From the Editors
ARTMargins Print Editors
This issue of ARTMargins marks a return of the journal's essay component, leading with an extensive exploration of socially engaged art by John Roberts,...
Socially Engaged Art, Direct Democracy, and Artistic Autonomy
John Roberts
The article analyzes the global context of socially engaged art, through focusing on the critical relationship between the Zapatista and Rojava insurgencies, post-alter globalization politics...
Minorities as Hubs of Cultural Transfer: The Bosch+Bosch Group
Emese Kürti
As a post-68 phenomenon of the Yugoslav cultural scene, the Bosch+Bosch group was established by young artists from the multicultural Vojvodina in 1969. In addition...
Socialization of the Private? The Emergence of Polish Mail Art and the Ideas of Democratic Opposition
Małgorzata Miśniakiewicz
The emergence of mail art in Poland in the beginning of 1970s coincided with the popularization of neo-avant-garde and conceptual art in the region. Its...
Performative Pictures: Imai Norio’s Moving Images
Haeyun Park
This article foregrounds the Japanese artist Imai Norio’s contribution to the development and critique of the moving image in the context of Japanese contemporary art...
Equestrian Semiosis: Unpacking the Parodic Layers of Bahman Mohassess’s Painting and Theater
Reza Mirzaei
This article reexamines the 1960s work of Iranian painter and stage director Bahman Mohassess (1931–2010) through the lens of parody, highlighting his nuanced critique of...
What Kind of Thing is Art?
Natasha Gasparian
This essay reviews two publications that center on the agency of visual culture in shaping modern life and subjectivity in 1950-70s Lebanon. Rooted in cultural...
Only Massage
Mahmoud Khaled
This project takes its inspiration from a long interview and a study of a number of private social media accounts of men advertising their services...
The Photograph as Susceptible Material: An Introduction to “Reflection OR Creation” from Urszula Czartoryska’s The Artistic Adventures of Photography
Joanna Szupinska
In her 1965 essay “Lustro rzeczywistości czy uległe tworzywo” [mirror of reality, or submissive material], presented here in its first English translation as “Reflection or...
“Reflection or Creation” from The Artistic Adventures of Photography
Urszula Czartoryska
ARTMargins, Volume 14, Issue 1, pp. 156-165. doi:10.1162/artm_a_00407 https://direct.mit.edu/artm/article/14/1/156/130982/Reflection-or-Creation-from-The-Artistic
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