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Romantik 2023
"Romantik. Journal for the Study of Romanticisms" is a multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of romantic-era cultural productions and concepts. The journal promotes innovative research across disciplinary borders. It aims to advance new historical discoveries, forward-looking theoretical insights and cutting-edge methodological approaches. The articles range over the full variety of cultural practices, including the written word, visual arts, history, philosophy, religion, and theatre during the romantic period (c. 1780-1840). But contributions to the discussion of pre- or post-romantic representations are also welcome. Since the romantic era was characterized by an emphasis on the vernacular, the title of the journal has been chosen to reflect the Germanic root of the word. But the journal is interested in all European romanticisms - and not least the connections and disconnections between them - hence, the use of the plural in the subtitle. Romantik is a peer-reviewed journal supported by the Nordic Board for Periodicals in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOP-HS).
Crisis and Astonishment
Romantic picture books. Stage designs inspired by Spinoza. A.I. imagined scenes from the early modern period. What the narrative perspective cannot achieve, Alexander Kluge has recently displaced on to the peculiar logic of the images. Volume 9 of the Alexander Kluge-Jahrbuch begins with a compilation of his most recent works, the images of which express astonishment at the public crises of the 21st century. Kluge's astonishment--whether in the form of animals photographed in war zones, the clash of physical opposites on screens and stages, or machine-generated invisibility on screens--is a constant challenge to our capacity for differentiation. In addition to dialogues with painter Katharina Grosse and poet Ben Lerner, the volume includes a cluster of essays on decolonialism as well as other scholarly contributions on related topics such as technology, iconoclasm, the political and the labor of theory.
Representations of Saint Anne and the Virgin Mary from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period
Between the thirteenth and the sixteenth centuries, the cult of the Virgin Mary underwent significant changes, a shift clearly revealed by an increase in artistic representations of Mary, as well as a flourishing devotional literature in her honour, written in both Latin and the vernacular. One aspect of this change was a broader attention to Mary's genealogical line, and in particular to her relationship with St Anne. The result was not only a renewed focus on the vita Annae, but also a significant overlap in how these two women were represented, juxtaposed, and perceived. This volume traces the often significant iconographic flexibility in terms both of how the Virgin Mary and Saint Anne were presented and perceived, as well as what can be termed a permeability between visual representations of the two saints. Focusing on the multiple readings, layers of meaning, and the visual interplay between the vita Mariae and the vita Annae, the chapters gathered here explore the overlap and influence between different iconographic motifs, and how these were used to advance political, religious, and social ideologies at the time of their creation, as well as exploring representations across a range of different media, from sculptures and frescoes to panel paintings, and manuscript illuminations.
Appropriation as Practice of Memory
This volume explores how narratives and iconographic codes in literature, art, music, material culture and social, political, and economic discourses were appropriated and thereby - sometimes radically - transformed by religious agents, and how religious narrations, discourses and iconographic practices were reimagined and used (up to radical deconstruction) in non-religious contexts as well as in different or transformed religious contexts. Religious appropriation is thereby conceived as practice of memory, drawing on reused - and creating transformed - narrative and visual spaces of imagination. The dimension of memory will contribute to a more differentiated typology of practices of appropriation, their forms, functions and functionalisation. Agency and power relations will be important factors in the individual contributions of this trans-disciplinary volume that links approaches from memory studies, religious history, literary studies, and art history.
12th Congress Aiecm3 on Medieval and Modern Period Mediterranean Ceramics
The two volumes, result of the fruitful collaboration between our two Institutions, present through 107 papers the latest research in the field of Medieval and Modern period Mediterranean Pottery. The keynote lecture offers a synthesis of the progress realized in the past twenty years on glazed ceramics, not only in a scientific but also in a practical and social level. The articles are not limited to the presentation of typology and new excavation material, but they proceed mainly with a more holistic view of pottery studies and try out synthetic approaches. Organized in five thematic areas, they travel us from Portugal to Northern Russia, from Algeria to Palestine, for a period covering not less than fifteen centuries (from the 6th century AD to 1988). They deal with issues of typological evolution, distribution and trade, ideological and political changes reflected on pottery, fabrics and firing technologies, new methods of analysis and dating, new online tools; they also present older or new, unpublished excavations and impressive shipwrecks. Reading these volumes, one realizes the important progress that our community of pottery specialists has made in recent years, towards a more substantial, more dynamic presence in all places and all times from the early Middle Ages to the Modern period.
