Recently added articles from Art Journal:
In this issue: retooling.(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2009; Rodenbeck, Judith F. ... Despite its familiarity in the literature of critical postmodernism, the image of Walter Benjamin's angel of history confronted with the accumulating scrap heap of the past as s/he speeds backwards into the future still holds potent lessons. The theory of remediation, for instance, ...
Urban claims and visual sources in the making of Dakar's art world city.(Features)(Dakar, Senegal)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Grabski, Joanna ... Dakar in Senegal is one of the African continent's premier contemporary art metropolises. The city's history as an art world center dates to the 1960s when President Leopold Sedar Senghor established a number of cultural institutions in Dakar linking modernist artistic production to ...
Cuba and the art of "trading with the enemy".(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Gelburd, Gail ... In 1967 the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam, then living in Europe, invited more than one hundred friends, artists, and writers, including Karel Appel, Willem de Kooning, Alexander Calder, Asger Jorn, Rene Magritte, Hans Arp, Roberto Matta, Antoni Tapies, Victor Vasarely, Pierre Soulages, and ...
The currency of practice: reclaiming autonomy for the MFA.(master of fine arts)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Min, Susette S. ... In the contemporary arena the studio art MFA is under pressure: many respected postbaccalaureate programs such as the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the Rijksakademie in the Netherlands produce highly competent art graduates without offering a formal academic qualification ....
Art, code, and the engine of change.
Mar 22, 2009; Hertz, Paul ... The Analytical Engine has no pretensions to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. --Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace The final abstract expression of every art is number. --Vasily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art ...
The semiotic engine: notes on the history of algorithmic images in Europe.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Nake, Frieder ... A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where ...
Imaging by numbers: a historical view of digital printmaking in America.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Prince, Patric D. ... An artist once told me that she "was there in the beginning of computer art, in 1984." She believed that digital art making sprang fully developed and functional after the personal computer was on the market. Many creative practitioners began using computers at this time and have no idea ...
Totalitarianism of Art.(Art Power)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Kurchanova, Natasha ... Boris Groys. Art Power. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. 190 pp. $22.95 Thinking in Loop: Three Videos on Iconoclasm, Ritual, and Immortality. Exhibition organized by Boris Groys. Apexart, New York, February 20--March 29, 2008 The scope of Boris Groys's Art Power is ...
Artistic labor and management.(The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art After the Readymade)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Singerman, Howard ... John Roberts. The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art after the Readymade. London: Verso, 2007. 250 pp. $27.95, paper In The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art after the Readymade, the British art historian John Roberts "elaborates a labor ...
Radical Software and the legacy of Gregory Bateson.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009 ... This letter is a response to William Kaizen's essay connecting Dan Graham to the legacy of Gregory Bateson by way of Radical Software ("Steps to an Ecology of Communication: Radical Software, Dan Graham, and the Legacy of Gregory Bateson," Art Journal, Fall 2008). Let me acknowledge at the ...
