What Scale Affords Us: Sizing the World Up through Scale
Joan Kee
In the 1990s, contemporary art's “global turn” was vividly demonstrated by artists whose works directly reflected upon their experiences of moving across vast geographical distances....
Displaced Boundaries: Geometric Abstraction from Pictures to Objects
Monica Amor
This review concerns Osbel Suarez, Cold America: Geometric Abstraction in Latin America (1934–1973), an exhibition presented by the Fundación Juan March in Madrid, Feb 11–May...
Appropriating the Improper: The Problem of Influence in Latin American Art
Carla Macchiavello
This paper centers on the problem of influence in Latin American art analyzing some of the changes its conceptualization underwent during the 1970s and 1980s....
The Nightingale’s Butcher Manifesto
Hooshang Irani, Gholam Hossein Gharib, Hassan Shirvani
Perhaps the earliest manifesto in Iranian art, “The Nightingale's Butcher Manifesto” fights for an Iranian avant-garde—an avant-garde based on new modes of abstraction so as...
Rat Diaries
Shady El-Noshokaty
Rat Diaries is a series of drawings that attempts to map the intensity of everyday life in Egypt intertwined with intuitive visual and verbal comments...
Green Critique in a Red Environment: East European Art and Ecology Under Socialism
Maja Fowkes, Reuben Fowkes
For the wave of ecological consciousness that spread on the counter-cultural currents of the 1968 uprisings across the globe, the Iron Curtain proved to be...
Volume and Environment II
This second manifesto marks a shift from abstraction to conceptualism in Iranian art worlds. It lays the foundation for contemporary art as it has developed...
Introduction to “The Nightingale’s Butcher Manifesto” and “Volume and Environment II”
Bavand Behpoor
The introductory text introduces two pre-revolution Iranian manifestos of modern art, namely the “Nightingale's Butcher Manifesto” (1951) and “Volume & Environment 2” (1976). It describes...
