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Articles 1 - 12 of 12
Full-Text Articles in Theory and Criticism
Book Review: Anna Watkins Fisher. The Play In The System: The Art Of Parasitical Resistance, Nora Almeida
Book Review: Anna Watkins Fisher. The Play In The System: The Art Of Parasitical Resistance, Nora Almeida
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No abstract provided.
Aids Normalization, Alexandra Juhasz, Theodore Kerr
Aids Normalization, Alexandra Juhasz, Theodore Kerr
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Review of On Our Backs: The Revolutionary Art of Queer Sex Work, curated by Alexis Heller for New York’s Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, which was on view from September 2019 to January 2020, and other contemporary AIDS culture.
Desertor De Un Ejército Forastero: Seoane Y El Movimiento Para Un Arte Abstracto En Argentina, Pablo García Martínez
Desertor De Un Ejército Forastero: Seoane Y El Movimiento Para Un Arte Abstracto En Argentina, Pablo García Martínez
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Luís Seoane es un intelectual con una trayectoria propicia para el estudio de los nuevos significados que adquieren las producciones culturales cuando son refractadas a contextos nacionales diferentes de aquellos en los que se originaron. Tomando como referencia las sugerencias de la conferencia de Pierre Bourdieu de donde está sacada la cita inicial, este artículo procura llamar la atención sobre los malentendidos surgidos del hecho de que los textos, y demás producciones artísticas, circulen a menudo sin el contexto desde el que son producidos. Precisamente la reconstrucción de los dos contextos con los que interactúa Seoane constituye un tipo de …
From Plato To Nato. 2,500 Years Of Democracy And The End Of History, Despina Lalaki
From Plato To Nato. 2,500 Years Of Democracy And The End Of History, Despina Lalaki
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Recovering The Beauty Of Medusa, Alexander M. Schlutz
Recovering The Beauty Of Medusa, Alexander M. Schlutz
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This essay presents a close analysis of P.B. Shelley’s fragmentary ekphrastic poem “On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery.” It places Shelley’s text in its aesthetic, mythological and historico-political contexts to demonstrate how Shelley aims to undo the ideological and representational structures of power that inform human language, art, and history, and which turn Medusa into the monstrous Other as which she appears. In Shelley’s text by contrast, Medusa becomes a figure for a revelatory beauty that cannot become visible in the distorting parameters of a discourse of power that informs our very perception of what …
On The Origin And Future Of Poetry: Notes Towards An Investigation, Carlos Aguasaco
On The Origin And Future Of Poetry: Notes Towards An Investigation, Carlos Aguasaco
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An exploration on the historical and material conditions that allowed the emergence of metaphors and poetry alongside language. This article analyzes the historical relation between poetry and technology across history. It discusses the so-called ontological crisis of poetry and opens the conversation on its future.
Utopias Misplaced: The Cost Of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics To North Korea, Seo-Young J. Chu
Utopias Misplaced: The Cost Of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics To North Korea, Seo-Young J. Chu
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This is a slightly revised version of the text of a talk that I (Seo-Young Chu) gave as part of the Fall 2014 Franke Lectures in the Humanities at Yale University. I'm sharing the text here to make the lecture more accessible. Topics include: North Korea/the DPRK, the "uncanny body politic," the uncanny valley, "dystopian poetics," what it means to outsource dystopian poetics, the intersection of aesthetics and politics. Authors/artists mentioned include: Thomas Hobbes, Mary Shelley, David Mitchell, Marjane Satrapi, Song Byeok, Sun Mu, Masahiro Mori, Andy Warhol. The talk also discusses the James Bond film Die Another Day.
Reading With The Grain: On Vin Nardizzi’S Wooden Os: Shakespeare’S Theatres And England’S Trees, Steven Swarbrick
Reading With The Grain: On Vin Nardizzi’S Wooden Os: Shakespeare’S Theatres And England’S Trees, Steven Swarbrick
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No abstract provided.
Delegated Performance: Outsourcing Authenticity, Claire Bishop
Delegated Performance: Outsourcing Authenticity, Claire Bishop
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An essay is presented on delegated performance in which nonprofessionals are hired to perform at a particular time on behalf of the artist on his or her instructions. The author stated that this social turn started since 1990s in contemporary art against the tradition of 1960s and 1970s where artists like Chris Burden, Vito Acconci and Gina Pane performed themselves. The author referred to the trend of live installation started in Europe in 1990s in which guards for exhibition were hired. The Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan assembled a soccer club of foreigners to play local matches in 1991.
1968/1989: Political Upheaval And Artistic Change, Claire Bishop, Marta Dziewanska
1968/1989: Political Upheaval And Artistic Change, Claire Bishop, Marta Dziewanska
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Anthology of texts proceeding from the conference "1968/1989: Political Upheaval and Artistic Change" held at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, in 2008.
Participation, Claire Bishop
Participation, Claire Bishop
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An anthology of key writings on the topic of participation in art, from the 1950s to the 2000s.
Antagonism And Relational Aesthetics, Claire Bishop
Antagonism And Relational Aesthetics, Claire Bishop
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A critique of relational aesthetics, as theorized by Nicolas Bourriaud, and exemplified in the work of Rirkrit Tiravanija and Liam Gillick. Using Laclau and Mouffe's theory of democracy as antagonism, the paper proposes instead a 'relational antagonism' found in certain projects by Santiago Sierra and Thomas Hirschhorn.