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Hepworth and her critics
No full textDiscusses the writings of the British sculptor Barbara Hepworth and the critical context in which they have appeared. The author notes the use of writings by Hepworth in the feminist works Voicing Our Visions: Writings by Women Artists (London: Women's Press, 1992) by Mara Witzling and Women Artists in the Modern Era: a Documentary History (Metuchen, New Jersey; London: Scarecrow Press, 1991) by Susan A. Waller, observes that reproductions of her writings also appear in texts by male critics, and considers how her words have been used either to highlight the problems faced by women artists or to demonstrate the restricted nature of their art practice. She explains how Hepworth sought to intervene in the critical debate by publishing two autobiographical works: Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Drawings (1952) and A Pictorial Autobiography (1970). This essay is a revised edition of the essay which appeared in Barbara Hepworth Reconsidered (see ABM 28 08705 for abstract)
Introduction
No full textPresents a collection of essays developed from papers presented at the 1996 AICA conference on `Art criticism and Africa'. In her introduction, Deepwell considers the role of art criticism, its history and how it can approach contemporary African art, and examines the range of different positions and experiences represented in the texts. There are 13 essays. Olabisi Silva examines exhibitions of contemporary African art, with particular reference to the Whitechapel Art Gallery's Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa in London in 1995; John Picton explores the character and history of, and relationship between, European and African practices in making art, in exhibiting it, and in art criticism; and Everlyn Nicodemus considers the role of the art critic as advocate. Ola Oloidi examines art criticism in Nigeria between 1920 and 1996; Murray McCartney considers art criticism in Zimbabwe; and Barbara Murray describes the experience of Gallery magazine in Zimbabwe. Tony Mhonda considers the role of the art critic in Zimbabwe; David Koloane questions the relevance of art criticism in South Africa, given the inequalities in the visual arts there; and Colin Richards also assesses art criticism in South Africa. Chika Okeke advocates a multi-perspective view of art criticism, rather than a schema based on oppositional dualities; Fatma Ismail Afifi describes the Kom Ghorab project in Cairo, which seeks through the collaboration of artists and critics to establish a new language of art; and Olu Oguibe examines the state of art criticism in Africa and its future. In the final essay, George Shire examines the criticism of African art outside Africa
Feminist art manifestos/feminist politics
Get PDFThis article reviews 40 years of feminist art manifestos and those collected in the publication by the author, Feminist Art Manifestos: An Anthology
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Dod Proctor (1892-1972)
No full textOn the occasion of a touring exhibition of Proctor's paintings that visited Liverpool, Penzance and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, during 1990, the author describes Dod Proctor's training, her marriage to Ernest Proctor and the reception of her exhibitions. She gives details of all Proctor's exhibitions and follows her tours abroad after Ernest's death
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Time ladies
No full textConsiders the view taken by post-structuralists and other post-modernists that feminism is no longer the central tenet of social struggle. The author believes this is a bad attitude at a time when economic recession has forced the marginalization of women in the market. She believes that the current neglect of women in the arts is a problem that must be addressed - feminism must be used to encourage representation of women in the world of art
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