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Blurred boundaries: Art in the age of social media

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What divides ‘serious’ or high art from ‘popular’ art? And has the line between these become more blurred in the digital era? These questions are asked by Professor Hans Abbing, a practising visual artist and professor of art sociology and economics at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. In his book The economies of serious and popular art: […]

Back to the future: The Secret of Kells brings the past to life

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Lisabeth C Buchelt specialises in medieval and nineteenthcentury British and Irish literary and cultural studies and examines how a modern animation, The Secret of Kells, brings the medieval Irish landscape alive.

It’s tempting to think that our global, multimedia age is the most multicultural and visually literate in history. However, a new study by Lisabeth Buchelt, of the University of Nebraska—Omaha probes the relationship between a contemporary Irish animated film and the 1,200-year-old masterpiece of Celtic art that inspired it. She finds that the modern age is not the first to […]