Join us for the launch of the 2025 issue of Immediations, The Courtauld Institute of Art Journal of Postgraduate Research.
This edition of Immediations includes an interview, three articles, and five reviews on the theme ‘Soft’. The interview with Emma Richardson, Director of Research at Rochester Institute of Technology’s Image Permanence Institute in New York, was conducted by Alice Dodds, and provides the image on the cover. The articles cover a diverse range of time periods and geographies, investigating the limits of art and art history. Orlando Giannini and Ana-Maria Milčić consider mother-daughter relationships in the paintings of Chantal Joffe. Molly Lewis provides a nuanced study of a medieval gothic ivory, drawing on her own intimate examination of the object. Ekaterina Zinurova considers Martiros Saryan’s paintings of his native Armenia, displayed at the Soviet Pavilion of the 1924 Venice Biennale, as a manifestation of ‘soft power’.
This issue also includes exhibition and book reviews by Emily Abney, Amy Elder, Rachel Hartley, Alex Bispham, and Amelia Mielniczek.
In its twenty-second year, Immediations continues to provide a global forum for showcasing rigorous and innovative research from Courtauld’s postgraduate students and early career researchers. Available for free online and in print, the journal is at the forefront of providing scholars in the arts and humanities with open access to new research and writing.
This issue of Immediations has been selected and edited by Editors-in-Chief Alice Dodds and Emma Iadanza and the editorial board: Zoe Bomberg-McCarthy, Matthew Cheale, Leylim Erenel, Tatjana Schaefer, Clara Shaw, and Millie Riddell.
Find out more about Immediations by following the link here: https://courtauld.ac.uk/research/research-resources/publications/immeditations-postgraduate-journal/.
Organised by Alice Dodds and Emma ladanza, Editors-in-Chief and PhD students, Courtauld Institute.
