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Open Access (Diamond) journal for Art History, founded in 2020, editorial office based at University of Bern, in collaboration with arthistoricum.net / heiup.uni-heidelberg.de

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21inquiries@21inquiries.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Challenging narratives of linear progress, Sandra Neugärtner's article "Small Formations as Logistic Inversions. The Trace and Alternating Knots as Critique of Administrative Rationality" analyzes resistance against administrative rationality through the "small formation" paradigm.

Dense text forming a textile, lying mostly flat with one big, flowing fold on the right.
21inquiries@21inquiries.bsky.social · 3mo ago

From the 1840s until the late 1890s, it was – except when photographing one's own reflection – technically impossible to stand in front of the camera and operate it simultaneously. Nevertheless, photographic self-portraits have survived since the public introduction of the daguerreotype in 1839.

A black-and-white photograph of a man’s head in a special mirror: the head appears in a larger circle in the centre, surrounded by ten smaller circular images of the same head. Image: Charles Nègre, Self-Portrait in the Witch’s Mirror (1845), in the public domain.