...Richard Easton Copyright © 1992 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1992 Works Cited Ades Dawn . Dada and Surrealism Reviewed . London : Arts Council of Great Britain , 1978 . Alexander Michail . “ Homosexuality and the Arts...

...Elizabeth Cowie Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2007 elizabeth cowie is Professor of Film Studies at the School of Drama, Film, and Visual Arts at the University of Kent, Canterbury. She published Representing the Woman: Cinema and Psychoanalysis...

... two seemingly divergent populations—art workers and sex workers—emerged at this time. What does the conjoining of these two identifications tell us about the valuation of labor, especially when affective exchanges are involved? What were the gendered consequences of the professionalization of art...

... . Clark T. J. The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers . New York : Knopf , 1984 . Davidoff Lee . “ Class and Gender in Victorian England .” Sex and Class in Women's History . Ed. Newton Judith L. , et al. London : Routledge , 1983 . 17 - 70...

... There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures. Ed. Ferguson Russell , et al. New York : New Museum of Contemporary Art , 1991 . 327 - 39 . Vester Karl-Egon , with Plattes Gabriele . Gabriele Münter. Hamburg : Kunstverein , 1988 . Weiss Peg . Kandinsky in Munich...

... . amber jamilla musser Reading, Writing, and Masochism: The Arts of Becoming An experiment: What happens if we apply Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy to the philosopher himself? What if we think beyond the symptomatic and use Deleuze’s statements against Deleuze to unpack...

...Matthew Gannon This essay argues not only that Wilhelm Worringer’s concept of the urge to abstraction from his work of art history Abstraction and Empathy (1908) prefigures Sigmund Freud’s notion of the death drive in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) but also that Worringer’s aesthetics...

...Shannan L. Hayes This essay interrogates the forms of feminist political desire and subject formation being reproduced under the heading of contemporary feminist art. The author considers two recent exhibitions, similarly organized around the theme of intersectionality, that took place over two...

... imagery or traumatically reproducing it. This essay argues that by relying only upon these models of repetition, critics inevitably fail to recognize the dynamic of compulsive repetition that permeates Walker's art, a dynamic that dialectically entwines the agency and subjection implied by parody...

...Steven Miller This essay discusses the minor art form of high-wire walking in order to show that the agency of the death drive manifests itself by adding rather than removing something from the symbolic order. The essay focuses primarily on the work of Philippe Petit, especially the clandestine...

... of the ancient epic poem, not just of the Nordic sagas and of medieval epic, which are more immediately related, but, in fact, of Homeric epic. Understanding video games as an evolving art form, the essay turns to intertextuality and to Judith Butler’s analysis of “staged interpellation” and performative...

... mobile phone video, Dark Glass (2006), the author asks if film, as a time-based art that makes every recorded “then” a “now” in the experience of viewing, can also engage us in the contingent as the traumatic real to be made knowable. Would such a documentary event be what Badiou calls a poeticization...

... of postindustrial capitalism, one's life is perceived as a work of art and as a particular kind of enterprise. The overemphasis of choice, however, does not seem to bring contentment to the individual, but rather increases feelings of anxiety and insecurity. In order to appease feelings of anxiety, people often...

...Pooja Rangan This essay critically examines humanitarian efforts to rehabilitate captive and working animals as producers of art—a practice recently and controversially popularized by viral videos of former draft elephants in Thai tourist camps painting self-portraits for sale. Positioning...

... Subotnik, and Jonathan Kramer to examine the politics of musical listening as a social practice. In postwar art music, minimalism is particularly notable for engendering experiences of time that resonate with postmodern spatialization. This article proceeds with a reading of John Adams’s 1987 opera Nixon...

... by Lee Edelman. The author claims that it is through a deradicalizing (or rather depsychoanalyzing) of the negative that the idea of a queer archive loses its way. The implications of the negative on queer theory and politics are brought up through analysis of an art exhibition featuring internationally...

... the uses of a gendered framework of yin and yang in art, historical narrative, and poetry, with particular attention to the topic of the avenging woman as it manifests itself in diverse discursive contexts. yu shiling is Professor of Chinese Classical Literature and Gender Studies at Nanjing...