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ABOUTThis website publishes a range of art and art history related news. Although we have a Melbourne focus, items of general interest are most welcome. This may include calls for papers for journals and conferences, Art History events such as talks, symposia, conferences and lectures, scholarship and fellowship opportunities, details of new databases or digital collections and general news items related to art and art history. If you have something you would like featured on the site please contact the webmaster: Katrina Grant – kat.grantATgmail.com
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MELBOURNE ART JOURNALMelbourne Art Journal (MAJ) is an art history journal based in Melbourne. It is dedicated to publishing art historical research of the highest quality, from medieval to contemporary, European, Australian, and Asian. It has a particular interest in connections between Australia and Europe: with art historians based in Australia and New Zealand writing on European topics and topics in Australian art history that deal with the relationship between Australian art and European. For all enquiries about MAJ contact David R. Marshall: david.marshall@unimelb.edu.au “Europe and Australia” is now out – download an order form in pdf: MAJ Order Form ‘Europe and Australia’ MAJ nos. 11-12. Contents below or click here to download a pdf of the contents page and abstracts of each article. Ruth Pullin ‘The Vulkaneifel and Victoria’s Western District: Eugène von Guérard and the Geognostic Landscape’ Caroline Jordan and Veronica Filmer ‘Old Sayer’s Picture Gallery’: James Whitley Sayer, Founder of the Geelong Gallery’ Mark Stocker ‘Director of the Canoe’: The Auckland Statue of Sir George Grey’ Katti Williams ‘Sublime Ruins: William Lucas’ Project for the Australian WWI War Memorial at Viller-Bretonneux, France’ David Maskill ‘Imperial lines: Harold Wright (1885-1961): Printmaking and Collecting at the End of Empire’ Simon Pierse…
EMAJ ART JOURNALemaj (electronic Melbourne art journal) is the only online, refereed art history journal published in Australia. emaj aims to provide an international forum for the publication of original academic research in all areas and periods of art history. Topics covered include fine arts, architecture, curatorship, politics and aesthetics, visual culture, philosophy, historiography and museum studies. emaj welcomes monographic articles about specific artists or art collectives as well as thematic or theoretical analyses on aspects of art history. emaj was founded in 2005 as a research platform for postgraduate art historians. While the journal remain devoted to the work of emerging scholars, submissions are open to all researchers investigating the history of art. The motivation for a refereed art history journal that spans all media and historical periods is twofold. Firstly, it provides a point of cohesion: emaj is designed to unite disparate threads of art historical scholarship within a single frame. Secondly, in presenting a diverse array of research, emaj hopes to encourage dialogue between traditionally segregated fields of enquiry. What might a new media analyst learn from a researcher working on Renaissance perspective? How might an historian of Japanese wood-block prints benefit from publishing their work in tandem with…
ART HISTORY LINKSBelow are a range of resources useful to the study of art history. If you know of any that aren’t listed please leave a comment below and they will be added. Image databases – Directories and general databases – Funding – Image Databases Galleries and Museums Most museums and galleries now have part of their collection online, below is a list of some of the most comprehensive and useful databases. British Museum main website – image database. This database has over 1.5 million objects from the collection. Including a large amount of the prints and drawings collection. The record for most items gives the full title, author, materials, date, school/style, culture, dimensions and inscriptions, a short description, bibliographic details and provenance. You can also order high quality images for use in personal study or for small run academic publications free of charge, they are usually emailed to you within 24 hours. Victoria & Albert Museum main website – image database Another very big database, with around 30 000 works, the image database was recently relaunched and is now easier to use with more records. Some records are minimal and may not have images but there are are huge number of…

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