About the Author

ANNE CIBOLA

Anne Cibola is a professor in the Photography and Illustration departments at Sheridan College. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Art History and Visual Culture program at York University. Cibola has completed a master’s degree in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management at Ryerson University (2014), and she holds a master’s degree in Art History from York University (2005) and a BFA in Print Media from Concordia University (2003). Cibola is also a practising graphic designer. Her most recent design project is a series of books co-published by RIC Books (Ryerson Image Centre) and MIT Press.

 

Cibola’s doctoral research centres on Arnaud Maggs’s practice and career narrative. Her project is framed by questions about the intersections of photography, graphic design, and conceptual art. Cibola first became interested in these questions while completing her thesis at Ryerson. Maggs’s work was one of three case studies in her project, which explored what is at stake when changes are made to artworks after they have been accessioned. Maggs revised the hanging scheme for Joseph Beuys, 100 Profile Views, 1980, eleven years after it was originally completed. His decision to adjust the work reveals one of many instances of the interplay between art and design in his practice.

 

As part of the research for both her thesis and doctoral projects, Cibola has conducted over twenty interviews with people who knew Maggs, including writers, curators, designers, former colleagues, friends, and family. This oral history offers valuable insights into Maggs’s impact and his ways of working.