To launch a discussion about what a new publication on contemporary art might offer, Burlington Contemporary sent out a questionnaire to writers, artists and thinkers.

Link: http://contemporary.burlington.org.uk/journal/journal/burlington-contemporary-questionnaire

Excerpt:

‘To be truly honest with one's self as a historian or critic, to understand that history is an affective discipline governed as much by fantasy as by fact. To revel in the contemporary is to enjoy the immediacy of our critical and emotional capacities as they intersect in "real"...

The Cinema of Catherine Breillat.

by Sophie Bélot. Brill Rodopi 2017. $112.00 hardcover. Also available in e-book. 162 pages.

Reviewed by William J. Simmons

            Catherine Breillat may be one of the most difficult filmmakers to write about with sensitivity, not only because she eschews traditional feminist critiques even as she engages with them...

Does Louise Lawler Make You Cry?

            Louise Lawler’s work has been plagued by totalizing readings about the art market and appropriation. We rely on truisms about the domestication of the art object in Lawler’s photographs of masterpieces in collectors’ homes, and we rehearse a tentatively feminist reading of her critiques of capitalism and male authorship without...