle, instead, emphasized the relative temporal relations between events.
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Book ReviewThe Art of Cloth in Mughal India
The Art of Cloth in Mughal India begins with an intriguing seventeenth-century hand-painted, mordant, and resist-dyed cotton wall hanging depicting traders, hunters, aristocrats, and monarchs from diverse parts of an early modern world intimately linked by Indian Ocean trade.
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Book ReviewArts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, & Architecture in Medieval Islam
This book can be described as an extended essay on perception and mentality in the medieval Islamic world in relationship to objects.