PICTURING THE BOMB PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE SECRET WORLD OF THE MANHATTAN PROJECT Pasadena City College Art Galllery October 5-Novemeber 12, 2011 One of the strangest confluences in art history was the painter, Georgia O’Keeffe, and the father of the atomic bomb, Robert...
FREDERIC JAMESON (1934-) Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1984) Part One In 1992, Charles Jencks summed up his definition of the Postmodern in ”The Post-Modern Agenda” by saying the over the past ten years the debate had centered on whether the...
Deconstruction The Truth in Painting (1987) In 1905 Paul Cézanne wrote to the younger artist, Emile Bernard, “I owe you the truth in painting and I will tell it to you.” One can immediately imagine how Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) would have seized upon such a...
REBELS IN PARADISE. THE LOS ANGELES ART SCENE IN THE 1960s by Hunter Drohojowska-Philip Rebels in Paradise: The Los Angeles Art Scene in the 1960s is a lovely and delicious book. Delightfully and briskly written, it is far and away the best book Hunter...
“Force and Signification” (1967) De-centering the Center It should never be presumed that Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) attempted to solve problems or to promote new solutions. His mission as a philosopher was quite different: Derrida was a Deconstructor or...
