Art Journal articles from December 2004

Art Journal archives from December 2004

In this issue: unsettled imaginations.
December 22, 2004... For many of us, the conclusion of a year prompts reflection and projection. What do we think we know or have learned--and how might we unsettle it? This challenging issue of Art Journal invites us to consider the agency and errancy of art....

Envisioning Surrealism in Histoire de L'OEil and La femme 100 tetes.(Envisioning Surrealism in History of the Eye and the woman 100 heads)
December 22, 2004... The human being is this night, this empty nothing, that contains everything in its simplicity--an unending wealth of many representation, images, of which none belongs to him--or which are not present. This night, this interior of nature,...

History Images.
December 22, 2004... Artist Statement These photographs are of histories, in the form of cities in China, being either destroyed or created at this juncture in time. They are of past histories, in the form of traditional buildings and neighborhoods, urban...

Drastic urbanization: the photographs of Sze Tsung Leong.
December 22, 2004... "Drastic urbanization" is a term often used in China to describe the extraordinary wave of demolition and construction that has swept through the country since the early 1990s. During that period, China's economically booming cities have...

Neurotic cities: Barnes in Philadelphia.
December 22, 2004... In the 1959-60 seminar on the ethics of psychoanalysis, Jacques Lacan prefaced a few brief words on sublimation with the following cryptic, and somewhat evasive, comment: "Someone who recently published a work on collectors and those sales...

Response to Jeremy Braddock.
December 22, 2004... I first want to congratulate Jeremy Braddock for his tenacious attempt to get at a story that has lured many a writer. The Barnes Foundation and its founder, Dr. Albert C. Barnes, have eluded truth telling, in most part because of the...

Jackson Pollock's industrial Expressionism.
December 22, 2004... In 1957 the art historian Meyer Schapiro suggested that the significance of avant-garde art lay in its positing of an alternative to the technological extremes of corporate capitalism, observing that, within the developmental logic of...

Love among the Ruins: David Cannon Dashiell's Queer Mysteries.
December 22, 2004... Most neoclassical works based on the discoveries at Herculaneum and Pompeii were imitations of an art thought to be formally and morally superior to that of the eighteenth century. Objects and paintings gathered from the sites that failed to...

The sculpture of indeterminacy: Alison Knowles's beans and variations.
December 22, 2004... Sometimes the piece of tempura is in stages... but the contour is so light that it becomes abstract: the foodstuff has for its envelope nothing but time, the time (extremely tenuous, moreover) which has solidified it... refined by the...

Amazwi Abesifazane (Voices of Women).(art exhibitions)(Cover Story)
December 22, 2004... The Truth and Reconciliation's greatest contribution was to give back to South Africa its heart. --Wilmot James and Linda Van De Vijver At a press conference Mandela took De Klerk's hand and said, "We must forgive but never forget."...

Refracting Camp.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Fabio Cleto. Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject; A Reader. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. Essays by Christopher Isherwood, Susan Sontag, Mark Booth, Philip Core, Esther Newton, Richard Dyer, Jack Babuscio,...

Impossible cities, improbable artists: encounters with Africa at the edges of memory.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Africas: The Artist and the City; A Journey and an Exhibition. Essays by Pep Subiros, Simon Njami, Kobena Mercer, Yacouba Konate, Kan-Si, and Akinbode Akinbiyi. Barcelona: Centre de Cultural Contemporania de Barcelona, 2001. 224 pp., 219...

Seeing Malevich, cinematically.(Kazimir Severinovich Malevich)(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Oksana Bulgakowa, ed. Kazimir Malevich: The White Rectangle; Writings on Film. Berlin and San Francisco: Potemkin Press, 2002. 252 pp., 20 b/w ills. $25 paper. Margarita Tupitsyn, Malevich and Film. New Haven: Yale University Press,...