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October Volume 2017: August

Subject Areas: Literature and Literary Theory; ;
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press - MIT Press
ISSN: 0162-2870
SJR: 19

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Death Work in Venice: In memoriam Khadija Saye

Nixon, Mignon

2017 October

doi:10.1162/OCTO_a_00300

Mignon Nixon reflects on the Manchester Arena bombing, London Bridge and Borough Market attack, and Grenfell Tower fire in London, as well as the 2017 Venice Biennial, via J-B Pontalis's writings on the psychoanalytic notion of death-work. Nixon argues that the defining problem of Christina...
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The modern Invention of Barbarians: Ethnicity and the Transmission of Form*

Michaud, Eric

2017 October

doi:10.1162/OCTO_a_00301

The history of art started with the myth of Barbarian invasions. Countering the timelessness of Classical art as affirmed by Winckelmann in the middle of the eighteenth century, a new argument arose: The West was propelled into modernity by the Barbarian invasions of the fourth and fifth...
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Lukács in Self-Translation: The Necessity of Contingency in The Soul and the Forms*

Farkas, Márton

2017 October

doi:10.1162/OCTO_a_00302

A series of meditations on history and criticism, György Lukács's The Soul and the Forms appeared first in Hungarian in 1910 and then in German in 1911—arguably having been translated by the author himself, as a work of mourning. Despite renewed interest in the work, English-language editions...
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Photographic Ecologies*

Schaefer, William

2017 October

doi:10.1162/OCTO_a_00303

In his body of photographs, Samalada (2008), the Chinese artist Adou uses extremely expired film; the resulting artifacts—marks of the animal, vegetable, and mineral matter composing film surfaces—are as visible a part of the photographs as their depictions of relations among humans, animals,...
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Insertions into Historiographic Circuits*

Small, Irene V.

2017 October

doi:10.1162/OCTO_a_00305

This article establishes the context for the original publication of Ronaldo Brito's pioneering 1975 essay, “Neo-concretism Apex and Rupture of the Brazilian Constructive Project” in the third and last issue of the Rio de Janeiro-based art journal Malasartes. It argues that Brito's text was a...
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Neo-concretism, Apex and Rupture of the Brazilian Constructive Project

Brito, Ronaldo

2017 October

doi:10.1162/OCTO_a_00304

Written in 1975 and first published in its entirety in 1985, this essay constitutes the first and most consequential analysis of the Brazilian Neo-concrete movement of the late 1950s and early '60s. It argues that Neo-concretism realized and simultaneously forced into crisis the essential tenets...

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