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The Power of Provenance. Dr Johnson’s Teapot and the Materialization of Fame (2022)
Journal Article
Pierson, S. (2022). The Power of Provenance. Dr Johnson’s Teapot and the Materialization of Fame. Transfer (Heidelberg), 29-43. https://doi.org/10.48640/tf.2022.1.91511

In the British Museum collection, there is an eighteenth-century Chinese teapot that is named on its label ‘Dr Johnson’s teapot’. Evoking the famous lexicographer and tea drinker Samuel Johnson (1708-84), this teapot has been given a name that associ... Read More about The Power of Provenance. Dr Johnson’s Teapot and the Materialization of Fame.

‘The New Life’: Mozambican Art Students in the USSR, and the Aesthetic Epistemologies of Anticolonial Solidarity (2022)
Journal Article
Savage, P. (2022). ‘The New Life’: Mozambican Art Students in the USSR, and the Aesthetic Epistemologies of Anticolonial Solidarity. Art History, 45(5), 1078-1100. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8365.12692

This essay traces the histories and reverberations of the socialist scholarship programmes which brought art and graphic design students from Africa to the USSR during the 1980s. Drawing on the accounts and archives of art students and cultural worke... Read More about ‘The New Life’: Mozambican Art Students in the USSR, and the Aesthetic Epistemologies of Anticolonial Solidarity.

Feeling in Truth (2022)
Digital Artefact
Laiapea, M. (2022). Feeling in Truth. [Video]

An audiovisual reflection that seeks to decode the powerful sound-image relationship in the music art video Truth by Kamasi Washington and AG Rojas. Through a multimodal approach the essay explores forms of frequency and the video's affective impact.

Gũlā: Music of a Sacred Time (2022)
Digital Artefact
Widdess, R., Sowa, A., & Sowa, R. (2022). Gũlā: Music of a Sacred Time. [Video]

For the inhabitants of Bhaktapur, a historic town in Nepal, Gũlā is a sacred month. It is celebrated with processions, music, and other observances in the streets, squares and temples of the town, culminating with a festival in which Buddha statues p... Read More about Gũlā: Music of a Sacred Time.

Tirthas, temples and the architecture of Hindu pilgrimage (2022)
Book Chapter
Branfoot, C. (2022). Tirthas, temples and the architecture of Hindu pilgrimage. In H. Prabha Ray, S. Kulshreshtha, & U. Suvrathan (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Hindu Temples: Materiality, Social History and Practice (197-217). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003097709-15

Pilgrimage is a popular ritual practice shared by many of the religions of South Asia. Many Hindus consider the power of deities to be greater at specific places and it is to these locations that many Hindus journey to on pilgrimage. This chapter wil... Read More about Tirthas, temples and the architecture of Hindu pilgrimage.

Popular Ethiopian Cinema: Love and Other Genres (2022)
Book
Thomas, M. W. (2022). Popular Ethiopian Cinema: Love and Other Genres. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350227439

This book shines much-needed light on the history, structures and films of the Amharic film industry in Ethiopia. Focusing on the rise of the industry from 2002, until today, and embedded in archival, ethnographic and textual research methods, this b... Read More about Popular Ethiopian Cinema: Love and Other Genres.