scholarly journals “Oceans of Love”

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-177
Author(s):  
Leah Mirakhor

This essay reviews Hilton Als’ 2019 exhibition God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin at the David Zwirner Gallery. The show visually displays Baldwin in two parts: “A Walker in the City” examines his biography and “Colonialism” examines “what Baldwin himself was unable to do” by displaying the work of contemporary artists and filmmakers whose works resonate with Baldwin’s critiques of masculinity, race, and American empire. Mirakhor explores how Als’ quest to restore Baldwin is part of a long and deep literary and personal conversation that Als has been having since he was in his teens, and in this instance, exploring why and how it has culminated via the visual, instead of the literary. As Mirakhor observes, to be in the exhibit is not to just observe how Als has formed and figured Baldwin, but to see how Baldwin has informed and made Als, one of our most lyrical and impassioned contemporary writers and thinkers.

1985 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 575-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Lawson

This was how the Public Advertiser greeted the passage of the Quebec Act through parliament in June 1774. It was a remarkable transformation from the ecstasy evident in newspaper reports that greeted the fall of New France in 1760. As early as November 1759 the city of Nottingham singled out the North American campaign as the glorious core of British strategy. Its loyal address congratulated the king ‘particularly upon the defeat of the French army in Canada, and the taking of Quebec; an acquisition not less honourable to your majesty's forces, than destructive of the trade and commerce and power of France in North America’. What occurred in those fourteen years to produce such a stark revision of views on the conquest of New France? The answer can be found partly by surveying the English press for this period. During these years, treatment of Canadian issues in the press displayed quite distinct characteristics that revealed a whole range of attitudes and opinions on the place Canada held in the future of the North American empire. No consensus on this issue ever existed. Debate on Canada mirrored a wider discussion on the future of the polyglot empire acquired at the end of the Seven Years War in 1763. In ranged from the enthusiasm of officials at Westminster to spokesmen of a strain in English thinking that challenged the whole thrust of imperial policy to date.


2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-61
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Logan

Planners of San Francisco’s 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition wanted to present their city as the center of an American empire that stretched from Maine to the Philippines. The fair’s head landscape engineer John McLaren and his team spent three years planning and planting the fairgrounds to reinforce this message. They used plants and flowers from around the world to show off California’s gentle climate, and convey to visitors the idea that the city was at the center of the commercial world. This article details the work that McLaren’s crews undertook, analyzes three sections of the fairgrounds, and discusses the impact the fair’s landscaping made on visitors.


2020 ◽  
pp. 75-91

This chapter mentions HR 0627, which tenders an apology to the Latter-day Saints for the misguided expulsion of their Mormon ancestors from the city of Nauvoo and the State of Illinois in 1846. It recounts the years after the Mormons were expelled from Missouri in 1838 to 1839, in which the Saints developed the swamp land in the far west of the state into the thriving economic community of Nauvoo. It also looks into the argument about HR 0627's contention that the Saints were initially expelled from Missouri and welcomed in Illinois in part because Joseph Smith was a strong anti-slavery advocate. The chapter analyzes the problem related to HR 0627 that wrongly isolates Mormon expulsion from any larger political context. It also offers an alternative narrative that puts Illinois's removal of both Indians and Mormons in the context of gender, political culture, and ultimately American empire.


