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History Haunting the Present: Re-Interpreting the Truth in Contemporary Art of Iran
Published 2023-02-01“…This article examines the notions of history and memory with references to the works of contemporary artists from Iran. It interrogates the theme of challenging the present through the re-interpretation of history and investigates how artists respond to social, cultural and political conditions by creating a multi-faceted aesthetics of resistance. …”
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Activating Temporalities: The Political Power of Artistic Time
Published 2018-07-01“…The analyses of work by three contemporary artists who each bring their own aesthetic of slowness, interruption, and activism to their art leads to a conception of political art as activating rather than directly activist. …”
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Antoni Tàpies e Bill Viola: un’arte che sopravvive alla mercificazione
Published 2016-04-01“…The paper propos a focus upon two contemporary artists through Adorno’s idea of “modern art”, in other terms of an art able to counteract the globalization of the culture industry. …”
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Image revelations in Bologna art of Seventies
Published 2017-12-01“…The alternative between ‘artwork’ and ‘behavior’, as a critical issue by Francesco Arcangeli at the Venice Biennale in 1972, is an important track on which contemporary artistic research continues today; however, there are many influences, convergences and exchange moments between the two lines. …”
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Contemporary fractures of indigenous stories in Belém: on marbles and grafitess
Published 2020-05-01“…In this article, considering as a theoretical-methodological reference the discourse studies based on Michel Foucault (2004, 2005, 2007) and the definitions of colonial dispositive and ethniCity (NEVES, 2015) to understand the visual statements spread in the landscapes of Belém in the second decade of the 21st century, representing different places of enunciation about the history of the city and the indigenous peoples.I analyze the frontal of the most famous catholic church of the city and a bronze sculpture to mark the discourse of the colonization and, in contrast, I analyze graffiti of two local contemporary artists that retake the indigenous memory of Belém in their productions.In a way, update the ancient metaphor coined by Fr. …”
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From the drawer to the educational action: an experience to reflect
Published 2016-12-01“…The individual and collective memory is also presented as a thematic category of contemporary artistic creation and as the conductor of the plastic production of students in the module Educational Action in Cultural Spaces (UDESC, 2016).…”
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Cuerpo y transgresión. Cindy Sherman y la visión fotográfica de la mutación humana
Published 2004-01-01“…The paper seeks a reformulation, within the context of the new technological media used in contemporary artistic practices, of the waning borders between real and virtual bodies of women and men, gays and lesbians, transvestites and transexuals. …”
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L’onda lunga del medioevo nell’arte contemporanea, in particolare nella pittura
Published 2023-12-01“…However, from the work of Henri Rousseau onwards up to Wharol (with his pop icons) and Anish Kapoor (for his obsessive search for the purity of colour) we will see how certain artistic codes of mediaeval art are recovered and return to in-spire many contemporary artists who, in a secular key, return, consciously or unconsciously, to draw on that infinite reservoir of suggestions, and even religious images, called mediaeval art.…”
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An Irish Artist’s Travels from Buenos Aires to Araxá
Published 2021-06-01“…This paper reviews three contemporary artists in Argentina and Brazil, Mónica Girón, Mariana López and Pedro Lopes, whose work focuses on diverse cultures, history seen in this context, and colonisation and emigration as influences on three artists’ work. …”
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The Visual Afterlife of les gueules cassées: Artistic rRception from the Interbellum to documenta 13
Published 2023-12-01“…Second, it aims at tracing a timeline of how the imagery of ‘broken faces’, sometimes not directly related to the gueules cassées, yet persistent and recognisable, changed its use as a trope in the hands of modern and contemporary artists. Their works bear similarities in the dramatic accent on the deformation and decomposition of the body used to narrate collective trauma and a sense of confusion. …”
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Eclipsing Aestheticism: Western Landscape Photography After Ansel Adams
Published 2015-10-01“…Although Ansel Adams’s (1902-84) photographic legacy remains indisputable in mass culture and among museums and collectors, the nature of that legacy has been in contention among contemporary artists, scholars, and theorists of photography. …”
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The Use of the Body and the Representation of Elderly Parents’ Care in the Visual Art from the Arab World
Published 2022-06-01“…In modern and contemporary artistic productions from the area, a reflection on the perception and visual representation of care must necessarily set out from the depiction of the body and illness, which plays a crucial role in any discourse on caring. …”
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Putting the boundary at the centre - a place where contemporary art meets politics
Published 2014-01-01“…This article focuses on the question of the involvement of contemporary artists in the public debate concerning boundary issues relating to migration and the treatment of immigrants. …”
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Verschwindende Vermächtnisse
Published 2022-05-01“…In 2017, the exhibition Disappearing Legacies – The World as a Forest inserted thirteen positions by contemporary artists dealing with the destruction of tropical habitats in the Anthropocene into the Permanent Collection of the Zoological Museum Hamburg at the Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNak). …”
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Millennial landscape and tourist development in China. The case of the Hani rice terraces in Yunnan
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Participation and Creative Autonomy:
Published 2023-10-01“…Finally, I discuss how contemporary artists often combine different roles, even within a single work. …”
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Between Mimetic Exacerbation and Abstraction
Published 2012-12-01“… Pictures of atrocity play a major role in human rights campaigns, but contemporary artists may show different responses to human rights violations. …”
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Art 20 [electronic resource]: the Thames and Hudson multimedia dictionary of modern art
Published 1998“…More than 2500 entries cover every aspect of twentieth-century art worldwide, from such early giants as Picasso, Mondrian, and Duchamp, and the classic "isms" of Cubism, Futurism, and Surrealism, to contemporary artists like Cindy Sherman, Rachel Whiteread, and Jeff Koons, and new forms of expression such as Land Art, Body Art, and Installation Art. …”
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‘Aimless and Absurd Wanderings’? Children at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona)
Published 2018-03-01“…Favoured by leading international contemporary artists for the freedom it gave art unmediated by art history, Mona also seemingly captured the imagination of children. …”
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A Contemporary Approach of Las Meninas
Published 2020-05-01“…Numerous modern and contemporary artists have integrally or partially ”paraphrased” Velásquez’s composition by intercepting the portrait of revolutionary group for the time when it was created, extremely innovative regarding its compositional qualities and its hidden meanings which underlined the role and status of the artist in the context of a conservative society. …”
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