Contrary to critics who have called it the “undecade,” the 1970s were a time of risky,
innovative art—and nowhere more so than in Britain, where the forces of feminism and labor …

Can digital platforms such as the database and the virtual museum offer new possibilities of
the archive? What concept of the archive can be pursued by contemporary practices that are …

This book analyzes recent artistic and activist projects in order to conceptualize the new
roles and goals of a critical theory and practice of art and photography. Vered Maimon …

Abstract “Else-where” is a synoptic survey of the representational values given to art,
architecture, and cultural production from 2002 through 2011. Written primarily as a critique …

This edited volume investigates the relation of politics to visual media in Japan through the
twinned, and often overlapping, processes of politicization and depoliticization. This …

The Tōhoku Documentary Trilogy (Tōhoku kiroku eiga sanbusaku), codirected by
Hamaguchi Ryūsuke and Sakai Kō, consists of four documentary features, namely Sound of …

This thesis explores the new art historical turn in contemporary art through close
engagement with three British artworks. These are Tacita Dean's, Section Cinema (Homage …

Sans Soleil opens in the typical manner those classic silent movies had done in the 1920s,
flashing texts on the screen first, a pause for meditation spaced, then ensued with …

This thesis project emphasizes the element of history as an important factor in the concepts
of politics and aesthetics that are suggested by Jacques Rancière. Rancière has received a …