Jane Blocker
Biographic Data
| ID | 524817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Blocker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Blocker |
| SIGNATURE | BLOCKER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Twin Cities Orthopedics |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Plague Winds: Meteorology in Marvin Cone’s Landscapes
Inspired by the violent derecho that struck central Iowa in 2020, this essay revisits the work of American regionalist painter Marvin Cone (1891–1965), whose hometown of Cedar Rapids lost nearly three quarters of its tree canopy in this unprecedented weather event. Studying Cone’s landscapes, in particular those that stage what I call a scenography of weather, the article asks to what extent late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century climate sc…
Listening to Echoes: Racial Violence in Contemporary Art History
Taking its cues from recent scholarship on the crisis of anti-Black violence, this essay revisits a constellation of art world events related to the 1991 police beating of Rodney King: Anna Deavere Smith’s 1993 performance Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, a one-woman play about the riots sparked when King’s attackers were acquitted; the 1993 Whitney Biennial, which included the amateur videotape of the beating that had featured prominently in news co…
The Judge as Historian: Knowledge at the Limits of Doubt (A Response to Jacqueline Rose's “Feminism and the Abomination of Violence”)
History in the Present Progressive: Sonic Imposture at The Pedicord Apts
Scholars often think of sound, even recorded sound, as having a special relationship to the real that other historical artifacts do not. But if sound is a material thing, and things can be, from a new materialist perspective, “quasi-agents,” is it possible that sound is an agent that poses or acts? Three “scenes of history” utilizing recorded sound—Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, archival recordings of FDR, and a sound installation by Edward and Nan…
Touched Photographs
Journal Article Touched Photographs Get access Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jetée, Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amour by Carol Mavor, Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2012, 193 pp., 18 col. and 89 b. & w. illus., £16.99 pbkTouching Photographs by Margaret Olin, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2012, 273 pp., 39 col. and 84 b. & w. illus., £24.50 pbk Jane Blocker Jane Blocker Search for other wo…
Queer Failures of History: Stupidity and Temporal Dissidence in The Lastmaker
Ambivalent Entertainments: James Luna, Performance, and the Archive
October 01 2009 Ambivalent Entertainments: James Luna, Performance, and the Archive Jane Blocker Jane Blocker Jane Blocker is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota. She is author of Where Is Ana Mendieta? Identity, Performativity, and Exile (Duke, 1999) and What the Body Cost: Desire, History, and Performance (Minnesota, 2004). Her current book is called Seeing Witness: Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony (Minnesota,…
This Being You Must Create: Transgenic Art and Witnessing the Invisible
‘This Being You Must Create’ uses the story of Frankenstein as a parent text through which to understand how the cultural phenomena surrounding genomics are shot through with stories of biological meaning, which remain unreconciled with the problems of invisibility. The essay examines two of Frankenstein' progeny: Scottish sculptor Christine Borland' work The Monster' Monologue (1997) and a piece called GFP Bunny (2000) by the self-named ‘transge…
Where Is Ana Mendieta: Identity, Performativity, and Exile
Lines of Activity: Performance, Historiography, Hull-House Domesticity (review)
Where Is Ana Mendieta: Identity, Performativity, and Exile
Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s' artworld. In Where Is Ana Mendieta? art historian Jane Blocker provides an in-depth critical analysis of Mendieta's diverse body of work. Although her untimely death in 1985 remains shrouded in controversy, her life and artistic legacy provide a unique vantage point from which to consider the history o…
Ana Mendieta and the Politics of the Venus Negra
The theorizations by some early feminists of the affiliation between Earth and woman, the ‘archetype of the Great Goddess’, and the ‘universal female’, are today regarded with embarrassment as essentializing, ultimately disempowering gestures. This article examines a 1981 project by Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta for the feminist art journal Heresies. In this project she combines a photograph of one of her own earthworks with her translation of t…
Woman-House: Architecture, Gender and Hybridity in What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Research Article| September 01 1996 Woman-House: Architecture, Gender and Hybridity in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? Jane Blocker Jane Blocker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 126–150. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-13-3_39-126 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools …
Where Is Ana Mendieta: Identity, Performativity, and Exile
Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s' artworld. In Where Is Ana Mendieta? art historian Jane Blocker provides an in-depth critical analysis of Mendieta's diverse body of work. Although her untimely death in 1985 remains shrouded in controversy, her life and artistic legacy provide a unique vantage point from which to consider the history o…
