Artefact is published annually by the Irish Association of Art Historians. We welcome submissions on all periods and aspects of art & architectural history, design history, material and visual culture studies, and aim to provide an outlet for publication of new and emerging scholarship in Ireland, by Irish scholars living abroad, or on topics relating to Irish visual and material culture.
DEADLINE for submissions to Artefact [Issue 6 / 2012] – TUESDAY, 5 JUNE 2012.
Submissions, following the Style Guidelines, can be emailed to: artefactjournal@gmail.com
Current submission guidelines for the journal are available here:
Artefact Style Guidance and Guidelines 2012 (pdf)
We also accept proposals for exhibition and book reviews; please email the editorial committee with details of your proposal.
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Issue 5 [2011] forthcoming. Contributors include
- Katy Milligan – Dear Dirty Dublin’: Representations of the city in the art of Harry Kernoff RHA (1900 – 1974)
- Ann Murray – Reformed Masculinity: Trauma, Soldierhood and Society in Otto Dix’s War Cripples and Prague Street
- Karen Ralph – All Aboard: Iconographical Interpretation Problems in the Book of Ballymote Miniature
- Ramesh Kieron Ramsahoye – Cistercian Spirituality, Sacred Drama and Florentine Civic Identification in Botticelli’s Cestello Annunciation
- Corinna Ricasoli – ‘It may well be that he dabbles in daubing’ – Notes on a drawing attributed to Caravaggio and the career of Tommaso Salini
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Contributors to the 2010 edition include
- Professor James Elkins, Towards an international Visual Studies Reader [Keynote essay]
- John-Patrick Hartnett, Derrida by default: Wolfgang Weingart and the accidental deconstruction of Swiss typography
- Jill Murphy, To present the present past: mimesis and identify in Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio
- Rachel Warriner, ‘Picture-making on themes of failure and longing’: the picturing of human relations and function of language in the work of Raymond Pettibon
Contributors to the 2009 edition include:
- Kate Antosik Parsons: Bodily Remembrances: the performance of memory in recent works by Amanda Coogan
- Anna Kadzik: Uniforms on earthly delight: Egyptian archaeological garments in the collection of the National Museum of Ireland
- Paula Lynch: Stabilitas Loci: the experience of place in Jackie Nickerson’s Faith
- Niamh NicGhabhann: Reconstructions of the Gothic Past; cultures on conservation
- Audrey Nicholls: The Luxury of Adultery: the iconography of Christ and the Adulteress in sixteenth-century Venice
Contributors to the 2008 edition include:
- Lucy Dawe-Lane: Staring into space: the performance of process in two portraits by Goya
- Simon Knowles: Two-way traffic: James McNeill Whistler and the Sister Arts tradition
- Fiona Loughnane: Materialism and idealism: the influence of Salvador Dalí on Colin Middleton
- Reidin McSweeney: RE: Performance – the role of the audience in the documentation of Marina Abramovic’s performances
- Una Walker: Ballrooms to barber shops: visual art venues in operation in Northern Ireland in the latter half of the twentieth-century
- Fiona Woods: Ilya Kabakov and the shadows of modernism
Contributors to the inaugural edition of the journal include:
- Dr Eileen Kane - John Henry Newman’s Catholic University Church revisited
- JP McMahon – Structures of Signification: Vito Acconci & 1970s artistic production
- Ruth Starr – Eileen Gray, a child of Japonisme?
- Elmarie Nagle - Patron(s), Saints and the Politics of Display
- Aidan O’Boyle – The Earls of Moira as Collectors
- Ann Wilson – Seamus Murphy: a sculptor’s dilemma in mid-20th c. Cork
For details on how to obtain copies of previous editions of Artefact, please email the editorial committee.
