Visual Culture in Britain

Academic journal dedicated to exploring, expanding, rethinking, and re-imagining visual culture and Britain. Published by Taylor & Francis.

[Visual Culture in Britain @vcibjournal]

Elisabetta Garletti: "the power imbalance that endures in curatorial reframings where the hosting museum retains the authority over alleged decolonizing narratives, which ultimately reveal themselves to be mere attempts to safeguard institutional survival" https://t.co/R8BvAE5PTJ

[Visual Culture in Britain @vcibjournal]

Caterina Franciosi reviews Iris Moon’s recent book 'Melancholy Wedgwood' (2024, @mitpress) as "a provocative and original contribution to the intertwined histories of capitalism and decorative arts" https://t.co/fIA2k8zgiN

[Visual Culture in Britain @vcibjournal]

Esme Garlake reviews @youth_demand's recent protest at the @NationalGallery, to reflect on the visual politics of pro-Palestine activism: https://t.co/GdV86AeU9m

[Visual Culture in Britain @vcibjournal]

Rachel Warriner examines American artist Jimmie Durham’s work in 1980s Northern Ireland, who implicated the Irish diaspora in US settler colonialism and saw parallels between structures of oppression across continents, to rethink a "British" art history: https://t.co/ejWAurEZ41

[Visual Culture in Britain @vcibjournal]

Nicholas Mirzoeff examines the politics of contemporary Palestinian visual culture and solidarity movements resisting settler colonialism, to critically interrogate British complicity in the region's past and present: https://t.co/Od55oYhV83

[Visual Culture in Britain @vcibjournal]

Hardeep Singh Dhindsa considers how 18th-century classical studies constructed modern ideas of racial whiteness, using contemporary illustration to challenge the worldviews such sculptures came to represent (we are delighted to feature on our latest cover) https://t.co/rGscDL9Ctr

[Visual Culture in Britain @vcibjournal]

We are thrilled to announce the journal's relaunch editorial, reflecting on the publication's 25-year-history and our vision for its future: considering changes and continuities for our subject since 2000, while fostering a space of ‘epistemic generosity’

https://t.co/sWjwCnevuj

[Visual Culture in Britain @vcibjournal]

From our archive — Mira Rai Waits explores the history of fingerprinting in India under British rule (2016, 17:1), examining how the scientific technology was bound up in a politics of identification and classification, embedded in colonial structures: https://t.co/9b1vepoI9P

[Visual Culture in Britain @vcibjournal]

‘Postcards from the Apocalypse’: Tanya Agathocleous’ article from our archive (17:13, 2016) explores ways in which literature and film have imagined London in ruins, between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries: https://t.co/WZh7ewQMFV

[SGSAH @sgsah]

📢 New Featured Researcher for October 2024

Lucy Mackenzie Howie (@howie_lucy) is investigating the intersecting but often overlooked histories of disability, sexuality & the politics of representation in photography in 1980s-90s Britain 📸

Read more 🔗 https://t.co/7TATgpL6UO

[Visual Culture in Britain @vcibjournal]

From our archive: Suzanna Chan argues that artists Aisling O'Beirn, Sandra Johnston, Heather Allen creatively re-imagine and critique liberal concepts of progressive linear time in the aftermath of Northern Ireland's Good Friday Agreement (Vol. 10, 2009) https://t.co/ztIjBUzRAy

[Doctoral & Early Career Research Network @DECRarthistory]

📚 The DECR Reading Group is back! Join us for the first autumn session as we discuss Donna Haraway’s “Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936.”
📍Thurs. 26 Sept., 6 pm GMT (online)
👉more info : https://t.co/SAUvMtZ06H
#DECRReadingGroup

[Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @CarolineMcCaff]

This is going to be excellent- CFP is now live for one of my wonderful PhD students’ panel at AAH in York next year @RebeccaKlarner @FAHACS @forarthistory

[Association for Art History @forarthistory]

Who's in Scotland next week?

Check out what's going on for the #ArtHistoryFestival2024 here: https://t.co/vGgDAaZhVD

@NatGalleriesSco @GlasgowGoMA @glasgowlife @KelvingroveArt @DovecotStudios @StillsEdinburgh @PierArtsCentre @DumGalMuseums @NtlMuseumsScot @SSAHistory

[Visual Culture in Britain @vcibjournal]

From our archive: Tania Sengupta's article on colonial towns in nineteenth-century Bengal, in a special issue on British India (12:3, 2011), considers how the pursuit of an imperial 'picturesque' urban design was subverted by spatial politics on the ground https://t.co/4ArwRf9VP9

[Sara Dominici saradominici.bsky.social @saradominici_]

I am so excited to be one of the new editors-in-chief at @vcibjournal - there will be some great stuff coming up, watch this space!

[Northumbria Uni @NorthumbriaUni]

A new exhibition @LaingArtGallery highlights the work of women artists within the gallery's collection. 'Belonging' has been curated by Northumbria PhD student @ellanix0n and runs until 30 November.

https://t.co/ObmzPdDjGH

[Northumbria VMC @NUartdes]

'Visual Culture in Britain' is relaunching later this year and we're now accepting articles, reviews, and focus pieces for publication in 2025. It's the perfect excuse to dust off your research this summer and send us some interesting stuff!
https://t.co/uHn4A2CjWv

[Source Magazine @sourcephoto]

The SOURCE Photography Writing Prize 2024 is OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS. Deadline 1st August 2024. Up to 700 words. Free to enter. £500/€570 prize. All details at https://t.co/GsZNkUE1Ok

#artwriting #prize #opportunity #opencall #photography #writing