Art Journal articles from March 2003

Art Journal archives from March 2003

In this issue: reflections.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... Inspired by a student's research in a seminar last fall, I have been intrigued by historical reenactments and their relationship to contemporary communities, art, and life. What is the active brew of confirmation and revision that inspires...

And there I am: Andy Warhol and the ethics of identification.
March 22, 2003... Among the best-known of Andy Warhol's many epigrams is one which strikes a modernist and a postmodernist chord alike: "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am....

Doing it for Andy.(Andy Warhol's homosexuality)
March 22, 2003... When American fags are gossiping amongst ourselves and we want to confirm that someone is one of us, we might say, "She goes to our church." If, for instance, our best friend's younger male cousin is visiting us in the big city for the first...

White-on-white: The overbearing whiteness of Warhol being.(Andy Warhol)
March 22, 2003... Vacant, vacuous Hollywood was everything I ever wanted to mold my life into. Plastic. White-on-white. --Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett, Popism Elvis was a hero to most, But he never meant shit to me 'cause he was straight up...

Andy Warhol's Beauty #2: demystifying and reabstracting the feminine mystique, obliquely.
March 22, 2003... From a fixed angle and focus, the camera in Beauty #2 (1965) records Edie Sedgwick and Gino Piserchio--the latter a newcomer to the Warhol world who, we are told as the film progresses, was brought home for Edie's entertainment--performing....

The lost contingent: Paul Maenz's prophetic 1967 event and the ambiguities of historical priority.
March 22, 2003... "All this will one day be yours, sweetheart." Paul Maenz was not making any promises to me, but was reaching back to before he became a major German dealer to translate the enigmatic pledge on the catalogue for one of the first exhibitions he...

The Enigma of Survival: traveling beyond the expat gaze.
March 22, 2003... This is what the postcolonial present demands. Rather than the anticolonial problem of overthrowing colonialism (or the West), or the decolonization of the West's representation of the non--West, what is important for this present is a...

Devastated vision(s): The Khmer Rouge scopic regime in Cambodia.
March 22, 2003... Poetic justice? on April 15, 1998, I saw from the comfort of my Berkeley apartment a photograph of Pol Pot's corpse on television. (1) Apparently, the man responsible for the genocide of 1.7 million Cambodians between 1975 and 1979 had just...

A resounding silence.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Let me ask those men and women who are here tonight, how would you feel to be proscribed when you to the house of prayer? This is the case with the colored man. He is told, "Sit thou there; go and take that place." When he goes into the house...

Silence.
March 22, 2003... As an interracial couple, we are looking to the history of gradual emancipation and the Underground Railroad to speak about race relations today Silence: New Haven is the first iteration of a larger ongoing meta-artwork that engages historic...

Minimalism: Art History as Detective Novel. (Reviews).(Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties)(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... James Meyer. Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties. New Haven: Yale University Press. 344 pp., 30 color ills., 130 b/w. $50. Many skeptics deem the 1960s too close for comfort and hence not suitable for an art history in the grand...

Representative Rebel? (Reviews).(Moekawa Kunio and the Emergence of Japanese Modernist Architecture)(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Jonathan M. Reynolds. Moekawa Kunio and the Emergence of Japanese Modernist Architecture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 336 pp. 8 color ills., 154 b/w. $60. For anyone who has put together a reading list on Japanese...

A Family Affair. (Reviews).(Ambition and Love in Modern American Art.)(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Jonathan Weinberg. Ambition and Love in Modern American Art. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2001. 328 pp., 175 b/w ills. $35. Jonathan Weinberg opens his new book, Ambition end Love in Modem American Art, with the proposition that "the...

Orozco at the Crossroads. (Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Alejandro Anreus. Orozco in Gringoland: The Years in New York. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. 192 pp., 152 b/w ills. $32.95. Los tres grandes of the Mexican muralist movement--Jose Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera,...

Essence of Yve:Yve Lomax's Ability to Act. (Reviews).(Writing the Image: An Adventure with Art and Theory)(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Yve Lomax, with contributions by Irit Rogoff. Writing the Image: An Adventure with Art and Theory. London: I. B. Tauris, 2000. 238 pp., 27 b/w ills. $24.50. Has theory come and gone? Have we entered a posttheory phase? Whether you love...

Erratum.(Correction Notice)
March 22, 2003... The publisher of Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowaka, The Value of Things, reviewed in the fall 2002 Art Journal, is August/Birkhauser, London and Basel.