This is one of a series of articles that were commissioned in January 2018 in association with For Art History, but due to some unforeseen circumstances, have not been able to be published until now. As such, this interview was conducted in December 2017, while Dr Susannah Walker was a lecturer at University College London. In 2018, Sue…
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In the last chapter of our series on Art History Podcasts, MAYANNE SORET speaks to the woman behind the Art UK’s podcast Art Matters, Ferren Gipson.
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LIZZIE MACKAREL draws comparisons between Vigée Le Brun’s self-portraits and contemporary selfies from Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian in this essay from TAH VOL.1, looking at the representation and reception of imagery surrounding motherhood, sexuality, and power, then and now.
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In this essay for the print issue of TAH VOL.1, first publishes in April 2017, MEGAN WALLACE highlights the parallel between’s Beyonce public personae and patronage of the arts, and the Renaissance patron Isabella d’Este.
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In December 2017, Elise set up to write about the importance of loving pop culture, and how it is perceived in academia, and Mayanne sent her a bunch of unedited thoughts she had saved in her notes app, that were never meant to be seen, or used, like a shameful journal entry. This is the result.
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Created in May 2016 by Boston based Tamar Avishai, The Lonely Palette has since presented a wide selection of paintings, art movements and artists. Most episodes go as follow: Tamar takes one work, usually at at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, interviews the public on their thoughts and feelings, and jumps off on an art historical analysis of the subject at hand, in a concise and engaging manner. MAYANNE SORET interviews her about making The Lonely Palette, and her journey as an art historian.
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Created in June 2016 by four recent Art History Graduates from UC Davis in California, the Art History Babes publishes episodes weekly to talk art history, politics, museums, gender, boxing, cocktails, and more. MAYANNE SORET interviews them.
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In a series of interviews, MAYANNE SORET explores the world of art history podcasts. Here, she introduces the series and shares some thoughts on her own introduction to the world of podcasting. Featuring THE ART HISTORY BABES, THE LONELY PALETTE and ART MATTERS.
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When Pierre Chanel wrote in Jean Cocteau and the French Scene that Cocteau’s style, with its ‘deceptive, free, quick, airy grace… [was] so inimitable that he has had no followers’[1], he unwittingly proves the outmodedness of the book to a contemporary reader. For now more than ever, perhaps, one is likely to encounter glimpses of this quick, airy grace, and far more likely to do so while scrolling through Instagram than strolling through a gallery. SAM LOVE looks at the instagram legacy of Jean Cocteau for TAH VOL.1
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Depictions of the ephebe, a youth caught in the transition from puberty to Greek civic manhood, dominated images of Greek culture and desire throughout the periods now known as the Archaic and Classical and remain the defining images of Greek art in Western understanding. In Ancient Greece, youth and beauty were key elements in the value of kalokagathia – that to look good was literally to be good. Obvious parallels to this can be found in contemporary celebrity culture – the worshiping of figures based on a cultivated outward image of wholesomeness and beauty. This dynamic is crystallised in those most modern ephebes; boybands. CLAIRE HESELTINE for TAH VOL.1
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