Pub Date : 2015-12-31DOI: 10.4000/PERSPECTIVE.6174
Janet Catherine Berlo
Les arts indigenes aux Etats-Unis ont longtemps entretenu une relation delicate avec les canons de l’histoire de l’art americain. Ce bref article retrace les temps forts de cette relation, en revenant sur plusieurs expositions et installations majeures d’art amerindien au sein des musees d’art americains (et, parfois, dans d’autres espaces d’exposition) au cours du siecle passe. Je m’exprime a ce sujet en tant qu’historienne de l’art, puisque depuis trente ans, mes recherches ont essentiellem...
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Pub Date : 2015-12-31DOI: 10.4000/PERSPECTIVE.6159
Richard J. Powell
La litterature sur les artistes noirs, sur leur art, sur l’esthetique de la discrimination raciale et de la distinction culturelle ainsi que sur la representation des Noirs a connu une nette expansion, faisant d’un phenomene plutot marginal au debut du xxe siecle une realite relativement commune au xxie siecle. Les histoires de l’art afro-americain ont pu prendre la forme d’articles, de traites, de theses et de monographies, mais aussi de formats moins academiques comme les catalogues d’exposition, les publications des galeries et des musees, les revues d’art, les recensions critiques et les anthologies litteraires. Parmi les sujets et les orientations theoriques adoptes au cours de ces dix dernieres annees, cinq themes et champs conceptuels ont donne lieu a de nombreux travaux inedits. Ces cinq sujets sont : les deux mouvements culturels noirs connus sous le nom de « Harlem Renaissance » et de « Black Arts Movement » ; les recits historiques qui, influences par le feminisme, ont mis en avant la realite des conditions selon le genre, la race, la sexualite et la classe sociale ; le concept d’une esthetique « post-Black » ; le phenomene des artistes « outsiders », marginalises socialement, car n’ayant pas recu de formation academique ; et enfin les revisions historiques de l’histoire officielle de l’art. Les chercheurs de ce debut de xxie siecle ont pu constater le developpement d’echanges productifs ainsi qu’un nouvel engagement intellectuel au sein de leur discipline, dans laquelle s’investissent non seulement des chercheurs appartenant au domaine de l’art et de la culture afro-americains, mais aussi des historiens et des theoriciens issus de l’ensemble du spectre geopolitique, ideologique, racial et culturel.
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Pub Date : 2015-12-31DOI: 10.4000/perspective.6177
Elvan Zabunyan
Le 11 mai 2015, invitee d’honneur de la ceremonie pour l’abolition de l’esclavage a Nantes, Angela Davis donne une conference ou elle souligne « l’incessante repetition de l’histoire » et explicite les methodes qui, depuis le XIIIe amendement de la Constitution americaine annoncant en 1865 la fin legale de l’esclavage, ont permis de perpetrer la discrimination raciale et la violence dans le contexte du systeme carceral industrialise aux Etats-Unis. Apres cinq decennies de militantisme, la phi...
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Pub Date : 2015-12-05DOI: 10.4000/PERSPECTIVE.5969
Caroline A. Jones, Steven G. Nelson
Although globalization feels recent, questions directed at nationalism from a more worldly perspective were already being posed during the Great War. In 1916, for example, US legal scholar Randolph Bourne wrote an essay entitled “Trans-National America,” in which he advocated for a cosmopolitan mixture of cultures rather than the “melting pot” that had long been promoted in the United States (Bourne, 1916). Across the Atlantic (and within the enemy country), philosopher Franz Rosenzweig was r...
{"title":"Global turns in US art history","authors":"Caroline A. Jones, Steven G. Nelson","doi":"10.4000/PERSPECTIVE.5969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/PERSPECTIVE.5969","url":null,"abstract":"Although globalization feels recent, questions directed at nationalism from a more worldly perspective were already being posed during the Great War. In 1916, for example, US legal scholar Randolph Bourne wrote an essay entitled “Trans-National America,” in which he advocated for a cosmopolitan mixture of cultures rather than the “melting pot” that had long been promoted in the United States (Bourne, 1916). Across the Atlantic (and within the enemy country), philosopher Franz Rosenzweig was r...","PeriodicalId":231148,"journal":{"name":"Perspective Magazine","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128714917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-12-05DOI: 10.4000/PERSPECTIVE.5958
Elizabeth C. Mansfield
The history of institutes for advanced research in the visual arts in the United States is a recent one, dependent as much on the happy accidents of Fortune as of fortune. Great fortunes made in banking and the oil business, especially, but also fortunes generated by a successful chain of discount stores and a sewing machine empire provided the funds needed to found all of the major art history research centers in the United States: the Getty Research Institute, the Center for Advanced Study ...
