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About this Journal

Object is the postgraduate research journal of the Department of History of Art at UCL. The essays and reviews included represent the wide range of historical and theoretical concerns of our current research students. The journal maintains three primary objectives: to present ongoing research within the Department to a wide readership; to encourage dialogue and debate around existing and emerging ideas in the field; and to review recent publications and exhibitions presented within the wider cultural context.

  • Volume 25 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Vol 25 (2024)

    Volume 25 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Vol 25 (2024)


Front matter


Front Matter

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    Editorial


    Editorial 

    • Baylee Woodley
    • Philomena Epps

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    Articles


    Stephen Shore and the style of a ‘New Topographics’

    • Tom Cornelius

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    Ballet Hooves: Rose English and the Spectacle of Fetishism

    • Philomena Epps

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    ‘something like an x-ray of civilization’: psychoanalysis and the art of David Wojnarowicz

    • Louis Shankar

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    From Countercultures to Cybercultures to Starter Cultures: Materialisations of the Bacterial Self in Jenna Sutela’s ‘nimiia cettii’ (2018)

    • Zaena Sheehan

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    Reviews


    ‘Michelangelo: The Last Decades’, The British Museum, London, 2 May–28 July 2024. Catalogue: Sarah Vowles and Grant Lewis, British Museum Press, London, 2024, 256 pages, hardback, ISBN 9780714126982, £35.00.

    • Esme Garlake

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    ‘Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art’, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 4 March–16 June 2024. Catalogue: Iria Candela and Joanne Pillsbury, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2024, 48 pages, paperback, ISBN 9781588397799, $14.95.

    • Marina Seyffert

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    Theses in Progress


    Theses in Progress

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      Contributors


      Contributors

        Volume 25 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Vol 25 (2024)