Journal of ART in SOCIETY
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    • Elsheimer’s Flight into Egypt: how it changed the boundaries between art, religion and science
    • Feathers, fashion and animal rights
    • Lost masterpieces of ancient Egyptian art from the Nebamun tomb-chapel
    • On the Trail of the Last Supper
    • Floating pleasure worlds of Paris and Edo
    • The emergence of the winter landscape
    • Toulouse-Lautrec, the bicycle and the women's movement
    • From the Rokeby Venus to Fascism Pt 1: Why did suffragettes attack artworks?
    • From the Rokeby Venus to Fascism Pt 2: the Strange Allure of Fascism
    • The Futurists declare war on pasta
    • The art of giraffe diplomacy
    • Science becomes Art
  • Catastrophes and scandals
    • The Controversies of Constantin Brancusi: Princess X and the boundaries of art
    • Bernardo Bellotto and the reconstruction of Warsaw
    • Surviving the Black Death
    • Julie Manet, Renoir and the Dreyfus Affair
    • Art and Survival in Patagonia
    • The Isenheim Altarpiece Pt 1: Pestilence and the Concert of Angels
    • The Isenheim Altarpiece Pt 2: Nationalism, Nazism and Degeneracy
    • The shocking birth and amazing career of Guernica
  • Forgotten Women Artists
    • Forgotten Women Artists: introduction
    • Forgotten Women Artists: #1 Arcangela Paladini: The Rapid Rise and Fall of a Prodigy
    • Forgotten Women Artists: #2 Jane Loudon
    • Forgotten Women Artists: #3 Marie-Gabrielle Capet: Stepping out from the Shadows
  • Lives and livelihoods
    • Dr Jekyll, Frankenstein and Shelley’s Heart
    • The Adventures of Nadar: photography, ballooning, invention & the Impressionists
    • Colonial artist, thief, forger and mutineer: Thomas Barrett's amazing career
    • Watchmen, goldfinders and the plague bearers of the night
    • Sarka of the South Seas
    • The discovery of an early graphic novel
    • Should artists get royalties?
    • Strange encounters: the collector, the artist and the philosopher
  • Techniques and technology
    • Art as a barometer of climate changes
    • The life and death of Mummy Brown
    • Egyptian blue: the colour of technology
    • Prussian blue and its partner in crime
    • Why wasn't photography invented earlier?
    • Comets in Art
    • Art in a Speeded Up World >
      • Overview
      • Pt 1: Changing concepts of time
      • Pt 2: The 'new' time in literature
      • Pt 3: The 'new' time in painting
    • Early influences of photography >
      • Pt 1: Initial impacts
      • Pt 2: Photography as a working aid
      • Pt 3: Photographic effects
      • Pt 4: New approaches to reality
  • Authenticity and meaning
    • "All life is here": Bruegel's 'Way to Calvary'
    • Carpaccio’s double enigma: Hunting on the Lagoon and the Two Venetian Ladies
    • Bruegel's Icarus and the perils of flight
    • Michelangelo's disputed Entombment
    • Titian, Prudence and the three-headed beast
    • The origins of an Australian art icon
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Philip McCouat MA (Art History), LLB (Hons), LLM (Hons), MEnvLaw, is a writer and lawyer based in Sydney, Australia. Apart from his interest in art history, he is the author of a number of best-selling books on law and taxation. He is married, with a son.

Philip created the Journal of Art in Society in 2012. He also runs a Twitter account on art and related subjects @artinsociety. You can contact Philip here


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