Art and Visual Studies

This compilation connects photography to global practices in historic perspective. Colonial and postcolonial photography is presented as an entangled and contested site.

»Roman Charity« investigates the iconography of Pero, the daughter who breastfed her father, as a figure of excess, queer desire, and dissent in early modern patriarchy.

What could easily be taken at face value sometimes deserves a closer look! This study in media analysis offers an intriguing multi-perspective approach on contemporary photographs.

Structures and dynamics of the global art market: An ethnographical perspective on the Chinese experience.