Refract: An Open Access Visual Studies Journal

eScholarship stats: History by Item for June through September, 2026

Item	Title	Total requests	2026-09	2026-08	2026-07	2026-06
9n15q89f	The Face of an Empire: Cosmetics and Whiteness in Imperial Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I	903	197	349	207	150
0qk2z1c2	Refract Journal, Volume 2: "Translation"	860	165	307	257	131
2r4924w1	Land, Water, Explorer: Place-Making “America” in the Early Modern Period	489	56	149	110	174
15h4c86z	Refract Journal, Issue 1: "Refraction"	464	200	127	46	91
71s0p8nf	Lupine Sensibilities: Dynamically Embodied Intersubjectivity between Humans and Refugee Wolves	457	93	184	97	83
9ps74313	Sensing Place	449	73	100	104	172
5w56c6n3	Trans Self-Imaging Praxis, Decolonizing Photography, and the Work of Alok Vaid-Menon	438	70	179	110	79
3rb6n5q7	BLAST RADIUS: No. 4 in a Series of Data Humanization Performances	408	46	88	93	181
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	393	62	97	109	125
1z0340v4	Mere Image: Caravaggio, Virtuosity, and Medusa’s Averted Eyes	387	145	88	58	96
24r1z37d	Refract Journal, Volume 4: Document/ary Full Issue	367	90	93	76	108
3z87h5q9	Strange Weather Forecast: Inside Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s New Exhibit	364	37	89	90	148
0jz4t1c3	Memory Matter(s)	356	51	72	86	147
7s96s6kb	“If You’re Out There, Please Listen to Me…”: Voices of Mourning Through the Wind Phone (Kaze no Denwa)	351	134	82	35	100
6j606941	Halophilic	349	52	80	77	140
316544kf	Review of An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain	317	35	75	87	120
1n63968d	Public Displays of Affection	313	30	78	75	130
9tt733sc	The Double Edge of Visibility and Invisibility: Cassils and Queer Exhaustion	313	43	108	81	81
0p507033	Denis Diderot’s “Salons” as Art Conservation in Eighteenth-Century France	300	79	70	57	94
6cd60127	Daisy Bell	282	70	76	64	72
94q869s6	(Un)veiling Sappho: Renée Vivien and Natalie Clifford Barney’s Radical Translation Projects	270	59	68	51	92
39w6b0hx	Refract Journal, Volume 3: Hauntings and Traces Full Issue	258	77	82	46	53
4dv7j9tv	Maurice Denis (1870–1943) and the Sacred Grove: Temporality in Fin de Siècle France	233	47	76	47	63
6d00j8md	Olympic-Scale Subversion: Poster Art, Architecture, Performance, and the Afterlives of Mexico 1968	233	40	64	69	60
9w11p9st	Photogrammetry and Zhongshan Pavilion: Reconstructing Urban Memory of the Wenxi Fire	223	47	85	52	39
5jn548z0	Thinking of Water as a Material Witness: An Attempt to Fill the Voids in the Archive of the Moscow Canal (1932–37)	214	42	86	29	57
5r76v48z	I’m New Here: Black and Indigenous Media Ecologies: Curatorial Statement	212	54	62	44	52
97z5x16t	“Tool of Enlightenment”: The Dreamachine’s Effects for Individual Autonomy	204	52	55	72	25
2zf2p5tk	Traces, Fragments and Voids: An Artist Representing Detroit's Vanishing Homeland	195	123	36	9	27
9ps0d7z3	From a Native Daughter: Seeking Home and Ancestral Lines through a Dashboard Hula Girl	189	53	44	33	59
2tx4j89p	A Catalog of American Things	185	24	63	24	74
697345pn	Power Geometry in Urban Memory: Reading Taksim Square Through the Concept of Representation of Space	174	35	49	41	49
1gb5592r	Interview with Boreth Ly on Her New Book, Traces of Trauma	173	32	39	36	66
50g5j00d	Images, Copyright, and the Future of Digital Publishing in the Arts	169	40	54	25	50
73x8c0xw	Tito/Tata: Fiction and Factuality in Documentary Photographs of the Father Figure in Communist Yugoslavia	169	72	46	18	33
0288q432	Glimmers of Digital Publishing Innovation	165	46	44	26	49
8z75g1k7	Imagining the Future of Digital Publishing	161	49	48	35	29
9053999t	White Shoals, White Shrouds: Reflections on the Ethics of Looking at Captive Bodies	160	40	64	21	35
7wt7z8mx	Douce Mélancholie: Sonic Negotiations of Absence in the Works of Susan Philipsz and Félicia Atkinson	157	32	51	33	41
2r58110h	The Trophy and The Appeal: Colonial Photography and the Ghosts of Witnessing in German Southwest Africa	156	35	38	33	50
5tr219kd	Looking Backward into the Future: Thoughts on the Study of the Past, Ritual, and Women’s Eucharistic Experiences in Byzantium	154	32	39	31	52
8k61f03t	Beyond Borders and Biology: Lisa Myeong-Joo’s Self-Portrait of a Circle (2016)	152	25	51	35	41
3d78r1db	The Somatic and Textural Language of Patricia Belli: Recrafting Social and Political Bodies in 1990s Nicaragua	147	47	37	21	42
8vc716rq	Visualizing Banaba: Art and Research about a Diffracted Pacific Island	147	38	51	20	38
4259n982	What is Radical Writing in Visual Studies?	139	21	35	37	46
51v5j2xh	It's Like She Had Never Existed: The Family Story and the Assembly of Disability	139	34	31	36	38
6x75v6kd	Happy Bullish 2011!!!: Olek’s Project B	136	35	53	27	21
6rw5s8qh	Front Matter	132	34	34	27	37
1n22g022	The Heat is On	131	29	35	24	43
78x622wh	The Televised Apocalypse	126	25	45	24	32

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