Steven C Dubin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3923218 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Steven C Dubin |
| NOMBRES | Steven C |
| APELLIDO | Dubin |
| FIRMA | DUBIN S C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Instant Ancestors
Boxes of old unlabeled photographs are commonly featured at flea markets worldwide. Some enterprising vendors dub them “instant ancestors,” hawking the prospect of acquiring fictive kin and ersatz genealogies to new publics. These traders peddle style over substance and invite their customers to conjure up backstories for signifiers that have lost their indexicality. In essence they stoke peoples’ penchant for nostalgia. As objects that are commo…
Ngezinyawo—Migrant Journeys , Wits Art Museum (WAM), Johannesburg April 10–July 20, 2014
Impersonations and Revelations
December 01 2014 Impersonations and Revelations: Mysteries of a South African Photography Studio Steven C. Dubin Steven C. Dubin Steven C. Dubin is Professor of Arts Administration at Columbia University, New York, and Honorary Professor, Centre for the Creative Arts of Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His most recent book is Spearheading Debate: Culture Wars and Uneasy Truces (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2012). [email protected]…
Exhibition Review
Imperfect Pitch
June 01 2011 Imperfect Pitch: Pop Culture, Consensus, and Resistance during the 2010 World Cup Steven C. Dubin Steven C. Dubin Steven C. Dubin is professor of arts administration at Teachers College-Columbia University, and research affiliate, Columbia University Institute of African Studies. His book on the post-apartheid transformation of South African museums, Mounting Queen Victoria: Curating Cultural Change, was published by Jacana in 2009. …
Dungamanzi/Stirring Waters . Johannesburg Art Gallery, May 13–August 19, 2007
Transforming Museums
A detailed look at how South Africa's museum present the nation's past, and how they can serve as a lens for examining changes in South African society at large.
Transformation
Not so long ago, really—a few years before the establishment of democracy—South African museums celebrated International Museum Day in the following manner: "Tea was served in real Edwardian fashion, letters were written with old quill-pens, conversation took place on antique telephones and farm bread baked in clay ovens was served."1 Moreover, these activities were hyped as dissolving the barriers separating patrons from institutions.KeywordsInd…
“The History of Our Future”
Visitors to the National Cultural History Museum in Pretoria might opt to linger over a meal in the African Window Restaurant, located on its main floor. The bill of fare on a warm spring day in 2003 offered two options: a "Western meal" featuring chicken á la king with rice, or the "ethnic meal" consisting of tripe with pap.
Domesticating History
Editorial note: Michael Kammen served as president of the Organization of American Historians from 1995 to 1996
Fringe and Fortune
Pressed to the limit
Whenever scholars investigate the constraints placed upon expression, they traditionally devote the most attention to official censorship by either religious or secular authorities. But restrictions assume many shapes and, while overt censorship of this type may be the most obvious, it hardly exhausts the repertory of possible limitations. I adopt a different approach here: rather than focusing upon barriers imposed by elites, I instead emphasize…
Judge a Book by Its Cover
The Invention of Pornography
In America today the intense and controversial debate over the censorship of pornography continues to call into question the values of a modern, democratic culture. This ground-breaking collection of ten critical essays traces the history and various uses of pornography in early modern Europe, offering the historical perspective crucial to understanding current issues of artistic censorship. The essays, by historians and literary theorists, exami…
Arresting Images
Arresting Images
Arresting Images
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSteven C. Dubin Steven C. Dubin is associate professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Purchase. He is the author of the book Arresting Images as well as Bureaucratizing the Muse: Public Funds and the Culture Worker
Etched in Memory
Between 1880 and 1930, the art of painter-etching rose to a degree of popularity unmatched before or since. When the tide went out, most of the etchers once acclaimed were forgotten along with their prints - but some were more forgotten than others. in seeks to understand the process whereby some producers of culture but not others come to be considered worth remembering. Through a combination of masterful sleuthing and analytical rigor, Gladys E…
Symbolic Interaction and Cultural Studies
Antifascism in American Art
Visual Onomatopoeia
Social solidarity and group identity are not givens; at particular times they must be intentionally cultivated and concretely enacted. What I have termed visual onomatopoeia assembles large numbers of individuals into group insignias, emblems, or other significant symbols. The subsequent artistic or photographic record of such displays is tangible evidence of a group's existence-who comprises it and how it sees itself. It thereby operates as both…
Howard S. Becker
Freak Show
The State and the Artist
Sambo
Arresting Images
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSteven C. Dubin Steven C. Dubin is associate professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Purchase. He is the author of the book Arresting Images as well as Bureaucratizing the Muse: Public Funds and the Culture Worker
Symbolic Slavery
In this paper, I examine popular culture items that represent blacks in degrading, stereotyped ways, and objectify former sets of work roles and social relations. These material objects were most popular from approximately 1890 to the 1950s, and they symbolically reflected the social control mechanisms underlying majority-minority relations during that period. In addition, they helped to allay status anxiety and promoted a sense of social solidar…
