Jonathan Shirland
Biographic Data
| ID | 5456200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Shirland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Shirland |
| SIGNATURE | SHIRLAND J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jonathan Shirland is Assistant Professor of Art History at Bridgewater State University. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
One Who Dreams Is Called A Prophet by Sultan Somjee
Written over a period of fifteen years but really the distillation of four decades of work, One Who Dreams Is Called a Prophet is an extraordinary summation of an extraordinary career.1 The story is about the epic walk of Alama, a pastoralist elder from northern Kenya, who is an alter-ego of the author; his arduous pilgrimage to find the source of peace is a journey that Dr. Somjee has also undertaken. Somjee lived among various pastoralist commu…
Shangaa
‘Enigmas So Occult Tat Oedipus Might Be Puzzled To Solve Tem’
Whistler’s involvements with Spiritualism were an important aspect of his persona for the last thirty years of his life and his paintings were repeatedly discussed in terms of Spiritualist practice and phenomena. This article explores the usefulness of Christopher Partridge’s concept of ‘Occulture’ in understanding Whistler’s associations with Spiritualism, the discursive framing of his works, and the uses made of his paintings by a variety of in…
Embryonic Phantoms’
Considering why nineteenth century reviewers equated Whistler’s ‘Black Portraits’ with the practices of the spiritualist movement yields insights into the effects of the material limits of painting in the years before 1900. New visual technologies were generating novel cultures of excitement, skepticism and paranoia, and the veracity of Whistler’s portraits were conditioned by the timing of their production between the production of the first ‘sp…
Material and Visual Cultures Beyond Male Bonding, 1870–1914
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Material and Visual Cultures Beyond Male Bonding, 1870–1914
Embryonic Phantoms’
Considering why nineteenth century reviewers equated Whistler’s ‘Black Portraits’ with the practices of the spiritualist movement yields insights into the effects of the material limits of painting in the years before 1900. New visual technologies were generating novel cultures of excitement, skepticism and paranoia, and the veracity of Whistler’s portraits were conditioned by the timing of their production between the production of the first ‘sp…
‘Enigmas So Occult Tat Oedipus Might Be Puzzled To Solve Tem’
Whistler’s involvements with Spiritualism were an important aspect of his persona for the last thirty years of his life and his paintings were repeatedly discussed in terms of Spiritualist practice and phenomena. This article explores the usefulness of Christopher Partridge’s concept of ‘Occulture’ in understanding Whistler’s associations with Spiritualism, the discursive framing of his works, and the uses made of his paintings by a variety of in…
Shangaa
One Who Dreams Is Called A Prophet by Sultan Somjee
Written over a period of fifteen years but really the distillation of four decades of work, One Who Dreams Is Called a Prophet is an extraordinary summation of an extraordinary career.1 The story is about the epic walk of Alama, a pastoralist elder from northern Kenya, who is an alter-ego of the author; his arduous pilgrimage to find the source of peace is a journey that Dr. Somjee has also undertaken. Somjee lived among various pastoralist commu…
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