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Cold War Visual Alliances (Special Issue)

Visual Studies, vol. 30, no. 2, Routledge / Taylor & Francis 2015 Tier 2 Accessed 2026-04-30 View source ↗

Citation

Bassnett, Sarah, Andrea Noble, and Thy Phu, guest eds. “Cold War Visual Alliances.” Special issue of Visual Studies 30, no. 2 (2015). Published by Routledge / Taylor & Francis.

Tier justification

Tier 2: special issue of Visual Studies (Routledge/Taylor & Francis), a peer-reviewed journal of the International Visual Sociology Association. Guest-edited by three named academic scholars, the issue constitutes a peer-reviewed themed collection on Cold War visual culture.

Relevance

The special issue that contains src-sandeen-2015-guatemala (Sandeen’s ‘The Family of Man in Guatemala’). Documenting the host issue establishes the scholarly context for Sandeen’s article — situating it within a peer-reviewed conversation about Cold War visual alliances, which provides important framing for the whole series of exhibition-as-diplomacy studies that the FoMLEG project builds on. Other articles in this issue may address additional tour venues or Cold War visual diplomacy contexts relevant to this project; their titles are not confirmed from what was fetched this round.

Key excerpts / pages

  • Special issue title confirmed (search result, 2026-04-30): ‘“Cold War Visual Alliances,” guest edited by Sarah Bassnett, Andrea Noble and Thy Phu.’
  • Journal and issue confirmed (search result, 2026-04-30): Visual Studies Volume 30, 2015 – Issue 2.
  • The Tandfonline DOI structure is confirmed: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1472586X.2015.1024958 (for Sandeen’s article in this issue).

Notes

  • The ToC for this issue was NOT directly fetched this round. The special issue is known only through its appearance as the host for Sandeen’s article in search results. Other article titles in the issue are not confirmed.
  • Verified: false — issue table of contents not opened this round.
  • A future pass should fetch the Tandfonline ToC for this issue (https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rvis20/30/2) to identify all articles and determine whether others address FoM reception in additional tour venues.
  • This entry is a pointer-and-context record. The primary citation for any specific article in the issue should go to that article’s own source entry (e.g., src-sandeen-2015-guatemala).
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