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Gender And Sexuality In The Animated Films Of Walt Disney and Hayao Miyazaki, Part 2 (Hiroko Miyashita)
The following is the second of a three-part series. The first installment can be found here. In general, as Laura Mulvey argues, female characters in past, traditional stories were portrayed as quiet and weak. At that time, women were not considered as important as men in society, therefore the stories…
Gender And Sexuality In The Animated Films Of Walt Disney and Hayao Miyazaki, Part 1 (Hiroko Miyashita)
The following is the first installment of a three-part series. Hayao Miyazaki and Walt Disney are the two best-known and world famous directors in the history of animated film. Despite Miyazaki and Disney’s differences in style, themes, and approach when making animated films, both are extremely popular both in the…
God Is Dead – Now All We Have Is Victimhood Culture (Miriam Wilson) – Part 2
The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first portion can be read here. The Nietzschean frame that most easily lends itself as a comparison to contemporary victimhood is that of the Last Man. Appearing in the prologue of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the figure of the Last…
God Is Dead – Now All We Have Is Victimhood Culture (Miriam Wilson) – Part 1
The following is the first installment of a two-part series. Picture ‘the enemy’ as the man of ressentiment conceives him—and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived ‘the evil enemy,’ ‘the Evil One,’ and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant,…
Racing For The Prize, Part 2 (Michael Boughn)
The following is the second of a two-part installment. The first part is linked here. The article was previously published in Canadian Literature 219 (Winter 2013): (193-199). It is republished with permission of the author. This high/low distinction has haunted thinking about art since the eighteenth century and its spatial language is a reminder of the…
Last Call For Registrations For Rocky Mountain/Southwest Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit
There are only about 75 tickets left for the Rocky Mountain/Southwest Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit, April 6 and 7 at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado. Registration is online at https://www.cplsummit.org/southwest. The Rocky Mountain/Southwest summit, sponsored by the National Consortium for Creative Placemaking and ArtPlace America of the National Endowment for the…
Racing For The Prize, Part 1 (Michael Boughn)
The following is the first of a two-part installment. The article was previously published in Canadian Literature 219 (Winter 2013): (193-199). It is republished with permission of the author. Not long ago I was “short listed,” as they say, for a big literary prize. How big is big, you well may ask. Big enough to…
“Post-Matter” – Wearable Art That Blurs The Boundaries Between Bodies And Environment (Larissa E. Shaw)
Contemporary artist Maiko Takeda creates futuristic, ethereal garments for the human body influenced by environmental phenomena such as wind, by exploring the relationship between the separation of what is body, and what is ‘outside’ the body. Takeda creates visible thresholds for the invisible sense of touch, primarily creating whisker like…
Experiencing The Experience Of Light – Concerning Space Art (Leonardo de Vivo)
“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite.” – William Blake Since the first visual artistic expressions, light and space have impressed viewers and altered their perception. One can only imagine the astonishment of Earth’s first inhabitants when, by the play of…
How To Talk About Art, Part 3 – Interrogating What We See (Rebekah Gordon)
The following is the third of a three-part series. The first installment can be found here, the second here. In the past two installments of our “How to Talk About Art” series, we discussed the nature of art and the predominant forms which it takes. This installment tackles the many and…