The Photomontage Activity of Postmodernism

For decades now, Douglas Crimp’s landmark 1980 essay ‘The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism’ has shaped our understanding of modernism’s aftermath, at least as it unfolded in North America and Western Europe. Less remembered, however, is the degree to which the procedures of disjunction, copying, appropriation, and outright theft that he highlighted were epitomised not just by contemporary photography, but by photomontage in particular. This article recovers the debates that led critics such as Crimp, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Christopher Phillips, Benjamin Buchloh and others to turn to photomontage as one of their principal objects of concern in what became known as the postmodern critique of photography. Why was montage tasked to perform this critical function, particularly by people around the journal October who had not otherwise devoted the balance of their writing to photography’s history? The article suggests that these men and women, along with the contemporary artists they foregrounded, manifested what Mary Anne Doane has called a ‘desire for signification’, a reaction in the late 1970s against the mute theatricality of minimalist and conceptual art. Photomontage reintroduced representation to contemporary art and to the canon of art history. But unlike the reemerging illusionism in painting that also manifested this desire, montage guarded against an uncomplicated realism by highlighting and critiquing operations of representation in a manner that painting no longer could.     

从《青春之歌》到《上海滩》——关于“革命”与“后革命”的一种考量

《青春之歌》和《上海滩》这两部经典作品蕴含了“革命”和“后革命”两段叙事。在“革命＋恋爱”的叙事模式中,“革命”是其突破日常叙事的逻辑起点;“爱情”则作为一种日常生活传奇与革命象征性结合。革命和后革命暗示了生活的日常和传奇二元性质,并内在性地揭示了“红色经典”所蕴含的二律背反特质。     

高职院校《界面美工设计》课程的项目化教学探讨

针对高等职业教育特点,从我院实施的项目化教学课程改革入手,以《界面美工设计》课程为例,对开展项目化教学的实践过程进行了论述,充分体现了项目化教学能快速提高学生的实践技能,特别是对项目设计经验和职业素养的提高具有很重要的意义。     

Space,Politics and Desire: Configuring the Landscape in Post-Revolutionary France

The French Revolution radically reconfigured citizens' views of both real and imagined space. This article sets out to explore this process of reconfiguration and the relationship between politics and space from the period immediately before the French Revolution in 1789 to the collapse of the Empire in 1815 and its aftermath. Although the liberties brought about by the Revolution made access to space one of its defining characteristics, the spaces of the Revolution were characterized by a diversity in which each political constituency made a space of its own choosing. Those spaces took forms as diverse as the pastoral garden, tales of devil abduction, political festivals, space travel, and hallucinatory visions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Switzerland. It was only when Napoléon ‘terminated’ the Revolution in 1799 that space was given a rational, homotopic shape, a shape that endured until the imperatives of the Bourbon Restoration required another configuration.     

实用主义代码70后中国建筑师之建筑数字观

文章指出,70后中国建筑师站在计算机带来的新技术变迁的时代前沿从电脑普及化到电脑计算化,首当其冲受到技术革命带来的设计方法和过程改变的洗礼,从而对数字设计具有敏锐触觉。70后受到的教育延续布扎体系,深悉建筑本质：几何形态、空间、质感,光线和建构。＂建房子＂的迫切需求让70后的数字时代的建筑观具有强烈实用主义的特征,这样的特征给在中国建筑实践和教育中崛起的70后带来了产生新建筑形态语言和思潮可能的机会。     

从“高技术革命”到“高铁革命”的发展研究——2. 克服对“高铁革命异议”的高技术与“西三角”崛起

继上文"高铁革命"的历史经济之后,讨论其技术经济。强调第4巨城市"西三角"崛起,万事俱全,只待高铁。     

对智能电网若干基础性问题的思考

本文在学习多方观点与意见的基础上,从技术进步、产业分工与社会使命的层面追根溯源正本清源,就当前智能电网的历史演变、现实背景、核心技术归类、主导机制、国家战略以及电网企业、监管机构的不同使命等基础性问题进行了思考。     

瞿秋白《湖南农民革命序》写作时间考

《湖南农民革命》是长江书店于1927年4月在武汉出版发行的。该书是由毛泽东的《湖南农民运动考察报告》和瞿秋白的《湖南农民革命序》组成的单行本。两文珠联璧合,相映成辉,成就了中国共产党党史中农民运动和农民革命的一段佳话;后经共产国际的推荐,又丰富了国际共产主义运动农民问题的理论宝库,成为当时为数不多的能够指导国际共运的中国革命经验。但是,目前我们看到的《湖南农民革命序》,有不同版本写作时间的记载,因此,《湖南农民革命序》的写作时间就成为湖南农民革命这份珍贵的革命历史文献的小小瑕疵。本文力图考证并给出一个明确的回答。     

大革命时期共产国际对蒋介石的错误认识及策略产生的原因

共产国际在大革命时期由于没有很好了解中国革命的情况 ;在组织原则上一味强调集中 ,越俎代庖 ;加上苏联顾问在指导中国革命时 ,从苏联利益出发 ,忽视别国利益 ,因此 ,造成了共产国际代表及苏联顾问没有准确把握蒋介石在大革命时期的真实面目。也是造成大革命失败的原因之一。