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Category Archive: Theory

Art, Performativity, & Gender as a Tool of Capitalism in Emily Mae Smith’s “The Studio”

Emily Mae Smith, The Mirror, oil on linen, 46 x 54 inches, 2015. Image © Emily Mae Smith
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Emily Mae Smith’s art historical and illustrative paintings summon Marxist interpretations of the performativity of gender. by Frances Barker

Frances Barker July 6, 2017 Theory, Vol. 2, No. 4: Summer 2017

The New Intellectual Zeitgeist: Speculative Realism & Maine

Image courtesy of the author.
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The philosophical movement that has garnered the greatest attention and engaged most thoroughly with the present culture is speculative realism. Skye Priestley explores the components of speculative realist thought and ties them to the logos of current cultural production in Maine.

Skye Priestley December 4, 2015 Essays, Theory, Vol. 1, No. 4: December 2015/January 2016

Contextualizing “Maine” Artists: the regional identity double standard

Anna Hepler, Double Hung (2013-2015), steel wire and rope, dimensions variable, as installed at University of Maine Museum of Art. Photo by the author.
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Jacob Fall questions how and why the term “Maine artist” is applied — and what that means for an artist’s identity and career.

Jacob Fall December 4, 2015 Theory, Vol. 1, No. 4: December 2015/January 2016

“Maine” Artists? Beginning to unpack regionalism

A survey of curators, critics, and artists reveals what we think of as “Maine” art. Jacob Fall investigates in this introduction to a series.

Jacob Fall November 5, 2015 Theory, Vol. 1, No. 3: November 2015

All Art is Outsider Art, Part 2: a quick guide to the making of an art epicenter

A step-by-step guide to constructing the new art epicenter. Above, a model of the Guggenheim New York by Little Building Co.
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Mariah Bergeron continues her serial on the New York art epicenter with a guide to using political, economic — and yes — artistic tools for taking over the (art) world.

Mariah Bergeron September 29, 2015 Essays, Theory, Vol. 1, No. 2: October 2015

Where is the art world? Cultural mapping at the Institute for American Art

participant map: artworld 2.
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Participant-made maps at the Institute for American Art in Portland, Maine, start to reveal different cultural understandings. by Chris Stiegler

Christopher Stiegler August 22, 2015 Theory, Vol. 1, No. 1: September 2015
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