PROJECTS
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Robert Storr on Kill for Peace
“The Vietnam War may seem long ago and far away to more recent generations but it was not only a profoundly divisive and thereby defining event for many who came of age during it, it remains for Americans of all ages a nagging example of an inherently ill-conceived and unwinnable foreign adventure in the post-colonial era and an unhealed wound in the national psyche. More so than in any war before it, the cultural community as a whole and visual artists in particular responded by making work and organizing protests that raise countless questions about the moral obligations and political efficacy—or inefficacy—of artistic activism, as well as about the aesthetics of dissent. Speaking from the position of a scholar who came of age during another round of such misadventures—the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—Matthew Israel closely examines the legacy of Vietnam War era art with keen and fair-minded attention to its ideals, achievements and failures. His is an indispensable book about a grim, much-ignored chapter in the history of American art in the second half of the 20th century, a book about how ‘then’ contains lessons for ‘now’—and for the future.”
Kill for Peace: American Artists Against the Vietnam War will be published by University of Texas Press this summer.
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ARLIS/NY to visit Artsy
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Artsy and The Art Genome Project profiled in Domus
Read the full article here. The article was written by Jonathan Olivares, founder of Jonathan Olivares Design Research and author of A Taxonomy of Office Chairs (Phaidon, 2011).
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Talk at Sotheby’s Institute of Art
Yesterday Matthew spoke about Artsy and The Art Genome Project at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York.
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INTERVIEWED BY NEW LEARNING TIMES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
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One of top art figures to follow on Twitter
Yesterday Matthew was named one of fifty “influential art figures to follow on Twitter” by Complex.
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Speaking at the Whitney
On February 12th, Matthew will be speaking about Artsy and “exploring art online” as part of a panel at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Kill for Peace available Summer 2013
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Artsy on CNBC
Carter Cleveland, the founder and CEO of Artsy, discussed Artsy and The Art Genome Project on CNBC yesterday. Watch it here.
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At Institute of Fine Arts Alumni Panel
Matthew will be speaking about Artsy and The Art Genome Project as part of an alumni career panel at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU on February 13th from 5-6 P.M.
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Art.sy in The Economist
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Art.sy CAA Session, February 14th
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Kill for Peace featured in UT Press Spring Catalog
The full catalog is available here.
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Talk at Harvard
Matthew will be speaking today about Art.sy and The Art Genome Project at The Harvard Advocate. The talk was organized by the Harvard Art Museum Undergraduate Connection (HAMUC).
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Kill for Peace Available for Pre-Order
Matthew’s book, Kill for Peace: American Artists Against the Vietnam War, is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com.
Lucy Lippard (writer, activist and author of A Different War), says this of the book:
Israel’s significant contribution lies in his extensive research and the way he contextualizes the art as it parallels the history of the Vietnam War. This is a smart way of analyzing the timeliness and effectiveness of antiwar art and has not been done at this length and depth…There is no other book that covers this territory anywhere as thoroughly. It will be very useful for teaching.
(Image above is Carol Summers, Kill for Peace, from the print portfolio, Artists and Writers Against the War in Vietnam, 1967. Screenprint with punched holes.)
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