Art

This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. It identifies traditions usually associated with the Gothic or horror film in the Western and examines ways in which they have often played either sub-textual or explicit rolesin the Western narrative throughout its history and in contemporary forms.

Resisting from Morocco’s Margins explores the socio-political context in which Ahmed Amrani’s oil-on-paper painting Protesta (1969) was made, specifically, the Rif Revolts of the late 1950s.

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Work by artists from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), interviews and first-hand accounts form the core of this book about the development of the country’s art history. Learning about artists and seeing how their practices fit into global art historical discourses can help viewers gain insight into an art not made to be understood.

Interrogating canonical texts and plans written during the nineteenth and early twentieth century on both sides of the North Atlantic, this book explores the role of gender in the visioning of the ideal city.

The book features a group of 32 works by Georges Braque made after his cubist period. They are accompanied by new texts on the subject by Professor Frederic Montegu. All the works illustrated were painted between 1920 and 1960. It showcases the vision of a collector focusing on one of the artist’s most prolific periods. It is a promotional and educational publication.

The book deals with fashion as a form of visual culture embodied through signs. It reproduces itself with a pattern based on the semiotic network of places, social practices and forms of imagery.

This book tells the story of the epic Ramayan through photographs of Ramlila, a Hindu theatre festival, in which community groups and professional troupes enact the story of the god Ram all across North India every fall. It also includes narrative that explains the story and its staging.

Founded in 2005, Whitehot Magazine has become one of the leading channels for contemporary art criticism. On the occasion of its upcoming 20th anniversary, founder Noah Becker and contributor Michael Maizels are compiling a critical anthology of the magazine’s writings, including writing from Donald Kuspit, Noah Becker, Paul Laster, Phoebe Hoban, Cori Hutchinson, Lita Barrie and so on, and interviews with Betty Tompkins, Ross Bleckner, Zachari Logan, Shepard Fairey, John Lurie, Willem Dafoe, Bill Viola and Rita Ackermann, to name a few.

In her study of Aref El-Rayess’s The 5th of June, or, The Changing of Horses, Natasha Gasparian reveals that the picture was presented and received, allegorically or metaphysically, as an idealized narrative of national liberation. By tracing the caesuras and slips in discourse, she reconstructs an alternative reading of the artwork’s uncanny yet historically determinate character.

The book, using archival sources, examines the colonial and postcolonial history of arts education in Pakistan through the National College of Arts, founded as the Mayo School of Arts in 1875. It deconstructs art history and anthropology frameworks embedded in imperial and national discourses, policies, and pedagogy.

Founded in 2005, Whitehot Magazine has become one of the leading channels for contemporary art criticism. On the occasion of its upcoming 20th anniversary, founder Noah Becker and contributor Michael Maizels are compiling a critical anthology of the magazine’s writings, including writing from Donald Kuspit, Noah Becker, Paul Laster, Phoebe Hoban, Cori Hutchinson, Lita Barrie and so on, and interviews with Betty Tompkins, Ross Bleckner, Zachari Logan, Shepard Fairey, John Lurie, Willem Dafoe, Bill Viola and Rita Ackermann, to name a few.