Many literary historians would concede that the traditional pedagogical organization of the
humanities according to national languages and literatures has exceeded its expiration …

This article reflects on fieldwork experience of performing ziyarat in Iraq in May 2014. It offers
an embodied account of ziyarat rituals and practices, and discusses re/construction. It …

How can a critical practice of the image affect the way we make war visible? How can it not
only increase the visibility of war-related events but also rearticulate the very frames through …

In a moment when sculpture's generic specificity and political and aesthetic validity seem
increasingly in doubt, Isa Genzken (b. 1948) and Thomas Hirschhorn (b. 1957) persist in …

This dissertation presents the early work of Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula and Fred Lonidier
as an attempt to intertwine political and aesthetic practice that was fundamentally distinct …

The practice of reviving history in the present is widely found in contemporary art. It is
labeled re-enactment, re-do, re-staging, re-construction—each term nuanced according to …

This text is a curatorial reflection upon the process of organizing the exhibition Theater of
Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011, which took place at MoMA PS1 in 2019. The text …

Abstract Rosler's 1967-1972 series, Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful conflates
images of domestic interiors with images of combat related to the Vietnam War. This thesis …

Performing Violence: The (Un)reality of War - Chris Burden, Edward Kienholz, Wafaa Bilal Page
1 Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont Pomona Senior Theses Pomona Student …

Over the past few decades, a series of “questionnaires” in the art journal October has
provided a snapshot of new and contentious critical frameworks in art history. 1 While these …