{"title":"From the culture wars to a civil war: institutes of art-historical research in the United States","authors":"Elizabeth C. Mansfield","doi":"10.4000/PERSPECTIVE.5958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/PERSPECTIVE.5958","url":null,"abstract":"The history of institutes for advanced research in the visual arts in the United States is a recent one, dependent as much on the happy accidents of Fortune as of fortune. Great fortunes made in banking and the oil business, especially, but also fortunes generated by a successful chain of discount stores and a sewing machine empire provided the funds needed to found all of the major art history research centers in the United States: the Getty Research Institute, the Center for Advanced Study ...","PeriodicalId":231148,"journal":{"name":"Perspective Magazine","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127324317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-12-05DOI: 10.4000/PERSPECTIVE.5993
Veerle Thielemans
Art history, as practiced in the United States, is a highly self-reflective discipline that privileges the tracing of genealogies, methodical clarification, and critical positioning. Within the scholarly community there is a sense of obligation to share in debate on topics considered relevant to the present and to make one’s position explicit. One of the most persistent debates over the past few decades has been the visual nature of spectatorship. Studies on the changing historical conditions...
{"title":"Beyond visuality: review on materiality and affect","authors":"Veerle Thielemans","doi":"10.4000/PERSPECTIVE.5993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/PERSPECTIVE.5993","url":null,"abstract":"Art history, as practiced in the United States, is a highly self-reflective discipline that privileges the tracing of genealogies, methodical clarification, and critical positioning. Within the scholarly community there is a sense of obligation to share in debate on topics considered relevant to the present and to make one’s position explicit. One of the most persistent debates over the past few decades has been the visual nature of spectatorship. Studies on the changing historical conditions...","PeriodicalId":231148,"journal":{"name":"Perspective Magazine","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122638380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-12-05DOI: 10.4000/perspective.6033
Amelia Jones
Discussions about sexuality and gender have resurfaced with a vengeance in US culture with the recent debates about same-sex marriage and the rise in visibility of transgender subjects and themes in popular culture. Regarding the latter, most notable are the Amazon television show Transparent, featuring an older man who is transitioning and dealing with his children’s bafflement, and the E! television show I Am Cait as well as the accompanying public interviews (in April, 2015 with Diane Sawy...
{"title":"Sex and the (art history) academy","authors":"Amelia Jones","doi":"10.4000/perspective.6033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/perspective.6033","url":null,"abstract":"Discussions about sexuality and gender have resurfaced with a vengeance in US culture with the recent debates about same-sex marriage and the rise in visibility of transgender subjects and themes in popular culture. Regarding the latter, most notable are the Amazon television show Transparent, featuring an older man who is transitioning and dealing with his children’s bafflement, and the E! television show I Am Cait as well as the accompanying public interviews (in April, 2015 with Diane Sawy...","PeriodicalId":231148,"journal":{"name":"Perspective Magazine","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134530985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-12-05DOI: 10.4000/perspective.6073
J. Mancini, Dana Leibsohn
Writing at the turn of the current century, the historian David Armitage proclaimed, “We are all Atlanticists now.” His claim evinces bravado, but carries a good deal of truth. When at its best, Atlantic Studies sought (and still seeks) to open methodological and historical perspectives onto the networks – be they physical, imagined, or some combination thereof – that connected people and goods of the Americas and Africa with those of Western Europe. There has been a pronounced hemispheric sl...
{"title":"American art’s Western horizons","authors":"J. Mancini, Dana Leibsohn","doi":"10.4000/perspective.6073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/perspective.6073","url":null,"abstract":"Writing at the turn of the current century, the historian David Armitage proclaimed, “We are all Atlanticists now.” His claim evinces bravado, but carries a good deal of truth. When at its best, Atlantic Studies sought (and still seeks) to open methodological and historical perspectives onto the networks – be they physical, imagined, or some combination thereof – that connected people and goods of the Americas and Africa with those of Western Europe. There has been a pronounced hemispheric sl...","PeriodicalId":231148,"journal":{"name":"Perspective Magazine","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130587541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-12-05DOI: 10.4000/PERSPECTIVE.6043
R. Powell
One hundred years ago, author, editor and civil right activist Freeman Henry Morris Murray published Emancipation and the Freed in American Sculpture (1916), a pioneering study of the depictions of peoples of African descent in art. Although Murray’s primary focus was on figural works produced by some of the leading (i.e. white) American and European sculptors in the latter half of the nineteenth century, his sculptural survey also included works by several important African American artists ...
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Pub Date : 2015-12-05DOI: 10.4000/PERSPECTIVE.6004
J. Berlo
The indigenous arts of the United States have long stood in a vexed relationship with the canons of American art history. This brief essay covers only the highlights of this relationship, by considering some major exhibits and installations of Native art in American art museums (and, occasionally, in other exhibition spaces) during the past century. I make these comments as an art historian who has for more than three decades focused on Native American art, with some contributions to others a...
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