Graphis Poster Annual 2026
Graphis Poster 2026: The World's Best Poster DesignExplore the impact and artistry of contemporary poster design in the Graphis Poster 2026 Annual. Showcasing over 400 outstanding works from leading designers around the world, this exclusive volume highlights how powerful visuals can capture cultures, ideas, and movements in a single frame. A must-have for designers, creative professionals, and art lovers alike, it offers a rich source of inspiration and a global snapshot of excellence in poster art.Discover the Pinnacle of Poster CreativityThis beautifully curated tabletop book is essential for anyone who values the bold creativity and inventive spirit of the world's finest poster designs. Celebrate the TalentsThis new edition highlights the amazing work of designers from around the world who have pushed the boundaries of poster design. We awarded: - 10 Platinum Awards - 103 Gold Awards- 252 Silver Awards- 81 Honorable MentionsThe creative minds behind the winning entries include renowned studios and designers such as 246 Graphics., Atelier Bundi AG, Atelier Starno, Byoung-il Sun, Carmit Design Studio, Design SubTerra, Li Zhang, Mirko Ilic Corp., Purdue University, and YOUKU.Expertly Juried by Industry LeadersA panel of highly regarded poster designers carefully judged the entries: - Sean Freeman- Wesam Mazhar Haddad- Pekka Loiri- Jo瓊o Machado- Eve StebenRich Content & InsightGain a deeper understanding of each design through insightful commentary from Platinum and Gold-winning creatives as they reveal the inspiration and process behind their award-winning work.Presented in a stunning hardcover format, this book is a visual celebration--featuring full-page, full-color reproductions of Platinum, Gold, and Silver-winning designs, with Honorable Mentions also recognized for their excellence.Perfect for a Wide AudienceWhether you're a professional poster designer, creative director, design student, or simply a fan of exceptional visual work, the Graphis Poster 2026 Annual is an essential resource offering endless inspiration and a deep dive into the world of cutting-edge poster design.
The Shrine of Eileithyia
This book presents the pottery and the clay and metal sculptures dedicated to the deity Eileithyia in her shrine at Inatos, in southern Crete. This is the second of three planned volumes on this assemblage of specialized gifts to a unique goddess. It follows the Egyptiaka from the shrine that were published in volume I. The clay vessels are discussed by periods, from the Minoan to the Roman Imperial era. Clay figurines are divided by classes. Separate chapters describe models and other items of clay, including boat models, a ring-shaped frieze of dancing warriors, animal figurines, and Roman lamps. Highlights of this important assemblage of votive objects include about 200 Minoan miniature vessels and many small sculptures from the Late Geometric to Archaic periods, including seated pairs of female figurines in preparation for childbirth, sexually embracing couples, and a boat model with standing female figures on the gunwales accompanying a fetus traveling in the vessel.
The Art of Creating with Papier-M璽ch矇
Papier-m璽ch矇 is an incredibly versatile material. Gone are the days when it was only reserved for kindergartens and preschool children to make puppet heads. Did you know that even life-sized figures can be made permanently stable using papier-m璽ch矇? I will show you how it's done. In this book, I will guide you through easy-to-follow steps to bring your own ideas to life using papier-m璽ch矇, from creating a simple reclining figure to crafting a larger freestanding sculpture. Transform newspapers and glue into unique works of art! I avoid providing too many rigid instructions, as the projects featured in this book are carefully selected as examples, leaving plenty of room for your own creativity. Discover the joy of creating papier-m璽ch矇 artwork and let yourself be inspired by this wonderfully creative material!
Bio-Art
In the face of climate change, the destruction of biodiversity or genetic experimentation, Bio Art appears as a form that is most directly grappling with the problems of the 罈Anthropocene竄. It develops many different approaches and explores a variety of mediums, often related to scientific research, creating art that uses plants, insects, mammals, bacteria, bird songs, forest sounds, or genetic modification. Bio Art's uniqueness comes from incorporating, rather than just representing the living in a diverse range of artworks. In discussing such works from various world regions and time periods, the contributors address the divide between human and non-human animals, between 罈culture竄 and 罈nature竄.
