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 24 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Vol 24 (2023)

Front matter


Issue 24 Front Matter

Domenico Pino

2023-04-03 Volume 24 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Vol 24 (2023) • 18

Editorial


Editorial

Louis Shankar

2023-04-03 Volume 24 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Vol 24 (2023)

Article


Failing Femininities: The Femmes of MS Additional 37049

Baylee Woodley

2023-04-03 Volume 24 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Vol 24 (2023) • 7–28

The Stuff of Life: Gesture in Giuseppe Maria Mitelli’s Alfabeto in Sogno

Petra Sikic

2023-04-03 Volume 24 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Vol 24 (2023) • 29–47

‘In the West of traditions, 1793 was yesterday’: Royalism at the 1889 Decennial Exhibition

Glynnis Stevenson

2023-04-03 Volume 24 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Vol 24 (2023) • 48–67

Review


Inspiring Walt Disney: the Animation of French Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10 December 2021–06 March 2022; and The Wallace Collection, London, 06 April 2022–16 October 2022, Wallace Collection, catalogue: Helen Jacobson, London, The Wallace Collection, 2022, 102 pages, paperback, ISBN 9781781301180, £14.99.

Domenico Pino

2023-04-03 Volume 24 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Vol 24 (2023) • 68–70

‘Francis Bacon: Man and Beast’, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 29 January – 17 April 2022. Catalogue: Eds. Michael Peppiatt and Stephen F. Eisenman, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2020, 160 pages, hardback, ISBN 1912520559, £35.00.

Louis Shankar

2023-04-03 Volume 24 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Vol 24 (2023) • 70–72

‘Lumen’, Sutapa Biswas, Autograph, London, 4 March 2022 – 4 June 2022. Catalogue: Ed. Amy Tobin, Ridinghouse, London, 2021, 128 pages, paperback, ISBN 9781909932647, £25.

Elliot Gibbons

2023-04-03 Volume 24 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Vol 24 (2023) • 72–73

Contributors


Contributors

Louis Shankar

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Theses in Progress


Theses in Progress

Louis Shankar

2023-04-03 Volume 24 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Vol 24 (2023)