Handwerker Gallery Newsletter
Fall 1999 – Volume 1, Number 3
He is the author of many works, including Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (London: Verso, 1991) and most recently The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998 (London: Verso, 1998).
...Obviously, modern painting is very important, too, but it seems to me that all those things reflected a certain notion of art which is no longer present.
...The image in this society - and people have used words like simulacrum for that - would seem to me a late stage of the visual, which is no longer completely sensory but delivered by media photography, television, and so forth.
Paintings and prints line Harry McCue's small office in the far-flung Cerrache Center at Ithaca College.... Dressed in jeans and a plaid shirt, McCue leans back in his desk chair and lets a smile creep out from under his distinctive salt-and-pepper mustache as he talks about the art bike, the department's cooperative mode of transportation.
..."I think it is important that our faculty and our students have the opportunity to show their work," he says. In recent years the Handwerker Gallery has mounted solo or small-group exhibitions of works by faculty members returning from sabbatical.
...When the faculty put their work up over there, the students check out the wares and see that we're very much working and exhibiting artists.
His critical practice, based on a strong theoretical position, conceives of image analysis as the constant reinscription of the visual production within its historical context.
In his lecture, "Nostalgia for the Real: The Troubled Relation of Art History and Visual Studies," Moxey critically analyzed from the poststructuralist theoretical position the historical production of both art history and visual studies, the mutual interdependence and exclusions of their disciplinary boundaries, and the strategic difference of visual studies.
A complex mix of Catholic and Aztec iconography, the Virgin of Guadalupe (also known as the Lady of Guadalupe and the Goddess of the Americas) has been revered for centuries as both the incarnation of Aztec female deities and, by Catholics, the mother of Jesus Christ.
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On Contemporary Culture, Briefly
A Talk with Harry McCue
What Does Visual Studies Do?
Spring/Summer 1999 Events
From the Permanent Collection: The Virgin of Guadalupe