Europe and the Wolf
How the work of several contemporary artists illuminates and challenges the policing of European borders and identity In this stunningly original book, Sara Nadal-Melsi籀 explores how the work of several contemporary artists illuminates the current crisis of European universalist values amid the brutal realities of exclusion and policing of borders. The "wolf" is the name Baroque musicians gave to the dissonant sound produced in any attempt to temper and harmonize an instrument. Europe and the Wolf brings this musical figure to bear on contemporary aesthetic practices that respond to Europe's ongoing social and political contradictions. Throughout, Nadal-Melsi籀 understands Europe as a conceptual problem that often relies on harmonization as an organizing category. The "wolf" as an emblem of disharmony, incarnated in the stranger, the immigrant, or the refugee, originates in the Latin proverb "man is a wolf to man." This longstanding phrase evokes the pervasive fear, and even hatred, of what is foreign, unknown, or beyond the borders of a community. The book follows the "wolf" in a series of relays between the musical, the visual, and the political, and through innovative readings of artworks--by, among others, Carles Santos, Pere Portabella, Allora&Calzadilla, and Anri Sala. Traversed by the musical, these artworks, as well as Nadal-Melsi籀's writing, present unstable symbolic and material ensembles in an array of variations of political possibilities and impossibilities that evade institutions intolerant of uncertainty and wary of diversity.
Hidden Portraits
Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Th矇r癡se Walter, Dora Maar, Fran癟oise Gilot, and Jacqueline Roque. These six extraordinary women loved and inspired Pablo Picasso. They frequently appear as the women in his portraits, but they also pursued their own ambitions in dance, writing, painting, and more. Each transformed Picasso's life and work--and he theirs. Yet they have long been dismissed as simply passive models or muses.In?a groundbreaking and deeply researched account, acclaimed author Sue Roe brings to light the true stories of the women in Picasso's life. Using recently discovered source material and hitherto overlooked firsthand accounts, Roe positions each woman not as a footnote in Picasso's biography, but center stage, from their own point of view.All six lived remarkable, unconventional lives on their own terms. Each was tested not only by the subterfuges and betrayals of the art world's most notorious womanizer, but also by the wider social turbulence of their time. Hidden Portraits traces each woman's story across nearly a century, from bohemian early-twentieth-century Montmartre to the glittering Riviera in the 1920s, from Paris under Nazi occupation to Picasso's death, and beyond. Roe unearths the ways these women influenced every stage of Picasso's work, from his sketches to masterpieces like Guernica.Under her eye, we recognize Fernande in the early Rose Period paintings; Olga draped across an armchair; Marie-Th矇r癡se asleep in a painting of a woman dreaming; Dora in Picasso's weeping women; Fran癟oise in his paintings of domestic life; Jacqueline as the raven-haired figure frequenting his late-in-life drawings.Spanning seventy years and traveling between the caf矇s of Paris and the C繫te d'Azur, Roe reclaims a set of brilliant women, and in the process rewrites a vital chapter in the history of modern art.
Forbidden Territories
While surrealism's treatment of the body has been much researched, the role of landscape has rarely been examined. Published one hundred years after Andr矇 Breton wrote the Surrealist Manifesto, Forbidden Territories reveals how surrealist ideas found their way into depictions of landscape as a metaphor for the unconscious, the relationship between surrealism and ecology, and landscape as a means to express political anxieties, gender constraints, and freedoms, ultimately reimagining our relationship with the world around us.Some of the earliest surrealist artists used automatic and psychoanalytical approaches to explore the landscapes of the mind, drawing on childhood experiences to create magical, alluring, and uncanny environments. Recurring surreal terrains will be interrogated, from the desert and forest to the sea, the latter expanding on surrealist mythologization of the unconscious as a great ocean by examining links between bodies of water and psycho-surreal worlds in poetry, paintings, and photographs from the unique perspective of women surrealists. The development of surrealism in the 1920s and '30s coincided with that of ecology, and the unexamined interplay between surrealism and life science, including the mutual influence of Sigmund Freud, is also explored in this beautifully illustrated survey. Taking a long look at surrealism, Forbidden Territories includes works by Eileen Agar, Leonora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun, Salvador Dal穩, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Lee Miller, and Yves Tanguy from the 1920s through the 1940s, continuing with later surrealists such as Edith Rimmington, Desmond Morris, and Marion Adnams, and interventions by contemporary artists working within the legacy of Surrealism such as Mar穩a Berr穩o, Helen Marten, and Wael Shawky.
