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Mira Schendel’s Gesture: On Art in Vilém Flusser’s Thought, with ‘Mira Schendel’ by Flusser
In his theory of communication, philosopher and writer Vilém Flusser (1920–1991) referred to art often, yet unsystematically. This article proposes …
Barbara Hepworth and Gimpel Fils: The Rise and Fall of an Artist-Dealer Relationship
Records held in the Gimpel Fils Gallery Archive in London shed new light on Barbara Hepworth’s relationship with her dealers, …
All Play and No Work? A ‘Ludistory’ of the Curatorial as Transitional Object at the Early ICA
Using the idea of play to animate fragments from the archive of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, this paper draws …
‘Everything Was Getting Smashed’: Three Case Studies of Play and Participation, 1965–71
In this essay Hilary Floe considers instances of chaotic ‘over-participation’ in three art exhibitions that took place between 1965 and …
Duchamp, Childhood, Work and Play: The Vernissage for First Papers of Surrealism , New York, 1942
Visitors to the opening of the First Papers of Surrealism exhibition in New York in 1942 were disorientated, not only …
No End to the End: The Desert as Eschatology in Late Modernity
At the height of the Cold War, artists, writers and filmmakers in America turned to the desert as a space …
Perceptions, Processes and Practices around Learning in an Art Gallery
This paper presents the findings of a research project examining the way learning is perceived by senior members of learning …
George Elgar Hicks’s Woman’s Mission and the Apotheosis of the Domestic
Tracing the evolution of the domestic in English cultural discourse over the first half of the nineteenth century, this paper …
Conserving Mark Rothko’s Black on Maroon 1958: The Construction of a ‘Representative Sample’ and the Removal of Graffiti Ink
This paper describes the preparation of a ‘representative sample’ and the investigation and refining of the solvent system used to …
Why Performance in Authoritarian Korea?
In this article Joan Kee asks what motivated artists in South Korea to turn to performance in the late 1960s …
Zen as a Transnational Current in Post-War Art: The Case of Mira Schendel
In this paper Majella Munro proposes that Zen can be applied as a transnational intellectual framework for the analysis of …
As Seen: Modern British Painting and Visual Experience
During the twentieth century several important British artists began to paint features of visual experience rarely ever painted before, including …
Coral and Lichen, Brains and Bowels: Jay DeFeo’s Hybrid Abstraction
Situating the US artist Jay DeFeo within a network of West Coast practitioners during the 1950s and 1960s, this essay …
Abject Modernism: The Male Body in the Work of Tatsumi Hijikata, Günter Brus and Rudolf Schwarzkogler
Focusing on the works of Tatsumi Hijikata, Günter Brus and Rudolf Schwarzkogler, this paper examines the representation of the male …
Screen Politics: Pop Art and the Atelier Populaire
Examining the technical and symbolic impact of pop art on the posters produced at the Atelier Populaire during the events …
Pop Art and the Socialist ‘Thing’: Dušan Otašević in the 1960s
The early work of Dušan Otašević constitutes a rare example of the influence of Anglo-American pop on an eastern European …
A Pantagruelian Pop: Teresinha Soares’s ‘Erotic Art of Contestation’
This article provides an overview of the work produced by Brazilian artist Teresinha Soares in the late 1960s and early …
Performing Pop: Marta MinujÃn and the ‘Argentine Image-Makers’
The June 1966 issue of Arts Magazine heralded the Argentine artist Marta MinujÃn’s arrival on the international art scene as …
Biopolitical Effigies: The Volatile Life-Cast in the Work of Paul Thek and Lynn Hershman Leeson
In the late 1960s and early 1970s American artists Paul Thek and Lynn Hershman Leeson independently created wax effigies and …
William Hazlitt’s Account of ‘Mr Angerstein’s Collection of Pictures’
Hazlitt’s account of the Angerstein Collection was published anonymously in 1822, two years before Lord Liverpool purchased thirty-eight pictures from …