Abstract This paper contributes to the deliberations around the future of modernist architecture in the Modern Heritage of Africa (MoHoA) initiative. As creative practitioners and academics, our work has focused on considerations of architecture and urbanism, variously designing, theorizing, and photographing cities and structures.
Noëleen Murray, Svea Josephy
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Every House on Langland Road – the production of archival, architectural and artistic spaces [PDF]
This article describes an Arts Council England project, undertaken by the author and a photographer, to examine spatial and temporal relations between an art project, its subject and its audience. The project explored and documented the architecture of a
Umney, Darren
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Automat, automatic, automatism : Rosalind Krauss and Stanley Cavell on photography and the photographically dependent arts [PDF]
How might philosophers and art historians make the best use of one another’s research? That, in nuce, is what this special issue considers with respect to questions concerning the nature of photography as an artistic medium; and that is what my essay ...
Costello, Diarmuid
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Introduction : photography between art history and philosophy [PDF]
The essays collected in this special issue of Critical Inquiry are devoted to reflection on the shifts in photographically based art practice, exhibition, and reception in recent years and to the changes brought about by these shifts in our ...
Costello, Diarmuid, Iversen, Margaret
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About identity in the new figuration. The palm tree and the swimming pool: two icons from the Spanish democratic transition [PDF]
La Nueva Figuración es un movimiento que se desarrolla en Madrid durante los años 70. Fue una de las corrientes artísticas más importantes de la década, que acabó determinando el transcurrir de la pintura española durante las generaciones siguientes ...
Sáez-Pradas, Fernando
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Abstraction’s ecologies : post-industrialization, waste and the commodity form in Prunella Clough’s paintings of the 1980s and 1990s [PDF]
This article’s aims are twofold: firstly, it argues that Prunella Clough’s engagement with consumer items in her paintings of the 1980s and 1990s constitute a sustained engagement with the fluctuating nature of the commodity form, moving beyond the ...
Spencer, Catherine Elizabeth
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Discuss the role of the book as a content carrier and as physical object. How do these roles complement and/or conflict with each other in terms of the use, care and the definition of the book? [PDF]
It could be argued that the importance of the book as physical object is generally seen as secondary to its role as a content carrier. Thomas A. Vogler states that there is an 'established sense of the book as a physical object that exists only, or ...
Siobhan Britton
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From Corporate Artification to Artification in the Third Sector
ABSTRACT Artification refers to the process by which objects, practices, or entities not traditionally considered art are transformed into socially accepted art forms. A common example is graffiti, which was once regarded as vandalism but has since evolved into a recognized and celebrated form of art, but organizations and brands can also engage in ...
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“An African View”: The photography of Denise Scott Brown
Abstract This article develops on the plenary paper we presented for the second Modern Heritage in the Anthropocene Symposium (MoHoA), held at the Bartlett School of Architecture(UCL) October 26–28, 2022. At the first MOHoA Symposium in Cape Town in 2021 titled Learning from Steinkopf, we invoked Learning from Las Vegas (by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott
Noëleen Murray, Svea Josephy
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The Visual Art Critic: A Survey of Art Critics at General Interest News Publications in America [PDF]
Examines whether art critics provide sufficient exposure for artists and art institutions, given the recent dynamic growth in the visual arts over the past two ...
Andras Szanto
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