Art Objects as Sources for the History of Experience
Palgrave studies in the history of experience 2026 Karen McCluskey
This chapter adopts an experience-centred approach to visual art. Focusing on sources depicting women across distinct historical contexts (prehistoric, archaic, early modern, and modern), it offers close visual analyses attentive to the situated conditions in which the images were encountered. It broadens existing scholarship by bringing together two methodologies: the biocultural model of the...