Dissecting Dissent and its Discontents
Ksenya Gurshtein
This review of Antipolitics in Central European Art: Reticence as Dissidence under Post-Totalitarian Rule 1956–1989 by Klara Kemp-Welch situates the book in the existing literature...
Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Egyptian Modern Art
Elizabeth Miller
Art in Egypt during the first half of the twentieth century has frequently been understood as closely tied to Egyptian nationalism, emerging suddenly in 1908...
Artistic Awakening in Ankara (1953)
Bülent Ecevit
This essay analyzes three polemic newspaper articles written in the early 1950s by the art critic, gallerist, and future Turkish prime minister Bülent Ecevit (1925–2006),...
Trading Lines
Brook Andrew
Trading Lines is a photo essay that tracks nearly twenty years of research within international museums as well as collecting and sharing photographs and objects....
Red Shift: Cildo Meireles and the Definition of the Political-Conceptual
Camila Maroja
This article examines Cildo Meireles's refusal to describe Red Shift, his 1984 installation, as conceptual, political art. I use his rejection of these terms to...
The Artist and Politics (1954)
Bülent Ecevit
This essay analyzes three polemic newspaper articles written in the early 1950s by the art critic, gallerist, and future Turkish prime minister Bülent Ecevit (1925–2006),...
Introduction to “Artistic Awakening in Ankara,” “The Artist and Politics,” and “The Burden of the Intellectual” by Bülent Ecevit
Sarah-Neel Smith
This essay analyzes three polemic newspaper articles written in the early 1950s by the art critic, gallerist, and future Turkish prime minister Bülent Ecevit (1925–2006),...
The Burden of the Intellectual (1956)
Bülent Ecevit
This essay analyzes three polemic newspaper articles written in the early 1950s by the art critic, gallerist, and future Turkish prime minister Bülent Ecevit (1925–2006),...
Mutable Form and Materiality: Toward a Critical History of New Tapestry Networks
Jessica Gerschultz
This article raises two concerns underpinning the need for a critical history of fiber art in the 20th century. The first is a critique of...
