3 May 2007 | Journals, Photography
The most recent issue of Arena Journal (no. 27), “a place for theoretically and ethically concerned discussion about the prospects for co-operation within contemporary life,” several authors examine the importance of visual images in contemporary politics. Karen Crinall contributes “Destitute Discourses: The Art of Orchestrating Fear and Fantasy in Photographs of Homeless People,” in which [...]
2 May 2007 | Asia, Conferences
This MediaNews article was published in advance of the James Cahill symposium last weekend: “Fourteen of the world’s greatest experts on Chinese painting, coming from as far away as Australia, Hong Kong and Japan, will descend on Berkeley this weekend … to honor the man who taught them, James Cahill, professor emeritus in the history [...]
The January 2007 issue of French Studies is devoted to “The Nineteenth-Century Art Novel.” In his introduction, guest editor Paul Smith writes that such novels often treated “the social and economic position of the artist, and the nature and gendering of creativity. The topoi of the genius and the raté also recur throughout. Several texts [...]
