Devětsil and Dada: A Poetics of Play in the Interwar Czech Avant-Garde
In 1920, the Czech avant-group Devětsil, led by Karel Teige, put forth a leftist program that embraced a multimedial and transnational approach to art and...
The Role of Artists’ Collectives in Producing State Socialist Art in 1950s Romania the Bottom-Up, Pragmatic Professionalization of State Commissions
This article analyzes the collective basis of the establishment of the Socialist Realist model of production for the fine arts in Romania in the early...
Bricolage Within the Imperial Divide: Introduction to Iftikhar Dadi and Elizabeth Dadi’s Jugaad
Jugaad continues Iftikhar and Elizabeth Dadi’s extended artistic investigation of informality in the Global South, which arguably constitutes the majority experience of this vast region. Development...
Jugaad
Jugaad continues Iftikhar and Elizabeth Dadi’s extended artistic investigation of informality in the Global South, which arguably constitutes the majority experience of this vast region. Development...
A Book Review in the Form of a Polemic Chad Elias’s Posthumous Images: Contemporary Art and Memory Politics in Post-Civil War Lebanon and the Old New World Order
Chad Elias’ 2018 book Posthumous Images: Contemporary Art and Memory Politics in Post-Civil War Lebanon attempts to deal with the question of post-civil war representation, image-making and...
Introduction to Alioune Diop’s “Art and Peace” (1966)
In 1966, the multi-media celebration of African and diasporic art known as the Premier Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres attracted an international audience to the recently independent...
Art and Peace (1966)
In “Art and Peace,” Alioune Diop, the president of the Festival’s organizing committee, enlists the arts as vital tools in the ambitious project of world...