Russian Orientalism in a Global Context
This volume features new research on Russia's historic relationship with Asia and the ways it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative and performing arts and architecture from the mid-eighteenth century to the first two decades of Soviet rule. It interrogates how Russia's perception of its position on the periphery of the west and its simultaneous self-consciousness as a colonial power shaped its artistic, cultural and national identity as a heterogenous, multi-ethnic empire. It also explores the extent to which cultural practitioners participated in the discursive matrices that advanced Russia's colonial machinery on the one hand and critiqued and challenged it on the other, especially in territories that were themselves on the fault lines between the east and the west.
Tattoos in Crime and Detective Narratives
Tattoos in crime and detective narratives examines representations of the tattoo and tattooing in literature, television and film, from two periods of tattoo renaissance (1851-1914, and c1955 to present). It makes an original contribution to understandings of crime and detective genre and the ways in which tattoos act as a mimetic device that marks and remarks these narratives in complex ways. With a focus on tattooing as a bodily narrative, the book incorporates the critical perspectives of posthumanism, spatiality, postcolonialism, embodiment and gender studies. The grouped essays examine the first tattoo renaissance, the rebirth of the tattoo in contemporary culture through literature, children's literature, film and television. The collection has a broad appeal, and will be of interest to all literature and media scholars, but in particular those with an interest in crime and detective narratives and skin studies.
Body High
How do we medicate ourselves, and why can't we cure the people we love? In Body High, encounters with lurid bodily sculptures from the '60s offer remedies to the author's own illness and malaise. In Body High, the introduction to lurid sculptural practices from the 1960s and the author's own experience in proximity to opiate use will be used to offer a surreal and unsettling, yet seductive landscape where wider universal themes are explored: How do we medicate ourselves, and why can't we cure the people we love? Dripping latex and collapsed rubber tubes were among the provocative materials that signaled an aesthetic turn in European and American sculptural practices starting in the late 1960s. Objects became corporeal: they responded to gravity in ways suggestive of exhaustion, offered sensual form, and confronted viewers with the ephemeral realities of our bodies through viscosity and deterioration.  This book analyses the objects by women within that movement, which explored maternity and mortality to capture the body under or after medical care. It argues that in these works, art-making served as a therapeutic strategy to re-claim bodies being manipulated at molecular levels.
Hokusai's Method
Best known for woodblock prints such as The Great Wave off Kanagawa, the ninteenth-century artist Hokusai was prolific in other media. Of the three hundred or so printed books Hokusai created in his long lifetime, a huge proportion were dedicated drawing manuals, known as e-tehon. They display not only Hokusai's great proficiency as a draftsman, but also his wealth of ideas and his sense of humor. Hokusai's Method collects fifteen volumes of Hokusai's e-tehon, featuring over eight hundred illustrations ranging from 1812 to 1848, faithfully reproducing every page. Showcasing his playful approach to drawing using songs and poems, pictures composed of letterforms (a forerunner to today's emoji), modern designs for craftsmen, and even dance moves, this volume illustrates the rich spectrum of his talents and achieves his aim to "preserve everything I've learned."
