Painting Criticism or Painting as Criticism
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(Re)seeing Painting
Spring / Summer 2021
This features dedicated to painting is part of an attempt to encourage critical analyses of painting practices. While presenting a selection of articles that attest to the diversity of aesthetic and conceptual approaches to this art form, (Re)seeing Painting puts forward some considerations of the different strategies deployed in art practices or dissemination networks. Though pictorial research may remain central to painters, some of them use their works as formidable tools of empowerment or protest, as a means to critically examine society.
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The Reactualization of Painting in Digital Times
Too Hard: Gay Figurative Painting’s Gimmicks
The Afterlife’s Painting
Narrative Bodies and Intimacy in Contemporary Figurative Painting
Damien Cadio, Des horizons
Painting in a Transitory Realm: Vincent Larouche and the Effects of Digital Culture
Listening to Pictorial Material
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Tourism
Spring Summer 2024
Because it is essential for it to be open to the world, art is particularly affected by concerns related to planetary travel. From a position at the intersection of contemporary art, leisure, ecology, and destination culture, Esse no. 111 observes artists’ and critical thinkers’ strategies for revisiting the very notion of tourism. Although the harmful impacts of the tourism industry are beyond question, the thematic section avoids falling prey to tourismphobia and simply pointing out its failures. Rather, this issue offers a guided tour of situations and places where art and tourism converge.