Matthew Biro
MATTHEW BIRO is Professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Anselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger (1998), The Dada Cyborg: Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin (2009), and Anselm Kiefer (2013). His reviews of contemporary art, film, and photography have appeared in Artforum, Contemporary, Art Papers, and The New Art Examiner.
Art and Protest
By Matthew Biro| Editor's Message
Can art today be a form of protest? And, if so, what subjects, what issues, what transgressions or injustices, does it most vitally and persuasively critique? In many ways, the obvious answer to this question is “yes.”
ALEX WEBB La Calle, Photographs from Mexico
By Matthew Biro| ArtSeen
Comprising a total of forty-five medium-sized photographs, La Calle (The Street), presents highlights culled from more than forty trips that Alex Webb took through Mexico between 1975 and 2007.
SHEIDA SOLEIMANI:
Medium of Exchange
By Matthew Biro
| ArtSeen
For Rosalind Krauss, the pivotal difference between Dada photomontage and Surrealist photography had to do with the relative presence of either the photographer or the world in the image itself. Surrealist “photographs are not interpretations of reality, decoding it, as in Heartfield’s photomontages. They are presentations of that very reality as configured, or coded, or written.”
BRUCE CONNER It’s All True
By Matthew Biro| ArtSeen
It’s taken a long time for Bruce Conner (1933 – 2008), the polymath San Francisco artist who was a major force in the development of both found-object sculpture and experimental film in the United States, to be given a major retrospective.
Carrie Mae Weems
By Matthew Biro| ArtSeen
Since the late 1970s, Carrie Mae Weems has pursued a socially engaged form of creative practice, examining how identity is constructed through concepts of race, gender, and class, while interrogating the processes by which we produce a sense of self in relation to both private memory and public history.
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Art and Protest
– By Matthew Biro
ArtSeen
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BRUCE CONNER It’s All True
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ALEX WEBB La Calle, Photographs from Mexico
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Carrie Mae Weems
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SHEIDA SOLEIMANI: Medium of Exchange
– By Matthew Biro
