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Lara Bongard inherited a 100 year old Shabbat tablecloth, the only surviving heirloom from the vanished world of her ancestors, with which her great-grandfather Mordko Bongard crossed the river of his shtetl in 1911 and never returned. He left his family and community, to escape the pogroms that swept the regions. Lara embarked on an extensive research into the scattered history of her family in the previous Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). She retraced family members, collected testimonies, photographs, letters and archival material, researched Yiddish tales, symbols and mythologies — in order to reconstruct her own image of the past. The tablecloth grew into a symbol of life: sharing food with family across time, connecting East with West, the generations, and diversity of cultures we as a family represent. Gradually, dislocation became a portable home.‘The Girl Who Crossed the River with a Tablecloth’ is a multidimensional work and dynamic space of memory, in which fictional stories about the lives of her ancestors are written in conjunction with the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar, travel stories and memories, photographs and illustrations. The project contributes to generating new connecting narratives about the fluid meaning of being 'at home' in our contemporary world and reframing perspectives on multiple histories and identity.

Art --- families [kinship groups] --- storytelling --- food --- textile art [visual works] --- narrative art --- Bongard, Lara

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Images of Familial Intimacy in Eastern and Western Art offers a comparative art and socio-historical analysis of selected images of familial intimacy in Asia and Europe from the pre-modern era to the present day based on an examination of the value systems and expectations existing at the time in the regions in which the works were created. A wide variety of images are discussed ranging from family portraits and depictions of the home in seventeenth-century Dutch genre paintings, ukiyoe prints and fusuma sliding wall panels of the Edo period, to familial images made after the Korean War of 1950-53, providing the reader with a rare insight into the evolution East and West of the cultural norms and customs impacting on the family and personal space.

families [kinship groups] --- Sociology of culture --- privacy --- Psychology --- Art --- East Asia --- Europe --- Families in art. --- Intimacy (Psychology) in art. --- Art and society --- Familles dans l'art --- Intimité dans l'art --- Art et société --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- Family in art --- Social aspects

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"This volume engages in a wide-ranging investigation of what speculation can mean and how, and what is at stake for artistic, curatorial critical and institutional practices in relating to their own speculative character"-- Engaging with the question of speculation in ways that encompass the artistic, the economic, and the philosophical, with excursions into the literary and the scientific, this collection approaches the theme as a powerful logic of contemporary life whose key instantiations are art and finance. Both are premised on the power of contingency, temporality, and experimentation in the creation (and capitalization) of possible worlds. Artistic autonomy, and the self-legislation of the space of art, have often been seen as the freedom to speculate wildly on material and social possibilities. In this context, the artist is seen as a speculative subject and a paragon of creativity—the diametrical opposite of the bean-counter obsessed with balance sheets and value added. However, once social reality becomes speculative and opaque in its own right—risky, algorithmic, and overhauled by networked markets—what becomes of the distinction between not just art and finance but art and life? This anthology surveys material and social inventiveness from the ground up, speculating with technologies, gender, constructs of the family, and systems of logistics and coordination. An ecology of speculation is traced—one that is as broken, specific, and enthralling as the world.

Art --- speculating --- art theory --- Contemporary [style of art] --- Speculation --- kunst --- kunsttheorie --- 7.01 --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- economie --- kunst en economie --- iconografie --- iconologie --- Bucket-shops --- Commercial corners --- Corners, Commercial --- Finance --- Gambling --- Commodity exchanges --- Contracts, Aleatory --- Investments --- Stock exchanges --- Economic aspects --- Kunst en economie --- Kunst ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- families [kinship groups] --- finance --- technology [general associated concept] --- museums [institutions] --- gender --- exhibition curators

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The Notion of Family, offers an incisive exploration of the legacy of racism and economic decline in America's small towns, as embodied by her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania. The work also considers the impact of that decline on the community and on her family, creating a statement both personal and truly political-- an intervention in the histories and narratives of the region. Frazier has compellingly set her story of three generations--her Grandma Ruby, her mother, and herself--against larger questions of civic belonging and responsibility. The work documents her own struggles and interactions with family and the expectations of community, and includes the documentation of the demise of Braddock's only hospital, reinforcing the idea that the history of a place is frequently written on the body as well as the landscape.

Photography --- families [kinship groups] --- black-and-white photographs --- documentary photography --- commercial portraiture --- African American --- #breakthecanon --- Frazier, LaToya Ruby --- Pennsylvania --- Photography of families --- African Americans --- Artists --- Photography, Artistic --- 761.2 fotografen afzonderlijk --- reportagefotografie (documentaire fotografie) --- landschapsfotografie --- portretfotografie --- sociale fotografie --- sociologie --- familie --- dagelijks leven --- USA --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Artistic photography --- Photography, Pictorial --- Pictorial photography --- Art --- Families --- Aesthetics --- Frazier, LaToya Ruby, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Black people --- fotografie --- portetfotografie --- documentaire fotografie --- Verenigde Staten --- eenentwinitgste eeuw --- Frazier LaToya Ruby --- Afro-Amerikanen --- 77.071 FRAZIER