Recently added articles from Art Journal:
In this issue: material experience.
Jun 22, 2008; Rodenbeck, Judith F. ... The haptic, the critic Laura U. Marks has suggested, forms "an underground visual tradition," often overlooked or bypassed. This issue of Art Journal concerns itself with aspects of this underground tradition, with modes of art-making in which the experience of the work is radically ...
Unbaled: an interview with Shinique Smith.(Interview)
Jun 22, 2008; Pinder, Kymberly N. ... Shinique Smith has been crossing the boundaries of sculpture, painting, and site-specific installations in her art since she started making it in her teens. The Brooklyn-based artist received a BFA in 1992 and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in her hometown of Baltimore ...
Elaine Reichek: pixels, bytes, and stitches.
Jun 22, 2008; Birnbaum, Paula ... Since the early 1970s feminist artists have been using embroidery as a vehicle to reclaim female agency in contemporary artistic practice and to question the validity of a hierarchy of genres in the history of art. Roszika Parker's Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and Making of the Feminine, ...
Convergence: history, materials, and the human hand--an interview with EI Anatsui.(Interview)
Jun 22, 2008; James, Laura Leffler ... EI Anatsui's forty-year career in the visual arts has led him to explore multiple mediums and processes, working with tools such as chain saws and branding irons, and materials as diverse as milk-can tops, broken pots, and newspaper printers' plates. In the past several years, audiences ...
Anonymous textiles, patented domains: the invention (and death) of an author.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Smith, T'ai ... "o.b.": A Name There are more than one thousand samples of the Bauhaus weaver Otti Berger's textiles in the Busch-Reisinger Museum Archives at Harvard, many of which are variations on the same basic design. They include a sample book from a series of textiles based on her ...
Ordinary pictures and accidental masterpieces: snapshot photography in the Modern Art museum.
Jun 22, 2008; Zuromskis, Catherine ... In a seminal essay titled "Vernacular Photographies," first published in 2000, the photography scholar Geoffrey Batchen calls for us to "restore photography to its own history." (1) Too often, photography has been the square peg forced into the round hole of an art-historical discourse ...