Now online: Dominic Janes on Francis Bacon, fetishism, and queer tastes in a time of rationing doi.org/10.1080/1471...

Francis Bacon and Fetishism: Queer Tastes in a Time of Rationing, 1940–1954

This article, building on previous work, explores the ways in which eroticism and material culture interacted in Bacon’s early paintings by situating his work in the context of religious, commodity...

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“The significance of the ‘Handsworth Self Portrait’ project images as important historical documents for understanding the politicized field of photography and the local black community’s cultural forms of resistance” — Na’ama Klorman Eraqi’s article now is online www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The ‘Handsworth Self Portrait‘ Project: Listening to Photographs, Resisting Racism, and the Rhythm of Black Handsworth

The Handsworth Self Portrait project (1979) was a makeshift outdoor studio that challenged the media’s criminalizing portrayals of Handsworth and its black community by inviting residents to take t...

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"Rather than attempting to more firmly shut museums off from political crises, I contend that the cultural sector might more effectively respond by striving to galvanize the potential of art to lead the societal change that is urgently required" — Edward Christie www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘What is Worth More: Art or Life?’: Rethinking Art History with and Against Just Stop Oil

Responding to their recent dissolution, this article reflects on the implications of Just Stop Oil for art history. I challenge the widespread assumption that art is inherently separated from clima...

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The deadline for our essay prize is 27 April — please do share and submit! www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc...

“[A]s art historians we are trained to understand how powerful the image can be”, writes @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social, unravelling and unpacking the visual politics of Whiteness in Classical sculpture and beyond (Volume 22, Issue 1-3, 2024). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Confronting the White Classical Body

Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2024)

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Recently published; a short review of Across the West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography, ed. Shannon Egan and Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad in latest issue of Norwegian-American Studies; muse.jhu.edu/issue/55851

Delighted to have an article in the latest issue of Photographica! My piece considers the experience of visuality of the flash in conjunction with that of the fixing of the latent-turning-visible image around the 1890s. Available OA in French and English: journals.openedition.org/photographic...

From our archive: Sarah Victoria Turner argues that "‘empire’ was not simply a process of ‘diffusion, extension, or expansion’ – of experience directed outwards – but was of integral importance to the development of sculptural and cultural modernism in Britain" www.tandfonline.com/doi/figure/1...

We are pleased to announce the PETE JAMES COLLECTION PRIZE 2026. The prize aims to support researchers with access to the collection and a prize of £1000.00 co-supported by Birmingham City Univeristy and our journal. Deadline for applications is 05 January 2026. www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc...

Introducing our editors: @saradominici.bsky.social, Gary Bratchford, Victoria Horne, and @ecoomasaru.bsky.social. Interested in publishing with us? Please do get in touch!

To celebrate the recent relaunch of Visual Culture in Britain, we are delighted to announce an ESSAY PRIZE for original research articles @vcib.bsky.social For more information please visit: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc... Thank you for sharing!

Visual Culture in Britain Essay Prize

Explore the article collection: Visual Culture in Britain Essay Prize. Published in Visual Culture in Britain.

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Elisabetta Garletti examines "the power imbalance that endures in curatorial reframings where the hosting museum retains the authority over alleged decolonizing narratives, which ultimately reveal themselves to be mere attempts to safeguard institutional survival" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Imperial Heritage on Trial: Keith Piper’s Viva Voce at Tate Britain

Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Just published: Victoria Munn's article argues that "the Woman’s Work section at the 1897 Victorian Era Exhibition proclaimed women’s collective progress in, and contribution to, art in the Victorian era" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Women’s Work? Women Artists at the 1897 Victorian Era Exhibition

In 1897, as part of a wide-ranging exhibition to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, Henrietta Rae curated a display of artworks by over 180 women. Analysing architectural plans, press revi...

