Migraciones (en el) arte contemporaneo / Migrations (in) Contemporary Art
Exhibition review by Caroline “Olivia” Wolf, Rice University “Migraciones (en el) arte contemporaneo / Migrations (in) Contemporary Art.” Centro de Arte Contemporáneo. Museo de la Universidad Nacional...
View ArticleHanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image
Reviewed by Najmeh Moradiyan Rizi, University of Kansas Laura U. Marks. Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015. Hardcover. 416 pp. In recent decades Arab...
View ArticleFraming the Audience: Art and the Politics of Culture in the United States,...
Reviewed by Elizabeth Eikmann, Saint Louis University Isadora Helfgott. Framing the Audience: Art and the Politics of Culture in the United States, 1929-1945. Philadelphia: Temple University Press,...
View ArticleVisual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone
Reviewed by Kristin Flade, Free University Berlin Hochberg, Gil Z. Visual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. Paperback. 224 pp. “There is, in...
View ArticleMy East Is Your West
Review by Sophie Knezic, University of Melbourne. Shilpa Gupta and Rashid Rana, My East Is Your West. 56th Venice Biennale. May 5 – October 31, 2015. A satellite exhibition of the 56th Venice Biennale,...
View ArticleTechnoliberalism and the End of Participatory Culture in the United States
Reviewed by Christian Rossipal, NYU Tisch School of the Arts Adam Fish. Technoliberalism and the End of Participatory Culture in the United States. Palgrave Macmillan. 2017. 225 pages. Following the...
View ArticleFukushima and the Arts
Review by Robert Yeates, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Geilhorn, Barbara and Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, eds. Fukushima and the Arts: Negotiating Nuclear Disaster. London: Routledge,...
View ArticleDying in Full Detail: Mortality and Digital Documentary
Review by Gwynne Fulton, Concordia University Malkowski, Jennifer. Dying in Full Detail: Mortality and Digital Documentary. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. 264 pp. In Dying in Full Detail:...
View ArticleIf Only Radiation Had Color: The Era of Fukushima
Exhibition review by Line Ellegaard, associate lecturer at The University of Copenhagen. “If Only Radiation Had Color: The Era of Fukushima.” X AND BEYOND, Copenhagen. April 1, 2017 – July 2, 2017. In...
View ArticleSocialist Senses: Film, Feeling, and The Soviet Subject, 1917-1940
Reviewed by Raymond DeLuca, Harvard University. Emma Widdis. Socialist Senses: Film, Feeling, and The Soviet Subject, 1917-1940. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2017. 407 pp. In Socialist Senses:...
View ArticleOrganic Cinema: Film, Architecture, and the Work of Béla Tarr
Reviewed by Anthony Ballas, University of Colorado at Denver Thorsten Botz-Bornstein. Organic Cinema: Film, Architecture, and the Work of Béla Tarr. New York: Berghahn Books, 2017. 221 pages. Thorsten...
View ArticleHow Heritage Feels: An Artist’s Sensuous Archaeology of Iraqi-American Relations
Exhibition review by Hilary Morgan Leathem, University of Chicago Figure 1 Michael Rakowitz, Backstroke of the West, Installation view, Reproduced with permission of Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago....
View ArticleThe Networked Recluse: The Connected World of Emily Dickinson
Reviewed by Sarah Kinniburgh, College of William and Mary Colin Bailey, Michael Kelly, Carolyn Vega, Marta Werner, Susan Howe. The Networked Recluse: The Connected World of Emily Dickinson. Amherst,...
View ArticleAllegory and Its Interpretational Force in “mother!”
Jonathan Wright, York University Most critics agree that Darren Aronofsky’s 2017 film mother! operates as some sort of allegory. There are a few different allegories to choose from, including the...
View ArticleImmediations The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary
Reviewed by Genne Speers, York University, Toronto. Pooja Rangan. Immediations The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary. Duke University Press. 2017. 254 pages. “What does endangered life do for...
View ArticleDesigns for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making...
Reviewed by Hanna E. Morris, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Arturo Escobar. Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds....
View ArticleUnconsolable Contemporary: Observing Gerhard Richter
Reviewed by Stella Gatto, independent researcher Paul Rabinow: Unconsolable Contemporary: Observing Gerhard Richter. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. 176 pages. Given the insurmountable number of...
View ArticleAnimals
Reviewed by Katie Lawson, Curatorial Assistant at Toronto Biennial of Art Filipa Ramos, ed. Animals. Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016. 240 pages. Edited by Filipa...
View ArticleFray: Art and Textile Politics
Reviewed By Jayme Collins Julia Bryan-Wilson. Fray: Art and Textile Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 326 pages. We are all experts on textiles, Julia Bryan-Wilson compels us to...
View ArticleArt For an Undivided Earth: The American Indian Movement Generation
Reviewed by Anthony Ballas, University of Denver Jessica Horton. Art For an Undivided Earth: The American Indian Movement Generation. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. 312 pages. In the shadow and...
View ArticlePotential History: Unlearning Imperialism
Reviewed by Luke Urbain, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism. London: Verso Books, 2019. 656 pages. With the urgency of a manifesto and the...
View ArticleNetworking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965–1981
Reviewed by Stella Gatto, Independent Researcher Klara Kemp-Welch, Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965–1981. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2019. 480 pages. The theory of “Six...
View ArticleBeyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critical Form Since 1968
Reviewed by Malaika Sutter, University of Bern James Voorhies, Beyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critical Form Since 1968. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2017. 288 pages. In James Voorhies’ first...
View ArticleWild Things: The Disorder of Desire
Reviewed by Dylan Lackey, Global Center for Advanced Studies Jack Halberstam. Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. 219 pages. On the other side of interpellation,...
View ArticleWhat Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?: Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the...
Reviewed by Anthony Ballas, University of Colorado at Denver Madina Tlostanova. What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet?: Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire. Durham: Duke University Press,...
View ArticleSlavery and the Post-Black Imagination
Reviewed by Luke Jarzyna, University of Rochester Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal, eds. Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 248 Pages. Slavery and the...
View ArticleSensations of History: Animation and New Media Art
Reviewed by Stefan Higgins, University of Victoria James J. Hodge. Sensations of History: Animation and New Media Art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 220 Pages. The task of “pulling...
View ArticleMinor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic
Reviewed by Hsin-Yun Cheng, University of Rochester Hentyle Yapp. Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. 288 Pages. At first glance, the title of the...
View ArticleLife-Destroying Diagrams
Reviewed by Jacob Carter, University of Rochester Eugenie Brinkema. Life-Destroying Diagrams. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. 470 pages. Throughout Eugenie Brinkema’s Life-Destroying Diagrams,...
View ArticleVisual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics
Reviewed by Chelsea Wenzhu Xu, George Mason University David Houston Jones. Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics. London: Routledge, 2022. Questions of evidence and ethics in...
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