Author(s):  
O.P. Malkova

The article examines the features of artistic perception and representation of the geographical and cultural space of Stalingrad-Volgograd in evolutionary development in 1940–2020; interaction between architectural and artistic texts of the city, the specifics of the Volgograd Union of Artists; the issues of changes in the artistic life of the city that took place in the post-Soviet period. The architecture, history and daily life of post-war Stalingrad are now of great scientific interest. In this article, for the first time, the artistic reflection of the life of the city of this and subsequent periods becomes the subject of independent research. The active work of Stalingrad and Volgograd artists was reflected in numerous publications: newspaper and magazine articles, exhibition catalogues, and monographic publications. A number of publications are devoted to the history of the Volgograd Union of artists. At the same time, relations between artistic creativity and location were not specifically considered. Until now, the issues of transformations of artistic life and art in Volgograd have also remained without proper attention. The work has been done mainly on the basis of the collection of the Volgograd Museum of Fine Arts named after I.I. Mashkov with a review of works from artist's studios. This group of works attracts interest not only from an art criticism point of view, but also from a cultural, sociological, and historical point of view. City views in painting and graphics are considered in chronological order and in accordance with the thematic principle. The methods of comparative analysis have been applied when comparing works of the Soviet period with modern ones. Materials of the imaginative and stylistic of paintings and graphics are compared with the memories of old residents of the city and interviews with contemporary artists. Works of painting and graphics by Stalingrad and Volgograd artists of the second half of the XX – early XXI centuries are introduced into the scientific circulation. The author focuses on native Stalingrad painters and graphic artists who took an active part in the formation of the local branch of the Union of Artists: N. Chernikov, A. Chervonenko, F. Sukhanov, A. Legenchenko, G. Pechennikov and A. Pechennikov, N. Pirogov, B. Osikov, P. Grechkin, V. Strigin, etc. Their works are compared with the works of contemporary artists: N. Zotov, Yu. Sorokin, etc. В статье рассматриваются в эволюционном развитии особенности художественного восприятия и репрезентации географического и культурного пространства Сталинграда-Волгограда в 1940–2020 годы. Затрагиваются вопросы взаимодействия архитектурного и художественного текстов города, специфики Волгоградского союза художников, перемен художественной жизни города, которые произошли в постсоветский период. Архитектура, история и повседневность послевоенного Сталинграда сейчас вызывают большой научный интерес. В настоящей статье впервые становится предметом самостоятельного исследования художественное отражение жизни города этого и последующих периодов. Деятельность сталинградских и волгоградских художников нашла отражение в многочисленных публикациях: газетных и журнальных статьях, каталогах выставок, монографических изданиях. Ряд публикаций посвящен истории Волгоградского союза художников. При этом вопросы связей художественного творчества и территории специально не рассматривались. До сих пор оставались без внимания и вопросы трансформаций художественной жизни и искусства Волгограда. Работа проделана в основном на материале собрания Волгоградского музея изобразительных искусств им. И.И. Машкова с привлечением произведений из мастерских художников. Данный пласт работ представляет интерес не только с искусствоведческой, но и культурологической, социологической, исторической точек зрения. В научный оборот вводятся произведения живописи и графики сталинградских и волгоградских художников второй половины XX – начала XXI веков. Живописные и графические пейзажи, запечатлевшие город, рассмотрены в хронологической последовательности и в соответствии с тематическим принципом. Методы сравнительного анализа были применены при сопоставлении произведений советского периода и работ о городе, созданных сегодня. Материалы образно-стилистического анализа произведений живописи и графики сопоставлены с воспоминаниями старожилов города и интервью с современными художниками.


2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 607-612
Author(s):  
Nina M. Malygina

The chronicle of the scientific seminar held on February 6, 2020 in the Department of Manuscripts of the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences and dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the birth of Artem Vesely reviews twelve reports that examined the biography of the writer, his work as an editor of the newspaper of the city of Melekessa of the Samara province “The Banner of Communism”, his role in the literary process of the 1920-1930, creative ties with contemporary writers, and analyzed the poetics of the studies “Native Country”, “Russia Washed in Blood”, “Liberty”, “Barefoot Truth”, etc.


space&FORM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 259-276
Author(s):  
Paula Jeziorna ◽  

The main research problem of the study is an attempt to present the family of Anna, Ryszard and Jan Zamorscy as contemporary artists associated with Wrocław through the implementation of artistic objects in the public space of the city. Although their work goes beyond outdoor facilities, thanks to the openness and universality of the space in which their works are located, they have become a permanent part of the inhabitants' awareness and the history of the city. The work shows a different view of the artists' activity, where the point of reference is the place of exhibition of artistic objects, and not their subject, scale, material of execution or the entire creative output of the Zamorscy family.


1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
Robert Chatham

The Court of Appeals of New York held, in Council of the City of New York u. Giuliani, slip op. 02634, 1999 WL 179257 (N.Y. Mar. 30, 1999), that New York City may not privatize a public city hospital without state statutory authorization. The court found invalid a sublease of a municipal hospital operated by a public benefit corporation to a private, for-profit entity. The court reasoned that the controlling statute prescribed the operation of a municipal hospital as a government function that must be fulfilled by the public benefit corporation as long as it exists, and nothing short of legislative action could put an end to the corporation's existence.In 1969, the New York State legislature enacted the Health and Hospitals Corporation Act (HHCA), establishing the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) as an attempt to improve the New York City public health system. Thirty years later, on a renewed perception that the public health system was once again lacking, the city administration approved a sublease of Coney Island Hospital from HHC to PHS New York, Inc. (PHS), a private, for-profit entity.


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