Journal Articles
Browse Journals online and available in the library
Journals and magazines are a great way of keeping up-to-date with contemporary theory and practice. All the articles listed below are available in print and online from the library databases. Click on the title to link to the article.
Find these recent articles on Race on our journal databases:
Bridget R. Cooks cites Lorraine O’Grady’s artistic interventions against the anti-Blackness of the US art world.
The article discusses speech and ambivalence in the art works of Glenn Ligon and Steve Reich. Also cited are the 1966 music composition "Come Out," by musician Steve Reich, the violence experienced by African Americans in the U.S. like Daniel Hamm, as well as the black-and-white silkscreen paintings of Ligon and the protests in New York City against intensified policing in the mid-1960s.
An interview with scholar and curator Andrea Fatona is presented. Among the issues she discussed include the progress of the database project The State of Blackness which centers on the production, presentation and dissemination of Black art in Canada, the impact of the lack of rigorous criticism acknowledging genealogies of Black Canadian cultural production, and how she manages her time working as a Black curator and professor for marginalized students or mentees.
An interview with Aria Dean, an artist, critic and curator, is presented about the crisis of art and its meanings and the failure of accelerationism which is an idea that capitalism should be accelerated instead of overcome, and traditional humanist frameworks. Some of the issues she addressed are the art's capacities, her views on U.S. politics and racial issues, how considerations of blackness can affect accelerationism and her live performance "Production for a Circle."
This article, aimed at transcultural education, examines the juncture of race and aesthetics. It argues that implicit in the hybrid identities produced by modern imperialism and colonialism is a more global figure of humanity. That figure remains suppressed by lingering race/ethnocentrism in contemporary art discourse. Postmodernist framing of art/culture as "language" has generally weakened the strong conceit of difference. But that progress is offset by failure to acknowledge how globally distributed and "pre/non-modern" that insight is, effectively making it exclusively "Western." Furthermore, postmodern linguisticism's strong identification with verbal language maintains civilized/primitive dualism, perpetuating the denigration of nonliterate cultures. Unfortunately, it also compromises the communicative efficacy of art/material culture. Consequently, linguisticism becomes a knot inhibiting the turn from racism to recognizing the relational origination of differences and their emergence from iconic similarity. Pivoting around iconic similarity uncovers the diverse non-Euro-Western genealogies of bricolage, collage, and cubism entangled and obscured by the resilient conceit of difference in difference. It redresses the asymmetry of attributing the deconstructive insight associated with bricolage/collage exclusively to postmodernist authorities. Nagarjuna's critique of self-generation, modernism's essential assumption, helps make the case for iconic similarity and for promoting it as a better basis for art-education theory and practice.
An interview with Hank Willis Thomas, the U.S. conceptual artist working with themes related to identity, history, and popular culture. Topics discussed include his views on popular culture and the ways in which black femininity is portrayed; the role of 3 dimensional scanning and capture, motion capture, and mechanical reproductions in art; and the activities of his art political-action committee, For Freedoms.
Studies in Art Education Vol. 54, No. 2 , pp. 141-157 
Flash Art Sept - Oct 2018
Flash Art Feb-Mar 2019. Pg 64 - 72 
87, Vol 31 Issue 2