OPEN INQUIRY ARCHIVE Vol. 1, No. 5 (2012) Aesthetic Autonomy and Disinterested Pleasure in Georg Forster’s Voyage ’round the World by Sally Hatch Gray ABSTRACT In August of 1773, after a grueling journey to Antarctica aboard British Captain James Cook’s Resolution, and second circumnavigation from 1772 to 1775, the sailors were eager to reach warmer […]
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OPEN INQUIRY ARCHIVE Vol. 1, No. 4 (2012) MALLIUS’S WIFE: A Brief History of a Joke by Norman E. Land ABSTRACT Two of the most important dimensions of human existence, art and sex, or artistic creation and human procreation, have long been associated, sometimes seriously, even philosophically, but often also in jest. Among the first […]
OPEN INQUIRY ARCHIVE Vol. 1, No. 2 (2012) ONE FLESH… TWO (WISE) FOOLS: Evidence for Artistic Collaboration Between Judith Leyster and Jan Miense Molenaer in Four Festive Paintings by K.A. Cloutier-Blazzard ABSTRACT It is generally assumed that the seventeenth-century Dutch artists Jan Miense Molenaer (c.1610–1668) and Judith Leyster (1609–1660) worked collaboratively, both before and after their […]
Open Inquiry Archive Vol. 1, No. 4 (2012) Mallius’s Wife: A Brief History of a Joke By Norman E. Land Two of the most important dimensions of human existence, art and sex, or artistic creation and human procreation, have long been associated, sometimes seriously, even philosophically, but often also in jest. An early instance of a […]
Open Inquiry Archive Vol. 1, No. 3 (2012) Issue Introduction Postmodernism has exerted a powerful influence on the arts of the Western world for more than a generation. It has been a particularly strong presence in college and university programs aimed at educating a new generation of artists. Indeed, postmodernism has been spectacularly successful in […]
Open Inquiry Archive Volume 1, Number 3 (2012) Leonardo’s Legacy: A Defense of the Educational Value of Perceptual Drawing in an Increasingly Postmodern World by Brian Curtis, University of Miami ABSTRACT University and college art programs once nurtured visual sensitivity, talent, craftsmanship, and creativity. Recently, however, these goals have been displaced – and are increasingly being […]
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Open Inquiry Archive Vol. 1. No. 2 (2012) Issue Introduction Kimberlee Cloutier-Blazzard’s provocative essay, “One Flesh… Two (Wise) Fools: Evidence for Artistic Collaboration Between Judith Leyster and Jan Miense Molenaer in Four Festive Paintings,” (below) explores the working dynamic of an artistic couple in seventeenth-century Haarlem. Her proposed pairing of several genre works draws our […]
Open Inquiry Archive Vol. 1. No. 1 (2012) Issue Introduction At Open Inquiry Archive our mission is to publish papers on culture and the arts, especially those pieces that cross disciplinary boundaries, or explore connections between areas that are usually treated separately. Touching upon all of these, Robin O’Bryan’s “Merchants, Missionaries, and the Allure of […]
OPEN INQUIRY ARCHIVE Volume 1, Number 1 (2012) Merchants, Missionaries and the Allure of India: Speculations on Cross-Cultural Contact and Artistic Exchange in the Middle Ages by Robin O’Bryan Abstract While art historians have begun to acknowledge the debt of medieval and Renaissance art and architecture to Islamic and Chinese sources, somewhat surprisingly, India has been […]
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