Thrilled to see my “Weathering (the Elements) in Charles Baudelaire’s ‘À une passante’ and Jean Béraud’s A Windy Day on the Pont des Arts” out in this fabulous and juicy volume! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Weathering (the Elements) in Charles Baudelaire’s ‘À une passante’ and Jean Béraud’s A Windy Day on the Pont des Arts

In ‘À une passante’ and A Windy Day on the Pont des Arts, Charles Baudelaire and Jean Béraud represent Paris as a dynamic space filled with rushing people. Scholars have productively examined this ...

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Rachel Mesch@rmesch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 Our double issue of Dix-Neuf is now up!! TO THE PASSERSBY: BEFORE & AFTER BAUDELAIRE has 8 stunning articles that center the passante herself through cultural, visual, and literary history, ecocritical, feminist, and queer perspectives

Have any other academics experienced the dystopian future of AI copyediting? In a kafkaesque doom spiral with @tandfonline.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social as their bot randomly reassigned authors to texts. Just one example of zillions of errors introduced, impossible to communicate with

WWW: The Vilhelm Hammershøi Digital Archive (ViHDA) https://arthist.net/archive/52568

LA/Pasadena peeps- Please join me if you can on Saturday @5pm at the Norton Simon Museum, where I’ll be speaking about Degas’ engagement with coal smoke in his extraordinary paintings of ironers: www.nortonsimon.org/calendar/202...

Char/Coal/Smoke: Edgar Degas’s “Women Ironing” and “The Laundress” in the Norton Simon Museum, Ecocritically

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Wonderful to see this collection, to which I contributed an essay on the gorgeous (and sand speckled) Monet on the cover, come up in my feed!

Judith DeGroat@jdegroat.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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SUNY Press@sunypress.bsky.social · 9mo ago

How does fashion shape modernity—and how does modernity shape what we wear? tinyurl.com/9fwmhxvu explores dress and modern life from the 18th to early 20th c., drawing on literature, art, media, and material culture to reveal clothing as an archive of memory, identity, and desire. #MLA2026 #ReadUP

🆕🎧: Publishing leaders look back at decades of transformation and tenacity in the industry. A conversation for the occasion of director Doug Armato's retirement, with Lisa Bayer, Greg Britton, Jennifer Crewe, Dean Smith, and moderator Bill Germano. share.transistor.fm/s/5c6c6e92

Retirement special: Publishing leaders look back at decades of transformation and tenacity in the industry. | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 126

Douglas Armato, the fifth director in the University of Minnesota Press's 100-year history, will soon retire after 27 years of leadership at the Press—following an almost-50-year career in book publis...

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We are losing a true publishing genius, someone who could stay focused on the thinking and writing that is our purpose, while innovating in forms and the university press break-even form of business.

Publishers Weekly@publisherswkly.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies, trade, and regional publishing programs.

CFP: Connecting Ecocritical Art Histories (Cambridge, 8-10 Apr 26) https://arthist.net/archive/50721

One last visit to see the gorgeous Hilma af Klint:What Stands Behind the Flowers@MoMA before it closes next week. It’s still about the searching roots & fragile petals for me. But these goat willows with their nearly translucent faces overlaid w pin-sized dabs of yellow! Just wow!

Astonished as I look and look at every gorgeous watercolor in the Hilma af Klint show @MoMA. Just the right amount of pigment barely held by fragile graphite filaments and slivers of unfilled paper to represent intricately searching roots, gossamer petals, and slender stems.

Such a joy to see the magisterial “Gustave Caillebotte:Painting his World” exh @artinstitutechi.bsky.social on Sat with 2 beloved former grad students. The show is full of clever juxtapositions that inspire new thoughts. But I’ll never tire of the grids and veils that structure many of his works.

Check out the special section of NCFS that Cary Hollingshead-Strick and I co-edited—“Fueling the Nineteenth Century"! It was so great working with all these wonderful authors!🔥🚂⛴️🌲 www.ncfs-journal.org/current-toc

“Archives are not confined to buildings. They are places, streets, hillsides as much as card indexes.” Edmund de Waal, the writer and potter, gathers what’s scattered across time and terrain, new today in TYR. yalereview.org/article/edmu...

