The Fae Richards Photo Archive
Author: Zoe Leonard
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780963109583
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Artwork by Zoe Leonard. Contributions by Cheryl Dunye.
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The (re)mediation of Media in the Fae Richards Photo Archive
Author: Rebecca Schlossberg
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Fae Richards Photo Archive (1993-1996) by Zoe Leonard was originally made as "source material" for Cheryl Dunye's 1996 film The Watermelon Woman, but has since been exhibited as a standalone artwork in over 14 exhibitions. The film chronicles the making of a documentary on the fictional character Fae Richards, an African-American, lesbian performer who played "mammy" or maid roles in popular films in the 1930s, and starred in black-cast race films in the 1940s. Leonard's photographs "authenticate" Fae Richards, lending credence and facticity to the character created by Dunye by illustrating her personal and professional life through photographs. In this thesis, I argue that the Archive is an important early example of archive as art that draws attention to the failings of the institutional archive of record to store and transmit information about people. I examine the remediation, or "representation of one medium in another" of the Archive across the frameworks of film and exhibition, embedded as each medium is in a set of "material social practices." By first establishing a historically plausible visual record, then revealing the Archive as a fiction, Leonard critiques the archive as an authentic and necessary receptacle of knowledge, and analog photography as its privileged medium. Thus, the Archive does not try to retroactively fill in the gaps of a partial history, but instead reveals how history itself is constructed through specific uses of media.
Archive Fever
Author: Okwui Enwezor
Publisher: Steidl
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Organized and written by renowned scholar and ICP Adjunct Curator Okwui Enwezor, Archive Fever presents works by leading contemporary artists who use archival documents to rethink the meaning of identity, history, memory, and loss. Over the past thirty years, successive generations have taken wide-ranging approaches to the photographic and filmic archive. The works presented here take many forms, including physical archives arranged by peculiar cataloguing methods, imagined biographies of fictitious persons, collections of found and anonymous photographs, film versions of photographic albums, and photomontages composed of historical photographs. These images have a wide-ranging subject matter yet are linked by the artists shared meditation on photography and film as the quintessential media of the archive. Artists in the exhibition include Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Zoe Leonard, Ilán Lieberman, Walid Raad, Thomas Ruff, Anri Sala, Fazal Sheikh, Eyal Sivan, Lorna Simpson, and Vivan Sundaram, among others.
If You Can't be Free, be a Mystery
Author: Farah Jasmine Griffin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0684868083
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The threads of Billie Holiday's mystique are unraveled in this study of a woman who needed to create art at any cost. Griffin liberates Holiday from stereotypes of black women and pries her away from the male tradition of jazz criticism while presenting Holiday's independent spirit. of photos.
Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner
Author: Christine Macel
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0300214820
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Published on the occasion of an exhibition celebrating the Wagners' promised gift of more than 850 works of art to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Musaee national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, November 20, 2015-March 6, 2016, and at the Centre Pompidou, June 16, 2016-January 2017.
An Archive of Feelings
Author: Ann Cvetkovich
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: 2003-03-14
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780822330882
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this bold new work of cultural criticism, Ann Cvetkovich develops a queer approach to trauma. She argues for the importance of recognizing—and archiving—accounts of trauma that belong as much to the ordinary and everyday as to the domain of catastrophe. An Archive of Feelings contends that the field of trauma studies, limited by too strict a division between the public and the private, has overlooked the experiences of women and queers. Rejecting the pathologizing understandings of trauma that permeate medical and clinical discourses on the subject, Cvetkovich develops instead a sex-positive approach missing even from most feminist work on trauma. She challenges the field to engage more fully with sexual trauma and the wide range of feelings in its vicinity, including those associated with butch-femme sex and aids activism and caretaking. An Archive of Feelings brings together oral histories from lesbian activists involved in act up/New York; readings of literature by Dorothy Allison, Leslie Feinberg, Cherríe Moraga, and Shani Mootoo; videos by Jean Carlomusto and Pratibha Parmar; and performances by Lisa Kron, Carmelita Tropicana, and the bands Le Tigre and Tribe 8. Cvetkovich reveals how activism, performance, and literature give rise to public cultures that work through trauma and transform the conditions producing it. By looking closely at connections between sexuality, trauma, and the creation of lesbian public cultures, Cvetkovich makes those experiences that have been pushed to the peripheries of trauma culture the defining principles of a new construction of sexual trauma—one in which trauma catalyzes the creation of cultural archives and political communities.
With Other Eyes
Author: Lisa Bloom
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780816632220
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With Other Eyes demonstrates how feminist, postcolonial, and antiracist concerns can successfully be incorporated into the study of art.
Photography and Cinema
Author: David Campany
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2008-11-15
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781861893512
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This account of photography and cinema shows how the two media are not separate but in fact have influenced each other since their inception. David Campany explores photographers on screen, photographic and filmic stillness, photographs in film, the influence of photography on cinema, and the photographer as a filmmaker"--OCLC
Outliers and American Vanguard Art
Author: Lynne Cooke
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780226522272
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Some 250 works explore three distinct periods in American history when mainstream and outlier artists intersected, ushering in new paradigms based on inclusion, integration, and assimilation. The exhibition aligns work by such diverse artists as Charles Sheeler, Christina Ramberg, and Matt Mullican with both historic folk art and works by self-taught artists ranging from Horace Pippin to Janet Sobel and Joseph Yoakum. It also examines a recent influx of radically expressive work made on the margins that redefined the boundaries of the mainstream art world, while challenging the very categories of "outsider" and "self-taught." Historicizing the shifting identity and role of this distinctly American version of modernism's "other," the exhibition probes assumptions about creativity, artistic practice, and the role of the artist in contemporary culture. The exhibition is curated by Lynne Cooke, senior curator, special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art.--Provided by publisher.
The Case for Marriage
Author: Linda Waite
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2002-03-05
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0767910869
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A groundbreaking look at marriage, one of the most basic and universal of all human institutions, which reveals the emotional, physical, economic, and sexual benefits that marriage brings to individuals and society as a whole. The Case for Marriage is a critically important intervention in the national debate about the future of family. Based on the authoritative research of family sociologist Linda J. Waite, journalist Maggie Gallagher, and a number of other scholars, this book’s findings dramatically contradict the anti-marriage myths that have become the common sense of most Americans. Today a broad consensus holds that marriage is a bad deal for women, that divorce is better for children when parents are unhappy, and that marriage is essentially a private choice, not a public institution. Waite and Gallagher flatly contradict these assumptions, arguing instead that by a broad range of indices, marriage is actually better for you than being single or divorced– physically, materially, and spiritually. They contend that married people live longer, have better health, earn more money, accumulate more wealth, feel more fulfillment in their lives, enjoy more satisfying sexual relationships, and have happier and more successful children than those who remain single, cohabit, or get divorced. The Case for Marriage combines clearheaded analysis, penetrating cultural criticism, and practical advice for strengthening the institution of marriage, and provides clear, essential guidelines for reestablishing marriage as the foundation for a healthy and happy society. “A compelling defense of a sacred union. The Case for Marriage is well written and well argued, empirically rigorous and learned, practical and commonsensical.” -- William J. Bennett, author of The Book of Virtues “Makes the absolutely critical point that marriage has been misrepresented and misunderstood.” -- The Wall Street Journal www.broadwaybooks.com
