Aspectus: A Journal of Visual Culture

Open-access digital journal for the postgrad History of Art community at the University of York. Issue #6 out now!

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✨ASPECTUS ISSUE VI NOW LIVE✨

This year’s edition features 2 peer-reviewed articles covering an early Christian icon and Russian architecture PLUS four exhibition and book reviews!

READ HERE:
https://t.co/WbjPfM5lW3

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DEADLINE EXTENDED 🚨

The new deadline for exhibition review proposals is 30th May 2025. Anyone from across the University of York engaged in visual culture can apply 🖼️

For details on how to propose & suggested ideas see here:
https://t.co/WdjkD4Oeha

[georgia gerson @geebeeeee]

Still buzzing from an incredible day hosting our panel reflecting on digital art practice at the @forarthistory conference last week!

Thanks to our fab speakers & audience, at times it was standing room only! We proved the appetite for digital art in art history is real. ✨👇

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It's not just book reviews we are looking for at @AspectusJournal! We're also encouraging exhibition reviews from PhD, MA students & @UniOfYork alumni.

Have a look at our suggestion below & get in touch 🤩🎨

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Another suggestion for a potential review from @microartsgroup! 👇

[Geoff Davis / microartsgroup @microartsgroup]

@AspectusJournal @UniOfYork @ArtHistoryYork @ArtAtYork This is excellent, the 3rd "AI Creative Anthology" book is coming out soon, it is about Curation & AI, and has contributions from the artists who were in the first and second editions (2023, 2024) commenting on what they think about AI art now. See https://t.co/7jaihooyxF

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We’re also seeking proposals for exhibition reviews to be published in our forthcoming issue of Aspectus 📖

Submissions welcome from PhD, MA students &alumni from across @UniOfYork who are engaged in visual culture.

Deadline: 30/04/25

Find out more: https://t.co/WdjkD4Oeha

[georgia gerson @geebeeeee]

We've opened submissions for book & exhibition reviews for Issue VII of @AspectusJournal 📚🖼️

Lots of time to come up with an idea but our reviews editor has also pulled together a stellar list of suggestions if you are stuck ❣️

https://t.co/t556WKK6BP

@ArtHistoryYork

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We’re currently seeking proposals for book reviews to be published in our forthcoming issue of Aspectus 📖💫

Submissions welcome from PhD, MA students &alumni from across @UniOfYork who are engaged in visual culture.

Deadline: 30/04/25

🔗info: https://t.co/WdjkD4OM6I

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Call for Papers for Issue Seven extension! 📢✨
⏰ 13th December 2024

We welcome all submissions of new research by past and present postgraduate researchers working on visual culture at @ArtHistoryYork 🎨

Full details can be found here:
https://t.co/fdIOTapIsn

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Aspectus Issue VII, 2025
📢Call for Articles & Reviews

We welcome submissions of new research by past and present PhD researchers working on visual culture at the University of York in the department of History of Art.

Find out more here & get in touch!
https://t.co/fdIOTapaCP

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💫Issue VI: Book Review 💫

✍️ Hannah Labonté
📖 Rebuilding St. Paul’s Outside the Walls: Architecture and the Catholic Revival in the 19th Century by Richard Wittman

Edited by Michael Smith

🔗 Available to read now for free:
https://t.co/CN4dyQirI2

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💫Issue VI: Exhibition Review 💫

✍️ Jacopo Cavini
🇯🇵Japan: Myths to Manga at Young V&A

Edited by Michael Smith

🔗 Available to read now for free:
https://t.co/rzhTckx2Qf

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💫Issue VI: Exhibition Review 💫

✍️ @ParshatiDutta
"Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence at The @V_and_A, London"

Edited by Michael Smith

🔗 Available to read now for free:
https://t.co/nEydz1a41p

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💫Issue VI: Exhibition Review 💫

✍️ Katie Vernon
“Forgotten Battles: Gender in the Armouries at The Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds”

Edited by Michael Smith

🔗 Available to read now for free:
https://t.co/HL3lUPtZg2

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💫Issue VI Article💫

✍️ Suzanne Heskin
“Divine Duality: Exploring the Intersection of Gender, Transcendence, and Salvation in an Early Christian Icon”

🔗 Available to read now:
https://t.co/rSHRmnD2Ny

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Happy to share that Issue VI of Aspectus: A Journal of Visual Culture is now live! Edited by myself and my fellow Co-chief Yuxuan Xiao.

Thanks to our authors and editorial board for their hard work on this issue.

Read now 👇

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💫Issue VI Article💫

✍️ Natalia Polunina
🏠 “Assessment of Russian Historicist Architecture of the 1820 – 1840s in the Works of Russian Writers of the Romanticism Era”

🔗 Read now:
https://t.co/vdWyUKC8pW

Image: Alexey Bakarev, St Nicholas Cathedral in Mozhaisk, 1811–1820.

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Join us tomorrow for our Issue 6 launch event!🎉

The event will be held on Wednesday 30th October, 5pm to 7pm in the History of Art @history_of_art_york department lounge -wine and snacks provided! 🍷

[Image: Party in the Studio (1925), Hermann Scherer.]

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Apply now to join our editorial team! 💫🖊️

More information about the available roles and the application process can be found at our website: https://t.co/FLH4eoj0fS

Any questions? Get in touch with us at [email protected]

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All PhD students in the History of Art Department are invited to join us for the annual PhD Conference on Friday 26 April! Featuring a fantastic range of subjects, this will be a great day to come together with the rest of the research community 🎨✨