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35 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 3,204 Art, Politics, and Modernism papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • While making a timely contribution to Xu Bing scholarship by focusing on an understudied work in his oeuvre, it also adds new lines of inquiry: first, with regard to text-image reciprocity, which continues to be a focal point in studies of contemporary Chinese art; and second, with regard to animation-calligraphy reciprocity, which begs more critical attention.

    Xu Bing's <i>The Character of Characters</i> and the Possibilities of Calligraphic Animation · 2024 · DOI

  • iurlionis' painting connections with the trends of modernist art were not limited to the developmental tendency of the emerging early modernism directions, usually discussed in iurlionistics, arising from various neo-romantic directions, firstly from symbolism and leading to the rise of abstraction.

    M. K. Čiurlionio tapybos sąsajos su Redonu ir Chagallu · 2023 · DOI

  • Despite Manet’s desire to be&#13;\naccepted by artistic authorities, his innovative approach in the context and style which can be thought&#13;\nin the scope of art for the sake of art in his paintings was not understood.

    THE MANET'S PAINTINGS FROM PARIS SALOON EXHIBITIONS AND CONTRIBUTION TO MODERN ART · 2018 · DOI

  • Now definitively liberated from the enduring legend that the publication of L’Œuvre (1886) ended Zola and Cézanne’s lifelong friendship, that relationship needs to be explored from a number of other perspectives.

    Rethinking Zola and Cézanne: Biography, politics and art criticism · 2016 · DOI

  • Discourse on animation from the African continent is scarce, with only a few key scholars directing their attention to sub-Saharan animation artists at large (Bazzoli 2003; Bendazzi 2004; Callus 2010a, 2010b, 2012; Convents 2003, 2014; Edera 1993, 1996).

    Animation, Fabrication, Photography: Reflections upon the Intersecting Practices of Sub-Saharan Artists within the Moving Image · 2015 · DOI

  • Expatriate artist Frances Mary Hodgkins (1869–1947) has been the focus of numerous art historical studies; however, very little is known about her painting practices.

    Primarily a water colourist? The materials and techniques of Frances Hodgkins' watercolour and gouache works on paper · 2009 · DOI

  • 1758–died after 1815) is renowned as a pioneer of kisaeng imagery in traditional Korean painting, his portrayals of these women have not yet been studied in detail.

    Sin Yunbok’s Kisaeng Imagery: Subtle Expression of Emotions under the Women’s Beautiful Facade · 2007 · DOI

  • o r g / a t M M c a s t e r U n i v e r s i t y L i b r a r y o n M a r c h 3 0 , 2 0 1 5 PETER JONES simply another way of putting the same point—when descriptions are concerned to establish the meaning of a work in the sense of how it is to be taken, no agreement has been reached because there has been no practical urgency.

    UNDERSTANDING A WORK OF ART · 1969 · DOI

  • &dquo;’ One last objection remains to be countered: the existence of a photographic method which proposes to produce by means of the 7 Cahiers de Charles Du Bos, 10 (1966) 36.

    Photography and Beauty · 1966 · DOI

  • Now to return to the shepherd boy and his sheep: I do not be lieve that this figure is so limited to the traditional image of the Italian Renaissance artist as Kris's early paper (1935) suggested, al though at time with the special connection of art with the Christian Church, it was given an especially firm and generally ac cepted form.

    The Family Romance of the Artist · 1958 · DOI

  • Payne left further work on painters in manuscript notes, and we and others have done something in the same line, but so far there has been no attempt to see the whole development of the style in terms of artistic personalities influencing one another (which after all it was), as has been done by Beazley for Attic red-figure and blackfigure, and by J.

    Some Protocorinthian Vase-Painters · 1953 · DOI

  • To this day, the identity of the two other smaller figures standing at Nikifor’s sides remains unknown – they may be friends of his or they may be self-portraits.

    Nikifor’s Work at the Krynica Zdrój Museum as an Example of Twentieth-Century Lemko Naive Painting · 2026 · DOI

  • This sparse use of sound in minimalist cinema is not only a stylistic choice, but is also seen as a dimension of deepening the audience’s emotional and philosophical participation.

    An Approach to Analytical Minimalism in Cinema: Il Buco (2021) · 2026 · DOI

  • Within literary studies, the interaction of ekphrastic poetry and painting constitutes a frequently examined topic, but the intermedial relationships between poetry and sculpture have been more rarely explored.

    Ekphrastic Poetry on the Venus de Milo · 2024 · DOI

  • "By foregrounding what little is known of Malinche, the authors destabilize her five-hundred-year historical and cultural legacy, exposing the ways in which she has been conceived and reconceived in the centuries since her death.

    Review: <i>Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche</i>, edited by Victoria I. Lyall and Terezita Romo · 2023 · DOI

  • The article focuses on the scarcely studied esoteric aspects and development of theosophical ideas in Kazimieras Stabrauskas' (Stabrowski's) creative work as well as in the Warsaw Fine Arts School led by him.

    Ezoterizmo tendencijų atspindžiai Stabrausko kūryboje · 2021 · DOI

  • It is little known, though, that De Lairesse’s encyclopedic treatise on art was translated into Portuguese in 1801.

    Gerard de Lairesse in Portuguese: The Groot schilderboek in Lisbon and Rio · 2019 · DOI

  • The character of the contributions varies widely, from narrowly focused research-based studies through general overviews of an artist’s oeuvre or a category of works to a report on a project to aid troubled children.

    The Ancient Mediterranean Sea in Modern Visual and Performing Arts: Sailing in Troubled Waters by Rosario Rovira Guardiola · 2018 · DOI

  • Lessing artistic world, whose work reflects the neomythological tendencies of English literature of the ХХ – ХXI centuries, and will outline the vectors for further study of the works of contemporary Anglo-American writers whose works show neomifological features.

    Features of the mytho-logical space in Doris Lessing`s dilogy “Mara and Dann” · 2018 · DOI

  • Despite its containing many interesting ideas, Henry’s phenomenological approach is insufficient to describe the aesthetic experience of Kandinsky’s abstract art.

    The Aesthetic Experience of Kandinsky’s Abstract Art: A Polemic with Henry’s Phenomenological Analysis · 2017 · DOI

  • Since definitions of artists’ books are multifarious, and theoretical attention is scarce, the author discusses various approaches and proposes a more theoretical method from an intermedial perspective based on iconic and literary theory.

    The Collapse of the Word–Image Dichotomy: Towards an Iconic Approach to Graphic Novels and Artists’ Books · 2016 · DOI

  • The works, which are on war and reality concepts, of the artists such as Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso and Leon Golub were focused in this study; and the study is limited to the mostly discussed ones among these works.

    VIEWING THE CONCEPT OF REALISM IN ART THROUGH THE FACT OF WAR · 2016 · DOI

  • The article presents small volume of art theories beginning with the period when the independent landscape painting was scarcely known and concluding with the age when it became a predominant theme.

    Pierwsze klasyczne teksty krytyczne dotyczące malarstwa Gu Kaizhi 顧愷之, Zong Binga 宗炳, Wang Weia 王微 i Xie He 谢赫 · 2016 · DOI

  • This article proposes a new interpretation of the vast and understudied corpus of paintings and drawings produced by the poet Eugenio Montale between the mid-1940s and the 1970s.

    Painting against the grid: Eugenio Montale's confrontation with the visual arts · 2016 · DOI

  • This renaissance is closely linked to the late work of Foucault, in which he attempts to restore this classical idea, which he thinks is lacking in modern Western societies.

    Life as Art: Concerning Some Paradoxes of an Ethical Concept · 2009 · DOI

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