This article examines the political administration of humour in Australian civil society from both an historical and contemporary perspective, as well as a range of cases involving cross-dressing prostitutes, police impersonators, political satirists and rebellious bare-bottomed colonial prisoners. Why are … Lire / Read
Some Girls Refuse to Lose their Heads f(or) their Hands
Some Girls: Griffiths/Simms/Wagschal/Werner, curated by James D. Campbell, is billed as an exhibit which “contributes to a vital dialogue concerning the state of portraiture in contemporary art.1” The tradition of portrait painting has focused on head and … Lire / Read
Agit-Vogue: Ideology Makes the Woman
This September’s issue of U.S. Vogue, touted as the “Biggest Issue Ever”, contains only 13% editorial content. Nevertheless, an aesthetic continuity ties the magazine’s advertising to its editorial features, betraying implicit ideological concerns in the content. Drawing on images of … Lire / Read