Post45 Cluster: Ali Smith NOW!

The Museum of Art and Design currently features an exhibit on “garmenting,” described as artists “making or altering clothing for expressive purposes” to “create garments, sculpture, installation, and performance art that transform dress into a critical tool. Adopted globally as an artistic strategy, garmenting uses the language of fashion to challenge traditional divisions of form…

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Typestruck: On Women and Writing Machines

Recent publication: “Typestruck: On Women and Writing Machines” co-authored with Glenn Adamson over on the Modernism/Modernity Print Plus platform, part of the “Visualities” series annd edited by Alix Beeston: https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/elkins-adamson-typestruck We argue for the gendered significance of typewriting and look closely at Stevie Smith’s Novel on Yellow Paper as a technographic text. The collaborative, dynamic…

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Publication News: PMLA

Check out my recent piece in PMLA: From the Gutter to the Gallery: Berenice Abbott Photographs Mina Loy’s Assemblages I’m a big fan of the Little Known Documents feature in this journal. In my archival piece, I detail the significance of newly discovered photographs that American photographer Berenice Abbott took in Mina Loy’s Bowery apartment.…

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