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Review: Proximities: Art, Education, Activism , by Linda Brooks

2021; The Visual Studies Workshop; Volume: 48; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/aft.2021.48.2.144

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Sally Stein,

Digital Media and Visual Art

Book Review| June 01 2021 Review: Proximities: Art, Education, Activism, by Linda Brooks Proximities: Art, Education, Activism by Linda Brooks. TC Photo, 2020. 260 pp./$45.00 (sb). Sally Stein Sally Stein Sally Stein is professor emerita at UC Irvine, who after retiring from teaching continues to research and write about the history of photography while still based in Los Angeles. More details on her work can be found at www.sallystein.com. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2021) 48 (2): 144–151. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2021.48.2.144 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Sally Stein; Review: Proximities: Art, Education, Activism, by Linda Brooks. Afterimage 1 June 2021; 48 (2): 144–151. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2021.48.2.144 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentAfterimage Search For those mature artists still struggling (in all senses) and wondering if they will disappear with little notice, let alone any fanfare, Linda Brooks’s Proximities: Art, Education, Activism offers a DIY alternative: forget the white knight, the blue-chip gallery, the well-funded promotions. Instead, gather what resources you can muster (with the help of friends and a game new publisher) to take stock of where you came from; what you aimed to accomplish; how you and your work changed; and what artworks, writings, and human encounters inspired you along the way and just might inspire others. What results in this case is a cross between an album of artworks and graphic mementos, and a memoir with autobiographical text segments punctuated by bibliographies of formative books from each decade—all providing strong scaffolding for the visual assemblage.1 A half century ago, when I was in my early twenties, I had a roommate... You do not currently have access to this content.