Newspaper Diary (2006 - ) by artist Joanne Leonard, involve another kind of memory work—a pairing of press photographs from newspapers with images from art history and other illustrated books that remind us of older media, soon to be archaic memories, such as printed newspapers and hardcopy books. Leonard’s newspaper diarying performs a commentary on personal associations and on cultural memory traversing the space between the museum and the news and now digital media revealing a shared visual imaginary—the cultural store of images and image-memories—that shape the way we understand our present in pre-coded image repertoires of bodies and scenarios. Her daily practice of connecting images from the news with paintings and historical images from books also serve to mark time in her own life. Their creation enables her personally ‘to register the day’s passing’ while ‘responding to things in the world’ as the world’s diarist in images.
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JOANNE LEONARD, Covid Cars and Cut-Out Cows , 2020
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JOANNE LEONARD, Queens and Knights , 2020
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JOANNE LEONARD, Men in Bowler Hats: Prince Phillip and Magritte’s Every-man, 2017
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JOANNE LEONARD, Ebola and Christ , 2014
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JOANNE LEONARD, Red Crosses on Shields of 14th Century Crusaders and Street Fighters in Kyiv , 2014
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JOANNE LEONARD, MLK Remembered , 2013
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JOANNE LEONARD, Rifles Aimed to Kill, 2013
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JOANNE LEONARD, Manet and Moscow, 2012
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JOANNE LEONARD, Mary Poppins, 2012
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JOANNE LEONARD, Mary Poppins, 2012
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JOANNE LEONARD, People on Pedestals, 2011
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JOANNE LEONARD, Women and Voting, 2011
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JOANNE LEONARD, Forrest Fire and Medieval Tapestry of Trees , 2010
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JOANNE LEONARD, Music and Boys on Bars, 2010
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JOANNE LEONARD, Nolde and ash cloud , 2010
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JOANNE LEONARD, Bush and Angela Merkel with Top Hats , 2008
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JOANNE LEONARD, Artemesia’s Suzanna and the Elders and Men Conspiring, 2006
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JOANNE LEONARD, Diego Rivera and Factory in Slovakia, 2006