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Book SynopsisThis innovative and exciting volume celebrates the career and influence of Janet Wolff who has been a highly influential voice in the literature of sociology, cultural studies, visual studies and art history
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Porous boundaries: Art and essays – Cyril Reade and David Peters Corbett
I. Monroe Avenue Branch, Rochester, New York; The Bakken Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Roger Mertin
II. Michael Ann Holly and Keith Moxey interview with Janet Wolff
III. ‘I photographed an old dinette table…’ – Allen Topolski
IV. Janet Wolff’s artists – Howard Singerman
V. Woman in an Ermine Collar, after Kathleen McEnery Cunningham – Ruth Kessler
VI. Unprofessional painting: mass observation, modern art, and everyday life – Lucy Curzon
VII. The Catalogue – Cheryl Sourkes
VLLL. Creative marginality, collectors of the avant-garde – Vera Zolberg
IX. Reklame, Partisan Review – RB Kitaj
X. Dancing with Janet Wolff – Mark Franko
XI. Days of quiet, days of growth – Nancy Topolski
XII. Beauty and affect, time and art in our post-traumatic moment – Griselda Pollock
XIII. Minyan – Cyril Reade
XIV. New blueprints for knowledge production – Margot Bouman
XV. Preface to the third edition – Walid Raad
XVI. A certain modesty, or the ethics of gray – Jackie Stacey
XVII. Moving Shadows II/Reflections on Crossing LVI – Anne Subercaseaux
XVIII. Principles of Uncertainty – Joanna Scott
XIX. Pacific original – Arch Miller
XX. A few scattered (my own and borrowed) thoughts on the fate of intimacy, friendship and love in our liquid modern age – Zygmunt Bauman
XXI. Acropolis Revisited – Carl Chiarenza
XXII. Contributors
XXIII. Janet Wolff publications
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