>> CONTENTS May 2007
Issue No 306 www.artmonthly.co.uk
COVER Christian Megert Mirror Room 1968
01 FEATURES Guilty Pleasures One way to negotiate the ethical uncertainties of images is to consider how they serve our understanding of the subject, suggests Adam E Mendelsohn 05 The Politics of Beauty Dave Beech argues that beauty is political not despite the fact that it feels subjective but precisely because it feels subjective
12 COMMENT
EDITORIAL 13 NEWS
ARTNOTES 20 PROFILE Cecily Brennan Jaki Irvine 22 REVIEWS
EXHIBITIONS Lawrence Weiner John Slyce 23 Op Art Michael Corris 24 The Secret Public: The Last Days of The British Underground Roger Cook 25 Centre of the Creative Universe David Briers 27 Prison David Barrett 28 David Maljkovic Teresa Gleadowe 29 Gerard Byrne Rikke Hansen 30 Slash Fiction Martin Newman 32 Adrian Paci Eliza Williams 33 Philippe Parreno Martin Herbert 34 Keith Wilson Sally O’Reilly
36 BOOKS Nature of the Beast Jaime Stapleton Cultural Ecology Dean Kenning
38 SOUND And While London Burns Kit Hammonds
39 POLEMIC Inverted Racism? Rasheed Araeen
40 NET WORKS Web 2.o Michael Gibbs
41 ARTLAW Who Owns Elisabeth Frink? Henry Lydiate
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