The Catholic Encounter with Chinese Thought, Society and Politics in the Ming-Qing Dynasties
Research on Chinese Catholicism in the Ming and Qing dynasties has grown steadily in the last three decades, spurred by the reprint of Catholic works of that period. However, past research has focused on a limited number of works, while the works of other missionaries working in more remote areas are neglected. Additionally, the Chinese works of the Franciscan and Dominican friars in the provinces of Fujian, Shandong and Guangdong have not received enough scholarly attention; therefore, it is still difficult to evaluate how the friars adopted methods and ideas different from those of the Jesuit missionaries, besides the question of the Chinese rites. Furthermore, we do not yet have a comprehensive picture of the works of Chinese Catholics and how they further developed the inculturation of Catholicism in China. In terms of methodologies, we need also to contextualize Chinese Catholicism within the larger spectrum of Chinese thought, society and politics, as well as show not only the ways in which Catholicism has changed China, but also the ways in which China has changed Catholicism, developing ideas, texts and rituals, enculturated in Chinese society and culture. The twenty papers in this volume address the questions above. Most of them are written by a young generation of academics in mainland China, showing the vibrancy of the field of Ming-Qing Catholic studies.
Life Is Other
Zwischen belebter und unbelebter Materie Das Buch pr瓣sentiert k羹nstlerische und theoretische Positionen, die sich mit der Dynamik von und den ?berg瓣ngen zwischen belebter und unbelebter Materie auseinandersetzen. Ankn羹pfend an die Ausstellung Holobiont: Life Is Other (Bregenz/Wien, 2021/2022), wird untersucht, wie Kunst, Philosophie, Technowissenschaften den Begriff des Lebendigen destabilisieren und erweitern. Wie entwickeln sich biologische Entit瓣ten, Maschinen, Medien, Architekturen, Netzwerke symbiotisch im Kontext biotechnologischer M繹glichkeiten und 繹kologischer Herausforderungen? Die Holobiont-Theorie der Biologin Lynn Margulis er繹ffnet neue Perspektiven auf das Leben als kooperatives, ganzheitliches System: "Anderes" wird nicht assimiliert, integriert; es bleibt in seiner Unverf羹gbarkeit und Eigenheit bewahrt, w瓣hrend neue Verbindungen entstehen. Auswahl aktueller k羹nstlerischer Werke zu a/biotischen Prozessen Kontextualisierung durch zeitgen繹ssische Theoretiker: innen und K羹nstler: innen Beitr瓣ge von Bruno Clarke, Monika Bakke, Eduardo Kac, Dorion Sagan, Astrid Schrader, Paul Vanouse u. a.
Youth, Power, Performance
Draws on over twenty years of scholarship during Diane Conrad's academic career in applied theatre research with systemically marginalized youth in high schools, in a youth jail and with street-involved youth. Explores strategies for engaging youth, the potential for youth empowerment and applied theatre's role in social change. 8 b&w illus.
A Legacy in Disguise
In the shadowed corners of Willow Creek, a wealthy heir hides among the forgotten, cloaked in the guise of a drifter. Haunted by a past he cannot escape and burdened by a secret that could unravel the fabric of the town, he walks a delicate line between anonymity and destiny. But when a mysterious altar tied to ancient powers emerges as a catalyst for chaos, his quiet life is shattered.Drawn into a deadly conspiracy led by the cunning Mayor and an enigmatic figure known only as the Keeper, he discovers that the altar is more than a relic-it's a gate to unimaginable power. Aided by a spirited woman with her own tragic past and a reverend desperate to protect his flock, the heir must navigate a labyrinth of betrayal, sacrifice, and ancient secrets.As the Keeper's forces close in and the altar's true purpose is revealed, the heir faces an impossible choice: reveal his identity and risk losing the only people he's come to care for, or let the shadows of the past consume them all. With time running out, every step draws him closer to a revelation that will change the fate of Willow Creek forever.A Legacy in Disguise is a gripping tale of suspense, love, and redemption, where every choice comes with a price and every secret has the power to destroy-or save-a legacy. Will he embrace his destiny or lose everything in the process?
Conversion Machines
Conversion machines are apparatuses, artfully-fashioned preparations, arrangements and things that demonstrate processes of change. They are paradoxical - at once intent on verifying what was invisible, uncertain and even unknowable, while also acting as sowers of dissimulation. This study does not seek to mechanise conversion. In many ways, conversion and the transformation of the convert will remain ineffable. Instead, this collection maintains that conversion of all kinds must unfold in ecologies that include politics, law, religious practice, the arts and the material and corporeal realms. Shifting the focus from subjectivity toward the operations of governments, institutions, artifices and the body, contributors consider how early modern Europeans suffered under the mechanisms of conversion, how they were sometimes able to realise themselves by dint of being caught up in the machinery of sovereignty, how they invented scores of new, purpose-built conversional instruments and how they experienced forms of radical transformation in their own bodies.
