In the late 1960s, Texas poster art, long an important mainstay of the state’s printmaking tradition, entered a fertile and innovative period in Austin. Drawing inspiration from the counter culture and psychedelic music movements, a new generation of Texas graphic arts designers created one-of-a-kind posters. Today their works are considered some of the finest artifacts [...]
Tagged Poster Art, Texas“The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. Suburbia lives imaginatively in Bonanza-land. –Marshall McLuhan This image has been haunting [...]
Tagged Graphic Design, Popular CultureHere is my latest academic contribution to the project of enlightenment in the form of outpouring of textbooks. BETWEEN GAZES: FEMINIST, QUEER AND OTHER FILMS is a text book in which I introduce key terms in feminist, queer, and postcolonial/diaspora film. My point of departure is in the question “what do you want from me?” [...]
Via NEWSgrist We [smARThistory] are interested in delivering the narratives of art history using the read-write web’s interactivity and capacity for authoring and remixing. Publishers are adding multimedia to their textbooks, but unfortunately they are doing so in proprietary, password-protected adjunct websites. These are weak because they maintain an old model of closed and protected [...]
This image was one of the more ridiculous examples of corporate media’s role in placing Obama’s presidency within right-wing and neoliberal narrative frames. The illustration accompanied Jon Meacham’s much contested Newsweek cover article which asserted the difficulty of governing as a liberal in a (supposedly) predominantly conservative America. Here, the myth of the silent majority [...]
Tagged Inauguration, Obama, public memory