Art Journal
Art Journal, Spring 2009
In This Issue
Retooling
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Features
Urban Claims and Visual Sources in the Making of Dakar’s Art World City
6
Cuba and the Art of “Trading with the Enemy”
24
The Currency of Practice: Reclaiming Autonomy for the MFA
40
Art, Code, and the Engine of Change
58
The Semiotic Engine: Notes on the History of Algorithmic Images in Europe
76
Imaging by Numbers: A Historical View of Digital Printmaking in America
90
Reviews
Natasha Kurchanova on Boris Groys, Art Power, and the exhibition Thinking in Loop: Three Videos on Iconoclasm, Ritual, and Immortality, organized by Boris Groys for Apexart, New York, 2008; Howard Singerman on John Roberts, The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art after the Readymade
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