Edmund de Waal: “The Ragpicker's Way”

The writer and potter on archives as places of memory, instability, and trespass—from porcelain shards to a derelict house in London.

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JOB: Curator for Research, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas https://arthist.net/archive/49266

Moved by the Friedrich exhibition @ the Met. Delicately drawn clutches of leaves & blooms and spruce needles quieted by the softest snow. He understood deeply the aliveness of nature.

The next NCFS Unbound is Friday 2/28! Anne O’Neil-Henry will interview Rebecca Powers about her new book, Balzac on the Barricades. Link below! #FrHistory 🗃️ southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: NCFS Unbound 5 Episode 4: Rebecca Powers with Anne O'Neil Henry. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Rebecca Powers discusses her new book Balzac on the Barricades with Anne O'Neil Henry

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Looking forward to presenting “Aerial Intimacies: Edgar Degas’ Ironers, Coal Smoke, and Chemicals” tomorrow (Wed) @ 4:30pm @ CAA 113th Annual Conference

Delighted to see that @francescaberry.bsky.social’s whip-smart new book on Vuillard is out!

Prof. Francesca Berry (she/her)@francescaberry.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am delighted to announce that today is my book’s publication day!!! 🎉 📕 Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity is in print (and ebook) with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social It looks gorgeous. It feels chunky. I couldn’t be happier! 😊

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

"...as we move into this grim season, we must think like [subarctic moss], survive like this, grow like this: like the hardy + unregarded things that make do with little + less. The things that cultivate the wasteland, and make it soft + green for those who need it; that bloom like rust on rock..."

On Moss, Rock, Lichen, and Survival

“Moss. Roots” by Ivan Shishkin Lately, I’ve been looking at the life cycle of moss. I found myself instantly lost in a thicket of botanical terminology—from...

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A fantastic web publication from RISD about French wallpaper design! risdmuseum.org/art-french-w...

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Berlin, Germany, 1930s, two girls playing the board game "Mensch ärgere Dich nicht" (still popular in the German-speaking world), sitting next to a Chanukiah (Menorah) lit for the the third night of Hanukkah. Published in the Jewish newspaper CV-Zeitung on November 29, 1934. #chanukah #hanukkah

A must read by the great @rmesch.bsky.social

Rachel Mesch@rmesch.bsky.social · 2y ago

I wrote a piece about a certain flavor of academic abuse. I have carried parts of this story for upwards of 25 yrs, & I’m grateful to @chronicle.com for helping me to tell it. #AcademicSky #HigherEd #PHDchat www.chronicle.com/article/what...

To celebrate women working in art history, Women’s History Today invites contributions to the topic of Women and the Making of Art History. Find out more here 👇 womenshistorynetwork.org/cfp-womens-h... #WomensHistory #GenderHist

CFP Women’s History Today Special Issue – Women and the Making of Art History

Women and the Making of Art History Since the publication of Linda Nochlin’s groundbreaking ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ (1971), feminist art historians have led a revolutionary mo…

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Check out the CFP, and calls for panels, for the ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference "Collective Atmospheres" July 8-11, 2025 at Univ of Maryland. Deadline for submissions is Jan. 3, 2025. Please share! #envhum #environmentalhumanities www.asle.org/conference/b... www.asle.org/conference/p...

Our Zoom book series NCFS Unbound resumes this Friday at 2:30 EST with Helen Craske in conversation with @hannahfrydman.bsky.social Helen’s new book is Complicity in Fin-de-Siècle Literature Register below #academicsky #FrHistory #FrenchStudies

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Helen Craske discusses her new book "Complicity in Fin-de-siècle Literature" with Hannah Frydman

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Still trying to figure out how this works, but I do have a random question: does the bsky.social handle make anyone but me think of the artist Banksy? Oh, and is there a way to search for starter packs?