UBC Undergraduate Journal of Art History an online journal of undergraduate art historical research at the University of British Columbia
Active Engagements
By Britt Gallpen. Click here to download Active Engagements: Decoding the Politics of A4444
Digging up a National Past
By Rachael Lew. Click here to download Digging up a National Past: Archaeology and Landscape in the Construction of History in John Egan and Dr. Dickeson’s Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley
Distance and Intimacy
By Joanna McDonald. Click here to download Distance and Intimacy: Voyeurism in Conceptual Art
“For Every Beast of the Forest is Mine”
By Rachel Roth. Click here to download “For Every Beast of the Forest is Mine”: Children’s Books and Science Education in the Age of Enlightenment
Today Your Host is Speaking Out
By Catherine Falls. Installed throughout the grounds of two major Vancouver institutions, Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds’s Native Hosts subverts common ideological beliefs regarding land ownership within British Columbia. Focusing on the work’s reversal of the generally accepted guest/host relationship between First Nations and Western communities, this paper will examine the ways in which Native Hosts performs [...]
Emphatic Realism and Ideology in Caravaggio
By Perrin Grauer. This essay pursues the theoretical significance of the ways in which early modern painterly practice differed from its art-historical precedent. An examination of twentieth-century critical and theoretical literature, combined with a visual analysis of the work of Caravaggio, focusing on his Young Sick Bacchus (1593), elucidates the ways in which [...]
Détourning the Image of Everyday Life
By Jordan Lypkie. This essay charts the complexity of two recent public artworks by Stan Douglas and Ken Lum, installed in Vancouver on the occasion of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, through their formal engagement with the local discourse of art and their inversion and subversion of images and forms of representation. The connection of these works [...]
An Aesthetic of Nostalgia
By Sophia Zweifel. The following essay places renewed focus on the art of Los Angeles artist Wallace Berman and his contemporary bohemian circle, made up of artists and beatniks. Whereas previous writings on Berman’s work have tended to fixate on how his art facilitated or negotiated relationships between members of his tight-knit group, this [...]
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