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Octagon, Ely Cathedral, Ely, 1322-1342, stone base completed 1328.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the current issue of SEQUITUR<\/em> goes to press, it is difficult to believe that it is only our second\u00a0issue. Since launching last December, our readership has expanded well beyond the confines of\u00a0our hometown in Boston. Visitors to www.bu.edu\/sequitur<\/a> hail from across the country, and from\u00a0as far away as China and Australia. The geographic reach of our readers is reflected in the\u00a0authors of this issue, who represent five schools from locales as distant as Alabama and Scotland.\u00a0The growth of SEQUITUR<\/em> in its first year is a testament to the vitality of art historical research and\u00a0scholarship around the globe, especially among graduate students, who are already staking their\u00a0claim on the field. The present issue of SEQUITUR\u00a0<\/em>introduces a group of young scholars who represent the promise and productivity of this new generation.<\/p>\n

In the featured essay, \u201cOutside the Gate: The Seduction of Belonging in the Charleston Works of\u00a0Elizabeth O\u2019Neill Verner,\u201d Olivia J. Kiers considers the South Carolina artist\u2019s drawings of\u00a0Charleston\u2019s urban center and rural outskirts, highlighting the complementary modes of curiosity\u00a0and longing, observation and occlusion, they reveal. Kiers elucidates Verner\u2019s own liminal\u00a0identity in Charleston as a compositional feature, one that propelled her choice of subjects and\u00a0views.<\/p>\n

Amy Williamson\u2019s interview, \u201cThe State of Museum Visitor Engagement,\u201d with Kristi\u00a0McMillan, Assistant Curator of Education for Visitor Engagement at the Birmingham (Alabama)\u00a0Museum of Art, probes current strategies for engaging museum goers inside the gallery, and\u00a0raises questions about the role of technology in the museum experience. With its focus on\u00a0contemporary museological practices, Williamson\u2019s interview stands as a coda to SEQUITUR<\/em>\u2019s first\u00a0issue, which focused on art collecting and exhibition practices.<\/p>\n

Three publication reviews present critical perspectives on recent scholarship. Sasha Goldman reviews the exhibition catalogue accompanying\u00a0the landmark Guggenheim Museum exhibition on the post-war German Group Zero and its\u00a0network (closed January 2015). Conveying the grand scale and ambitious scope of the exhibition\u00a0and catalogue, Goldman suggests ways that scholarship on Group Zero, its artistic networks, and\u00a0the German post-war decades will play a key role in future European post-war art research. In his\u00a0review of a new book by Michael Wayne, Professor in Screen Media, Brunel University, London,\u00a0Bakary Diaby assesses current trends in aesthetic theory. Against the backdrop of a larger\u00a0critical interest in the \u201cpolitical potential\u201d of philosophical aesthetics, Diaby asserts the value of\u00a0Wayne\u2019s interest in Kantian aesthetics as a way to critically approach present socio-economic\u00a0and political inequities. Lastly,\u00a0Valentina S. Grub\u00a0introduces a highly anticipated new offering on English Gothic architecture and design by Paul\u00a0Binski, Professor of the History of Medieval Art and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College,\u00a0Cambridge University. Grub encapsulates Binski\u2019s central claims of the widespread influence of\u00a0the late medieval English Decorated Style and the doctrinal efficacy of its ornate design\u00a0elements. She also calls attention to areas that would benefit from further research and\u00a0discussion, a prescient reminder of the ever-evolving nature of art historical inquiry.<\/p>\n

This issue also includes two Research Spotlights. First, Bradley J. Cavallo introduces the curious\u00a0case of Italian funerary portraits painted on metal and stone. Cavallo\u2019s account of his discovery\u00a0of this distinct type of portrait, now a central part of his dissertation, is a heartening reminder of\u00a0the often unpredictable and serendipitous nature of art historical research. Additionally, Lydia\u00a0Harrington provides a first-hand account of the second annual Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon\u00a0in Boston (one of 40+ simultaneously staged worldwide). Part reflection, part\u00a0interview, Harrington discusses her experience as a participant in the event alongside excerpts\u00a0from a discussion with Boston-area organizers Gabrielle Reed and Amanda Rust.<\/p>\n

Finally, SEQUITUR<\/em> Junior Editor Ewa Matyczyk reports on \u201cCreative Conflict,\u201d the 31st annual\u00a0Boston University Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art & Architecture, held\u00a0February 27-28, 2015, at the Boston University Art Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts,\u00a0Boston. Engaging with the event\u2019s theme, presentations, and discussions, Matyczyk foregrounds\u00a0the destructive and generative potential of conflict, and draws attention to the fundamental role of\u00a0artistic production in shaping, mirroring, and commemorating cultural identities.<\/p>\n

This issue of SEQUITUR<\/em> is notably varied in the range of topics explored. Moving from medieval\u00a0design to contemporary critical theory, Italian tombs to American cityscapes, the\u00a0essays, reviews, reflections, and conversations mirror the diversity and breadth of current\u00a0research, methods, and discourses comprising art and architectural history today.<\/p>\n

Beth Pugliano<\/h3>\n

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