Papers by Marion I Arnold
De Arte, 2007
Abstract: In the nineteenth century, 'art' was not a contested term for educated Europe... more Abstract: In the nineteenth century, 'art' was not a contested term for educated Europeans. Meaning 'fine art' (painting, sculpture and architecture), art was distinguished from the applied or decorative arts, and from popular culture imagery found in papers such as the Illustrated London ...
De Arte, Sep 1, 2002
Abstract: Extracted from text ... Nigel Hughes (with a foreword by Gillian Scott-Berning). The Pa... more Abstract: Extracted from text ... Nigel Hughes (with a foreword by Gillian Scott-Berning). The Paintings of the Bay of Natal: A Selection of Works Dating from 1845 to 1982. 2001. Craighall: Privately published by Mertrade (Proprietary) Limited. R595, 00. If knowledge is ...
De Arte, 2012
Visual century is subtitled South African art in context. Clearly this four-volume project is abo... more Visual century is subtitled South African art in context. Clearly this four-volume project is about 'art', yet nowhere in Gavin Jantjes' Preface, Pallo Jordan's Foreword or Jillian Carman's Introduction to Volume one are there any definitions of 'art'.
African American Studies Center, 2011
Home/Land: Women, Citizenship, Photographies is an extensive compendium of texts and images, comb... more Home/Land: Women, Citizenship, Photographies is an extensive compendium of texts and images, combining scholarly, creative and critical writing on photography with new work in photography. The contributions to the compendium range from academic essays on fine art and documentary photographies to photo-essays, community-based and pedagogical photographic projects, personal testimonies, creative writing, activist interventions and accounts of participatory action research using photography. Home/Land is global in its reach, exploring women’s lives in Britain and other European nations, the United States, Canada, the Middle East, South Africa, Asia and Australia. Bringing together texts and images produced by an international group of feminist scholars, activists, artists and educators, the book demonstrates how women have used photographic practices to find places for themselves as citizens, denizens, exiles or guests, within or beyond the nation as currently conceived, and, in so doi...
Third Text, 2015
The following text is derived from a presentation given as a dialogue to the annual conference of... more The following text is derived from a presentation given as a dialogue to the annual conference of the Association of Art Historians in London 2014, where our presentation was used to open the session. Our decision to perform an interactive, scripted dialogue against a background of images, was an intentional attempt to explore 'art history' in ways that do not conform to the accepted academic conference conventions of a formal paper, subsequently revised, extended and embellished with references and footnotes to locate the writing as serious 'research' designed for possible publication. Research is generated not only by planned research processes but by informal interactions such as conversation and correspondence. In these processes dialogue is generative: ideas are sketched out, emerge spontaneously in response to questions, or are snatched from insights stimulated by unexpected collisions of spoken or written words. 1 Art history offers many examples of fruitful correspondence between thinkers and practitioners. E.H. Gombrich and Quentin Bell explored canons and values in 1979; John Berger corresponded with Leon Kossoff (1996) and with James Elkins (2003-4) about drawing. 2 As academics engaged in teaching and research, we talk about our shared interests in feminist histories and theories and our experiences as women now based in Britain, but who lived lives 1 There is now a substantial literature that explores and supports the use of a variety of writing strategies to develop feminist thinking in the arts, humanities and social sciences. See, for example:
Home/Land: Women, Citizenship, Photographies is an extensive compendium of texts and images, comb... more Home/Land: Women, Citizenship, Photographies is an extensive compendium of texts and images, combining scholarly, creative and critical writing on photography with new work in photography. The contributions to the compendium range from academic essays on fine art and documentary photographies to photo-essays, community-based and pedagogical photographic projects, personal testimonies, creative writing, activist interventions and accounts of participatory action research using photography. Home/Land is global in its reach, exploring women’s lives in Britain and other European nations, the United States, Canada, the Middle East, South Africa, Asia and Australia. Bringing together texts and images produced by an international group of feminist scholars, activists, artists and educators, the book demonstrates how women have used photographic practices to find places for themselves as citizens, denizens, exiles or guests, within or beyond the nation as currently conceived, and, in so doi...
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