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Research Working Paper No. 2 distinguishes title correction, later identification, and the circulation of catalogue descriptions through a study of Simon Maris’s portrait Isabella and its repository records.
Dorian Vale · 2026
Working paper
Research Working Paper No. 1 examines when exhibition and documentary evidence requires an art-historical account to limit or revise its claims, with particular attention to postwar Japanese art and Shiraga Kazuo.
Dorian Vale · 2026
Working paper
An essay considering unstable materials, deterioration, and the tension between conservation and artistic impermanence. It reads material fatigue through the ethics of witnessing.
Dorian Vale · 2026
Journal article
An essay on Hassan Sharif’s handmade accumulations of ordinary materials, examining repetition, labour, consumption, and the ethical implications of material fragility.
Dorian Vale · 2026
Journal article
An essay on El Anatsui’s bottle-cap assemblages, linking discarded materials and collaborative labour with historical memory, installation practices, and the author’s account of reparation.
Dorian Vale · 2026
Journal article
A study of Sudanese art in relation to war, displacement, and historical fragmentation. The author approaches critical writing as an ethical practice of proximity and restraint.
Dorian Vale · 2026
Book
A book-length study of architecture as a condition of bodily experience, authority, and ethical encounter. It extends Post-Interpretive Criticism to scale, light, thresholds, surveillance, and access.
Dorian Vale · 2026
Book
Collected foundational writings introducing Post-Interpretive Criticism through doctrines, theoretical propositions, and applications concerned with restraint, presence, and witnessing.
Dorian Vale · 2026
Book
An operational manual for applying the diagnostic indices of Post-Interpretive Criticism across coding, comparative study, and self-audit. Procedures for testing agreement are distinct from completed reliability findings.
Dorian Vale · 2026
Dataset
A deposited dataset and report examining twenty critical texts through five diagnostic indices. The institutional tools page characterizes the associated work as a single-coder pilot, rather than independent validation.
Dorian Vale · 2026
Dataset
An essay developing moral proximity as a method of critical responsibility. It considers the relation between descriptive restraint, custodianship, and encounters with works concerned with trauma or absence.
Dorian Vale · 2026
Journal article
An essay treating the lasting effects of an encounter with art as evidence within Post-Interpretive Criticism. Its focus is the viewer’s memory, response, and continuing responsibility to the work.
Dorian Vale · 2026
Journal article
An essay considering how language may protect or distort the ethical force of artworks. It develops restraint in writing as a form of custodianship, particularly around trauma, silence, and exile.
Dorian Vale · 2026
Journal article
An early theoretical essay that questions the assumption that interpretation provides a neutral foundation for aesthetic meaning, proposing instead that mediation carries ethical consequences.
Dorian Vale · 2025
Journal article
A study of curatorial authorship and the claim of neutrality. It attends to the choices of sequence, lighting, distance, and omission through which exhibitions structure an encounter.
Dorian Vale · 2025
Journal article
A collection connecting Post-Interpretive Criticism with encounters with artworks and practical exercises in viewing and writing. The deposited description distinguishes canonical essays from pedagogical texts.
Dorian Vale · 2025
Book
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