Immediations – 2022 issue launch

Join us at the launch of the 2022 issue of Immediations, The Courtauld’s annual peer-reviewed publication of postgraduate research.

This edition of the journal brings together four articles, two reviews, and an interview with the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, whose work Santa Barbara (2021-2022) enfolds over both sides of the journal’s cover. This issue features a diverse range of time periods, geographies and subject matter. Evelyn Earl examines the unstable codes of masculinity in the early modern Low Countries by analysing a seventeenth-century Netherlandish musket and its usage in civic rites. Harvey Shepherd traces the seasonal migration of Savoyard people from Southeast France to Paris, compiling a visual archive of an Alpine people traditionally left to the peripheries of French eighteenth-century art history. As Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine continues to wreak havoc on millions of lives, Katia Denysova brings together three Ukrainian scholars to reflect on the devastation of cultural heritage and to envisage possible avenues for reconstruction. Lastly, Mairead Horton investigates Indigenous American-European material exchange by charting the myriad lives of a Native American bag that Benjamin West collected and depicted in his painting, The Death of General Wolfe (1770).

This issue also includes exhibition reviews by Nadine Nour El Din and Sungji Park.

In its nineteenth 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 Damiët Schneeweisz and Fred Shan and the editorial board: Phoebe Day (Subscriptions and Reviews Editor), Florence Eccleston (Reviews Editor), Carla Kessler, Carole Nataf, Hattie Spires and Julia van Zandvoort.