Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

Aesthetics
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2016

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Du, Xiaohan, “On A Snowy Night: Yishan Yining (1247–1317) and the Development of Zen Calligraphy in Medieval Japan” (Columbia, R. Harrist)

Spratt, Emily, “Byzantium not Forgotten: Constructing the Artistic and Cultural Legacy of an Empire between East and West in the Early Modern Period” (Princeton, P. Brown)

Johnson, Olga, “Shakespeare’s Fools, Rembrandt’s Beggars, Manet’s Philosophers: On the Aesthetics of Modernity” (Stony Brook University, M. Rawlinson)