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Art and citizenship in conflictBritish women war artists, 1939–45

Art and Citizenship in Conflict examines the work of women war artists in order to highlight the complexity of citizenship and gender in Britain during the Second World War. Evelyn Dunbar, Mary Kessell, Ethel Gabain, Stella Schmolle, and Laura Knight, among others, were commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC) to document the millions of women who took up sometimes unconventio…

Picturing the RomanticNew perspectives on European Romanticism(s) in the visu…

European Romanticism in the visual arts has always been defined by transnational transfer processes. It is surprising that international aspects of Romantic movements have been, in contrast to literary studies, a gap in art historical research. Picturing the Romantic addresses this issue and reveals new perspectives on European Romanticism(s) in the visual arts by reconsidering the phenomenon's…

Survival NotesLife Lessons from Contemporary Artists

Survival Notes is an inspiring narrative weaving artists reflections on success with advice to aspiring creatives. Featuring direct quotes and exclusive interviews with internationally acclaimed artists such as Anish Kapoor, Shirin Neshat, Tracey Emin, Jesse Darling and Shahzia Sikander, this book offers authoritative counsel on how to thrive in a highly competitive art world as well as thought…

Marcos familiaresFotografía, narrativa y posmemoria

Cuando capturamos a nuestra familia en fotografías respondemos frecuentemente a una imagen idealizada. En este libro, Marianne Hirsch explora las convenciones fotográficas para construir las relaciones familiares y discute las estrategias artísticas para desafiarlas. Tal como muestra la autora, artistas contemporáneos y escritores exhibieron el vacío existente entre la realidad vivida y un…

Práctica curatorial, un campo de escritura

La curaduría es una escritura política. Una escritura que propone relatos, diálogos, itinerarios; que defiende posiciones y políticas, y que interviene en la reescritura de la historia siempre abierta de las artes. Lejos de una curaduría acotada al mero orden cronológico o a la prolija contextualización, también lejos de una curaduría simplemente festiva o discretamente elegante, Marce…

Grandma MosesA Good Day's Work

A major reexamination of the life, art, and legacy of a self-taught American master Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work repositions Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860–1961) as a multidimensional force in American art, whose beloved recollections of rural life earned her a distinctive place in the cultural imagination of the postwar era. Moses was eighty years old wh…

Un devenir oblicuoItinerario intelectual de Nelly Richard

A modo de cartografía de problemas, lineamientos teórico-políticos e influencias intelectuales, Un devenir oblicuo propone trazar un recorrido en torno a la obra de Nelly Richard y la conformación de la crítica cultural, desde 1970 hasta el presente. De la Escena de Avanzada a la crítica de la memoria, Tomás Peters parte de la premisa de que el proyecto de crítica cultural estriba en ha…

UnseparateModernism, Interdisciplinary Art, and Network Aesthetics

Art historian and critic Steven Henry Madoff offers a contemporary reframing of modernist art and the way it presages installation and performance art   For more than a century, European modernist art has been written about as a profound expression of fragmentation—of an alienated world in pieces. In Unseparate, Steven Henry Madoff proposes that there was always another artistic in…

New Deal Art

Franklin D. Roosevelts landslide victory in the USA's 1932 presidential election gave him a mandate to institute a 'New Deal' for US citizens, and by so doing offer them 'a more abundant life'. For a decade between 1933 and 1943 the New Deal art programs marked the largest federal investment in the arts in the history of the country. Tens of thousands of artists and artisans across the country …