
In each of the examples studied in this essay, artists deployed an affected lack of virtuosity in their early video artworks to confront established hierarchies—in short, to establish video as a radical medium.
In each of the examples studied in this essay, artists deployed an affected lack of virtuosity in their early video artworks to confront established hierarchies—in short, to establish video as a radical medium.
Category: In the Round
Tags: 5.1, Dan Sandin, film/video, Hermine Freed, Linda Benglis, Miguel de Baca, Nancy Holt, Robert Smithson, twentieth-century art, Videofreex
This process of what I term a “re-membering” of history through Weems’s body and gaze indicts the landscape and the buildings that populate as key players in multiple histories.
Patriotism can involve loving one’s homeland for the diversity of cultural enclaves it encompasses, while not excluding the rest of humanity or claiming the superiority of our homeland to every other on earth. To be sure, global thinking (in the form of economic globalization or cultural imperialism) has a lot of negative baggage attached to it, but having a cosmopolitan outlook should be encouraged in tandem with patriotic thinking, not seen as its opposite.
Category: Bully Pulpit
Tags: 3.2, David M. Lubin, film/video, Gillo Pontecorvo, patriotism, pedagogy
Recent American art publications and exhibitions increasingly have engaged multimedia projects that dissolve many previous constraints on mingling painting and sculpture with popular art and visual culture. Coney Island, New York City’s “playground of the people,” serves as the perfect subject for such a study.
Category: Book Reviews
Tags: 2.1, American studies, Christopher C. Oliver, Coney Island, film/video, photography, Robin Jaffee Frank
In 1984, the city of Los Angeles hosted the twenty-third Olympics, a spectacular display of multinational unity under the banner of classical, humanist ideals.
Category: Uncategorized
Tags: 2.1, Cary Levine, film/video, Performance Studies, Philip Glahn, photography
Category: Exhibition Reviews
Tags: 1.2, Adam M. Thomas, American studies, Coney Island, film/video, photography, Robin Jaffee Frank
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