Art Writing

Improvisation is a way of knowing that is experiential, pivotal to the body’s movement and growth in the world, allowing us to manage constraint and freedom in a rich world of possibility. Within this paper we trace a trajectory from improvisation in life to improvisation in art. By focusing on practitioners who work with improvisation in precise ways in the fields of anthropology, ecology, visual art and music, we explore how improvisation and experiential knowledge are profoundly interconnected. To achieve this, we use the four characteristics of improvisation developed by Ingold and Hallam (anthropologists) as a framework for the evaluation of art practices of improvisation including the authors’ own project work. We expand the framework through Dewey’s analysis of art as experience. The article concludes with an evaluation of how the techniques and processes of improvisation from the case examples may be useful ways to shed light on the workings of experiential knowledge

This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media studies, visual anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, and aesthetics. The product of a multi-year collaboration between graduate students from around the world, spearheaded by James Elkins, this one-of-a-kind anthology is a truly international, interdisciplinary point of entry into cutting-edge visual studies research. The book is fluid in relation to disciplines; it is frequently inventive in relation to guiding theories; it is unpredictable in its allegiance and interest in the past of the discipline—reflecting the ongoing growth of visual studies.

... She describes how the abject dead body becomes a powerful monument, brought to life by the'..." maternal love ... Ephemeral Art 159 say'that moment there-that was the last moment of life ... Now there is no chance of a reprieve, no possibility of remission, or of the longed-for plateau ...

Dall’osservazione dello spazio urbano della città di Roma, effettuato fra gennaio 2011 e giugno 2012, sono stati censiti e documentati 247 graffiti. Ciò che viene presentato in questo saggio è una prima analisi tematica del materiale raccolto. A questa centrale riflessione se ne accompagnano altre incentrate sul contributo che lo studio del graffitismo, osservato e documentato nello spazio urbano e linguistico della capitale italiana, può offrire relativamente a tematiche quali, per esempio, il rapporto diamesico fra lingua scritta e parlata, l’analisi delle varietà giovanili, le interferenze del dialetto e la creazione di neologismi.

Reading and Discussion Chris Kraus, The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula: A 20th Century Fable, In conversation with Laura Edbrook. Reid Auditorium, The Glasgow School of Art Presented by Forum for Critical Inquiry, The Glasgow School of Art and Creative Writing Programme, University of Glasgow.

This resource is comprised of five short films which utilize the exhibition space as an opportunity for debate. Each film takes a key critical position in art and demonstrates the understandings that can be generated about an artwork. The exhibition 'Passages' is here discussed by ...

Sean Johnston has written a timely and much needed book about the history of holography—a “high‐tech” science that emerged in the mid‐1960s out of the shadows of Cold War secrecy to fascinate the wider scientific community and the general public. Using tiny ...

... Pamela Wye 405 Muse Begets Crone: On Leonora Carrington Whitney Chadwick 418 Painting after Painting: The Paintings of Susan Bee Misko Suvakovic 423 When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears: An Interview with Thomas McEvilley Dominique Nahas 434 Appendix ...

This article considers the ontology of the British journalist GK Chesterton with respect to its implications for the interpretation of visual texts, referred to here as the ethics of speculation. This exploration takes place under the assumption that Chesterton's ontology, as that which relates to understanding the meaning of things, and his ethics, as that which examines the uses and abuses of things, have a dialogical connection. While Chesterton is not formally considered a philosopher, art historian or visual theorist, it is proposed that his ideas as an post-Victorian cultural commentator remain relevant to visual theory today. Unfortunately, Chesterton does not explicate his ontology systematically; this paper suggests that it may be considered in the light of three interlinking considerations: the riddle, the answer and the romance of being. It is in contemplating the interrelationship between these three considerations of being that specific ethical implications concerni...

... She describes how the abject dead body becomes a powerful monument, brought to life by the'..." maternal love ... Ephemeral Art 159 say'that moment there-that was the last moment of life ... Now there is no chance of a reprieve, no possibility of remission, or of the longed-for plateau ...