Art History - Brill Publishing

04/12/2023

“Dutch and Flemish Flower Pieces is more than a mere survey of early modern flower pieces through the eighteenth century. The volumes will take their place on the scholars’ shelves as the definitive reference book on this subject for some time to come. […] If you want to know anything and everything about Dutch and Flemish flower pieces, these massive volumes are the place to look.”
Nadine M. Orenstein, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in: Print Quarterly (39:2, 2022).

https://brill.com/display/title/34060

30/10/2023

𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀?

is over, but never here at Brill! Publishing all your research in is now possible with Brill's Transformative Agreement.

You receive full reading access and can publish an unlimited number of papers across Brill's 340+ journals in the humanities, social sciences, international law and life sciences.

Learn more about how you can publish with Brill's Transformative Agreement here: youtu.be/fw8g6b6BC0c

Is your university already taking part? Find it out here: brill.ws/TransforAgreement

Would you like all your research to be Open Access?This is now possible with Brill's transformative agreement! You receive full reading access and can publis...

27/10/2023

And the winner of the 2023 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Art History is… Walter Melion for his splendid book “Karel van Mander and his Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting.”

Please join us in congratulating Walter Melion!

https://brill.com/display/title/61758 (available in Open Access)

12/10/2023

Brill and De Gruyter have agreed to join forces to become the leading academic publisher in the .

The enlarged scale will accelerate our transition to Open Access and increase our ability to deliver cutting-edge technology. Together, we will publish over 3,500 books and 800 journals per year while providing the best possible service and infrastructure to our communities.

Please find our joint press release here: https://ow.ly/gg1Q50PVSUc

Today’s announcement is kicking off a formal process. As Brill is a listed company, De Gruyter will launch a public offer for all of Brill shares. Once the transaction is successfully concluded, we will become De Gruyter Brill. Sharing similar cultural values with deep roots and a long tradition in the academic community, we are looking forward to continue our growth path with De Gruyter.

08/10/2023

𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀! 💐

We are pleased to announce that Brill will become the distributor of the new platform of the RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis, RKD Research. The platform will contain databases & advanced tools facilitating art historical research. Additionally,
RKD Research is a digital meeting place for presenting, connecting and sharing art historical knowledge and information. Expected release: November 2023. 🎉

Have a look at RDK Research in this short video: youtube.com/watch?v=ZNEG5J9lwMo
To know more, visit: brill.ws/RKD

With regard to digitisation and the development of digital research services, the RKD plays a pioneering role within the world of art historical research. We...

26/09/2023

𝗢𝘂𝗱 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟭𝟰𝟬 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀! 💐

Oud Holland, Journal for Art of the Low Countries, prides itself on being the oldest surviving art historical journal in the world.

With the first issue appearing in 1883, we now celebrate the journal’s 140th birthday and mark this special occasion by publishing the new issue today entirely in .

This special issue contains five essays on Peter Paul Rubens and landscape. Read them here: brill.ws/Oudholland140

07/09/2023

Exploring the fascinating world of Italian Renaissance art and its influence on the international art market in the late 19th & early 20th centuries. From authentic masterpieces to inspired reproductions, these essays shed light on the diverse media that shaped our visual culture.

More information: brill.ws/ItalyForSale

04/09/2023

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗶𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲?

Evanghelia Stead takes a new approach to Goethe’s Faust I: The new publication "Goethe's Faust I Outlined" extensively discusses Moritz Retzsch's twenty-six outline prints (1816) and how their spin-offs made the unfathomable play available to larger reader communities through copying and extensive distribution circuits, including bespoke gifts. The images amply transformed as they travelled throughout Europe and overseas, revealing differences between countries and cultures.
Now available in Open Access! Find it here: brill.ws/Faust

31/08/2023

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀!

Dive into a captivating exploration of art markets in the Global South. This book challenges preconceptions and reveals the complex dynamics within. Uncover diverse markets, their influences, and interactions on a global scale. In this publication by editors Adelaide Duarte and Marta Pérez-Ibáñez, an important wealth of research on various African countries stands out, providing an unprecedented overview of the markets in that region. A must-read for art enthusiasts and scholars alike!

To find out more: brill.ws/Artmarkets

21/08/2023

The latest issue of Explorations in Renaissance Culture (49:1) offers articles on Saint Francis, Spenser, r**e in the Heptaméron, and a salacious Macbeth.

Contents:

Indications for a Franciscan Role in the Philanthropic Activities of the Early Florentine Misericordia.
By: William R. Levin, Centre College, Danville, KY.

