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Issue 24: Corpus (Spring 2016)

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Framing the Audience: Art and the Politics of Culture in the United States, 1929-1945

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Reviewed by Elizabeth Eikmann, Saint Louis University Isadora Helfgott. Framing the Audience: Art and the Politics of Culture in the United States, 1929-1945. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015. 326 pages. 21 color plates. The culture wars of the years surrounding the 1930s are known for the many and well-fought domestic battles over high art, popular culture, and consumerism. During this era, the barriers between high and…

September 13, 2016
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Cover of G 5/6 (April 1926) in G: An Avant-Garde Journal of Art, Architecture, Design, and Film, 1923-1926, ed. Detlef Mertins and Michael W. Jennings © 2010 J. Paul Getty Trust (image Man Ray, The New Landscape © Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2016)
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Hans Richter’s Rhythmus Films in G: the Collective Cinematographic

Written by Erin McClenathan Filmmaker Hans Richter was one of the founding contributors to G: Materials for Elemental Form-Creation (G: Material zur elementaren Gestaltung) and the only to stay his…

May 25, 2016
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A Stranger in the Gallery: Conceptions of the Body Through Art and Theory

Written by Sarah W. Abu Bakr Objects of Horror and Desire The Western gallery has historically been the pedestal for notions of the classical body, perfected in the Renaissance through…

May 25, 2016
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Fieldnotes from the Hy Meisel Slide Collection

Written by Ali Feser All images provided by & courtesy of the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY. An inquiry into the senses, in this light, directs us beyond the faculties of a subject…

May 25, 2016
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September 26, 2016

Visual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone

Reviewed by Kristin Flade, Free University Berlin Hochberg, Gil Z. Visual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone. Durham:…

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September 13, 2016

Framing the Audience: Art and the Politics of Culture in the United States, 1929-1945

Reviewed by Elizabeth Eikmann, Saint Louis University Isadora Helfgott. Framing the Audience: Art and the Politics of Culture in the…

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Hanan al-Cinema
May 25, 2016

Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image

Reviewed by Najmeh Moradiyan Rizi, University of Kansas Laura U. Marks. Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image. Cambridge, MA:…

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April 27, 2016

Migraciones (en el) arte contemporaneo / Migrations (in) Contemporary Art

Exhibition review by Caroline "Olivia" Wolf, Rice University "Migraciones (en el) arte contemporaneo / Migrations (in) Contemporary Art." Centro de Arte Contemporáneo. Museo…

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Letchworth Self-Portrait

Fieldnotes from the Hy Meisel Slide Collection

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Written by Ali Feser All images provided by & courtesy of the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY. An inquiry into the senses, in this light, directs us beyond the faculties of a subject…

May 25, 2016
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Erika Raberg, film still, ‘Alone Together,’ 2014, HD video, single channel projection, 3 minutes, looped.

Alone Together

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Artwork by Erika Raberg. Alone Together, 2014, HD video, single channel projection, 3 minutes, looped. Artist Statement Alone Together considers the idea of partnership in opposition. Drawing from footage filmed…

May 25, 2016
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No-Stop City

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By Alan Ruiz “Significant economic growth has taken place and productive forces have expanded (technology, the destructive control of nature) without disturbing the social relationships of production. […] Development hasn’t…

October 29, 2015
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The BLUEPRINT/Product Disparity: Learning from Lofty Plans and Humble Products

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Artwork By Robert Watkins Where do art and academia meet? Can academic writing be artistic? Are academic journals art? Journals like Kairos, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Computers and Composition Online, and…

October 29, 2015
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InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC) is a student run interdisciplinary journal published online twice a year in an open access format. Through peer reviewed articles, creative works, and reviews of books, films, and exhibitions, our issues explore changing themes in visual culture. Fostering a global and current dialog across fields, IVC investigates the power and limits of vision.

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Call for Papers: Issue 26, Border Crossings

For its twenty-sixth issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that address the complex and multiple meanings of border crossings. In September…

December 16, 2015
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April 18, 2016

Lynching 2.0

Fig. 1. “The Cow-Pock—or—the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation!” [Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1802. Wellcome Library no. 11752i]
January 22, 2016

Representing Anti-Vaccination: From James Gillray to Jenny...

Christopher Knowles and Noah Khoshbin, "The Sundance Kid is Beautiful with Christopher Knowles" at the Louvre Museum, 2013. Photo by Julian Mommert.
December 22, 2015

“The Sundance Kid is Beautiful with Christopher...

December 16, 2015

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Issue 23: Blueprints (Fall 2015)

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Introduction / Issue 23: Blueprints

by IVC Editorial Board

In his theoretical manifesto, Toward An Architecture, Le Corbusier wrote, “The plan is the generator. Without plan there can be neither grandeur of aim and expression, nor rhythm, nor mass, nor coherence. . . . The plan is what determines everything; it is the decisive moment.” The plan or blueprint is the primary tool of the architect’s and the drafter’s trades—a technical document that bridges…

October 29, 2015
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