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Art Journal back issues
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In this issue: notes on parrhesia.
December 22, 2008... Jocasta: What chiefly galls an exile's heart?
Polyneices: The worst is this: right of free speech does not exist.
Jocasta: That's a slaves life--to he forbidden to speak one's mind.
1. In the United States, First Amendment law, particularly that pertaining to free speech, is...
Why and how do we work on living artists.(Forum)
December 22, 2008... The essays in this forum were first presented on February 22, 2008, at the Annual Conference of the College Art Association in Dallas, Texas. Suzanne Hudson and Anne Byrd chaired the session, and Johanna Burton was the discussant. This session followed another chaired by Burton and Lisa...
Painting lesson: Hantai and his critics.(Forum)(Simon Hantai)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2008... A canonical figure of contemporary French art, the Hungarian-born Simon Hantai is often characterized as the "painter of withdrawal par excellence," his social and artistic itinerary marked by the experience of exile. (1) Crossing cultures from the village of Bia to Paris, he also negotiated...
Outtakes.(Forum)(on Lorna Simpson and nude photography)
December 22, 2008... In the fall of 2002, while in New York City researching my dissertation on contemporary African-American artists' engagements with the slave past, I modeled for Lorna Simpson, a practitioner whose work has figured largely in my own. (1) In this essay, I want to consider the liabilities posed...
Two or three things I know about artist interviews.(Forum)
December 22, 2008... These days, to get their story out, artists have access to a wider variety of media than ever before. If you want to know what a particular painter, sculptor, installation designer, photographer, or such has to say, you're able to consult something on a big, little, or even tiny screen....