Edmund Spenser’s Sense of an Ending: “The Two Cantos of Mutabilitie” and the Unraveling of the Faerie Queene.
By: Jesse Russell, Georgia Southwestern State University.

What Does R**e Look Like? Textual and Visual Representations of Sexual Assault in the Heptaméron (1559).
By: Nora Martin Peterson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Banquo’s Daughters and the Lost Macbeth, and Early Modern Alt-Media.
By: Todd Andrew Borlik, University of Huddersfield, UK.

https://brill.com/view/journals/erc/49/1/erc.49.issue-1.xml

16/08/2023

New in Open Access: Goethe's Faust I Outlined: Moritz Retzsch's Prints in Circulation. Written by Evanghelia Stead (Paris), this A4-size book features well over 200 color illustrations. At the center are Moritz Retzsch's 26 outline prints of 1816, designed for Faust. Stead’s study investigates how their spin-offs made Goethe’s unfathomable play available to larger reader communities through copying and extensive distribution circuits, including bespoke gifts.

https://brill.com/display/title/62944

04/07/2023

Featuring a whopping 700 images, “Watermarks 1450–1850” offers a concise history of the production of paper in Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. The research is based on watermarks collected from various sources in combination with other elements from the trade, such as decorated paper and ream wrappers. This folio size reference work is compiled by paper specialists Theo and Frans Laurentius, who also produced the x-ray photos of the watermarks included in this beautiful volume.

https://brill.com/display/title/61633

22/06/2023

Our Senior Publishing Director, Loes Schouten, will attend ARCA’s 12th annual interdisciplinary conference on art and antiquities crime from 23-25 June 2023 in Amelia, Italy. She will discuss “Provenance and Publishing in Practice: Cases and Considerations” as part of a panel of experts.

We hope to see you there!

01/06/2023

In “Art and Dis-illusion in the Long Sixteenth Century,” Larry Silver examines through the lens of visual culture the dramatic changes taking place in the Reformation era in Northern Europe. Focusing on paintings and the new medium of prints, his lavishly illustrated book deals with subjects such as war, witchcraft, demons, death, the Turk, and new global discoveries.

https://brill.com/display/title/63715

15/05/2023

📢 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀!

The upcoming volume, "The Dutch Americas: art histories of the Atlantic world", seeks to advance the art historical understanding of how the Dutch presence in the Americas contributed to the art and material culture produced in the transatlantic sphere.

For more information and how to submit, have a look at the Call for Papers here: http://ow.ly/AmJm50OnFjF
Deadline for submissions is the 23rd of June 2023.

Looking forward to receiving your proposals!

11/04/2023

𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝗔𝗔𝗛 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀!

Starting from tomorrow: The 2023 Annual Meeting of the Association for Art History, 12-14 April, in London.

The event wants to foreground a critical debate about , and from many diverse approaches, providing a supportive and inclusive environment. Our very own Acquisitions Editor for Art & Architecture, Liesbeth Hugenholtz will be there, too!

Visit our virtual booth, look through our recent publications, and find a link for a 25% discount in our web shop, valid until 1st July 2023, for individuals ordering directly through Brill! 🥳 Follow this link: http://ow.ly/Iz7O50NFN8w

To have a look at the conference website: http://ow.ly/EAAa50NFN5R

Wishing all participants of this year's conference a pleasant and informative few days in London!

The Association for Art History's 2023 Annual Conference call for papers is live!

13/03/2023

Art & Death in The Netherlands, 1400-1800 - Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 72 (2022).

This volume of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art offers a diverse collection of essays on works of art, permanent or temporary, related to dying and cultural experiences of death, interment, and memorialisation in the Low Countries and its diaspora from the late Middle Ages to the eighteenth century. Topics range from the tomb of Philip the Bold to the funeral of Rembrandt and the death of enslaved bodies deprived of representation. Find out more http://ow.ly/nKUS50NgEF1

11/03/2023

The Rubenshuis & Rubenianum are pleased to celebrate the publication of two books by former Rubenianum Visiting Researchers, focused on the Flemish painters across Europe. One of the former Rubenianum Visiting Researchers is Abigail D. Newman, author of Painting Flanders abroad, published by Brill.

Introduction by Bert Watteeuw, Rubenshuis & Rubenianum

Short presentations of the books by: Adam Eaker, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Abigail D. Newman, Rubenhuis & Rubenianum Universiteit Antwerpen / Universiteit Gent

Please join us on Sunday, March 12 at 11 am, Kolveniersstraat 20, 2000 Antwerpen, for the
presentations, followed by coffee.

