Art and Politics Now! - Susan Noyes Platt, PhD - Art Historian & Critic
Criticism by Topic
Contemporary Art in Turkey
As you see me, But I am not, Five Contemporary Turkish Women Artists, Women's Museum, Frankfurt, 2001
Sirin Iskit, Apel Gallery, Istanbul, 2001
Tomur Atagok, Ankara, 2000
Dokunma, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, 1999-2000
"Public Politics and Domestic Rituals," Contemporary Art by Women in Turkey, 1980 - 2000" Frontiers, 2003, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 19-37
"The Digestible Other/The Istanbul Biennial," Third Text, Summer 2003 with Tomur Atagok
"Istanbul" ( four exhibitions, Art Papers, July August 2000
Istanbul: Bedri Baykam," Art Papers, May June 2000
"Staged Sanctity ( Inci Eviner,) Afterimage, July August 2000
"Istanbul Biennial Art Papers January February 2000
Unpublished Presentations
"Turkish Artists Address Militarism" Turkish Studies Group, University of Washington, Seattle, Spring 2007
"Contemporary Art in Turkey: The Effect of the Istanbul Biennial" International Association of Art Critics, London, Fall 2000
Other International Art
"Art and Politics in the Middle East: Fictionalized Histories and Delusional Modernisms," Block, Spring,2007
"Contemporary Art in the Middle East," Artbook, Spring 2007, catalog reviews
"Word Into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East," Arteast.org July 2006 (online)
"Over Here: International Perspectives on Art and Culture," Art book, Nov 2005, 41-42
Art Across Borders, Contemporary Art from Iraq and Palestine ( brochure) 2004
"Grieve for the Loss of Iraq's Historical Soul." The Seattle Times, April 18, 2003
"Do-Ho Suh and Xu Bing," (catalog reviews) The Art Book March 2003 pp. 34-35
Imna Arroyo, San Juan Puerto Rico, 2002
Vancouver (Cai Guo-Qiang) Art Papers Magazine January February 2002 p. 56
"Global Conceptualism," Art Papers Magazine, March April 2001
Brazil, Pakistan India: Contemporary Artists/Historical Contexts Art Papers Magazine, May June 2002, pp. 22-27
"Czech Connections," Afterimage, July/August 2001, p. 17
"Women Artists of India A Celebration of Independence," Art Papers, March April 1998
"New Art in China, Post 1989" Art Papers, March/April. 1998
"In London: Susan Platt Reports on the White chapel Open," Art Papers, September/October 1998
"Cuban Art in Canada," At Papers, September October 1997
"David Alfaro Siqueiros," Art Papers, November/December 1997
"Searching For Equality Through Art," The Dallas Morning News, Oct 4, 1995 (commentary on contemporary art and politics in China and at the fourth UN Conference on Women)
"Gambling, Fencing and Camouflage: Homer Saint-Gaudens and the Carnegie International 1922- 1950" International Encounters, Carnegie Museum of Art, 1996
Encounters: Ray Smith, Dallas Museum of Art, 1993
Unpublished Presentations
"Myth, Politics, and Gender in Contemporary Art by Women in India," British Art Historians Association, Exeter, Spring, 1998
"Postmodern Puzzles: Contemporary Art in China," CAA, Toronto, February, 1998
England, Spring 1992
"Contemporary Art in the Middle East," The Evergreen State College, Winter 2002
"Contemporary Art and Women in the Middle East," Western Washington University, Bellingham, Fall 2002
"Contemporary Art in Turkey," American Research Institute in Turkey, Istanbul;
Fulbright Commission, Antalya, Turkey, May 2000
"Art and Politics in China," lecture on the NGO conference and contemporary art in China given at: Women's Caucus for Art; Women's Studies Program, University of North Texas; Faculty Women's Association, University of North Texas; Veteran Feminists of America, Southern Methodist University; University of Texas, Arlington; Political Science Department, University of North Texas; Helen Terry Memorial Lecture, Unitarian Church, Denton; Texas Women's University, Texas Association of Art Education. Fall 1995
Environmental Art
"Maya Lin and the Confluence Project," Sculpture November 2006
"Third Floor: Planned Obsolescence," Artlies, Spring 2005
"Seattle: James Turrell," Art Papers Magazine, November December 2003
Gail Tremblay, Raven Chronicles, vol. 10, no. 3
Seattle: Gail Tremblay, Art Papers Magazine, November 2002
"An Act of Resistance (Tanis Maria S'eiltin at Sacred Circle Art Gallery)," Art Access May 2002
"In Warm Springs (Lillian Pitt) " Art Papers', September October 1999
"Paradigms and Paradoxes: Nature, Morality and Art in America," Art Journal, Summer 1992, pp. 82-88
"Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison: An Urban Discourse," Artweek, May 1983
"Vito Acconci: The Sheltering City," Artweek, September, 1982
Presentation
"Artists of Earth, Space and Time of the Inland Northwest," College Art Association, San Francisco, Winter 1989
Feminism
Book Review: WACK , Global Feminisms and Judy Chicago's Dinner Party, Art Book, November 2007
"Elizabeth McCausland: Art, Politics and Sexuality" for anthology Katy Deepwell, ed.,Women and Modernism, (Manchester University Press, 1998). pp.83-96.
