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Art in Motion, a Social Tool of Power and Resistance
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- Sep 5, 2026
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Summary
Kara and Amber host a special episode with Art historian and Egyptologist Alisée Devillers to spotlight their MDPI Arts special issue “Art in Motion,” which treats Egyptian art as a verb—something commissioned, negotiated, and used to make identity, signal status, and manufacture (or resist) power across makers, patrons, and audiences. This is a long one, but it’s totally worth it. Stick around for the ‘tea’ on the realities of working in modern academic publishing. And hear all about the volume’s 24 (yes!) papers (now with 115,000 views) spanning coffins, tombs, textiles, Nubia, Persia, the Renaissance afterlife of hieroglyphs, museums, and even contemporary artistic interventions. About our Guest Alisée Devillers is an Egyptologist, archaeologist, and art historian specializing in ancient Egyptian art, artists, and social identities. Her research examines how artists and other non-elite or sub-elite communities represented themselves through visual and textual culture in ancient Egypt. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Leiden University, and the University of Cologne, where she is an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow. Her doctoral research focused on the self-representation of artists in ancient Egyptian art and their social status in Pharaonic society. Academia Profile Ancient Egyptian Art Studies: Art in Motion, a Social Tool of Power and Resistance This Special Issue will focus on ancient Egyptian Art as a dynamic. Artistic production is here envisioned as being in motion and taking part in a constant feedback loop of competing actors. Art itself is understood as an agent, which works on multiple people: the artists, the commissioners and the consumers. This Issue will underline how art acts upon so…