Artefact is published annually by the Irish Association of Art Historians, and copies of issues of 2 – 7 are currently available. Please contact iaahinfo@gmail.com for details on ordering issues.

Contributors to Issue 7 include:

• Julie Daunt – The abject, affect and repulsion in the works of Cecily Brennan
• Nina Holmes – Prescribing ideologies: symptoms of modernism and modernity in Irish government health pamphlets (1950–64)
• Emma McVeigh – ‘Alert to Continental influence’: sculpture and modernism in the Ulster Unit
• Leslie O’Connor Turner – Illuminating façades in Bordon’s Evangeliary for Santa Giustina
• Kathryn O’Regan – ‘The combing, the plaiting, the love of grooming’: hair and the politics of beauty in the work of Alice Maher
• Ruth Sheehy – The liturgical art of Richard Enda King (1943–95) in Ireland

Contributors to Issue 6  include:

• Holly Brennan – Design and Dissidence: The Legacy of the Atelier Populaire and the Visual Lexicon of Revolution
• Sarah Maguire – Syphilis, spots, succour, and spirit: how the bunter in Hogarth’s A Harlot’s Progress serves her purpose
• Kirstie North – The Man Who Looked Back; Jeremy Millar & Aby Warburg
• Louis Weyhe Funder – Danish Modern Furniture and Finn Juhl

Contributors to Issue 5 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

Contributors to Issue 4 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 Issue 3 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 Issue 2 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