ARTMargins Print 12:3 Editorial Statement
ARTMargins Editors
The writings in this issue all share a preoccupation with the silences, disappearances, and contradictions within historical archives. Across national, regional, and diasporic spaces, they...
“To Make Books Is to Multiply”: Artists’ Books and Feminist Expression in Mexico
Maggie Borowitz
In the late 1970s and early 80s, artist's books exploded in Mexico City. The impetus for this explosion has often been located in the artistic...
Revisiting Rasheed Araeen’s Structures: 8bS at Manufactured Art, 1970
Kylie Gilchrist
In May 1970, Rasheed Araeen's work “8bS” appeared in Manufactured Art, a group exhibition dedicated to artistic engagements with industrial processes and advanced technology. Araeen's...
Emergency Aesthetics: The Case of the Four Faces of Omarska
Iva Glisic, Biljana Puric
This article examines how contemporary artists from the Western Balkans have sought to engage with the legacy of ethnonationalist violence. While attempts to examine and...
Bags of Stories: Thinking with Household Casebearers in the Anthropocene
Tan Zi Hao
Household casebearers are a genus of moths primarily distinguished by the spindle-shaped cases they carry and live in throughout their larval life. The cases, woven...
Complicating Narratives of Contemporary Chinese Art as Global Art through the Lens of Exhibition Histories
Birgit Hopfener
This essay reviews two publications on Chinese contemporary art and its relation to the global through the lens of exhibition histories. The monograph Die...
Introduction to “Revolutionary Painting and the Palestinian Revolution,” by Mohammed Chabâa, and “Palestinian Artists and the Biennial,” from Toni Maraini’s “Baghdad 1974: A Summary of the First Arab Biennial of Fine Arts” (Both 1974)
Alessandra Amin
In 1974, Moroccan cultural journal Intégral published a special edition on the first Arab biennial of visual arts, which had just taken place in...
Revolutionary Painting and the Palestinian Revolution
Mohammed Chabaa, Alessandra Amin
In 1974, Moroccan cultural journal Intégral published a special edition on the first Arab biennial of visual arts, which had just taken place in...
Palestinian Artists and the Biennial, from “Baghdad 1974: A Summary of the First Arab Biennial of Fine Arts”
Toni Maraini, Alessandra Amin
In 1974, Moroccan cultural journal Intégral published a special edition on the first Arab biennial of visual arts, which had just taken place in...
