ARTMargins Volume 2, Issue 2
June 2013
www.mitpressjournals.org/artmargins
ARTMargins, the newest art journal from the MIT Press, announces the launch of its latest issue dedicated to art, theory, and cultural politics.
In a special section, “The Longevity of 1967 in Art and Its Histories,” ARTMargins considers the legacy of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war in Middle Eastern art from Syria to Egypt.
Walid Sadek—”The Impregnated Witness”
Clare Davies—”Arts Writing in 20th-Century Egypt: Methodology, Continuity, and Change”
Anneka Lenssen—”The Plasticity of the Syrian Avant-Garde, 1964–1970″
Saleem Al-Bahloly—”The Persistence of the Image: Dhākira Hurra in Dia Azzawi’s Drawings on the Massacre of Tel al-Zaatar”
Tammer El-Sheikh—”Six Characters and an Anthropologist: Form and Information in Three Works by Hassan Khan”
Mari Laanemets—”Flight into Tomorrow: Rethinking Artistic Practice in Estonia During the 1970s (Leonhard Lapin)”
Apart from the special section on the legacy of 1967, this issue also includes:
–A translation of the “Objective Art” manifesto that Leonhard Lapin (Tallinn) wrote in 1975 (commentary: Andres Kurg).
–The artist project in this issue is by Beirut-based Kasper Kovitz.
ARTMargins publishes scholarly essays about contemporary art, politics, media, architecture, and critical theory. ARTMargins studies art practices and visual culture in the emerging global margins, from North Africa and the Middle East to the Americas, Eastern (but also Western) Europe, Asia and Australasia. The journal seeks a forum for scholars, theoreticians, and critics from a variety of disciplines who are interested in the critiques of postmodernism and post-colonialism; art and politics in transitional countries and regions; post-socialism and neo-liberalism; and the problem of global art and global art history and its methodologies.
Editors
Sven Spieker, Octavian Eşanu, Angela Harutyunyan, Karen Benezra, and Anthony Gardner
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