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, 2017

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

Rownd, Henry, “Preminger's Doubt: An Uncertain Tendency in the Late Period Films of Otto Preminger” (Stanford University, S. Bukatman)

Tankha, Akshaya, “The aesthetics of belonging in the Indigenously inhabited Postcolony: art and visual culture in contemporary Nagaland, northeast India” (University of Toronto, K.Jain)