This is the first comprehensive English-language study of East Asian art history in a transnational context, and challenges the existing geographic, temporal, and generic paradigms that currently frame the art history of East Asia. This pioneering study proposes an important new framework that focuses on the relationship between China, Japan, and Korea. By reconsidering existing concepts of 'East Asia', and examining the porousness of boundaries in East Asian art history, the study proposes a new model for understanding trans-local artistic production - in particular the mechanics of interactions - at the turn of the 20th century.
Working in 1970s Italy, a group of artists--namely Ugo La Pietra, Maurizio Nannucci, Francesco Somaini, Mauro Staccioli, Franco Summa, and Franco Vaccari--sought new spaces to create and exhibit art. Looking beyond the gallery, they generated sculptural, conceptual, and participatory interventions, called Arte Ambientale (Environmental Art), situated in the city streets. Their experiments emerged at a time of cultural crisis, when fierce domestic terrorism aggravated an already fragile political situation. To confront the malaise, these artists embraced a position of artistic autonomy and social critique, democratically connecting the city's inhabitants through direct art practices.
This volume explores a basic question in the historiography of art: the extent to which iconology was a homogenous research method in its own immutable right. By contributing to the rejection of the universalizing narrative, these case studies argue that there were many strands of iconology. Methods that differed from the 'canonised' approach of Panofsky were proposed by Godefridus Johannes Hoogewerff and Hans Sedlmayr. Researchers affiliated with the Warburg Institute in London also chose to distance themselves from Panofsky's work. Poland, in turn, was the breeding ground for yet another distinct variety of iconology. In Communist Czechoslovakia there were attempts to develop a 'Marxist iconology'. This book, written by recognized experts in the field, examines these and other major strands of iconology, telling the tale of iconology's reception in the countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain. Attitudes there ranged from enthusiastic acceptance in Poland, to critical reception in the Soviet Union, to reinterpretation in Czechoslovakia and the German Democratic Republic, and, finally, to outright rejection in Romania. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, and historiography. Chapters 8 and 15 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 international license
"This book explores how contemporary art can alter the ways in which we visualise and conceptualise the world and the social relations that shape it. Drawing from the writings of philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, it spotlights the concept of 'world-forming' and the political significance of art-making and viewing. The central theme of 'world-forming' focuses attention on the processes of globalisation. The book explores how artists can facilitate shared creative spaces within and beyond the apparatuses of global capitalism. The book traces a philosophical progression from ontology to the political through a series of participatory practices. It forwards Jean-Luc Nancy's idea of 'world-forming' in order to show how contemporary art sustains critical and creative engagement with social practices. The overall objective of the book is to show, through participatory practices, how contemporary art can facilitate social change. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, philosophy, and politics"--
"Just like us" : cultural constructions of sexuality and race in Roman art / John R. Clarke -- Imaging the self : ritual and representation in a Yiddish book of customs / Diane Wolfthal -- A sanctified Black : Maurice / Jean Devisse -- The imaginary Orient / Linda Nochlin -- "Only women should go to Turkey" : Henriette Browne and the female orientalist gaze / Reina Lewis -- The Hottentot and the prostitute : toward an iconography of female sexuality / Sander Gilman -- Going native / Abigail Solomon-Godeau -- Racism, nationalism, and nostalgia / J. Gray Sweeney -- Blacks in shark-infested waters : visual encodings of racism in Copley and Homer / Albert Boime -- "Making a man of him" : masculinity and the Black body in mid-nineteenth-century American sculpture / Michael Hatt -- Histories of the tribal and the modern / James Clifford -- The white peril and L'art n(c)·gre : Picasso, primitivism, and anticolonialism / Patricia Leighten -- New encounters with Les desmoiselles d'Avignon : gender, race, and the origins of cubism / Anna C. Chave -- Wilfredo Lam : painter of negritude / Robert Linsley -- Sargent Johnson : Afro-California modernist / Judith Wilson -- Horace Pippin's challenge to art criticism / Cornel West -- In search of the "inauthentic" : disturbing signs in contemporary Native American art / Jean Fisher -- Altars of sacrifice : re-membering Basquiat / Bell Hooks -- International abstraction in a national context : abstract painting in Korea, 1910-1965 / Jae-Ryung Roe -- The other immigrant : the experiences and achievements of Afro-Asian artists in the metropolis / Rasheed Araeen -- Reframing the Black subject : ideology and fantasy in contemporary South African representation / Okwui Enwezor -- Biraciality and nationhood in contemporary American art / Kymberly N. Pinder
