For more than a decade artist Lisi Raskin has been making works that investigate sites of foreign and domestic conflict, particularly those associated with the Cold War. Her projects have included handmade reimaginings of military structures and paraphernalia, an itinerant exploration of America’s atomic laboratories and missile silos, and a photojournalistic inquiry into the elaborate underground bunker of former Yugoslav leader, Josip Broz Tito.
David Markus
David Markus is a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago and an instructor at NYU Gallatin School of Individual Study. His art writing has appeared in Art in America, Art Papers, Transmission Annual, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere.
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Rainbows to No Place: Société Réaliste and the Ayn Rand Apocalypse
The 1949 King Vidor film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead centers on a headstrong New York architect named Howard Roark, who, at grave risk to his architectural practice, spends his days proffering sleek modernist designs to a society mired in its taste for tawdry neoclassicism. When, early on in the film, Roark encounters his impoverished, disillusioned and half-mad former mentor, he is warned about the costs of impudence: “May god bless you Howard, you’re on your way into hell.”
