Contemporary art across the evolving global peripheries
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Raino Isto
EDITORS: Uros Cvoro (Sydney), Susan Snodgrass (Chicago), Sven Spieker (Los Angeles/Berlin)
EDITORIAL ADVISORY GROUP: Karen Benezra (New York), Octavian Esanu (Beirut/Tokyo), Angela Harutyunyan (Beirut) , Saloni Mathur (Los Angeles), Ksenia Nouril (Philadelphia), Pedro Erber (Tokyo)
EDITORIAL INTERN: Hannah S. Yohalem (Los Angeles)
EDITORIAL RESEARCH ASSISTANT: Camilla Salvaneschi (Aberdeen)
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR:
ART DIRECTION & IT SUPPORT: Russell Coon (Los Angeles)
The extraordinary scale of the antiracism protests that took over U.S. cities and spread rapidly around the globe beginning in May has conferred a sense of urgency to struggles against the injustices that pervade our societies. In this spirit, this issue of ARTMargins presents Alioune Diop’s “Art and Peace,” written on the occasion of the First World Festival of Negro Arts, in Dakar, Senegal, 1966 (republished here for the first time), with an introduction by Lauren Taylor. A central figure in the Négritude movement, Diop was aware that “real peace” entails justice. The featured articles in this issue include Caterina Preda’s reconsideration of the establishment of Socialist Realist art in Romania, and Meghan Forbes’s focus on the Czech avantgarde of the interwar years, including a plea to acknowledge the significance and originality of Czech Dada. Iftikhar Dadi and Elizabeth Dadi’s Artist Project Jugaad tackles informality as the determinant mode of labor in the periphery of capitalism, while this issue’s review article presents Ghalya Saadawi’s take on Chad Elias’s book Posthumous Images: Contemporary Art and Memory Politics in Post–Civil War Lebanon (Duke University Press, 2018).
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Devětsil and Dada: A Poetics of Play in the Interwar Czech Avant-Garde — by Meghan Forbes
10 Dec, 2020
Bricolage Within the Imperial Divide: Introduction to Iftikhar Dadi and Elizabeth Dadi’s Jugaad — by Aamir R. Mufti
10 Dec, 2020
Jugaad — by Iftikhar Dadi and Elizabeth Dadi
10 Dec, 2020
Introduction to Alioune Diop’s “Art and Peace” (1966) — by Lauren Taylor
10 Dec, 2020
Art and Peace (1966) — by Alioune Diop
10 Dec, 2020