It has arrived: our long awaited special issue on Scenography and Art History, for Journal of Art History! We are thankful to all who has worked so hard for so long to make this special issue come true. You find the articles by Astrid von Rosen, Viveka Kjellmer, Alda Terracciano, Rachel Grew and Hedvig Mårdh here:
New book: We are looking forward to Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance, soon to be published by Routledge (June 2021). It positions itself as a direct challenge to the Modernist aesthetic regime of the optical and assumptions that what is seen establishes a basis for knowledge. Our discourse on smell serves as a shared...
The purpose of the symposium is to promote dialogue and develop knowledge on fashion marketing topics amongst academics and practitioners. The event will allow the exploration of specific issues in some depth, and will draw upon research in this area, allowing the dissemination of findings, exploration of theoretical and practical contributions,...
Dr Jade Halbert and Dr Veronica Isaac (University of Brighton) are working together to organise Constructing Costume Histories, a research project which showcases the crucial contribution of costume makers to the history and 'histories' of costume and dress.
Scenography and Art History: Performance Design and Visual Culture, our book project with Bloomsbury will be published this spring. We are so excited and grateful to our fantastic team of contributors and to our helpful and supportive network of friends, colleagues and fellow Scenography and Art History researchers.
A report from Greer Crawly, at Royal Holloway: We need some good news this year. As for art history and scenography - you can see it in action here at Royal Holloway where the Picture Gallery has been transformed into a Covid Testing centre for staff and students!! ...
Recent research from the university of Gothenburg: Viveka talks about scented scenographics and olfactory art in a video presentation at the Museum Exhibition Design Conference, an online conference and a permanent web-resource hosted by the department for Design History at the university of Brighton (1-11 September 2020).
A new and inspiring web resource, free and accessible for all! The Museum Exhibition Design: Histories and Futures conference, hosted by the Centre for Design History at the University of Brighton, UK, 1-11 September 2020, is now an open access web archive.
We are happy to contribute to the Critical Costume on-line conference and web library. Please join us, spread the word and feel free to share the on-line reference library with presentations and flash talks about the latest in costume theory and practice. See our videos here!