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Article Review: Trickster Plays: James Luna Performs Postindian Survivance at the 51st Venice Biennale

Eleanor LeBeau starts the article with a quote depicting the need for growth. The quote, from Leslie Mormon Silko, emphasizes that growth is primary to survival. It sets the stage for the main agenda of the article, focusing on the struggle for the Native Americans to establish a postindian culture. The author uses pictures depicting the journey traveled by one of the postindian performer. The article focuses on James Luna’s works in trying to disintegrate the commonly held notion of the Native Americans. It also analyzes the literary work of Gerald Vizenor, a Native American Theorist and writer. The author aims ...

Erina Duganne, Photography After the Fact, pgs. 57 70, Beautiful Suffering, Williams College Mus. of Art/U. of Chicago Press, 2007

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In this essay, the author discusses the work of Luc Delahaye in the context of his portrayal of war zones, especially those in Iraq, Afghanistan and the occasional G8 Summit in Genoa, for example. Duganne goes into considerable detail when talking about Delahaye’s work which portrays stark and very disturbing images of war and conflict violence especially when this is compared to natural still life photography. The article deals with Delahaye’s capacity to capture images which make ...

Article Summary

In his article, ‘The Role of Woman in the Iconography of Art Nouveau’, which was published in the Art Journal in the winter of 1971-1972, Jan Thompson, examines how women were depicted in different forms of art during the late years of the 19th and early years of the 20th century. Thompson begins by asserting that Art Nouveau, as the art of that period is best known, was primarily concerned with depicting women and not men. These women however were mainly depicted, not as they really were, but ‘helpless’, ‘fragile’ and ‘desirable’ (Thompson, 158-159). The author suggests that as ...