"Mysticism in the Machine Age: Jane Heap and The Little Review," Twenty /One, Art and Culture, University of Illinois, Chicago, vol. 1, no.1, 1990 pp. 18-44
"The Little Review: Early Years and Avant-Garde Ideas," in Sue Ann Prince, ed, The Old Guard and the Avant-Garde, Modernism in Chicago 1910- 1940, University of Chicago Press, 1990, pp. 139-154
Lynda Benglis: Game Being, Print Press, University of North Texas,1997
"Nancy Graves" National Honorees Catalogue, Women's Caucus for Art, 1993
Presentations
"Artists, Women War " Texas Tech University, Women's Studies Conference, 2005
"Contemporary Art by Women in Turkey, University of Texas, Dallas, 2005
"New Perspectives: Feminism and American Art" for conference "Hindsights and Insights: Scholarship in American Art 1970-1990" Sponsored by the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Spring 1990
"Radical Women: Artists and Writers of the 1930s," Northwest Women's Studies
Association Spring1991
"Recent Issues in Feminist Criticism," Northwest Women's Caucus for the Arts, Portland Fall 1988
"The Little Review and the Early Avant-Garde Scene in Chicago," Chicago Art Institute
sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.Spring 1988
"Feminist Criticism: Two Approaches, Three Case Studies," Women's Caucus for the Arts, Boston, Winter 1987
Political Art
Books
Art and Politics Now, in progress
Art and Politics in the 1930s, A History of Cultural Activism During the Depression Years. Midmarch Arts Press, 1999.
Chapter
"The Jersey Homestead Mural: Ben Shahn, Bernarda Bryson, and History Painting in the 1930s," in Redefining American History Painting, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Essays and Reviews
Book Review "Abu Ghraib and other subjects in Art and Politics," Artbook, Spring 2007
"'Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond,' Peter Selz", Book Review,"
Art Book, Aug 2006, 44-46.
Essay in Selma Waldman/Naked/Aggression Profile of the Armed Perpetrator 1998 - 2003
"Seattle Washington ("States of the Union: Before and After") Art Papers January-February 2003, p. 51
Remembering the Past, (Japanese Internment Camps) Real Change May 16 - 29 2002
"Politically Incorrect, Outing the Political Artist," Art Papers, September, October 1999
Art and Activism, A Brief History, Art Papers, May/June 1997
"The Culture of the Apocalypse," (Masami Teraoka) Art Papers, Jan Feb 1997
"Nuclear Politics, Nuclear History and Postmodern Politics," Reflex, 1994
"Border Watch II opens new vistas," Dallas Morning News September 23, 1990
"Art for the New Apocalypse," Artweek, February 1985
Nancy Worthington: Reflection on our Age, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California 1984
Unpublished Presentations
"Artists, Women, War," Texas Tech University, Lubbock Texas conference on Women and War sponsored by the Women's Studies Department, April 2005
"New Perspectives: Feminism and American Art" for conference "Hindsights and Insights: Scholarship in American Art 1970-1990" Sponsored by the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Spring 1990
Public Art
"Maya Lin and the Confluence Project," Sculpture November 2006
"Art and Justice: Public Art in Seattle," Sculpture September 2003
Changing Models for Public Art: Seattle's 'Salmon in the City' " Sculpture June 2002
Presentation
"Public Art: Product and Process," American Consulate, Istanbul; Marmara University, Istanbul; Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul
Modernism
Modernism in the 1920s: A Study of the Interpretations of New York from Expressionism to Constructivism UMI Research Press, 1985
"Clement Greenberg in the late 1930s - A New Perspective on his Criticism," Art Criticism vol. 5, no. 2, Spring 1989, pp. 47-64
"Modernism, Formalism and Politics: the 1936 'Cubism and Abstract Art Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art," Art Journal, Winter 1988, pp. 284-295
Presentations
"The Battle of Modernism and Regionalism: Stuart Davis and Thomas Hart Benton in the
early 1930s," for session chaired by Diane Kelder, College Art Association,
NewYork Spring, 1990
"The Impact of the New York Museum of Modern Art on the Interpretation of Modern Art in America," Pacific Northwest American Studies Association, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, Spring, 1989
Contemporary Art General
"Roger Shimomura: Racism," Raven Chronicles (online)
"Seattle: Marita Dingus," Art Papers Magazine, September/October 2003
"Seattle: Maki Tamura" Art Papers Magazine, July/August 2003
Bellevue (Roger Shimomura) Art Papers Magazine July-August 2002, p. 52
"An American Diary, Roger Shimomura at the Bellevue Art Museum," Art Access, March 2002
"Annabel Daou," 20, Art Papers, July-August , 1996
"Betye Saar " Art Papers , September/October, 1997
"Luis Cruz Azaceta," New Art Examiner, September 1987
Community Art and Issues
"PETLAND, A Woman's Life, " Frontiers, vol xix, no 2, 83-93.
"Out of the Box: Black Writers Evade Stereotypes," Real Change, October 30 - November 12, 2003
"Outside In 'Homeless Youth offer a different View," Real Change, July 10 - 23, 2003
"Art on a Mission" Northwest Colors, April 2003
"The Fight for What is Right" ( review of Ward Churchill books) Real Change, April 17 - April 30, 2003
"East Coast hip hop company ignites the passions in Washington's Only Women's Prison," Real Change
December 26 - January 8, 2003
"Genocide Trail: Holocaust Unspoken Real Change October 18 -November 3, 2002
Palimpsests Art Access September 2002
The True Philanthropists 'Nickel and Dimed in America,'(theater review)Real Change August 8 -21, 2002
Arts Corps, A Phenomenal Success Story Real Change, January 10 -23, 2002
Disability and Liberation Real Change Nov 29 - December 21, 2001
Two Major Collections of African American Art Art Access September 2001
Seattle Celebrates El Dia de los Muertos Art Access November 2001
Unpublished Presentations
"African American Artists in Seattle After World War II: A Selection" Association of African American History, Research and Preservation, Seattle, February, 2006
"James W. Washington Jr, and the Civil Rights Movement in Seattle, Pacific Northwest History Association, Tacoma April 2007
"Four African American Artists in Washington State," Inquiring Mind Lectures, Humanities Washington, 2006-2007