Art Journal articles from September 2011

Art Journal archives from September 2011

Reconstruction.
September 22, 2011... For several days in 2000, William Pope.L sat enthroned on a towering toilet, contemplating and quite literally consuming The Wall Street Journal, dusted with white powder and surrounded by the great American fluids--milk and ketchup. This...

A sidelong glance: the practice of African Diaspora art history in the United States.
September 22, 2011... In 80 percent of the job advertisements published by the College Art Association over the last twenty years in which the words "African diaspora" appear, they are accompanied by "and/or": "African diaspora and/or African art history" and, in...

Performance, live or dead.(Forum)
September 22, 2011... Introduction Performance or live art provokes an encounter with history that art history as a discipline is unprepared to accommodate fully without distorting the very claims for the immediacy of the "live" which supposedly make performance...

Experimentation and tradition: the avant-garde play Pierrot Lunaire by Jikken Kobo and Takechi Tetsuji.
September 22, 2011... During the 1950s, after the devastating defeat in World War II, Japan exerted itself to regain political and economic confidence. Arts and culture played a key role in the country's recovery: the image of a belligerent nation in the recent past...

Take it to the air: radio as public art.
September 22, 2011... As early as the 1920s, cultural critics and avant-garde types had already declared radio to be, if not dead, a wasteland of state and commercial interests that fed listeners an around-the-clock diet of trivia, consumerism, propaganda, and bad...

Reinterpreting the Classical.
September 22, 2011... Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1956. Exhibition organized by Kenneth E. Silver. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 1, 2010--January 9, 2011; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, February 22-May 15, 2011 ...

Thek's "As If".
September 22, 2011... Elisabeth Sussman and Lynn Zelevansky, eds. Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2010. 304 pp., 316 color and b/w ills. $65 Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective. Exhibition coorganized by Elisabeth...

Missed Encounters.
September 22, 2011... Rosalyn Deutsche. Hiroshima after Iraq: Three Studies in Art and War. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 104 pp., 31 color ill., 38 b/w. $22.50 Rosalyn Deutsche's Hiroshima after Iraq: Three Studies in Art and War, the published...

Moscow Conceptualism, or, The Visual Logic of Late Socialism.
September 22, 2011... Victor Tupitsyn. The Museological Unconscious: Communal (Post) Modernism in Russia. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. 344 pp., 90 b/w ills. $34.95 Boris Groys. History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. 224 pp.,...

Guerilla girls.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
September 22, 2011... To the Editor: We are Frida Kahlo and Kathe Kollwitz, two founding members of the Guerrilla Girls who are still active in the group. We were surprised to read two articles in the August, 2011 issue of the Art Journal that impugn our roles in...

Guerilla girls broadband responds.(Letters)
September 22, 2011... We would like to clarify that no work created by the unincorporated Guerrilla Girls collective (GG) that has been copyrighted by Frida Kahlo and Kathe Kollwitz, now of Guerrilla Girls, Inc. (GGI), was used to illustrate the Summer 2011 issue of...

Anna C. Chave responds.(Letters)
September 22, 2011... My account of the Guerrilla Girls relied on the published literature, on informal interviews with former members, and on lengthy interviews conducted by the Archives of American Art with, not a "few," but fourteen former members hailing from...