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Visual Arts

In the field of visual arts, the study of transatlantic exchange has seen recent growth in the elaboration of ideas whose main aim is the rewriting of a modern and contemporary art history that remains deeply marked by a western-culture-centric and modernist narrative. READ MORE

15 articles
Jan Baetens
fr en

The photo novel: a Latin genre

From 1947 to 1968, the long-scorned photo novel was one of Europe and Latin America’s most popular...

Jürg Schneider
en

Circulating West-African Photographs in the Atlantic Visualscape

In the second half of the 19th century, photographs circulated widely in a triangular region...

Isabella Seniuta
fr en

When booksellers created the early photography market

Photography catalogues attest to a growing transatlantic trade between 1939 and 1961, when booksellers...

Charlotte Gould
fr

L’exposition « Sensation » (Londres 1997- New York 2000) : scandales publics, financements...

Le voyage de Londres vers New York de l’exposition « Sensation », à la fin des années 1990, semblait...

Erin Nolan, Aimée Bessire
en

Reimagining Todd Webb's Photographs of 1958 Colonial Africa

This paper charts the path of Todd Webb’s 1958 U.N.-commissioned photographs of colonial Africa across...

Clara Masnatta
en

Gisèle Freund: The Life of a Story-Teller with Camera, Retold

This re-appraisal of Berlin-born, French-naturalized, Jewish photographer and sociologist Gisèle...

Lise Delmas
fr

Gordon Parks

Cet article s'intéresse aux tensions générées par la position de Gordon Parks (1912-2006) : un...

Monica Bravo
en

Modernist Photography in Mexico: Networks of Migration

As active participants in the Mexican cultural renaissance, Edward Weston, Tina Modotti and Manuel...

Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni
pt en

Académie Julian: the French artistic model from a Transatlantic perspective (1880-1920)

Académie Julian was founded in 1867 in Montmartre, offering students studies of live models and...

Jean-Charles Geslot
fr en

Artistic Education and Artist Training

The Atlantic is the setting for many exchanges in the education of artists, especially painters. Since...

Clara Bouveresse
en

Was “American” Photography a European Invention?

This paper explores the dialogue between European and “American” photography from the end of the 1930s...

Clara Bouveresse
fr en

Photographic agencies

Photographic agencies developed at the beginning of the 20th century in the context of a rise of...

Didier Aubert
en

Modernist photography in Mexico: Modotti's Letter

Photography reinvented itself in Mexico between the two World Wars, through numerous exchanges between...

Erin Nolan, Emily Voelker
en

Reading Across American and Ottoman Archives: Diplomacy and Photography in the Nineteenth...

Album exchanges between American and Ottoman powers (c.1880-1910) reveal a networked history of...

Andrea Gremels
en

Wifredo Lam and Transversal Surrealism

Cuban-born artist Wifredo Lam was a key figure of Surrealism's transversal network in the 20th...

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