"Beginning with prehistoric cave drawings and Greek statues; continuing through the Gothic, Byzantine, Baroque, and the Renaissance movements; and concluding with the Impressionist work of Monet and Picasso, Annie Labatt asks readers to consider each work and think about the artist who created it and what they wanted us to see. She frames our understanding of the piece's historical and social context as well as the artist's background and, in many...

Part art history essay, part experimental fiction, part theoretical manifesto on the politics of equivalence, Helicography examines questions of scale in relation to Robert Smithson's iconic 1970 artwork Spiral Jetty. In an essay and film made to accompany the earthwork, Smithson invites us to imagine the stone helix of his structure at various orders of magnitude, from microscopic molecules to entire galaxies. Taking up this invitation with an unrelenting...

The artistic works of Marta Minujín and Luis Felipe Noé occupy a central position in Argentine art from the 1960s to the present day. Lena Geuer critically examines the relationship between art and nation with the question "¿Arte argentino?" and explores the tension between aesthetics, identity, and politics from a postcolonial and sensorial-material perspective. At the same time, "¡Arte argentino!" is also addressed as a statement, causing...