Art, Politics, and Modernism

This article shows how, in recent works of cultural analysis, the concept of ‘assemblage’ has been been derived from key sources of theory and put to work to provide a structure-like surrogate to express certain prominent values of a modernist sensibility in the discourse of description and analysis. Assemblage is a s…

• ERKAN SAKA

Reviewed Medium: book Authors: Linda Hutcheon Year: 2000 Pages: xx + 143 Publisher: University of Illinois Press Prices: $14.95

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• BAHAR EMGİN ŞAVK

Abstract This article is based on our research, in which we examine the interplay between political protest and street art practices in Turkey with specific reference to the recent ‘Occupy Gezi’ movement and its aftermath. We propose to conceive street art as a participatory political practice with a full range of dif…

• OĞUZHAN TAŞ
• TUĞBA TAŞ

Begum Ozden Firat and Aylin Kuryel: Introduction Gavin Grindon: The Notion of Irony in Cultural Activism A.K. Thompson: The Resonance of Romanticism: Activist Art & the Bourgeois Horizon Marco Deseriis: Lots of Money Because I am Many: The Luther Blissett Project and the Multiple-Use Name Strategy Ronen Eidelman: The…

ÖzSanatın her döneminde sanatçının üretimlerinde ele alınan doğanın sanatla ilişkisi bağlamında geçmişten bugüne farklılıklar gözlenmiştir.1980'lere uzanan süreçte doğa bağlamında üretilen sanatsal pratiklerin galeri mekanının dışına taşınması, çevre sorunlarına odaklanan ekolojik yaklaşımlar, 2000 sonrasında sıklıkla…

• SEVİL SAYGI

John Dewey is probably greatest philosopher that America has produced, and his book Art as Experience perhaps most significant treatise on aesthetics to come out of American twentieth century. Yet in first few pages of this book Dewey has seen fit to begin his argument with a sharp, direct, and sustained attack upon i…

Hardcover book compiling texts by 28 artists invited to respond to the statement next Documenta should be curated by an artist. In his introduction, editor Hoffmann recounts how the idea grew out of a discussion with artist Carsten Holler, and that the project provocatively explores artists' relations to the professio…

The article of Peter Wollen “Godard and Counter Cinema: Vent D’est” is considered as the beginning of counter cinema. In 1979, “Women’s Cinema As Counter Cinema” which was written by Claire Johnston and the article of Laura Mulvey “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” are accepted as the first theoretical studies of…

• HASAN GÜRKAN

This article explores some key moments in a history of recent art in Istanbul that have been at odds with, though not wholly separate from, dominant forces associated with capitalizing globalization that continue to reshape spaces of and for art, in the city and beyond. In so doing, while problematizing the legibility…

This paper presents an investigation of the agencies of representation in architecture. Registering these agencies I stress the major transformations that they have undergone in recent decades, mai...

• EMRE ALTÜRK

ÖZ Postmodernizmin eleştirel söylemi olan yapıbozum, felsefi bir konum olmaktan ziyade pek çok disiplinin bir araya geldiği ortak bir düşünce düzlemini ifade eder. Post-yapısalcı düşünür Jacques Derrida'nın geliştirdiği bu yöntem, ikili karşıtlıklar üzerine kurgulanmış tüm yapılardaki çelişkileri deşifre ederek çökert…

• MERYEM UZUNOĞLU