World ArtPub Date : 2023-04-02DOI: 10.1080/21500894.2023.2170457
Denilson Baniwa, Renato Rodrigues da Silva, T. Bogéa
{"title":"Reflections of a Baniwa artist","authors":"Denilson Baniwa, Renato Rodrigues da Silva, T. Bogéa","doi":"10.1080/21500894.2023.2170457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2023.2170457","url":null,"abstract":"In this interview, Denilson Baniwa (Barcelos, Amazon state, 1984) analyses his origin as an activist in the indigenous movement of the Amazon region, working as a graphic designer and social communicator. After moving to Manaus and, later on, to Niterói, Rio de Janeiro state, he took on a more active role as a visual artist and curator. During that time, he grew increasingly cognizant of the impact of the artistic symbols produced by Brazilian academicism in relation to his own history as an indigenous person. Baniwa then analyses the relationship between his art and the environmental crisis, believing that the interdisciplinary nature of his practice is an optimal medium to intervene in reality through the changing of consciousness of onlookers.","PeriodicalId":412489,"journal":{"name":"World Art","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122003809","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}
World ArtPub Date : 2023-03-27DOI: 10.1080/21500894.2023.2185671
Victor Moriyama
{"title":"Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon: a photographic essay","authors":"Victor Moriyama","doi":"10.1080/21500894.2023.2185671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2023.2185671","url":null,"abstract":"This photographic essay shows the inner workings of the complex chain of people and practices that destroy the Amazon forest, mainly centered on cattle raising. The images take us, step by step, to the places and practices that feed the industry’s cycle of destruction.","PeriodicalId":412489,"journal":{"name":"World Art","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117270545","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}
World ArtPub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.1080/21500894.2023.2183520
Christine Howard Sandoval, Jessica L. Horton
{"title":"‘Genocide is climate change’: a conversation about colonized California and Indigenous futurism","authors":"Christine Howard Sandoval, Jessica L. Horton","doi":"10.1080/21500894.2023.2183520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2023.2183520","url":null,"abstract":"This written conversation unpacks a phrase, ‘genocide is climate change,’ which co-author Christine Howard Sandoval wrote and featured in her video artwork, Niniwas- to belong here (2022). The authors discuss scholarship linking the genocide of Indigenous peoples in the Americas to climate change and contextualize the assertion within an expanded archive of the Spanish missions in California. They address Howard Sandoval’s multimedia work in dialogue with Indigenous women’s basket weaving and land care practices, including the cultural use of fire, in order to consider how Indigenous arts can illuminate the intertwined apocalypses of colonization and climate change.","PeriodicalId":412489,"journal":{"name":"World Art","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121135151","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}
World ArtPub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.1080/21500894.2023.2183521
A. Dawson
{"title":"The work of art in the age of extractivism","authors":"A. Dawson","doi":"10.1080/21500894.2023.2183521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2023.2183521","url":null,"abstract":"How do we win the fight against fossil capitalism? What role do cultural institutions such as museums have in this struggle? Is it possible to liberate powerful cultural institutions from their colonial histories and reactionary boards of trustees? This essay analyzes the recent work of two collectives that have fought to transform cultural institutions. The Natural History Museum has sought to infiltrate and commandeer museums of natural history, opening them to radical currents in the natural sciences and to Indigenous water protectors. Strike MoMA, for its part, engaged in a mapping and denunciation of the role of the art museum in a nexus of extractivism. The two collectives are often counterposed, but this essay argues that they should be seen as complementary initiatives to win space for radical cultural production in an age of extractivism.","PeriodicalId":412489,"journal":{"name":"World Art","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130514490","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}
World ArtPub Date : 2023-02-21DOI: 10.1080/21500894.2023.2175370
Yan-ning Yeung
{"title":"Care and attunement in artistic collaboration: two cases in Hong Kong","authors":"Yan-ning Yeung","doi":"10.1080/21500894.2023.2175370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2023.2175370","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the collaborative activities in two projects: Hong Kong-based artist Suifong Yim’s Assembly of Disquiet (2019) and Japan-based artist Shitamichi Motoyuki’s ongoing project 14 Years Old and the World and Borders (2013–). They inform and complicate deliberations on whether artistic collaboration should be evaluated on aesthetic or ethical grounds, or both. These projects demonstrate that the quality and process of collaboration and how the artists are affected are as important as their impact on the collaborators. The personal experiences of artists who initiate and frame the projects also demonstrate the importance of the affective in the collaboration. I juxtapose Nel Noddings’s (2003) notion of care and Lisbeth Lipari’s (2014) notion of attunement to demonstrate how the projects are experimental, affective, and discursive sites for sharing the evolving ethical ideals of the artists. In the projects, it is less the artist’s autonomy and authority, but more the quality of caring attention that they bring out of themselves and their collaborators which contributes to the intrinsic value of the collaboration.","PeriodicalId":412489,"journal":{"name":"World Art","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116223415","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}
World ArtPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21500894.2022.2150888
C. Ricci
{"title":"Passage to the Orient (1993): Re-assessing the Role of the ‘Orient’ as ‘Avant-garde’ during the Rise of Globalisation","authors":"C. Ricci","doi":"10.1080/21500894.2022.2150888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2022.2150888","url":null,"abstract":"Of the several exhibitions that composed the 1993 Venice Biennale, Passage to the Orient has received the most commentary. Its fame is doubtless linked to its display of works by fourteen Chinese painters, exhibited for the first time in Venice. However, the exhibition was not devoted solely to Chinese art. It was rather intended as the manifesto for a new, international approach by the Biennale, significantly announcing its commitment to East–West dialogue, with East intended as both geographical and symbolic. From the curator’s perspective, the concept of the Orient evoked the unknown and the new; in Said’s terms it was ‘Orientalist’. Moreover, the symbolic figure of Marco Polo, who inspired the exhibition’s title, recalled the idea of ‘trespassing’, of moving beyond personal, geographic, political, and historical boundaries. Through an investigation around the use of the concept of ‘Marco Polo Syndrome’, the layered meaning of the term avant-garde in Bonito Oliva’s jargon and his broader scope in rejuvenating the Biennale’s international vocation, this essay aims to redefine how the term Orient was used during the rise of globalisation at the beginning of the 1990s. Finally, such analysis proves helpful in framing continuity between the concepts of historical avant-garde and contemporaneity during the transitional period of the 1990s.","PeriodicalId":412489,"journal":{"name":"World Art","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115280478","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}
World ArtPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21500894.2022.2160007
S. Willcock
{"title":"Developing Orientalism: Negative/Positive Ecologies ‘in the Field’ of the British Empire, c.1850–1888","authors":"S. Willcock","doi":"10.1080/21500894.2022.2160007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2022.2160007","url":null,"abstract":"Histories of Orientalist photography focus predominately on the form and content of positive prints. This article argues that more attention should be paid to the distinctive visual qualities and associated meanings of photographic negatives within the colonial visual encounter. Paper and glass-plate negatives were the objects of frequent spectatorship and discussion for travelling British photographers working ‘in the field’ in the early years of the medium. While scholarship on such photography has traditionally emphasized the camera’s capacity to ‘fix’ the racialized Other as a static image available for the imperial gaze, the actual practice of making photographs ‘in the field’ was defined by fluid chemical processes and the fragile materiality of sensitized plates. I argue that such procedures yielded negative images that were defined not so much by fixity as mutability. The distinctive blemishes and marks that appeared on such negatives were read by photographers as indexes of volatile chemical and climatic agencies that decentered photographic authorship. Attending to photographers’ writings on such visual traits thus reveals a counter-discourse to the standard language of stasis and instantaneity that has come to dominate accounts of photography.","PeriodicalId":412489,"journal":{"name":"World Art","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126767842","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}
World ArtPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21500894.2022.2150887
Maria Taroutina
{"title":"Negotiating between East and West: The Case of Russian Orientalism","authors":"Maria Taroutina","doi":"10.1080/21500894.2022.2150887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2022.2150887","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines Russian Orientalist visual and material culture and its entanglement with, first, imperialist ambitions and racial ideologies and, second, institutional critique and anticolonial resistance. Given the country’s perpetually conflicted self-identification as neither fully European nor Asian, the demarcations between the ‘self’ and the ‘other,’ first theorized by Edward Said, remained ambiguous and elusive in the Russian context, resulting in an Orientalist mode that was prone to hybridity, syncretism, and even self-Orientalization. Through close readings of several representative artworks by Vasilii Vereshchagin, Ilia Repin, and Mikhail Vrubel, among others, the article argues that the instability and rupture inherent in Russian Orientalism open up new modes of studying art in the age of empire that hold important implications for current calls to decolonize art history. Finally, it provides a brief overview of the historiography on Russian Orientalist art and concludes with a discussion of the latter’s ongoing relevance to contemporary Russian culture and politics.","PeriodicalId":412489,"journal":{"name":"World Art","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124810101","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}
World ArtPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21500894.2022.2150886
C. Hopkins
{"title":"‘Eternal convivencia’: From Madrid’s Painters of Africa to the School of Tetouan","authors":"C. Hopkins","doi":"10.1080/21500894.2022.2150886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2022.2150886","url":null,"abstract":"The annual Pintores de África exhibitions, organised by Franco’s colonial administration in mid-twentieth-century Madrid, offered audiences a colourful feast of artistic representations of Spain’s colonial territories in Africa, and of Spain’s architectural legacy of al-Andalus. Foregrounding the ideological issues underpinning these exhibitions, this article evaluates the selection of artworks, the programme of events, exhibition catalogues, and reviews. Many writers discussed the artworks with reference to al-Andalus, echoing colonial propaganda. After Moroccan independence (1956), the exhibitions partly lost their purpose, but the memory of al-Andalus was repurposed by Moroccan cultural brokers for the fashioning of their post-colonial artistic identity. The last part of this article reveals the relations between the Painters of Africa exhibitions and the birth of the School of Tetouan. The article not only sheds light on the art, curation, and art writing that took place in the interstices between Spain and Morocco at the end of colonialism, but also illuminates the paradoxical processes underpinning the formation of artistic identity in post-independence northern Morocco. The case study is relevant to global perspectives in History of Art and refigures understandings of East–West relations with which we have become so familiar since Said’s Orientalism of 1978.","PeriodicalId":412489,"journal":{"name":"World Art","volume":"19 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130920798","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}
World ArtPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21500894.2022.2151505
Emily Christensen, Erica Payet
{"title":"Challenging Orientalism: New Perspectives on Perception and Reception, an Introduction","authors":"Emily Christensen, Erica Payet","doi":"10.1080/21500894.2022.2151505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2022.2151505","url":null,"abstract":"Orientalist art occupies a complicated and often contradictory position in the twenty-first century. Having observed that recent exhibitions suggest significant differences between how this art is theorised and how it is presented to and received by the public, it is timely to interrogate anew the interpretation of Orientalist art, and to examine and bring together new academic work currently being undertaken on the topic. This special issue provides a platform for authors to survey and take up the field in multiple new directions. This introduction briefly presents the genesis of the ‘Challenging Orientalism' project and comments on the six select studies of the issue. They all contribute to expanding the traditional borders of this field with a variety of materials, geographies and contexts, and offer novel studies of Orientalist art from the nineteenth century to the modern day, notably providing insights into its contemporary display and reception.","PeriodicalId":412489,"journal":{"name":"World Art","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131600356","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}