E. Rowan Mena

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Torture of Women by Nancy Spero

December 7, 2013 by E. Rowan

This astonishing, terrifying work by the incredible feminist artist Nancy Spero is reproduced stunningly by Siglio Press. The 14 panels are reproduced in full, then showing the details in their full legibility. It’s hard to get a sense of scale from a book, but even so, this work seems massive. Not just in size but in scope. The collage is sparse, encasing the fragments of testimony and witnessing, and of Spero’s imagery in swathes of visual silence. The kind of […]

Categories: Art, Reading Journal • Tags: collage, feminist art, luisa valenzuela, nancy spero, political art, symmetries, torture of women

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Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art

May 15, 2013 by E. Rowan

A beautiful book with excellent reproductions of some of the most interesting works of collage in contemporary art. I found it slightly lacking in context. Though the two essays that were included were interesting they could have been more thoroughly developed. The O’Reilly essay made some really surprising reductions of the development of early twentieth-century collage techniques. Still a lot of good concepts raised – a good introduction for undergraduates beginning to think critically about collage. The second essay posited […]

Categories: Reading Journal • Tags: art of stealing, collage

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