Post-Hysterical: Timeline, Comics and a Plurogenic View of Art History

January 24, 2010 4:19 PM

A 55 minute speech, with images, by artist and art historian Mark Staff Brandl. Originally presented at the CAA (College Art Association, art historians organization) annual conference, as well as at the Kunstschule Lichtenstein, in 2010. It concerns description and criticism of the standard conceptions and models of fine art history and the history of comics, while offering a new one model for conceiving of and teaching these histories.

Portrait of my Mom

Posted by Ursula Sokolowska

January 23, 2010 6:17 PM

Alicja Czuchajowska, Woodridge, IL, 2009

Altermodernism, etc.

Posted by Mark Staff Brandl

January 19, 2010 1:44 PM

In my opinion, 'Altermodernism', like Nicolas Bourriaud's other word coinage, 'Relational Aesthetics,' sounds great, but is, when elucidated, too much of a collage of ideas others have been presenting for some time. --- And I see none of it in the art he chooses. The art in the shows he curates is always the same-old-same-old: Consensus Correct 'trendies.' So it comes down to an attempted, forced, reactionary return to Modernism at best and a fashionable neo-PoMo at worst. Neither possibility is promising.

Poetry of the Week: "The Door" and "Voting Weather" by Ed Roberson

Posted by Simone Muench

January 18, 2010 7:13 PM

Ed Roberson is the author of eight books of poetry. His most recent book The New Wing of the Labyrinth was published by Singing Horse Press, 2009. City Eclogue was published spring 2006, Number 23 in the Atelos series. His collection Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In was a winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. His book Atmosphere Condition was a winner of the National Poetry Series and was nominated for the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Award. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, 1970, where while an undergrad research assistant in Limnology, he traveled across Canada through Alaska, Kodiak and Afognak Islands and later Bermuda with research expeditions. He has climbed mountains in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Andes, motorcycled across the U.S. and traveled in West Africa .Roberson currently lives in Chicago, where he has taught at the University of Chicago, Columbia College and Northwestern University.

THE DOOR

It's never at the door
to leave but it's always at the door
the way the wolf is,
not just on the other side, everywhere
you go the wolf is.

Poetry of the Week: "Swearing by Effingham" and "I'm Charlie Tuna" by Jason Koo

Posted by Simone Muench

January 10, 2010 9:31 PM

Jason Koo is the author of Man on Extremely Small Island, winner of the 2008 De Novo Poetry Prize, published by C&R Press. He was born in New York City and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his BA in English from Yale, his MFA from the University of Houston and his PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Missouri-Columbia. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center, he has published in The Yale Review, North American Review and The Missouri Review. He currently lives in New York, where he teaches at NYU and Lehman College and serves as Poetry Editor of Low Rent.

SWEARING BY EFFINGHAM

Effingham, IL, let's just let it all out.
Sometimes you need to call a fucking ham
a fucking ham. As I drive home past
your road signs toward the tranquillizer

Stephen Hicks: Why Art Became Ugly

Posted by guestblogger

January 9, 2010 12:57 PM

"The heyday of postmodernism in art was the 1980s and 90s. Modernism had become stale by the 1970s, and I suggest that postmodernism has reached a similar dead-end, a What next? stage. Postmodern art was a game that played out within a narrow range of assumptions, and we are weary of the same old, same old, with only minor variations. The gross-outs have become mechanical and repetitive, and they no longer gross us out.

So, what next?"

Poetry of the Week: "Redbird," "Charity" and "Dream of the Last Shaker" by Damian Rogers

Posted by Simone Muench

January 4, 2010 6:29 PM

Damian Rogers was born and raised in suburban Detroit. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a graduate degree from the Bennington Writing Seminars in Bennington, Vermont. Her first book Paper Radio was published by ECW Press in 2009. Her poems have appeared in Brick Magazine, The Walrus, Salt Hill, MoonLit, and This Magazine. She lives in Toronto.

REDBIRD

It's the middle of the night.
I've set the house on fire
with those matches I love,
the ones in the kitchen
with the red bird on the box.

Images: Chicago Openings September 19 - December 19, 2009

Posted by Paul Germanos

January 3, 2010 7:10 AM

Wesley Kimler: Open Studio
2046 W. Carroll, Chicago IL
December 19, 2009
artnet.com/artist/21755/wesley-kimler.html
wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Kimler
wesleykimlerstudio.com

Adam Ekberg @ Thomas Robertello
In the between
December 11, 2009 - February 6, 2010
939 W. Randolph, Chicago
"Born in 1975, Adam Ekberg resides in Chicago and graduated the School of the Art Institute's MFA Photography program in 2006."
thomasrobertello.com
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Post-Hysterical: Timeline, Comics and a Plurogenic View of Art History

January 24, 2010 4:19 PM

Portrait of my Mom

January 23, 2010 6:17 PM

Altermodernism, etc.

January 19, 2010 1:44 PM

Poetry of the Week: "The Door" and "Voting Weather" by Ed Roberson

January 18, 2010 7:13 PM

Poetry of the Week: "Swearing by Effingham" and "I'm Charlie Tuna" by Jason Koo

January 10, 2010 9:31 PM

Stephen Hicks: Why Art Became Ugly

January 9, 2010 12:57 PM

Poetry of the Week: "Redbird," "Charity" and "Dream of the Last Shaker" by Damian Rogers

January 4, 2010 6:29 PM

Images: Chicago Openings September 19 - December 19, 2009

January 3, 2010 7:10 AM

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