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Co-Editors in Chief: Mia Chen, Irene Wang

Graphic Designer: Dylan Cobankiat, Monica Feng

Editors: Axelle Dequatre, Bridget Ferguson, Carly Formoso, Verna Huang, Talia Kainz, Alessia Montecalvo, Zara (Aarushi) Onkar

Contributing Artists: Asteria Liu, Riko Tanaka, Jeidn Winkler

Contributing Writers: Calla Campbell, Madeline de Jager, Megan Mezera, Romilly Goggs, Verna Huang

 

Articles

Anna Atkins, Lycopodium flabellatum, c. 1844. Cyanotype.

Transcending Binaries: Anna Atkins and the Adaptation of Photography for Scientific Documentation

Megan Mezera

“By combining the use of aesthetics and botanical paradigms, Atkins transcends the illusive binary of artistic subjectivity and scientific objectivity.”

 

Mary Cassatt, Le Thé (The Tea), 1880. Oil on canvas, 25 1⁄2 x 36 1⁄4 in Museum of Fine Arts Boston; M. Theresa B. Hopkins Fund.

Can The Tea Drinker Have Her Cake and Eat It Too? A Visual Analysis of Cassatt and Metzinger’s Works of Teatime

Madeline de Jager

“Cassatt’s Le Thé is emotive and tangible, displaying a sensitivity to the perspectives and experiences of upper- and middle-class women, while Metzinger’s work seeks to disfigure and reconstruct the female form.”

 

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, A Tumultuous Assembly. Numerical Sensibility (Une Assemblée tumultueuse. Sensibilité numérique published in Les mots en liberté futuristes, 1919. Letterpress, 10½ x 13 in.

“Bones, Feathers, and All”: Sound Poetry in Conversation with Free Word Tables

Calla Campbell

“The bones and feathers of Futurism include its representational baggage, a struggle against cultural constructs and social conventions that is never quite complete.”


ARTIST PROFILES

 

Asteria Liu, Red Sofa, 2023. Clay and acrylic paint, 5 x 3 x 3 in.

Sculpting Memories: Asteria Liu’s Artistic Voyage through Nostalgia and Identity

Axelle Dequatre

 

Jeidn Winkler, from POV series, 2023. Coloured pencil on paper, 24 x 30 in.

Jeidn Winkler in Conversation with Bridget Ferguson

Bridget Ferguson

 

Riko Tanaka, Untitled (Hong Kong), 2020. Digital drawing.

Departure and Documentation: Riko Tanaka on Articulating the Mundane

Talia Kainz

 

Reviews

Courtesy of the artist,

XIÁM: To Tell Stories, Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art

Verna Huang

Courtesy of the Estate of Denyse Thomasos and Olga Korper Gallery. Photo: Andre Beneteau.

Denyse Thomasos: just beyond, Vancouver Art Gallery

Romilly Goggs


The Undergraduate Journal of Art History & Visual Culture (UJAH) is a free student journal published by the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory and the Art History Students’ Association at the University of British Columbia. All material is copyright © 2024 UJAH, authors, and artists.

UJAH gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the UBC Art History Students’ Association (AHSA) and the Walter H. Gage Memorial Fund, as well as the editorial and financial support of the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia.

We acknowledge that the UBC Vancouver campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).

Issue 15, 2024. Published since 2009. Cover design by Dylan Cobankiat, Photography by Monica Feng