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Head Notes
It is with great pleasure that I write to you and welcome you to the relaunch of the AHVA newsletter! Building upon the stellar work of several former directors and staff, we felt it was time to reach out with a semi-annual update to keep in touch and to build and maintain relations. We are […]
Media Critique in the Age of Gillray
In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the Bank of England from its obligations to convert paper notes into coin. Paper quickly became associated with a form of limitless reproduction that threatened to dematerialize solid bodies and replace them with […]
Experimental Self-Portraits in Early French Photography
This book explores a range of experimental self-portraits made in France between 1840 and 1870, including remarkable images by Hippolyte Bayard, Nadar, Duchenne de Boulogne, and Countess de Castiglione. Adapting photography for different social purposes, each of these pioneers showcased their own body as a living artifact and iconic attraction. Jillian Lerner considers performative portraits […]
Graphic Culture, Illustration, and Artistic Enterprise in Paris, 1830-1848
Nineteenth-century Paris is often celebrated as the capital of modernity. However, this story is about cultural producers who were among the first to popularize and profit from that idea. Graphic Culture investigates the graphic artists and publishers who positioned themselves as connoisseurs of Parisian modernity in order to market new print publications that would amplify […]