...Toni Ross 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Toni Ross Art in the ‘‘Post-Medium’’ Era: Aesthetics and Conceptualism in the Art of Jeff Wall During the last decade of the twentieth century a wave of discussions and publications emerged...

...Richard Gilman Richard Gilman The Seagull: Art and Love, Love and Art Some preliminary notes, ideas, observa­ tions, questions, and reminders for an essay on the play. Its title is the most nearly symbolic of those for any Chekhov play, but like its closest rival, The Cherry Orchard s trees...

...Leah Dennis Copyright © 1936 by Duke University Press 1936 ART CONSCIOUSNESS: A THUMB'RULE FOR ART LEAH DENNIS MOST OF US have been trained since childhood to asso­ ciate the author with the book, the art with the artist. Social pressure has forced upon us a body of information what every...

...Hassan M. Musa This account of the art exhibition literature in the Sudan reflects the complexity of modern political action there. The art exhibition was introduced by the colonial state as an instrument of propaganda. Post-independence authorities continued in a similar direction. Modern...

...Chika Okeke-Agulu This essay focuses on the work of the Art Society—a group formed by art students at the Nigerian College of Art, Science, and Technology, Zaria (1957–61)—and suggests that the work of its key members in the 1960s was the first significant manifestation of postcolonial modernism...

...Nada M. Shabout This essay explores the articulation of the Arabic letter and text in the modern art of North Africa as a liminal space of interaction. Arabic text in particular offered artists a space of intersection between the various layers of identities of North Africa (al Maghrib al-Arabi...

... poems, written either by Al-Gazzar or by the Alexandrian poet Ahmad Mursi. These works of art clearly adopt the surrealist aesthetic language, both visual and verbal. The drawings illustrate a particular zeitgeist in the Egyptian artistic milieu and mirror the individual and genuine artistic response...

... the historical past, in the form of a permanent threat to the interior's governing aesthetic. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 David A. Ellison The Spoiler’s Art: Embarrassed Space as Memorialization Over and over again, the other speakers—senators...

... of the art world and academia alike, the aesthetico-political work of Strike Debt has included the popularization of the red square as an emblem of debt resistance, the invention of the debt burn as an anticapitalist ritual, and the launching of the Rolling Jubilee, a direct action campaign initiated...

...Andrew McNamara 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Andrew McNamara Apprehension? Performativity and Medium-Specificity in Modern Art For all the talk about feeling, pleasure, and beauty, the aesthetic remains at its root a propo...

...Rex Butler 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Rex Butler ‘‘Bright Shadows Art, Aboriginality, and Aura We should never forget that, from the begin- ning, Aboriginal works of art are reproductions. By this we mean...

...Patricia McKee Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Patricia McKee Making Do: The Art of Appreciation in The Ambassadors Ian Watt, in his analysis of the opening paragraph of The Ambassadors, has shown how it represents an inclusive introduction to the novel, both in substance...

...Judith Ruderman D. H. Lawrence: Life into Art . By Sagar Keith . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1985 . Pp. 372 . $30.00 (cloth), $12.95 (paper). Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 192 The South Atlantic Quarterly For both his edification and his...

...Jerzy Kutnik The Shape of Art in the Stories of Donald Barthelme . By Stengel Wayne B. . Baton Rouge and London : Louisiana State University Press , 1985 . Pp. 2 , 227 . $22.50 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Book Reviews 83 space, we may forget what Hartman...

...William E. Cain The Critic Agonistes: Psychology, Myth, and the Art of Fiction . By Weiss Daniel , Edited by Solomon Eric Arkin Stephen . Foreword by Richard Ellmann. Seattle and London : University of Washington Press , 1985 . Pp. xii , 270 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1987...

...Kurt W. Back The Novels of John Le Carré: The Art of Survival . By Monaghan David . Oxford : New York, Basil Blackwell , 1985 . Pp. xv , 192 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 413 The Novels of John Le Carre: The Art of Survival. By David Monaghan...

...Merton M. Sealts, Jr. Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville . By Rogin Michael Paul . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1983 . Pp. xv , 354 . $22.95 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Book Reviews 225 lifts an intriguing curtain on a hitherto...

...Geeta Kapur Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Geeta Kapur When Was Modernism in Indian/Third World Art? . . . [T]he innovations of what is called Modern­ ism have become the new but fixed forms of our present moment. If we have to break out of the non-historical fixity of post...

...Gerardo Mosquera Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Gerardo Mosquera The Marco Polo Syndrome: A Few Problems Surrounding Art and Eurocentrism In 1986, during the Biennial of Havana, you could visit an installation by Cuban artist Flavio Garciandia titled the Marco Polo Syndrome...

...Néstor García Canclini Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Nestor Garcia Canclini Memory and Innovation in the Theory of Art Wha, can Latin American aesthetics and art contribute to the contemporary theory of the visual arts? Various difficulties arise in responding...