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Innovators and Iconoclasts: Six Books on Latin American Modern and Contemporary Art
Latin American Research Review, 2019 This essay reviews the following works: Abstraction in Reverse: The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin American Art. By Alexander Alberro. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 368. $50.00 hardcover.
Harper Montgomery
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Book review: adjusted margin: xerography, art and activism in the late Twentieth Century by Kate Eichhorn [PDF]
, 2016 In Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century, Kate Eichhorn tells the story of how the xerographic copier or ‘xerox machine’ became a key medium for artists and activists in the latter half of the twentieth century. This
Ho, Yin
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Louis I. Kahn and Richard Kelly: collaborative design in creation of the luminous environment [PDF]
, 2017 As one of the most prominent architects of the twentieth century, Louis I. Kahn aspired to use natural light to shape his architecture. The lighting designer Richard Kelly, one of his close collaborators, had significant influence on modern architectural
B. Lau +21 more
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A History of ‘Religious History’
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
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Returning the Radiant Gaze: Visual art and embodiment in a world of subjects [PDF]
, 2018 Drawing on the latter thinking of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, as well as on the ideas of other contemporary philosophers and theorists, this essay considers the denigration of vision from Plato to twentieth-century anti-ocularism, and argues for the ...
Carruthers, Beth
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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Rewindykacje pustki, czyli prawie wszystko o prawie niczym
Teksty Drugie, 2018 Review: M. Czapiga, Po-widoki pustki. O sposobach konceptualizowania pustki w kulturze współczesnej [After-Images of Emptiness: Conceptualizing Emptiness in Contemporary Culture] (Cracow: Universitas, 2017).
Piotr Michałowski
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Remembering Poland: The Ethics of Cultural Histories [PDF]
, 2002 Art Spiegelman\u27s Maus, Cynthia Ozick\u27s The Shawl, and Eva Hoffman\u27s Lost in Translation and Exit into History are recent American texts that draw upon cultural histories of Poland to launch their narratives.
Gorski, William
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Keeping it Real: Encountering Mixed Reality in igloo’s SwanQuake: House
, 2012 This paper employs the writings of early twentieth-century phenomenologists to examine physical/virtual dualism a century later. It considers the nature of embodied experience in mixed reality environments through an analysis of the author’s encounter ...
Popat, SH
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