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Full-Text Articles in Theory and Criticism
Mythic Narratives: The Chronicling Of Conceptual Art, Ana A. Iwataki
Mythic Narratives: The Chronicling Of Conceptual Art, Ana A. Iwataki
Pitzer Senior Theses
An exploration of the mythologized narratives that the work and lives of Conceptual artists Bas Jan Ader, Ana Mendieta, and Francis Alÿs have created and inspired. By virtue of their biographies, the fetishization of their personalities, and the ways in which this anecdotal information can be read in their work, mythologized narratives have been constructed, allowing for a prolonged interest existing within and without the confines of the art world. These mythologies come together as part of the oral tradition of the art world, a chronicling of narratives that incites continued interest for future generations.
Icarus Returned: The Falling Man And The Survival Of Antiquity, Sharon Sliwinski
Icarus Returned: The Falling Man And The Survival Of Antiquity, Sharon Sliwinski
Data and Test Instruments
This chapter examines the so-called "Falling Man" photograph: Richard Drew's infamous image of an anonymous man in free fall, following his jump from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Using Aby Warburg's iconographical method, I read this figure as a latter-day Icarus, putting Drew's photograph in dialogue with other representations of Icarus as a way to explore the image's unconscious force.
On Photographic Violence, Sharon Sliwinski
On Photographic Violence, Sharon Sliwinski
Data and Test Instruments
This paper explores the significance of photographic violence in relation to a single defaced image found during the Bosnian War. The single example of pictorial violence opens a set of questions interrogating the nature of human aggression: What is the status of violence carried out in effigy? Can this particular example of defacement open understanding into the other forms of violence that took place during the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia? How does the image come to be marked by affect but also serve as the medium of its transmission? And finally, why does photography lend itself so easily to …