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The Oil Paintings in the Department Store: The Robe and Racialized Tastemaking in 1950s Detroit
This essay examines the promotion of Twentieth Century–Fox’s production of The Robe (1953)—which exhibited Dean Cornwell’s oil paintings in local department stores in Detroit—in relation to the city’s sociocultural context and racial tensions. It argues that ongoing issues in the city such as property ownership, racialized topographical boundaries, and class aspiration can be traced across Detroit’s film culture in the postwar period, particularly in the burgeoning middlebrow culture of materialistic consumption. The promotional campaign’s use of art exhibitions in department stores represented a significant moment for new ideas about class, culture, and racial identity in the city, contributing to the formation of the white suburban middle class and functioning as an example of racialized tastemaking. Accounts of this postwar cultural shift, particularly as it pertained to film culture, have underemphasized the importance of racial identity and exclusion to such formations. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that integrates film history, material culture studies, and cultural history, this essay uses the Cornwell exhibition as a case study for understanding the impact of racial tensions on class identity in 1950s Detroit.
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museums, poetics and affect
This paper reflects on affect and emotion as they relate to poetics—her/histories—in twenty-first century museums. Using specific examples, it considers the ways in which collections of material culture hold diverse meanings and how ideas are communicated to audiences over time and space but might also be challenged through imaginative activity. Key objects, exhibitions and activities discussed highlight masculinities at work in museums and include the temporary art installations by Yinka Shonibare and Fred Wilson in the Victoria and Albert Museum's (V&A) Norfolk House Music Room in 2007; the portrait in oils of the Jamaican scholar Francis Williams, painted by an anonymous artist around 1745; and a contemporary oral commentary by Benjamin Zephaniah in the V&A British Galleries, which are considered through a feminist lens of poetics.
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Crude Optimism
Designed to preserve and promote western heritage and culture, the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede has become entwined with, and politically and economically expedient for, Alberta’s oil and gas industry. Performances at the Stampede relieve guilt about the expropriation of Indigenous territory and conquest of the natural world, and produce an affective climate of “crude optimism,” an optimistic attachment to fossil fuel production and consumption despite the brutal realities of extractivism.
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Heating Standards and Obsolescence in Post-War Britain’s Homes for Today and Tomorrow
In 1962, a short film by Shell-Mex and BP Limited (Companies of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group and the British Petroleum Group) was prepared for the 29th Annual Conference and Exhibition of the National Society of Clean Air in Britain to encourage British households to shift from coal domestic fires to smokeless heating appliances. One year earlier, in 1961, the most influential report on space standards in Britain was published, titled Homes for Today and Tomorrow (also known as the Parker Morris Report), which advocated for flexibility in the home through larger size homes and better heating. This article focuses on the report’s emphasis on better heating as one way to fulfil the concept of the “adaptable home,” and it introduces the discussions about heating standards during the report’s making, underlining the open domestic fire as an obsolete technology. These discussions, however, were entangled with socio-cultural endeavours and consumerist aspirations for modernisation, placing the removal of an otherwise pervasive domestic element within a broader net of forces, actors, and dilemmas involved in decision-making and planning. This article, composed as a historical acquisition, oscillates from the scale of the domestic fireplace to the housing scale, raising the issue of obsolescence in housing provision, which is still salient today.
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Frederic Edwin Church: el pintor de Humboldt en los Andes
On April 27th, 1859, The Studio Building of New York unveils the feature exhibition of the season: The Heart of the Andes, an oil on canvas painted by Frederic Church, produced after his second trip to South America in 1857. He made sketches and studies in situ, and also wrote, in rudimentary Spanish, a Diary recording his experience. Traveling to South America under the influence of Humboldt seeking inspiration and artistic recognition was vital for Church’s artistic style and career. The exhibition was a success, attracting 12.000 people in three weeks before its grand European touring. In this article I would like to explore the relationship between art, science and nature, and the concept of heroic landscape painting coined by Humboldt, in Church’s New World canvases.
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Al-Awda's 13th Annual Conference and Gala
\"Mapping Our Return\" and \"Marking 70 Years of Dispossession and Apartheid\" were the themes of Al-Awda's (The Palestine Right to Return Coalition) 13th Annual Conference and Gala May 11 and 12 at the Long Beach Petroleum Club. The conference included a screening of the documentary \"1948: Creation and Catastrophe,\" and panel discussions on the ongoing Nakba, Palestinian resistance, efforts to combat Zionism in the US, the Palestinian right to return and colonialism and racism. The conference also included an art exhibit featuring the work of renowned Palestinian artist Manal Deeb, a fashion show by designer Hama Hinnawi and live music by the iconic singer Mary Hazboun.
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Crude Life
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest industrial petrochemical accident in US history, and because the spill occurred in the deep sea, its impact on the environment has been difficult to assess. The Gulf of Mexico is among the most biologically diverse marine environments in the world, with new species being described every year. Yet, the long-term damage and potential recovery of these species post-spill is not well understood. Crude Life is an interdisciplinary art, science, and outreach project focused on gathering data on endemic fishes affected by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. This portable art-science museum of Gulf of Mexico regional biodiversity seeks to raise public awareness of local species, ecosystems, and regional environmental challenges through temporary \"pop-up\" exhibitions, along with community citizen-science surveys of Gulf species. According to co-curator Sean Miller (University of Florida), The Crude Life Portable Biodiversity Museum is designed to be a location-variable museum capable of easily opening at many different public events and site-specific contexts.
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Planning, Transformation and Development of Resource Based Industrial Cities
The scale of urban land has been expanding because the speed of urban development has increased the population. Thus, certain improvement in planning and construction based on circular economy is required. Industrial resource-based city planning and construction is particularly important based on the aforementioned problems and development background. The development of industrial resource cities in the transformation stage based on the circular economy was considered as the breakthrough point. The development, function, and concept of the new district planning were analyzed in view of the design strategy of the current domestic resource-based urban planning; moreover, the planning principles (integration of regional and harmonious resource constructions and coordinated organization function) that are suitable for resource industrial city were presented. In this study, taking the industrial transformation and resource-based city of Yichun as an example, the infrastructure and the general situation of the new district planning in the future were deeply analyzed. In the light of the functional development and planning structure of the transformation and development planning of resource-based industrial cities, the following planning and development strategies were proposed: the centralized small-scale space should be constructed. Diversion control should be carried out on bicycle lane and motorized lane in new area. The three-dimensional layout of the grid should be applied to the overall planning of the road, and according to the expressway, main roads, secondary roads and ordinary sections, there must be four kinds of traffic system, so as to construct a diversified traffic diversion system. The original industrial land should be extended into a continuous space, and the allocation of new district resources after transformation must be suitable for the development plan of brand strategy, so as to perfect the forestry land of Sun Yue gorge street and transform it into RBD recreational and entertainment community, and build a friendly eco city.
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Between Mimesis and Alterity: Art, Gift, and Diplomacy in Colonial India, 1770–1800
Today cultural thingness is on the agenda. What Appadurai has called “methodological fetishism” has become the byword for a new type of inquiry into the ontology of possession and circulation of things. Of these, the Maussian ’gift' has emerged as an organizing topos for other institutions of exchange not structured by the contractual rationality of commodity.
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