Woman-House: Architecture, Gender and Hybridity in What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Research Article| September 01 1996 Woman-House: Architecture, Gender and Hybridity in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? Jane Blocker Jane Blocker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 126–150. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-13-3_39-126 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools …
Ambivalent Entertainments: James Luna, Performance, and the Archive
October 01 2009 Ambivalent Entertainments: James Luna, Performance, and the Archive Jane Blocker Jane Blocker Jane Blocker is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota. She is author of Where Is Ana Mendieta? Identity, Performativity, and Exile (Duke, 1999) and What the Body Cost: Desire, History, and Performance (Minnesota, 2004). Her current book is called Seeing Witness: Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony (Minnesota,…
Woman-House: Architecture, Gender and Hybridity in What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Research Article| September 01 1996 Woman-House: Architecture, Gender and Hybridity in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? Jane Blocker Jane Blocker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 126–150. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-13-3_39-126 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools …
Ana Mendieta and the Politics of the Venus Negra
The theorizations by some early feminists of the affiliation between Earth and woman, the ‘archetype of the Great Goddess’, and the ‘universal female’, are today regarded with embarrassment as essentializing, ultimately disempowering gestures. This article examines a 1981 project by Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta for the feminist art journal Heresies. In this project she combines a photograph of one of her own earthworks with her translation of t…
Where Is Ana Mendieta: Identity, Performativity, and Exile
Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s' artworld. In Where Is Ana Mendieta? art historian Jane Blocker provides an in-depth critical analysis of Mendieta's diverse body of work. Although her untimely death in 1985 remains shrouded in controversy, her life and artistic legacy provide a unique vantage point from which to consider the history o…
Where Is Ana Mendieta: Identity, Performativity, and Exile
Lines of Activity: Performance, Historiography, Hull-House Domesticity (review)
This Being You Must Create: Transgenic Art and Witnessing the Invisible
‘This Being You Must Create’ uses the story of Frankenstein as a parent text through which to understand how the cultural phenomena surrounding genomics are shot through with stories of biological meaning, which remain unreconciled with the problems of invisibility. The essay examines two of Frankenstein' progeny: Scottish sculptor Christine Borland' work The Monster' Monologue (1997) and a piece called GFP Bunny (2000) by the self-named ‘transge…
Ambivalent Entertainments: James Luna, Performance, and the Archive
October 01 2009 Ambivalent Entertainments: James Luna, Performance, and the Archive Jane Blocker Jane Blocker Jane Blocker is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota. She is author of Where Is Ana Mendieta? Identity, Performativity, and Exile (Duke, 1999) and What the Body Cost: Desire, History, and Performance (Minnesota, 2004). Her current book is called Seeing Witness: Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony (Minnesota,…
Queer Failures of History: Stupidity and Temporal Dissidence in The Lastmaker
Touched Photographs
Journal Article Touched Photographs Get access Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jetée, Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amour by Carol Mavor, Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2012, 193 pp., 18 col. and 89 b. & w. illus., £16.99 pbkTouching Photographs by Margaret Olin, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2012, 273 pp., 39 col. and 84 b. & w. illus., £24.50 pbk Jane Blocker Jane Blocker Search for other wo…
History in the Present Progressive: Sonic Imposture at The Pedicord Apts
Scholars often think of sound, even recorded sound, as having a special relationship to the real that other historical artifacts do not. But if sound is a material thing, and things can be, from a new materialist perspective, “quasi-agents,” is it possible that sound is an agent that poses or acts? Three “scenes of history” utilizing recorded sound—Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, archival recordings of FDR, and a sound installation by Edward and Nan…
The Judge as Historian: Knowledge at the Limits of Doubt (A Response to Jacqueline Rose's “Feminism and the Abomination of Violence”)
Listening to Echoes: Racial Violence in Contemporary Art History
Taking its cues from recent scholarship on the crisis of anti-Black violence, this essay revisits a constellation of art world events related to the 1991 police beating of Rodney King: Anna Deavere Smith’s 1993 performance Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, a one-woman play about the riots sparked when King’s attackers were acquitted; the 1993 Whitney Biennial, which included the amateur videotape of the beating that had featured prominently in news co…
Plague Winds: Meteorology in Marvin Cone’s Landscapes
Inspired by the violent derecho that struck central Iowa in 2020, this essay revisits the work of American regionalist painter Marvin Cone (1891–1965), whose hometown of Cedar Rapids lost nearly three quarters of its tree canopy in this unprecedented weather event. Studying Cone’s landscapes, in particular those that stage what I call a scenography of weather, the article asks to what extent late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century climate sc…
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