Refract: An Open Access Visual Studies Journal

eScholarship stats: History by Item for May through August, 2026

Item	Title	Total requests	2026-08	2026-07	2026-06	2026-05
0qk2z1c2	Refract Journal, Volume 2: "Translation"	2,451	307	257	131	1,756
9ps74313	Sensing Place	1,968	100	104	172	1,592
15h4c86z	Refract Journal, Issue 1: "Refraction"	1,770	127	46	91	1,506
24r1z37d	Refract Journal, Volume 4: Document/ary Full Issue	1,726	93	76	108	1,449
39w6b0hx	Refract Journal, Volume 3: Hauntings and Traces Full Issue	1,610	82	46	53	1,429
8z75g1k7	Imagining the Future of Digital Publishing	1,267	48	35	29	1,155
9n15q89f	The Face of an Empire: Cosmetics and Whiteness in Imperial Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I	909	349	207	150	203
2r4924w1	Land, Water, Explorer: Place-Making “America” in the Early Modern Period	668	149	110	174	235
5w56c6n3	Trans Self-Imaging Praxis, Decolonizing Photography, and the Work of Alok Vaid-Menon	523	179	110	79	155
3z87h5q9	Strange Weather Forecast: Inside Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s New Exhibit	510	89	90	148	183
6j606941	Halophilic	483	80	77	140	186
3rb6n5q7	BLAST RADIUS: No. 4 in a Series of Data Humanization Performances	473	88	93	181	111
4q20b7qq	Synthesizing a Dual-Definition of Façade in the Western Palaces of the Yuanming Yuan: Art, Politics, and Place-making in the Garden of Perfect Brightness	470	97	109	125	139
71s0p8nf	Lupine Sensibilities: Dynamically Embodied Intersubjectivity between Humans and Refugee Wolves	464	184	97	83	100
0jz4t1c3	Memory Matter(s)	454	72	86	147	149
1n63968d	Public Displays of Affection	447	78	75	130	164
316544kf	Review of An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain	440	75	87	120	158
1z0340v4	Mere Image: Caravaggio, Virtuosity, and Medusa’s Averted Eyes	396	88	58	96	154
0p507033	Denis Diderot’s “Salons” as Art Conservation in Eighteenth-Century France	383	70	57	94	162
9tt733sc	The Double Edge of Visibility and Invisibility: Cassils and Queer Exhaustion	359	108	81	81	89
7s96s6kb	“If You’re Out There, Please Listen to Me…”: Voices of Mourning Through the Wind Phone (Kaze no Denwa)	351	82	35	100	134
94q869s6	(Un)veiling Sappho: Renée Vivien and Natalie Clifford Barney’s Radical Translation Projects	326	68	51	92	115
9w11p9st	Photogrammetry and Zhongshan Pavilion: Reconstructing Urban Memory of the Wenxi Fire	319	85	52	39	143
4dv7j9tv	Maurice Denis (1870–1943) and the Sacred Grove: Temporality in Fin de Siècle France	312	76	47	63	126
6d00j8md	Olympic-Scale Subversion: Poster Art, Architecture, Performance, and the Afterlives of Mexico 1968	297	64	69	60	104
1gb5592r	Interview with Boreth Ly on Her New Book, Traces of Trauma	284	39	36	66	143
6cd60127	Daisy Bell	279	76	64	72	67
50g5j00d	Images, Copyright, and the Future of Digital Publishing in the Arts	265	54	25	50	136
5jn548z0	Thinking of Water as a Material Witness: An Attempt to Fill the Voids in the Archive of the Moscow Canal (1932–37)	265	86	29	57	93
5r76v48z	I’m New Here: Black and Indigenous Media Ecologies: Curatorial Statement	248	62	44	52	90
97z5x16t	“Tool of Enlightenment”: The Dreamachine’s Effects for Individual Autonomy	236	55	72	25	84
697345pn	Power Geometry in Urban Memory: Reading Taksim Square Through the Concept of Representation of Space	234	49	41	49	95
9ps0d7z3	From a Native Daughter: Seeking Home and Ancestral Lines through a Dashboard Hula Girl	223	44	33	59	87
2r58110h	The Trophy and The Appeal: Colonial Photography and the Ghosts of Witnessing in German Southwest Africa	220	38	33	50	99
2tx4j89p	A Catalog of American Things	220	63	24	74	59
0288q432	Glimmers of Digital Publishing Innovation	213	44	26	49	94
7wt7z8mx	Douce Mélancholie: Sonic Negotiations of Absence in the Works of Susan Philipsz and Félicia Atkinson	208	51	33	41	83
8g38v41w	The Struggle of Memory against Forgetting: Afterlife and Memorialization of Imagery Surrounding South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission	198	22	18	50	108
3d78r1db	The Somatic and Textural Language of Patricia Belli: Recrafting Social and Political Bodies in 1990s Nicaragua	195	37	21	42	95
4259n982	What is Radical Writing in Visual Studies?	187	35	37	46	69
78x622wh	The Televised Apocalypse	183	45	24	32	82
8k61f03t	Beyond Borders and Biology: Lisa Myeong-Joo’s Self-Portrait of a Circle (2016)	181	51	35	41	54
9053999t	White Shoals, White Shrouds: Reflections on the Ethics of Looking at Captive Bodies	181	64	21	35	61
5tr219kd	Looking Backward into the Future: Thoughts on the Study of the Past, Ritual, and Women’s Eucharistic Experiences in Byzantium	178	39	31	52	56
51v5j2xh	It's Like She Had Never Existed: The Family Story and the Assembly of Disability	174	31	36	38	69
8vc716rq	Visualizing Banaba: Art and Research about a Diffracted Pacific Island	174	51	20	38	65
73x8c0xw	Tito/Tata: Fiction and Factuality in Documentary Photographs of the Father Figure in Communist Yugoslavia	173	46	18	33	76
7xm6v7j2	My Love to Be Defused: Beginnings of an Ethics of Belonging through Negotiations of a National Socialist Image in Daily Life, from Infancy to Adulthood (Excerpts from Diaries Now Titled, The Responsibility of Being That Sort of Baby, March 24–July 25, 20	173	25	21	49	78
0581030r	Strategies of Il/legibility: Lorraine O’Grady, Gayatri Spivak, and Visual Decipherment	164	26	16	32	90
1fw4b73b	In the Traces: Reflections on Fieldwork in the Region of Ani	162	40	29	33	60

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