In this essay for the exhibition catalogue of MoMA’s collection, Adler surveys definitions of art of the United States in the Museum prior to the canonization of Abstract Expressionism. Drawing on the Museum’s archive, she sheds light on museum founder and director Alfred H. Barr Jr.’s collecting priorities; internal struggles with trustees; political controversies related … Continue reading The Problem of Our American Collection: MoMA Collects at Home
2014
The Black Atlantic. Modernity and Double Consciousness
In Gilroy’s book, the culture of the Black Atlantic is characterized as a field of tensions and exchange that blurs the possible origins, essences and nationalities of a large variety of manifestations and producers (from black modernities to hip-hop): black communities from the US, UK, Western Africa or the Caribbean. Black Atlantic culture, in turn, … Continue reading The Black Atlantic. Modernity and Double Consciousness
Decolonizing American Studies. Toward a Politics of Intersectional Entanglements
In this article Julia Roth points out that a transnational approach does not by de facto imply a corrective tool to address the power asymmetries produced by western imperialism. For this we must attempt to decolonize concepts and knowledge by giving agency to marginal voices, integrate scholarship produced outside the Anglo-American academy, and be critical … Continue reading Decolonizing American Studies. Toward a Politics of Intersectional Entanglements
Du tournant spatial ou une histoire horizontale de l’art
Piotrowski proposes a horizontal art history to escape from hegemonic hierarchies in terms of history (which fall within the notion of vertical art history). A horizontal study of art also involves a transnational perspective allowing to show the pluralism of transregional histories. Piotrowski therefore proposes a pluralistic art historical narrative, including several concepts such as … Continue reading Du tournant spatial ou une histoire horizontale de l’art
