Tag: Art

In postcolonial Argentina, this fashionable hairstyle had the last word.

June 3, 2010

Author Regina Root was interviewed this month by Página/12, one of Argentina’s most prominent newspapers, about the ultimate symbol of female independence in postcolonial Argentina: the comb. Root tells the paper: “This accessory, whose popularity lasted nearly two decades, became an emblem. There is no doubt that women with combs were seen as participants in … More In postcolonial Argentina, this fashionable hairstyle had the last word.

George Kouvaros: On The Misfits and seeking a sense of home

May 5, 2010

George Kouvaros, author of Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America, is associate professor of film in the School of English, Media, and Performing Arts at the University of New South Wales. A short while ago, I (Maggie Sattler, direct marketing coordinator at the Press) asked him to write for … More George Kouvaros: On The Misfits and seeking a sense of home

String, Felt, Thread: Challenging distinctions between art and craft

April 27, 2010

We’re sorry we’ve been a little quiet on the blog lately. Fortunately, we have something to show for it: A few months ago, we were thrilled when Elissa Auther, author of String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchies of Art and Craft in American Art, agreed to work with us to develop a video about the book … More String, Felt, Thread: Challenging distinctions between art and craft

Interview: Sharon Irish on Suzanne Lacy (includes footage from The Crystal Quilt, Minneapolis, 1987)

March 22, 2010

Author Sharon Irish has filmed a wonderful book video that documents her initial interest in artist and political justice activist Suzanne Lacy. She briefly discusses how hers is a book about relationships, and narrates archival footage of Lacy’s The Crystal Quilt, which was performed by hundreds of women at the IDS Tower in downtown Minneapolis … More Interview: Sharon Irish on Suzanne Lacy (includes footage from The Crystal Quilt, Minneapolis, 1987)

Q&A: Kate Mondloch on the use of screens (as in the computer screen you’re looking at right now)

March 3, 2010

Kate Mondloch is assistant professor of contemporary art and theory at the University of Oregon. She also serves on the executive committee of the university’s new Cinema Studies program and is a member of the Digital Scholars initiative. She is author of the recently published Screens: Viewing Installation Art, and is currently working on a … More Q&A: Kate Mondloch on the use of screens (as in the computer screen you’re looking at right now)

CAA, in a nutshell

February 26, 2010

A roundup of what came out of the University of Minnesota Press’s time at the College Art Association conference this month: -Our top 3 most popular books at this very busy, well-attended conference were: Suzanne Lacy: Spaces Between, by Sharon Irish; String, Felt, Thread, by Elissa Auther; and Modernism after Wagner by Juliet Koss. -We … More CAA, in a nutshell

Three questions with Elissa Auther

February 10, 2010

Elissa Auther is founder of Feminism & Co.: Art, Sex, Politics, a program that explores feminist social, political, and artistic issues through creative forms of pedagogy. She is associate professor of contemporary art at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and has written about, among other topics, modernist art criticism, the hierarchy of art … More Three questions with Elissa Auther

Art history, Suzanne Lacy, and the ‘spaces between’: A Q&A with Sharon Irish

February 3, 2010

Sharon Irish, an art and architecture historian who works at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is author of Suzanne Lacy: Spaces Between. Suzanne Lacy is the recipient of this year’s College Art Association Lifetime Achievement award. She will join Irish next week at the CAA convention in Chicago to sign copies of the book at … More Art history, Suzanne Lacy, and the ‘spaces between’: A Q&A with Sharon Irish