In 1929, American fashion model and photographer Lee Miller created one of the most disturbing images in the history of Surrealism: Still Life -- Amputated Breast on a Plate. Even today, her deadpan diptych displaying a woman's surgically removed breast on a dinner plate has shock value. "I actually can't think of another image which can compete with the graphic and unsettling element of this piece, not even in contemporary art," said Patricia Allmer, research fellow in art history at the Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design at Manchester Metropolitan University and curator of the exhibition Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealists -- recently on view at Manchester Art Gallery. Miller's piece was part of the exhibit. "Miller went to a mastectomy and...
Humanity must prevent repeats of one of history's most diabolical chapters -- the Holocaust -- and nefarious truth-twisting about its architect. Thus, it's beyond appalling that the Bavarian government would block publication of an annotated, scholarly edition of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf. Bavaria long has used the 70-year German copyright, which it has held since Hitler's downfall, to suppress "Mein Kampf" in Germany. Claiming it's acting out of respect for Holocaust victims, Bavaria now says it won't allow Munich's Institute of Contemporary History to release -- after the copyright expires in 2015 -- what would be Germany's first annotated edition of the screed.
CHICO, Calif., June 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Board of Directors: In response to Yale University's abrupt and thus far poorly explained termination of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA), Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), representing a worldwide grassroots community of academics from across many disciplines, notes Yale University's announcement that it is establishing the Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism (YPSA) and wishes it success. Nevertheless, SPME remains gravely concerned about the handling of the YIISA and registers significant concerns about the new organization. During its brief five-year existence, YIISA had gotten off to a spectacula...
n this once-divided city where Ronald Reagan famously challenged the Soviet Union to "tear down this wall," a proposal to rename a public square or street in his honor has sparked heated debate over the U.S. president's role in Germany's recent past. Ahead of the Feb. 6 centennial of Reagan's birth, German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg surprised many here when he called on Berlin to pay tribute to the former U.S. president by renaming a square "Ronald-Reagan-Platz.
... and researcher Tim Geiger from the Institute of Contemporary History in Germany says the Reagan...
Visually arresting and often humorous film and video art from the 1970s to the present is screened in conjunction with the Getty Research Institute's research theme "Duration" and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions' "Marking Time" exhibition. Leo Braudy, author of "Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History" and Bing Professor of English, University of Southern California, discusses heroes and fame in relation to the "David" exhibition. Sign up at the Museum information desk beginning at 4:30 p.m. the day of the talks. About the Getty: The J. Paul Getty Trust is an international cultural and philanthropic institution devoted to the visual arts that includes the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Getty Foundation. The Getty Trust a...
The diverse series of exhibitions will include MOCA's California Culture, 1969-1980: Pluralism in the Postmodern Era, an exhibition of 120 artists who contributed to the enormous variety of artistic practices that emerged on the West Coast during this decade; LACMA's California Design, 1930-1965: "Living in a Modem Way," featuring over 300 works ranging from household items to "lifestyle" objects like" automobiles and surfboards; and OCMA's Circa 1969: California Art on the Cusp, examining the interconnectedness of Northern and Southern California conceptual artists and the early institutions that supported them. Important figures from Domingo Ulloa, the "Father oi Chicano Art," have yet to receive critical attention. The Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA will stage two related ex...
... Museum of Art (LACMA), The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) the Hammer Museum, the Chi...Art History, to be held at LACMA. A complete list of the 15 ne... Getty Foundation and the Getty Research Institute partnered to preserve this documentary record. The...
David Herzberg, a University at Buffalo history professor and expert on prescription drug use in the U.S., will offer a free lecture at 4 p.m. when the UB Humanities Institute kicks off its "Scholars at Hallwalls" lecture series. Herzberg's talk, "The Drug War in the Medicine Cabinet: Prescription Drug Addiction in the Age of Miracle Pills," will take place in Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, 341 Delaware Ave. The lecture will address how and why a vast and growing market for prescription drugs -- including uppers, downers and narcotics -- has come to characterize America's war on drugs. Alumni of all the elementary schools run by the Buffalo Catholic Diocese are expected to converge from 6 to 9 tonight on the Hearthstone Manor, 333 Dick Road, Depew, for their secon...
According to the consensus established by the secondary literature, Foucault's early and middle work culminates in a kind of totalizing theoretical cage (of which "discipline" is the highest manifestation) that in turn constituted a kind of crisis or dead-end for Foucault's thinking by the mid1 970s __ Foucault's late work performs a 1 80-degree turn away from the (too- totalizing and demoralizing) "power" discourse of the early and mid1 970s and culminated in a renewed appreciation of the Enlightenment subject, the ethical arts of the self, and resistance to normalized totalization through individual action.3 What is especially notable about this thesis is that it cleaves Foucault's corpus in two, definitively separating the parts as having opposing interests and formulations. In work...
...In the later Foucault, he traces the history of the work that a self is morally obligated to pe... that we must respond to the contemporary situation "with an investigation which is that of ... training that disciplinary relations institute. This insight into the activity of the individual ...
Institutions that today received research and planning grants for exhibitions beginning in fall 2011 include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), the Hammer Museum, the Chicano Studies Research Center at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), the California African American Museum (CAAM), The Orange County Museum tof Art (OCMA), Pomona College Museum of Art (PCMA), the University Art Museum at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA), Scripps College's Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Otis College of Art and Design, the Long Beach Museum of Art, but the Los Angeles Filmforum. Each in...
...Art History, to be held at LACMA. A complete list of the 15 ne... Getty Foundation and the Getty Research Institute partnered to preserve this documentary record. The...
This qualitative study, based on a series of 30 in-depth interviews and 109 economic surveys conducted with active heroin users residing in and around Detroit, Michigan, describes reported patterns of heroin use and income generation activities. In spite of lack of access to regular, legal employment, we found that many participants displayed a dedication to regular daily routine and a sense of risk management or control. These findings are discussed relative to past research on heroin addiction as well as recent research on the changing nature of employment. We argue that this sample fits somewhere in between the controlled or working addict, and the "junkie" or "righteous dope fiend" of urban lore. We draw a connection between these stable patterns of addiction and income generation a...
... was obtained from the US National Institute on Drug Abuse prior to the study. (The interview i...* Social history, especially drug use history, but also personal an...Within the contemporary city, as Scott (2008, pp. 553-554) has maintained,...
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