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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 …
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 …
‘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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Critical Dilation: How William Hazlitt Judged Paintings
For William Hazlitt paintings become politically charged when their self-contained worlds make us aware of our creative potential for renewing …
‘A gallery in the mind’? William Hazlitt, Edmund Spenser and the Old Masters
This essay explores the associations made by William Hazlitt between the work of the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser and paintings …
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 …
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 …
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 …
‘Truth of Character from Truth of Feeling’: William Hazlitt, ‘Gusto’ and the Linguistic History of Writing on Art
Adapting and applying speech act theories of language use, this paper offers a new understanding of the innovative import of …
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 …
The Aesthetics of Collaboration: Complicity and Conversion at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies
This essay uses new archival sources to reconstruct the aesthetics – and ethics – of collaboration at Gyorgy Kepes’s Center …
Commitment and Desire in Sharon Hayes’s Ricerche: three 2013
This article examines Sharon Hayes’s video work Ricerche: three 2013 and the way it represents and mediates the often-painful psychic …
The Fall of Anarchy : Politics and Anatomy in an Enigmatic Painting by J.M.W. Turner
The subject of Turner’s mysterious unfinished painting, known today as Death on a Pale Horse, is a problem that …
I’ll Show You Mine, If You Show Me Yours: Collaboration, Consciousness-Raising and Feminist-Influenced Art in the 1970s
This paper discusses two feminist-influenced collaborative art projects: London/LA Lab 1981 and Postal Art Event 1975–7. It reflects on how …