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 23 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Vol 23 (2022)

    Volume 23 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Vol 23 (2022)



Front matter


Front Matter

2022-02-01 Volume 23 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Vol 23 (2022) • 1–3

Editorial


Editorial

Daisy Silver, Daisy Clery and Talia Kwartler

2022-02-01 Volume 23 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Vol 23 (2022) • 4–4

Article


Investigating Fluidity in Hans Haacke’s Condensation Cube (1965) and Gustav Metzger’s Liquid Crystal Environment (1965)

Kitty Whittell

2022-02-01 Volume 23 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Vol 23 (2022) • 7–23

“Made-Unmade-Remade”: Art, History and Identity in A Postcolonial Kinderhood (1994)

Chloe Julius

2022-02-01 Volume 23 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Vol 23 (2022) • 24–46

Politics, Fashion and Female Agency in Parisian Salons c. 1800: The Case of Juliette Récamier

Tania Sheikhan

2022-02-01 Volume 23 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Vol 23 (2022) • 47–64

Review


Dyani White Hawk: Speaking to Relatives, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, 18 February–16 May 2021. Catalogue: Ed. Jennifer Doyle, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, 2021, 78 pages, paperback, ISBN 9780996272889, $36.00.

Glynnis Stevenson

2022-02-01 Volume 23 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Vol 23 (2022) • 65–67

Andy Warhol, Tate Modern, London, 12 March–15 November 2020. Catalogue: Eds. Gregor Muir and Yilmaz Dziewior (London: Tate Publishing, 2020), 244 pages, hardback, ISBN 1849766711, £40.00; paperback, ISBN 1849766703, £25.00.

Louis Shankar

2022-02-01 Volume 23 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Vol 23 (2022) • 67–69

Daniel Heller-Roazen, Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2021, 320 pages, hardback, ISBN 9781942130475, £28.00.

Archie Squire

2022-02-01 Volume 23 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Vol 23 (2022) • 69–71

Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520–1820, University of Notre Dame Press, Indiana, 2021, 408 pages, hardback, ISBN 9780268108052, $50.00.

Daen Palma Huse

2022-02-01 Volume 23 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Vol 23 (2022) • 71–73

Theses in progress


Theses in Progress

2022-02-01 Volume 23 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Vol 23 (2022) • 74–76

Contributors


Contributors

2022-02-01 Volume 23 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Vol 23 (2022) • 77–78