INNOVATION AND TRADITION IN REISMARQUES PAINTING by Monica Cauhi Wanderley

“…So, this research is intended to reflect the presence of tradition on the painting of the contemporary artist Reismarques, discussing the tradition of innovation in topics such as composition, subject and artist and viewer hole.…”
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Post-Digital Publishing, Hybrid and Processual Objects in Print by Alessandro Ludovico

“…The paper then investigates contemporary artist’s books and publications made with software collecting content from the web and conceptually rendering it in print. …”
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the philosophy of Islamic thought as an approach for contemporary art and apply it in beautifying public squares as distinctive environmental signs by Mohamed Hamdy Hussien Elhamahmy

“…The philosophy of Islamic thought considered to be the philosophical heritage which was produced by the Arab-Islamic civilization, during one of its greatest periods of scientific, cultural, and civilizational prosperity and its active interaction with other civilizations.which made this philosophy compatible with any era, any time and place, which contributes to its application in a form consistent with contemporary art for any period.Where contemporary art is the outcome of creative artistic works that were produced and included in this period more than twenty years ago , that preceded the moment of talking about this art today, and the relationship of the contemporary artist with his artistic creations and the surrounding world is a relational and necessary relationship that adds new horizons to his works, the surrounding world with The contemporary artist today is an integral part of the contemporary artwork. …”
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Dolls and Octopuses. The (In)human Sexuality of Mari Katayama by Grzegorz Kubiński

“…This article is an attempt to combine elements such as Western technology and eastern sexuality based on the work of contemporary artist Mari Katayama. A number of proposals are presented how to interpret Katayama’s work as areinterpretation of sociosexual and bodily as well as corporeal norms of the past and present, and of the West and of the East.…”
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Artistas y metodologías en danza: una aproximación al estudio de la escenografía española de entreguerras by Idoia Murga Castro

“…Starting with the most important artists and works of that time as a basic ground, this article presents various approaches to the study of the contemporary artist production in order to introduce new lines to the discussion on methodological questions and to enrich the exchange with other humanistic fields.…”
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Objets de grève, un patrimoine militant by Jean-Charles Leyris

“…From the 1980s, many of these objects have been collected and photographed by Jean-Luc Moulène, a contemporary artist. The results of his work have been exhibited on several occasions and the objects themselves have been given to the State. …”
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A Question of Morals: Philip II and Achille Bocchi in a Roman Engraving (1588) by Emily Monty

“…A historiated frame surrounding the portrait, comprised of emblems from Achille Bocchi’s Symbolicae Quaestiones (Bologna, 1555), represents the most significant reuse of Bocchi’s emblems by a contemporary artist. The unusual frame is interpreted as a tactful representation of the polarising Spanish monarch.…”
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The deferred semiosis of the text: Literary indeterminacy and possibilities of transgression by Mario Aznar Pérez

“…The problem of the contemporary artist is none other than the problem of indeterminacy of meaning that during the first half of the twentieth century put almost all forms of art in a process of self-destruction whose echoes still resound. …”
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Hosting the animal: the art of Kathy High by Irina Aristarkhova

“…This article considers the question of “hosting the animal” through the artwork of contemporary artist Kathy High. I show how High's art project “Embracing Animals” challenges us to think about aesthetics of hospitality as far as the animal is concerned. …”
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Source to Subject: Fiona Foley’s Evolving Use of Archives by Marina Tyquiengco

“…By considering this earlier series of her work, this text considers Foley’s growth as a truly contemporary artist who uses the past as inspiration, invoking complicated moments of encounter between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians and their afterimages.…”
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Artistic Representations of Urban Shamans in Contemporary Japan by Rivadossi, Silvia

“…Three case studies – writer Taguchi Randy, contemporary artist Mori Mariko, and musician Sugee – are presented to illustrate the processes of re-appropriation of terms and themes in the contemporary narrative on urban shamans. …”
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Apocalyptic pictures from outer space II : l’extraterrestre dans l’œuvre de Soraya Rhofir by Sébastien Martins

“…Contemporary artist Soraya Rhofir’s works are influenced by an “extraterrestrial tradition”, which mingles knowledge, belief and imaginary. …”
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Against Extinction by Karin Zitzewitz

“… An interview with Mumbai-based contemporary artist Sahej Rahal discusses the potential of artificial intelligence-driven simulations and images to engage issues of temporality. …”
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Shifting values at the cemetery – the artistic interventions of DeathLab by M. Winkel, M. Siedhoff, J. Wintzer

“…The contribution describes the work of DeathLab, a public event series that uses contemporary artist-designed urns as a means of exploring shifting values in funeral culture through physical manifestations. …”
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«Narrative’s stories» as an inquiry of identity in the contemporary art (on the example of Andriy’s Hir Art) by Аліса Зіненко

“…These methods are expressions of the contemporary artist’s own national identity. A separate place in the article dedicated to the examination of available sources of the artist›s creations, as well as culturological characteristic of the social resonance coused by his art-projects.…”
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Cy Twombly’s seasons, in the shadow of Renoir by Marta Mitjans Puebla

“…The iconographical analysis of Four seasons (1993), by the contemporary artist Edwin Parker “Cy” Twombly (Cy Twombly, 1928 – 2011) must be understood considering the importance of one of the most famous impressionist painters: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919). …”
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Le Mexique populaire et les images tragiques. Sur les traces de l’artiste Nicolás De Jesús by Patrice Giasson

“…Examining certain visual and literary images produced since the Mexican Revolution of 1910 serves as an introduction for getting to grips with the work of Nicolás De Jesús, a contemporary artist from a Nahua village in the State of Guerrero, where the art of painting on amate paper is predominant. …”
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Bølgebrydning. At tune ind på queerfeministisk historie med FRANKs Voluspå by Matias Danbolt

“…The article “Breaking the Waves: Tuning into Queer History with FRANK’s Voluspå” analyses the Norwegian queer feminist platform FRANK’s response to the centenary, which included the artist book Voluspå (2013) and the exhibition Marie Høeg Meets Klara Lidén (2013–14), where photographs by the Norwegian suffragette and photographer Marie Høeg (1866-1949) were brought in dialogue with Swedish contemporary artist Klara Lidén. Through an analysis of FRANK’s “performative historiography,” the article discusses the value of revisiting one of feminist history’s most central narrative figures: the wave metaphor. …”
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Branding Baldung by Larry Silver

“…Hans Baldung (1484/85–1545) emerged as an artist under the shadow of Germany’s most famous contemporary artist, Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), thus as a younger rival with considerable catching up to do. …”
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Gardening the Archive: A Conversation between David Alesworth and Hammad Nasar by Hammad Nasar, David Alesworth

“…DOI For a contemporary artist, David Alesworth (b. 1957) has an unusual relationship with the landscape. …”
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