For Social Change

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Welcome to Heterotopia By by Pascal Gielen - USA.
“Heterotopia are not easily located within a system of representation but neither do they exist sui generis. Heterotopia do not exist in the order of things, but in the ordering of things. They can be both marginal and central, associated with both transgressive outsiderness as well as ‘carceral’ sites of social control and the desire for a perfect order. But in both cases heterotopia are sites of all things displaced, marginal, novel or rejected, or ambivalent... Publication Date: October 27, 2004.
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Portrait of a New York Artist: Darrell U. Black By Hans D. Pflug - USA.
Actually, he became my friend even before I had met him face to face. It was during a vernissage at the Frankfurt Airport, where a flight captain had arranged an exhibition of impressive photos of clouds and sunlight, viewed from his cockpit. In the background, I heard a Homeric laughter. It was not somebody who laughed at a joke or so – no, it was the hearty, sonorous laughter of a man who obviously enjoyed life. Publication Date: April 17, 2003.
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Caprice Capriccio Capriccioso By Book Review By Melisa Karilaht - Finland.
Caprice Capriccio Capriccioso, a book by Milcham Karos, Finland In Karos´s book characters´dialogues twisting in the rotating evocative scenes illustrate possible outcomes in the reality resulting from the opposite ends of lightness and darkness. Based on the observations that a reader can make even with the unaided eye heshe can choose to what extent the little hero of the book, Torrice is not eminent beyond other and is just hapless, even though he is called the boy with the superior playing skills.
Publication Date: September 16, 2000.
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A True Revolution By Felix René Mederos Pazos Artist - Cuba.

 

Felix René Mederos Pazos was born November 20, 1933 in Sagua la Grande, Cuba. A self-taught artist, he began work in a Havana printshop in 1944 and was appointed Chief Designer for Cuba's most important television station in 1959. In 1964, at the beginning of the new wave of Cuban graphic design, Mederos began creating his first posters as head of the design team at Intercommunications.
Publication Date: January 26, 2000.
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The Politics of Painting By Gregg Simpson Painter, Musician, Author - Canada.

 

In the world of contemporary art during the past decade or more, one medium has unfortunately been singled out to bear the guilt of Eurocentric western culture. That medium is painting. The seemingly innocent practice of applying pigments to canvas, panel, or wall is, in terms of current critical thinking, almost a criminal act. To be relevant, artists must relinquish anything hopeful, celebratory, or sensuous in their work, and focus on one of the two dominant themes of contemporary art: guilt or grievance. Publication Date: January 20, 2000.
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The Civilization of Illiteracy Book Review By Steven Bleicher - USA.

 

The Civilization of Illiteracy deals with the subject of literacy in all its aspects. Nadin approaches the subject from the perspective of human pragmatics. He explains the pragmatics that gave rise to writing and literacy, as well as the pragmatics that make these new "literacies" necessary. He explores the transition from the traditional linear concept of literacy to contemporary nonlinear modes of discourse, communication, and understanding. Publishing Date: Janurary 20, 2000.
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 Expression of Individual Cross-Cultural Experience

Internet and CD-Rom Project; "Undesirable Elements/Chicago"

By Andrea Polli, Artist-in-Residence, Columbia College, Chicago

Artist Ping Chong's theatrical series "Undesirable Elements" seeks to re-examine culture and identity in the physical world. In the Spring of 1999, students in the Academic Computing Department of Columbia College had the opportunity to bring Chong's ideas, the thoughts of the Chicago community, and their own impressions of cultural isolation and assimilation into the virtual world. Publishing Date: September 7, 1999

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New Constructivism

By Dr. Werner Horvath, Painter - Germany

Werner Horvath's paintings have been very much influenced by political events like the student revolts in the sixties, Vietnam and the "spring revolt" in Prague. Exhibitions: "Icones politiques", Paris 1994, "Lide Ikony - Critical Icons", C.Budejovice, "Different Neuro-radiological Images", Linz 1995, "Mittelpunkt Mensch", C.Budejovice 1996, "Ars politica" in the Czech Embassy in Vienna 1997, "Pain and Pleasure" (participation), C.Budejovice 1997, "Metamorphose" and "Rouge et Noir", Linz 1997 and others.

Publishing Date: September 7, 1999

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Art Rage
By Gregg Simpson, Painter, Musician, Author - Canada

I was having a hard time getting to sleep last night, tossing and turning as I reflected on Modernism's failure to deliver us Utopia. Forget Thomas More, I thought, we should instead be heaping our scorn and derision on Bartok, Picasso and James Joyce. In fact, I seem to remember that this was supposed to be the raison d'etre of post-Modernism. It is mainly a reaction to an imagined series of failures, especially the one to deliver some vague promises about paradise on earth, apparently made by the luminaries of the Modernist movement...

Publishing Date: September 7, 1999
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The Child Within

By T.M. Hughes, Multi-media Artist, Photographer, and Film-maker...etc - Germany

Through exquisitely rendered graphite drawings of children in subtile oil painted environments, the exhibition discusses such controversial subjects as: human growth and development, child abuse and the depiction of the child in fine art, as well as, the subject of the creation of art as a healing process.

Publishing Date: September 7, 1999

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The Holocaust Series
By Murray Zimiles, Professional Artist and Professor of Art, Purchase College, NY- USA

These paintings, drawings, prints, and artists’ books are graphic statements meant to engage and propel the viewer into a whirlwind of fire and devastation. It is but 55 years ago that the world descended into madness. God looked away as the greatest carnage in human history took place. Civilization crumbled. The Holocaust is the pivotal event of our century, and perhaps of all human history. As an artist it is my obligation to deal with this subject. I write this in desperation as I read statements claiming the Holocaust never happened, of "ethnic Cleansing", the slaughter in what once was Yugoslavia, and the emergence of Neo-Nazi mobs in Germany. REMEMBER!

Publishing Date: September 7, 1999
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Minimalism; We got the point 50 years ago, now what?
By JoAnna Pettit-Almasude, Professional Artist - USA

...'A painting is worth more than one thousand words' - many variations of an old phrase still used as an analogy of how difficult it is to simply describe a painted image. In Minimalist painting, however, this is not the case. It doesn't take much ink or space on a paper to describe a canvas that is one color with maybe a hint of another color showing through. As a painter, I know it doesn't take much time, effort or artistic ability to create a minimalist painting. I have gessoed many a canvas in my day, and painted a few walls as well...

Publishing Date: September 7, 1999

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