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Author Archives: noayaari
Multiformity vs. Multimodality
The concept “multiformity” resonates with the concept “multimodality,” not only in the way it looks and sounds, but also the broad social and cultural contexts from which it develops and to which it is addressed. Both concepts allow us to … Continue reading
Posted in Dissertation, My Art
What are Multiform Arguments?
Multiform arguments (hereafter MFAs) are arguments that are composed of words and images. MFAs claim that a certain phenomenon has happened or explain the reasons for its occurrence. I became aware of MFAs while reading illustrated historiography, especially of cultural … Continue reading
Posted in Dissertation, My Art
History Sells
Noa Yaari, History Sells (homage to Andy Worhol), 2015. A bookmark. 20.5 x 5 cm. Toronto
Posted in My Art
In the
Noa Yaari, I Lose Control, 2018. Ink on paper. 21 x 27 cm. Toronto Image source – Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus (1482-1485): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus#/media/File:Venus_botticelli_detail.jpg
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What Makes Visual Evidence “Evidence”?
Alfa Romeo 4C Spider In April’s post, I asked if – within the industry of creating and communicating historical knowledge – there is any epistemological significance to visual evidence that was photographed by the historian who writes about it. I … Continue reading
Posted in Contemplations
Historians Photograph their Visual Evidence
The visual material in illustrated historiography usually results from a chain of practices, most noticeable are the artistic creation, the photographing of the artwork, and the printing of that photograph in the book. This chain of practices is the industry … Continue reading
Posted in Contemplations, Dissertation
Renaissance Society of America – New Orleans, March 22-24, 2018
At the RSA 2018, I commented on three papers that art historians Dr. Jorge Sebastián Lozano, Dr. Víctor Mínguez Cornelles and Dr. Inmaculada Rodríguez Moya presented in the session: “Between Word and Image: Verbal-Visual Representations of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Royal Women,” which I … Continue reading
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Drawing Childhood Memories on Money as a Teaching Tool
The following article was published in Innovatus, York University’s monthly pedagogical newsletter, on January 19, 2018. It describes an art exercise I gave in my tutorials. In the last tutorial of the fall term, students in the History course Making Money drew … Continue reading
Self Portrait, 2000-2018
Noa Yaari, Self Portrait, 2000-2018. Mixed media, Tel Aviv-Toronto
Posted in Dissertation, My Art
The Discovery of Discovery
In the discourse about the rise of pre-modern individualism or the discovery of the individual in pre-modern Europe (ca. 1000-1600), historians are inclined to argue that there was a period of time in which the interest in one’s own self … Continue reading
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