Blake Stimson Views
Blake Stimson, professor within the Art History and Critical Theory programs at the University of California, Davis, researches the role of social and political imagining in aesthetic experience. His recent publications include The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation (MIT, 2006), Collectivism after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945, co-edited with Gregory Sholette (Minnesota, 2007), and The Meaning of Photography, co-edited with Robin Kelsey (Clark/Yale, 2008).
Blake Stimson, perhaps best known for his engagements with Conceptual Art, has more recently undertaken an extremely respect-worthy project. In his recent texts, The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation, 2006, and Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination After 1945, 2007, which he co-edited and introduced, Stimson has sought to explore Modernism's more valuable social and humanist legacies. Such an endeavour provides an extremely important reinterpretation of our relationship with Modernism and its late forms. In The Pivot of the World Stimson explores three photographic projects that originated in the 1950s: Edward shellip;
Blake Stimson teaches art history and critical theory at the University of California, Davis. Recent publications include The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation (MIT, 2006) and The Meaning of Photography (co-edited with Robin Kelsey for the Clark Art Institute and Yale University Press, 2008).
Blake Stimson Images
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