Archives for May 2020
The Visual Arts Classroom – A Site of Societal Influence And Change (Shannon Pennell)
Here I am, in the “visual arts classroom” as it exists in the midst of the 2020 COVID-19 precautions. I t was while I was digging through my previous essays to help my senior students prepare for their HSC essay writing, that I stumbled across this paper from 2018 –…
Sonorous Body (Yiğit Yeşillik)
“The sound is vibrate in itself or by itself: it is not only, for the sonorous body, to emit a sound, but it is also to stretch out, to carry itself and be resolved in to vibrations that both return it to itself and place it outside itself” Jean-Luc Nancy…
Global Art, Post-Colonialism And The End of Art History (Robert McDougall), Part 2
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Anthony Gardner, in a piece commissioned by GAM, proclaims a difference, in that one needs to “evaluate the possible shifts from the postcolonial to the global”, pointing out that there are “as many postcolonial studies…
Global Art, Post-Colonialism And The End of Art History (Robert McDougall), Part 1
The following is the first of a two-part series. In Contemporary Art as Global Art: A Critical Estimate, Hans Belting sets out to explain how the concept of ‘global art’ since the late 1980’s has transgressed our traditional understandings of art history, modernism’s ideals of “progress and hegemony”, and our…