Art in Translation - Journal

(2/2) Discover the incredible iconographic artworks highlighted in our translation of "The Miracle-Worker Blessed Simon of Yuryevets: Tradition of Veneration and Iconography": tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Interested in religious iconography or Russian art history? See "The Miracle-Worker Blessed Simon of Yuryevets: Tradition of Veneration and Iconography" by Nadezhda Pivovarova in our Varia Issue (Vol.15, No.2). Find full details on our website or Taylor and Francis online. (1/2)

(2/2) Read our special issue dedicated to parchment here: tandfonline.com/toc/rfat20/13/… The first translation of this issue on the art of making parchment is OPEN ACCESS!

“Parchment, Parchemin, Pergament: 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-Century Authors on the History and Manufacture of Parchment.” Read our special issue dedicated to parchment and guest edited by Caroline Danforth (@ngadc, Washington, DC, USA). (1/2)

Read the OPEN ACCESS article here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #popart #arthistory #OpenAccess

Read our OPEN ACCESS translation "Yugoslav Perceptions and Translations of Pop Art during the 1960s" by Stefana Djokic. Discover more in Volume 14, 2022 - Issue 2: 'Pop Art. Imitation, Translation, Transcreation.'

Be sure to read AiT's recent translation "Configuration of Subjectivities in Contemporaneity: Performance Writing about the Production of the Spanish-Mexican Artist Remedios Varo" by Edilberto Hernández González Visit tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Discover "The Art of Making Parchment" (Art de faire leparchemin, Paris: Desaint et Saillant, 1762) by Jérôme de La Lande and translated by Gay McAuley, which is OPEN ACCESS for the rest of the year! Visit tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #OpenAccess #Parchment

REMINDER: Places are still available on April 19 for Dr Mira Xenia Schwerda’s talk “Image Politics: Photography in Revolution and Resistance in Iran Today”. More information in the thread below. Click here to reserve a spot eventbrite.co.uk/e/image-politi… @IASH_Edinburgh @EdiArtHistory

Our latest special issue is online! The 6 essays in “Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? Postmodern Polemics in Contemporary Korean Art” discuss the nature of postmodernism and its plausibility in South Korea in the early 1990s. Head this way for the full story tandfonline.com/toc/rfat20/14/…

Have you read a great article on the visual arts published in a language that isn't English? Let us know! Just go to the “Recommend a text for translation” tab on our website artintranslation.org and fill in a recommendation form.

On April 19, Dr Mira Xenia Schwerda, co-editor of Art in Translation, will be speaking about the role of photography in resistance in Iran today. The talk will be followed by a panel discussion and reception. More information in the thread below!

Informed by interviews with clergymen in Nigeria, the article addresses diverging understandings among priests and parishioners on the esthetics of religious art: should it follow European models or engage with local visual traditions?

“The Oye-Ekiti Christian Art Workshop & the Fusion of the European Catholic Tradition & Nigerian Indigenous Art in Three Lagos Churches”: Ndubuisi Chinyere’s article shows how the Oye-Ekiti merged Western & Yoruba art to indigenize Christian art in Nigeria tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Tan Zi Hao explores the history of the ‘Makara’—a chimeric creature formed of elephant, crocodile, and fish parts— and its influential journey across the Indian Ocean, making its mark mainly on Hindu-Buddhist monuments and ceremonial paraphernalia in South & Southeast Asia.

OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE! “The Chimeric Trace: The ‘Makara’ and Other Connections to Come” by Tan Zi Hao (Multimedia University, Malaysia). A fascinating article freely available here tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… until July 2023. Spread the word!

Issue 14.3 is online! To read this exciting mix of texts on Mona Hatoum, Christian art in Nigerian churches, the early study of Chinese art in Munich, Turkey’s participation in Biennials, and the chimeric creature Makara, head here tandfonline.com/toc/rfat20/14/3

Or join us live online via YouTube for the conference. It will be streamed here: youtube.com/watch?v=W1gYZe… (3/3)

Come join us in person for first the conference and then a performance by @slavsandtatars Entry for both events is free. More info can be found here: albertinum.skd.museum/programm/ (2/3)

The hybrid conference 'Revolutionary Romances: Into the Cold - Alternative Artistic Trajectories into (Post-) Communist Europe', based on the AiT anthology 'Hot Art, Cold War', will be held at the Albertinum Dresden on Thursday, October 13. More info in next tweet! (1/3)