Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:19:35 -0400 en-us © 2026 Iconoclast Art History yes b7f9fb66-28c8-51de-8ba4-c3c18a611c09 RAP episodic false A place for art & ideas (not always in that order)

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) RAP https://storage.buzzsprout.com/611s4vxsnu36dvxau4d6xfj6hzye?.jpg How do we rethink the category of the woman artist? In this episode, Caroline Fowler speaks with Judith Noorman on the category of the “woman artist,” examining its limits within feminist art history while acknowledging its strategic value. Noorman’s research on the 17th-century Dutch art market challenges entrenched assumptions by demonstrating the central role of women not only as artists but as patrons and consumers, notably through a re-evaluation of archival evidence surrounding Johannes Vermeer and his likely patron Maria de Knuijt. By exposing gendered biases in the interpretation of documents such as wills and probate inventories, the episode highlights how historiography has systematically obscured women’s agency.

]]> In this episode, Caroline Fowler speaks with Judith Noorman on the category of the “woman artist,” examining its limits within feminist art history while acknowledging its strategic value. Noorman’s research on the 17th-century Dutch art market challenges entrenched assumptions by demonstrating the central role of women not only as artists but as patrons and consumers, notably through a re-evaluation of archival evidence surrounding Johannes Vermeer and his likely patron Maria de Knuijt. By exposing gendered biases in the interpretation of documents such as wills and probate inventories, the episode highlights how historiography has systematically obscured women’s agency.

]]> RAP Buzzsprout-19045814 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:00:00 -0400 1548 Judith Noorman, Caroline Fowler 1 3 full false How might we take up Hortense Spillers’s invitation to think gender and race in 2026? In this episode, Caroline Fowler is joined by former Clark/Oakley Humanities Fellow Darius Bost to unpack the enduring impact of Hortense Spillers’s 1987 landmark essay “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe.”  The conversation situates the essay within its historical context, including its critique of the Moynihan Report and its intervention in Black feminist and Black Studies discourse. They also reflect on why the essay continues to be widely cited—yet sometimes insufficiently understood—within art history and beyond. The episode considers how Spillers’s ideas open up possibilities for reimagining visual culture, embodiment, and Black queer futures today.

]]> In this episode, Caroline Fowler is joined by former Clark/Oakley Humanities Fellow Darius Bost to unpack the enduring impact of Hortense Spillers’s 1987 landmark essay “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe.”  The conversation situates the essay within its historical context, including its critique of the Moynihan Report and its intervention in Black feminist and Black Studies discourse. They also reflect on why the essay continues to be widely cited—yet sometimes insufficiently understood—within art history and beyond. The episode considers how Spillers’s ideas open up possibilities for reimagining visual culture, embodiment, and Black queer futures today.

]]> https://www.clarkart.edu/Research-Academic/Podcast/Iconoclast-Art-History/Episode-2 RAP Buzzsprout-19006351 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:00:00 -0400 1943 Darius Bost, Caro Fowler 1 2 full false How might we foster intergenerational conversation in the humanities? In this episode, Caroline Fowler engages former RAP fellow David Scott in a reflective conversation on generational consciousness, intellectual inheritance, and the shifting horizons of political and artistic imagination. What begins as an observation of a quiet rupture between senior scholars and emerging voices unfolds into a rich dialogue about the languages we inherit—and the ones we fail to share. Drawing on Scott’s formative experiences in post-independence Jamaica and his work founding the Caribbean journal of criticism Small Axe, the episode probes how different generations inhabit distinct temporalities shaped by hope, disillusionment, and the afterlives of historical transformation. This conversation invites listeners to reconsider what it means to belong to a generation, to inherit a past, and to imagine futures that remain, however tenuously, within reach.

]]> In this episode, Caroline Fowler engages former RAP fellow David Scott in a reflective conversation on generational consciousness, intellectual inheritance, and the shifting horizons of political and artistic imagination. What begins as an observation of a quiet rupture between senior scholars and emerging voices unfolds into a rich dialogue about the languages we inherit—and the ones we fail to share. Drawing on Scott’s formative experiences in post-independence Jamaica and his work founding the Caribbean journal of criticism Small Axe, the episode probes how different generations inhabit distinct temporalities shaped by hope, disillusionment, and the afterlives of historical transformation. This conversation invites listeners to reconsider what it means to belong to a generation, to inherit a past, and to imagine futures that remain, however tenuously, within reach.

]]> https://www.clarkart.edu/Research-Academic/Podcast/Iconoclast-Art-History/Episode-1 Caro Fowler Buzzsprout-18968481 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:00:00 -0400 1923 David Scott, Caro Fowler 1 1 full false