Tag: books

Some Updates to the “Writer” Page

Sometimes, as scholars, we get the urge to look up how our papers have been faring. I don’t do it often, but I did it recently and was pleasantly surprised!

For instance, my paper on hospital gown redesigns as patient-centered interventions has been cited by Hong et al. (2025) in a mixed-methods study published at the Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics. It is rather encouraging, as a scholar/researcher, to know that some of your work has contributed meaningfully to the field. In this case, their study sought to optimize the hospital gown for a specific population, with effective results. I’m glad it worked out!

Some of my art-historical work has been cited as well. For instance, the paper: “Of Women Pioneers, Relics and Proto-Abstractions: A Visual Analysis of O’Keeffe’s Manhattan” was recently cited in Pichranan’s “A Transitional Period in Life: A Study of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Artworks During a Period of Mental Loss (1929–1936).”

Likewise, my paper on Gauguin’s Eve (1890) has been integrated into coursework at Jawaharlal Nehru University! This was an exciting find, and I hope that the research completed has been engaging and insightful for students and scholars of Gauguin.

Check out the newly-updated “Writer” page for more info!

And… if you’re an art-historical (or interdisciplinary) researcher and would like to collaborate (or discuss ideas), feel free to reach out! hello@robmarielopez.com.

“East Meets West” and I wrote a book about it!

Hello Everyone! Thanks for stopping by my page 🙂 I won’t often post here, but today I have good news: my book, East Meets West: How 36 Views Influenced Impressionism, is now available for purchase as a Kindle e-book or as a paperback.

In this book, my art-historical research lens focuses on Japanisme, the 19th century wave of Japanophilia that took over France, thanks to the island nation opening its ports for international trade. Specifically, it focuses its gaze a few decades earlier, on Hokusai’s Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji (c. 1830-2), to analyze how this particular series successfully addressed Japanese ambivalence towards the West both in medium and composition. I also argue that this print series influenced the likes of Whistler and Monet to kick-start impressionism.

So it’s a lot! But hopefully engaging and coherent along the way 😀

I’ve written more about the subject at INKBRUSHMOOD, an art-historical blog where I occasionally write about ukiyo-e, and at Ediciones Pluma Verde, a small publisher of poetry, artbooks, fiction and non-fiction.

I’d love to get reviews on this! If you are interested in a free book, e-mail me at hello@robmarielopez.com and I will send you a copy for review.

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Update! (July 5th, 2026)

Some of my e-books are on sale over at Smashwords—by sale, of course, I mean that they’re free! 😀 Sale is for July only, so here are some links to get started:

📖 East Meets West: How 36 Views Influenced Impressionism —> https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/2056728

📖 Tropiflexión —> https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1603246

📖 Cineterapia: Película Cómo Metáfora —> https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1603246

Of course, these books are also available for the Kindle at less than $10! So you might want to check that out as well 🙂

Happy Spring!

“Hello Spring!” Prints available at pluma-verde.framer.art.

Happy Spring! At least, that’s what the calendar tells me today. With the way that this heat wave is going, you would think that we’re right in the middle of a brutal August!

However, Spring it is, and grateful we are for the shift away from the cold nights of Winter 🙂 (Though it’s easy to miss the natural A/C of February weather).

Anywho! I was so looking forward to Spring this year, that I made—and finally launched!—a commemorative print through pluma-verde.framer.art.

“Oh, interesting!,” you might say. “And why Pluma Verde and not, say, ‘robmarie-lopez.framer.art’?” You might ask. Well, thank you for asking, dear reader! Actually, I originally set up this account as a little shop for the art featured in my published books—or, the books published through my small indie editorial, Ediciones Pluma Verde. The selection was mostly in Spanish until a few days ago, when I finally published ARTEFRECUENCIA, a multilingual arts and letters magazine with a few illustrated short stories and other cool stuff.

The cover for ARTEFRECUENCIA Issue #1, available as a download for the Kindle.
A sample is available for preview at Ediciones Pluma Verde. More to follow!

In light of the fact that there’s a lot of cool stuff that I’d like to share on Framer, the selection has slowly expanded to include non-book related art—which is a plus! Working with art for publication has given me the opportunity to remix works, create new ones, and engage with more creative experimentation overall.

So check out ARTEFRECUENCIA and pluma-verde.framer.art if you can, and let me know what you think in the comments below! You can also say hello@robmarielopez.com.