Posts Tagged With: modernism
Making Mesoamerica Visible In The Discourse Of Contemporary Art And Ecology (Elliott Jenkins)
“In our everyday lived experience, there is an unforgiving momentum to adopt ways of being that are Eurocentric within a coloniality of power, especially in schools.” -Cueponcaxochitl Dianna Moreno Sandoval In order to recognize human impact on the environment, it is first important to understand our relationship with our planet…
A Cathartic Manifesto: Corporeality in James Joyce, Part 2 (Tim Royan)
The following is the second part in a two-part installment. The first part can be found here. The fact that Bloom implements a diseased prostitute’s body, “medically…speaking,” to launch into an argument against dualism obviously mirrors Joyce’s implementation of the human body for the exact same reason, as well as the…
A Cathartic Manifesto: Corporeality In James Joyce, Part 1 (Tim Royan)
The following is the first of a two-part series. James Joyce, throughout his literary career, repeatedly implements descriptions of the human body and its functions as a thematic device through which to explore other, more grandiose literary topics. In the process, he utilizes an almost routine breaking of taboos that…
The “Fatal Woman” In Feminism And Modernism (Eric Galowitsch)
In French, femme fatale means a “fatal” or “disastrous” woman. She is often one who attempts to attract or snare men. The definition of femme fatale from the Merriam Webster Dictionary is either/both a seductive woman who lures men into dangerous or compromising situations and/or a woman who attracts the male by…
The Tiny House Movement – Where Less Is Really More (Rebekah Gordon)
The current vogue for so-called “tiny houses”, where people live in as little as 100 to 400 square feet, derives in many respects from the earlier artistic movement known as minimalism. Following the reductive trajectory of modernism, and reacting against the emotionalism and politicalization of abstract expressionism, minimalism – a style of abstract art…
But Is It Art? – Searching For Simple, Practical, And Illuminating Answers (Jakob Zaaiman)
The following is the first installment of a two-part series. “Art” desperately needs a handy, practical definition, not of the scholarly conceptual variety, but rather of the plain and simple sort that you can usefully take with you into a gallery, and apply directly to what you see. You want…