Koen Jonckheere, Universiteit Gent.
To RSVP, please click here:
http://ow.ly/3i2l50Nf4ZE

10/03/2023

The Rubenshuis & Rubenianum are pleased to celebrate the publication of two books by former Rubenianum Visiting Researchers, focused on the Flemish painters across Europe. One of the former Rubenianum Visiting Researchers is Abigail D. Newman, author of Painting Flanders abroad, published by Brill.

Introduction by Bert Watteeuw, Rubenshuis & Rubenianum

Short presentations of the books by: Adam Eaker, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Abigail D. Newman, Rubenhuis & Rubenianum Universiteit Antwerpen / Universiteit Gent

Please join us on Sunday, March 12 at 11 am, Kolveniersstraat 20, 2000 Antwerpen, for the
presentations, followed by coffee.

Koen Jonckheere, Universiteit Gent.
To RSVP, please click here:
http://ow.ly/3i2l50Nf4ZE

01/03/2023

There has been no more significant surge in global fashion trends and expressions of personal style than in the contemporary era of social media fashion influencers. But what constitutes “being in fashion” amongst this diversity of interpretations?

In this episode, Dr Laura Petican, art historian and curator, and Dr Jacque Lynn Foltyn, Professor of Sociology, Program Director BA Sociology, National University, San Diego, explore various disciplinary, professional, and creative perspectives to expand their proposition that fashion is about self-presentation.

In Fashion: Culture, Commerce, Craft, and Identity is a deep exploration of fashion representations: fashionable, shopping, luxury, and vintage; fashion materials, craft, industry, and innovation; museum-worthy fashion; and fashioning cultural identities.

A conversation on the cultural, commercial, and creative perspectives of what it means to be ‘in fashion’ in the modern world. Listen to podcast http://ow.ly/1OPg50N4Hhv

15/02/2023

In Brill’s virtual CAA booth, you can find our most recent publications. During the conference, you can purchase any book with an attractive 25% discount in our web shop by using action code 71581. The conference discount is only valid for individuals ordering directly through Brill and is valid until April 30, 2023. Interested in more? You can find me at the Brill booth #217 during the conference or visit our dedicated CAA web page http://ow.ly/YAMv50MRCOb

15/02/2023

15/02/2023

*Call for Submissions*

Founded by Oleg Grabar in 1983, Muqarnas is the first academic journal devoted to art, architectural history, archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary. Full-length articles are accompanied by shorter submissions grouped under a separate section titled “Notes and Sources,” for which we particularly welcome studies that introduce textual and visual primary sources. Muqarnas is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Submission Guidelines:
Articles must present original research that has not been published in any language previously. Submission deadline is usually March 1st for publication in November of the following year. Manuscripts should be submitted by email to the Managing Editor of Muqarnas, Karen A. Leal.

More details and guidelines:

"Muqarnas" published on 01 Jun 1985 by Brill.

10/02/2023

Discover interesting interviews with Brill authors about their new books on New Books Network. http://ow.ly/f2qK50MP1cG

10/02/2023

Fluxus as a Network of Friends, Strangers, and Things - The Agency of Chance Collaborations

By Magdalena Holdar

At the same time, whimsical and thought-provoking, Fluxus explored everyday life as an object of art. Behind mundane materials and activities, we find an extensive network of Fluxus artists who worked together for decades to create and share their art. http://ow.ly/vz3B50MOZNz

09/02/2023

Happy authors Alice Bianchi and Lyce Jankowski showing their recently published 'The Social Lives of Chinese Objects', the first anthology of texts to apply Arjun Appadurai’s well-known argument on the social life of things to the discussion of artefacts made in China. More info and contents: https://brill.com/display/title/63088

01/02/2023

Muqarnas 39
Editor: Gülru Necipoğlu
https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/63941

Muqarnas 39 offers a rich panoply of studies extending across the breadth of the Muslim realm—from Andalusia to India—and across a millennium of years. The volume’s topics range from the material artifacts of textiles, pen boxes, fourteenth-century manuscripts, Ottoman Treasury valuables, a nineteenth-century Ottoman coin collection, Classical marble frieze slabs, royal palanquins, and sphero-conical vessels to Orientalist internalization, mosque and city architecture—the construction even of an entire city—and the archaeological, museological, legal, and sociological analysis of such. Luxuriously illustrated and thoroughly researched, each of the twelve articles presents a visual and engaging unpacking of an aspect of Islamicate culture that will introduce its reader to new and fascinating insights.