The Disguised Tycoon
The Disguised Tycoon is a gripping literary romance that weaves a tale of love, secrets, and redemption. Finn Donovan, heir to a powerful yet corrupt empire, has spent years running from the shadows of his past. His life is defined by deception, control, and a legacy he never asked for. When he meets Elena Hayes, a woman with a heart as strong as her spirit, everything changes. She sees past his wealth and the persona he's been forced to wear, looking instead into the heart of the man who's been struggling to break free.But Finn's past isn't easily left behind. As the secrets of his father's empire come crashing down, Finn is faced with a choice that will define not only his future but the future of the woman he loves. A battle between love and loyalty, freedom and fate, ensues, and Finn must confront the truth about himself, his family, and the cost of redemption.Elena's unshakable belief in Finn's potential gives him the strength to confront his demons, but the price of redemption might be more than either of them is willing to pay. As lies unravel and old enemies resurface, the question remains: will Finn and Elena be able to forge a future together, or will the past tear them apart forever?A powerful exploration of love, sacrifice, and the power of second chances, The Disguised Tycoon will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page.
Character Drawing with Alcohol Markers
Learn how to create stunning, expressive character illustrations using alcohol markers with this beginner-friendly how-to-draw guide from artist Lidia Camb籀n (@msshanh). Through her signature ethereal and feminine style, popular artist Lidia Camb籀n shares the ins-and-outs of creating cute manga-inspired characters with alcohol markers, a type of permanent marker that allows artists to blend vibrant colors easily with little to no smearing. Using this book's beginner-friendly lessons, example illustrations, and practice pages, learn fundamental character drawing techniques like: The basics of color theory, and how it can be used thoughtfully to create unique charactersTechniques for blending and shading with your markers, and how you can avoid streaks and splotchesHow to draw hair, facial expressions, and other human characteristics to add realism to your charactersChoosing the right materials to make your illustrations pop...and many more drawing techniquesWhether you're new to drawing or an experienced illustrator, Camb籀n's guidance will show you how to make your ideas come to life and create colorful, endearing character illustrations.
Traces of the Real: The Absent Presence of Photography in South Asian Literature
Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative.In Traces of the Real: The Absent Presence of Photography in South Asian Literature, Bidisha Banerjee brings together cutting edge photography studies, postcolonial and diaspora studies to explore the status of the photograph in contemporary South Asian literature. Playing on the dual meaning of trace - both as index and imprint, a copy or stencil of the real as well as inadequate remains of the original - she argues that the absent presence of photography affords postcolonial writers opportunities to enhance the themes of their novel in ways that the inclusion of actual photographs may not allow. This practice critiques photography's truth claims and instead considers the power of photographic erasures and absences in engaging the civil imagination (Azoulay) in the postcolonial moment. Banerjee makes connections between the absent presence of photography and themes of postcolonial literature such as memory, trauma, diasporic loss and mourning, agency and identity, demonstrating the ways in which the absent images powerfully undercut the apparent messages of the text. In contending that the absent image functions as an icon, metaphor, and trace, through the photographic "events" discussed in the chapters, Banerjee moves the focus away from photography's colonial disciplining gaze to postcolonial civic engagements via new materialist understandings and attending to the intermedial aspects of language, particularly as it is mediated by photography.
The Magic of Silence
No German painter evokes such strong emotions as Caspar David Friedrich: his evening skies remain icons of longing, his mountain vistas testaments to the grandeur of nature. He inspired Samuel Beckett to write Waiting for Godot and Walt Disney to create Bambi. Goethe, however, was so enraged by the enigmatic melancholy of Friedrich's paintings that he wanted to smash them on the edge of a table.In a sweeping journey through time, bestselling author Florian Illies tells the story of Friedrich's paintings and their impact on subsequent generations. Many of his most beautiful paintings were burned, first in his birthplace and then in World War II; others, like the Chalk Cliffs on R羹gen, emerge from the mists of history a hundred years after Friedrich's death. Illies recounts the story of how Friedrich's paintings ended up at the Russian czar's court, others among a pile of winter tires in a Mafia car repair shop, and others still in the kitchen of a German social housing apartment. Adored by Hitler and Rainer Maria Rilke, despised by Stalin and by the generation of 68, this compelling narrative dances through 250 years of history as seen through Friedrich's art and life. As a result, the man himself becomes flesh and blood before our very eyes.