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Caterina Franciosi reviews Iris Moon’s recent book 'Melancholy Wedgwood' (2024, @mitpress.bsky.social) as "a provocative and original contribution to the intertwined histories of capitalism and decorative arts" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reimagining Wedgwood and the Politics of Pottery: Iris Moon’s Melancholy Wedgwood

Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2025)

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Esme Garlake reviews @youth-demand.bsky.social's recent protest at the National Gallery, to reflect on the visual politics of pro-Palestine activism: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Visual Politics of Pro-Palestine Protests: Youth Demand at the National Gallery

Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Rachel Warriner examines American artist Jimmie Durham’s work in 1980s Northern Ireland, who implicated the Irish diaspora in US settler colonialism and saw parallels between structures of oppression across continents, to rethink a "British" art history: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

BUT THEN: Art in Northern Ireland and 'doing' British Visual Culture

Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2024)

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Nicholas Mirzoeff examines the politics of contemporary Palestinian visual culture and solidarity movements resisting settler colonialism, to critically interrogate British complicity in the region's past and present: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Notes on the Emergency

Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2024)

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So pleased to announce that the relaunch issue of @vcib.bsky.social is OUT! Huge thanks to all the contributors for helping us create this. Our cover features @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social's work and you can read more about it and so much more here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rvcb20/2...

Hardeep Singh Dhindsa considers how 18th-century classical studies constructed modern ideas of racial whiteness, using contemporary illustration to challenge the worldviews such sculptures came to represent (we are delighted to feature on our latest cover) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Confronting the White Classical Body

Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2024)

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You are invited to the Photoecologies Study Group, a new space for exploring photography as an environmental, elemental and energetic assemblage. To find out more about and register to attend our upcoming events, see our eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.com/o/photoecolo... .

On Photography and Care 📷🍏

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On Photography and Care, Edited by Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad, Elin Haugdal, Stephanie von Spreter and Hanne Hammer Stien. Volume 18, Issue 1 of photographies

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We are thrilled to announce the journal's relaunch editorial, reflecting on the publication's 25-year-history & our vision for its future: considering changes & continuities for both Britain & visual culture since 2000, fostering a space of ‘epistemic generosity’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

24 Years of Visual Culture in Britain: The Relaunch Issue

Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2021)

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From our archive — Mira Rai Waits explores the history of fingerprinting in India under British rule (2016, 17:1), examining how the scientific technology was bound up in a politics of identification and classification, embedded in colonial infrastructures: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Indexical Trace: A Visual Interpretation of the History of Fingerprinting in Colonial India

The invention of dactylography in the nineteenth century was inextricably linked to the imperial encounter between the British and their colonial subjects in India. Represented as a scientific tech...

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Tomorrow, I’ll be talking about journal publishing and @vcib.bsky.social for @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social — if you’re interested in writing for us, get in touch!

Hi new followers! Using this as a shameless plug to (re)introduce my book ‘Crafted with Pride’ which includes contributions from academics, activists, artists and curators on LGBTQ+ material culture 🏳️‍🌈🪧🪡 Published with Intellect and Uni of Chicago Press. www.intellectbooks.com/crafted-with...

Tomorrow, I’ll be giving a lecture at @newcastleuni.bsky.social on queer ecologies and anti-colonial abundance in Sri Lankan art. The event will start at 5:15pm in the Fine Art seminar room of the King Edward VII Building. All welcome!

Symposium at the V&A on Nov 30th (£5), in conjunction with the Jameel Prize exhibition and a new commission by Morehshin Allahyari, focus is on Middle East, South Asia, ecology, Islam. Full programme at same link, plus online curator talk on Nov 28th. 📜 #ArtHistory #ContemporaryArt

Landed Histories: Ecology, Power and Politics in Digital and Lens-based Practices - Conferences and study days at V&A South Kensington · V&A

This symposium brings together artists, academics and researchers to address the critical potential of digital and lens-based practices, as a means for the exploration of history and ecology in the Mi...

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Welcome @vcib.bsky.social to 🦋! I am so excited to be one of the new editors-in-chief. The journal is relaunching later this year and we're now accepting articles and reviews for publication in 2025. More info here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc...

‘Postcards from the Apocalypse’: Tanya Agathocleous’ article from our archive (17:13, 2016) explores ways in which literature and film have imagined London in ruins, between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries: doi.org/10.1080/1471...

Postcards from the Apocalypse: Patrick Keiller’s London and the Legacies of Victorian Realism

This article examines the way Patrick Keiller’s ‘Robinson’ film trilogy – and in particular the film London – draws on forms, images, and ideas from Victorian literary and visual culture. Like many...

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We wanted to find the people writing about photography so we've made a starter pack. Let us know if there's anyone w should add.