Impersonations and Revelations
December 01 2014 Impersonations and Revelations: Mysteries of a South African Photography Studio Steven C. Dubin Steven C. Dubin Steven C. Dubin is Professor of Arts Administration at Columbia University, New York, and Honorary Professor, Centre for the Creative Arts of Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His most recent book is Spearheading Debate: Culture Wars and Uneasy Truces (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2012). [email protected]…
Visual Onomatopoeia
Social solidarity and group identity are not givens; at particular times they must be intentionally cultivated and concretely enacted. What I have termed visual onomatopoeia assembles large numbers of individuals into group insignias, emblems, or other significant symbols. The subsequent artistic or photographic record of such displays is tangible evidence of a group's existence-who comprises it and how it sees itself. It thereby operates as both…
Howard S. Becker
The Politics of Public Art
Organizational dynamics and priorities determine how art is produced as a public service. Chicago's CETA-sponsored Artists-in-Residence program (AIR) developed a distinctive culture and organizational structure to adapt to a complex and politicized environment and to manage a wide variety of artistic personnel. The fate and effectiveness of artists and their projects depended on their contribution to the organization's survival and the fit betwee…
The Moral Continuum of Deviancy Research
Domesticating History
Editorial note: Michael Kammen served as president of the Organization of American Historians from 1995 to 1996
Artists in Offices.Judith Adler
The Moral Continuum of Deviancy Research
Regulating Society
The Politics of Public Art
Organizational dynamics and priorities determine how art is produced as a public service. Chicago's CETA-sponsored Artists-in-Residence program (AIR) developed a distinctive culture and organizational structure to adapt to a complex and politicized environment and to manage a wide variety of artistic personnel. The fate and effectiveness of artists and their projects depended on their contribution to the organization's survival and the fit betwee…
How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art
Democratic Vistas
Artistic Production and Social Control
Artistic expression is shaped in specific ways when creative producers are employed by their governments. This paper examines the experiences of artists participating in the cultural components of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s, and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) in the 1970s–1980s. In the earlier period, the explicit censorship of products was necessitated by the relative inexperience of artists and bu…
Symbolic Slavery
In this paper, I examine popular culture items that represent blacks in degrading, stereotyped ways, and objectify former sets of work roles and social relations. These material objects were most popular from approximately 1890 to the 1950s, and they symbolically reflected the social control mechanisms underlying majority-minority relations during that period. In addition, they helped to allay status anxiety and promoted a sense of social solidar…
The State and the Artist
Sambo
Official Images
Nonprofit Enterprise in the Arts
Bureaucratizing the Muse
The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act made a dramatic entrace on the American economic and social stage in December 1973. No comparable commitment of public funds to subsidize jobs had occurred since the Works Progress Administration programs of the 1930s. An important beneficiary of CETA was the Artists-in-Residence program, in operation from 1977 to 1981. As part of the largest direct monetary transfer to artists since the WPA, AIR empl…
Howard S. Becker
Freak Show
Antifascism in American Art
Visual Onomatopoeia
Social solidarity and group identity are not givens; at particular times they must be intentionally cultivated and concretely enacted. What I have termed visual onomatopoeia assembles large numbers of individuals into group insignias, emblems, or other significant symbols. The subsequent artistic or photographic record of such displays is tangible evidence of a group's existence-who comprises it and how it sees itself. It thereby operates as both…
Symbolic Interaction and Cultural Studies
Arresting Images
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSteven C. Dubin Steven C. Dubin is associate professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Purchase. He is the author of the book Arresting Images as well as Bureaucratizing the Muse: Public Funds and the Culture Worker
Etched in Memory
Between 1880 and 1930, the art of painter-etching rose to a degree of popularity unmatched before or since. When the tide went out, most of the etchers once acclaimed were forgotten along with their prints - but some were more forgotten than others. in seeks to understand the process whereby some producers of culture but not others come to be considered worth remembering. Through a combination of masterful sleuthing and analytical rigor, Gladys E…
Arresting Images
Arresting Images
Judge a Book by Its Cover
The Invention of Pornography
In America today the intense and controversial debate over the censorship of pornography continues to call into question the values of a modern, democratic culture. This ground-breaking collection of ten critical essays traces the history and various uses of pornography in early modern Europe, offering the historical perspective crucial to understanding current issues of artistic censorship. The essays, by historians and literary theorists, exami…
Fringe and Fortune
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