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“Truth, Freedom, Perfection” Alfred Barr’s What Is Modern Painting? As Cold War Rhetoric

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Hills’ essay traces Alfred H. Barr Jr.’s formulation of Abstract Expressionism as the embodiment of US values of freedom and artistic quality during the Cold War. Drawing on the Museum’s archives and Barr’s handbook to the collection “What is Modern Painting?” published in multiple editions and languages, she analyzes this influential guidebook to the collection, … Continue reading “Truth, Freedom, Perfection” Alfred Barr’s What Is Modern Painting? As Cold War Rhetoric

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The Problem of Our American Collection: MoMA Collects at Home

Webmaster — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:48:41 +0000

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

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Introduction: Canons and Art History

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Brzyski’s essay provides a useful framework to analyze the evolution of art historical canons. She argues that scholars need to interrogate the mechanisms through which often unquestioned hierarchies of artistic value are created by art historians and curators. In other words, she calls for the study of “the mechanics of the canonical system: how and … Continue reading Introduction: Canons and Art History

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Du tournant spatial ou une histoire horizontale de l’art

Webmaster — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 16:05:52 +0000

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

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La colonialidad: la cara oculta de la modernidad

Webmaster — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 16:08:43 +0000

Mignolo addresses here the relationship between colonialism and modernity through the concept of transmodernity, also linked to the category of decolonial cosmopolitanism, associated by the author to organizations and individual activists who struggle for an emancipatory and heterogeneous thinking, giving a significant place to museums of contemporary art. I think this is a particularly interesting … Continue reading La colonialidad: la cara oculta de la modernidad

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