Project a Black Planet
An expansive look at more than a century of Pan-Africanist art and the ways it embodies the movement's principles and global ambitions Since the term Pan-Africanism was coined around 1900, the movement's promise has been to foster liberation and solidarity for Black peoples worldwide. Focusing on its cultural expression, this book presents a rich selection of the visual, sonic, and other creative forms that have emerged throughout Pan-Africanism's evolution. Among the nearly two hundred artists represented from across the continent and the African diaspora are Beauford Delaney, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Hoyt William Fuller, Wifredo Lam, Simone Leigh, Ernest Mancoba, Zanele Muholi, Kawira Mwirichia, Cauleen Smith, Alma Thomas, and George Albert Yon. Reflecting Pan-Africanism's ideals of diversity and dialogue as well as its aspirations to egalitarianism, essays from more than a dozen scholars, artists, and practitioners speak to a range of themes and places, while discussing works in all media made or circulated outside the infrastructure of fine art, including LP albums, illustrated magazines, and manifestos. Distributed for The Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition Schedule: The Art Institute of Chicago (December 15, 2024-March 30, 2025) MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona (November 6, 2025-April 6, 2026) Barbican Centre, London (June 10-September 6, 2026) KANAL-Centre Pompidou, Brussels (Fall 2026-Winter 2027)
Hybrid Documentary and Non-Binary Cinema
Hybrid Documentary and Non-Binary Cinema offers an expansive exploration of the contemporary documentary cinema form, aesthetics, and ethics.
The Museum Accessibility Spectrum
The Museum Accessibility Spectrum volume engages with discussions around access to museums and argues that what is impairing the progress of museums towards inclusion is the current ableist model of access.
Poetics of Repair
Today, most colonial-era modernist mass housing is seen as fundamentally broken: crumbling concrete spaces of social alienation and containment that fractured societies both then and now. In Poetics of Repair, Katarzyna Pieprzak examines how contemporary visual, literary, and performance art of the Maghreb has the potential to change the terms, histories, and imagined futures of mass housing in North Africa and France. Pieprzak dives deeply into contemporary art engagements with three mass housing sites that epitomize the French colonial geography of modernist architecture in the Maghreb. She identifies in this art what she names a transformative "poetics of repair" a practice that conjoins, puts in relation, or simply brings closer together broken materials, separated people, and severed timelines. Reading art and its engagements with mass housing, Pieprzak argues, has the potential to unmoor established knowledge and rehearse the tensions and productive ambiguities inherent to practices of constitution and revision. She demonstrates that such a reading practice is a step toward a reparative epistemology for mass housing that turns sites of wreckage and alienation into sites of possible solidarities and new formulations of history and experience.
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Poetics of Repair
Today, most colonial-era modernist mass housing is seen as fundamentally broken: crumbling concrete spaces of social alienation and containment that fractured societies both then and now. In Poetics of Repair, Katarzyna Pieprzak examines how contemporary visual, literary, and performance art of the Maghreb has the potential to change the terms, histories, and imagined futures of mass housing in North Africa and France. Pieprzak dives deeply into contemporary art engagements with three mass housing sites that epitomize the French colonial geography of modernist architecture in the Maghreb. She identifies in this art what she names a transformative "poetics of repair" a practice that conjoins, puts in relation, or simply brings closer together broken materials, separated people, and severed timelines. Reading art and its engagements with mass housing, Pieprzak argues, has the potential to unmoor established knowledge and rehearse the tensions and productive ambiguities inherent to practices of constitution and revision. She demonstrates that such a reading practice is a step toward a reparative epistemology for mass housing that turns sites of wreckage and alienation into sites of possible solidarities and new formulations of history and experience.