More info and contents: https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/63941

"Muqarnas 39" published on 15 Nov 2022 by Brill.

30/01/2023

2023 CAA conference
Dear scholars, colleagues and friends,

In Brill’s virtual booth, you can find our most recent publications. During the conference, you can purchase any book with an attractive 25% discount in our web shop using action code 71581. The discount is only valid for individuals ordering directly through Brill and is valid until April 30, 2023. Interested in more? Go to: http://ow.ly/xqRM50MEqXG

If you would like to get in touch regarding a new project or to submit a proposal, please visit Brill at booth #217.

30/01/2023

In Leonardo’s Fables, Giuditta Cirnigliaro explores the compositional methods and sources of Leonardo’s fables and their relationship to illustrations and scientific studies. By concentrating on the chaotic character of Leonardo’s textual and visual annotations, the author gradually discloses the artist’s creative thinking that uses the page as a space for experimentation.

https://brill.com/display/title/61067

28/01/2023

Paragone: Past and Present is dedicated to featuring scholarship on the history of contestations and confrontations between the arts from antiquity into the present. Contestation is interpreted in the broadest terms from all global contexts. The journal invites articles that take up such questions about any period of western cultural development but also welcomes discussions of the formation and interaction of media in non-western cultures. Free sample issue now available http://ow.ly/cgRa50MyCT3

27/01/2023

Paragone: Past and Present is dedicated to featuring scholarship on the history of contestations and confrontations between the arts from antiquity into the present. Contestation is interpreted in the broadest terms from all global contexts. The journal invites articles that take up such questions about any period of western cultural development but also welcomes discussions of the formation and interaction of media in non-western cultures. http://ow.ly/8ZQP50MyCJp

26/01/2023

New online resource: Cuban Pre-Revolutionary Cinema. Scanned at the Cinemateca de Cuba in Havana and comprising about 65,000 digital images, this primary-source collection documents the history and development of Cuban cinema from the Silent Era to the Revolution. It offers unique access to unpublished photographs, newspaper clippings, lobby cards, yearbooks, and a complete run of the weekly magazine Cinema (1935–1965), an obligatory starting point for any research on early Cuban cinema.

www.brill.com/cicu

24/01/2023

Taking the James B. Duke House, now home to NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, as its point of departure, this collection provides fresh perspectives on domestic spaces, urban forms, and social reforms that shaped early-twentieth century New York into the modern city we know today.

"Duke House and the Making of Modern New York" published on 17 Oct 2022 by Brill.

23/01/2023

In 2022, Brill published over 150 books in Open Access, crossing the mark of publishing over 1.000 Open Access book titles. This research covers all of our main publishing areas, including Art History.

Download the copies of your choice: http://ow.ly/8HGH50MxQma

17/01/2023

*Call for Proposals*
The Muslim World in the Age of the Crusades

The Muslim World in the Age of the Crusades features monographs, edited volumes, text editions, translations and reference works studying the impact of the Crusades on the diverse, local communities (Muslim or non-Muslim) of the Mediterranean. The central focus of the series is on the impact and responses to the Crusades and the Frankish presence. The series is interested in the variety of interactions between and among local populations and the Franks, as well as the legacy of the Crusades after that time.

The series welcomes studies and text editions that address these and related issues and span the periods of the Fatimids, Seljuks, Zangids, Ayyubids, and Mamluks in the eastern Mediterranean, the Normans and Hohenstaufens in Sicily and southern Italy, as well as Almoravids and Almohads in North Africa and Iberia during the period of the Reconquista.

More info and how to submit:

"The Muslim World in the Age of the Crusades" published on 25 Apr 2013 by Brill.

16/01/2023

*Call for Proposals*
Mediterranean Art Histories

The book series Mediterranean Art Histories (MAH) offers a platform in the emerging field of Mediterranean studies, which enhances the dialogue between Byzantine, Islamic, Jewish and Western art history and archaeology. In contrast to the claim for a global art history based on comparative models, the study of the Mediterranean iconosphere is primarily concerned with the connectivity of cultures, seen in a permanent process of transformation.

The series is particularly interested in studies that investigate the historical dynamics of contact zones (harbor cities; shared and contested religious topographies etc.); all forms of artistic exchange and interaction within the Mediterranean as well as with other areas; the formation and transformation of aesthetic languages; the dynamics of ornaments and the concepts of images; the agency of artifacts in religious, political, social and economic contexts.

For more info and how to submit:

"Mediterranean Art Histories" published on 23 Jan 2014 by Brill.