Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
LONDON.- The manipulation of photographic imagery is as old as photography itself, but the modernist conception of photomontage was a radical extension of techniques and creative attitudes that first emerged in Cubist, Futurist and Dadaist collage, in which cut-out photographs and fragments of newsprint from illustrated journals were pasted into drawings and paintings.
Crap Detector! (Free subscription) | 01/23/2008
It is that time again! Chapter 13 Keywords. I included page numbers for you all. See, I am weak. Analytical cubism, page 249 Collage, page 249 Synthetic cubism, page 249 Futurism, page 250, Manifesto, page 250 Parole in libertá (words...
A Blog Called Nowhere (Free subscription) | 08/22/2007
Dame Laura Knight. Who knew? Probably everyone except me. I blame The Rhode Island School of Design for my deficient, male-centric, lame-ass art education and the fact I don't hardly know any 20th century woman artists, however I go to sleep a little richer having learned the name Dame laura Knight this afternoon. Two people called me today to read this essay in the London Review of Books by Terry...
Light reading (Free subscription) | 08/20/2007
Terry Castle has a very funny piece at the LRB . Hmmm, I wonder whether she is writing a full-length memoir, that would be excellent! The part about rubber stamps is especially good (Castle is traveling with her girlfriend and her mother in Santa Fe): I get my first inkling that my daughterly snobisme (it sounds even worse in French) is about to be compromised when my mother spots the rubber-stamp...
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 07/07/2007
Lotte Jacobi... Klaus and Erika Mann (c. 1928–1932, gelatin silver print, Dietmar Siegert Collection). From the exhibition Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. "...The story of photography's phenomenal success in Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Austria during a time of tremendous social and political upheaval is presented in the...
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 05/28/2007
Claude Cahun... L'Herbe au pauvre homme (The Poor Man's Grass, ca. 1930s, vintage gelatin silver print with gouache). From Ubu Gallery at Art | 38 | Basel . Works by Hans Bellmer, Bob Brown, Claude Cahun, Salvador Dali, Otto Dix, Cesar Domela, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Auguste Herbin, Hannah Höch, Heinrich Hoerle, André Masson, László Moholy-Nagy, Richard Oelze, Francis Picabia, Albert Renger-Patzsch,...
