Special Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. "I am on a train moving eastward," by Mark Holborn; "For some time now, in order to write this wretched article, I have been thinking about automatons," by Eugenio Battisti; "The monster and the city have always been symbiotic," by Philip Strick; "Since the late 18th century the function of art as a form of value, and how that value was to be defined, has been anything but clear," by Sidney Tillim; "There is more of traditional beauty in Modernist art than we care to admit," by Carter Ratcliff; "ANKEBUTA, AN ANCIENT BABYLONIAN SCIENTIST, WROTE A WORK ON ARTCRITICAL PRODUCTIONS IN WHICH HE CLAIMED TO HAVE MANUFACTURED A LIVING HUMAN BEING," by Thomas McEvilley; "God made the first copy," by Glenn O'Brien; "Culture in the most fertilized substance," by Edit deAK; "At this quick and weightless moment late in the Century of Abstraction. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Forum"; "Uncivil War," by Donald Kuspit; "'Guernica' and Guernica," by Phyllis Tuchman; "Hanne Darboven's Time: The Content of Consciousness," by Annelie Pohlen; "Time and Time Again," by Mario Perniola; "Nicola's Way," by Ida Panicelli; "How We Live: The Paintings of Robert Birmelin, Eric Fischl, and Ed Paschke," by John Yau. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Robert Doisneau's 'Oblique Regard,'" by Max Kozloff; "A Project by Giuseppe Penone"; "'The Other,'" by John Bernard Myers; "'Jiri Georg Dokoupil: The Imprisoned Brain," by Rainer Crone; "A Project by Robert Graham"; "Diogenes of Sinope (ca. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Books: Peter Galassi on 'Photography: A Concise History,'" by Peter Galassi; "David True's 'Pendulums,'" by John Yau; "William Eggleston's Color Photographs: Matters of Record"; "Eikoh Hosoe and Yukio Mishima: The Shadow in the Time Machine," by Mark Holborn; "Statuary Versus Idols," by Alain Kirili; "Escher or Newman: Who Puts the Ghosts in the Machine?" by Gary Stephan; "Bracusi + Mondrian: A Sum, a Summa," by Sidney Geist. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the inaugural exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Essays by Julia Brown, Bridget Johnson, Pontus Hulten, and Susan C. Larsen. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "The Extravagant Depression: John Gutmann's Photographs of the Thirties," by Max Kozloff; "The Pledge of Allegiance," by Rene Ricard; "Portrait of Patti Astor," by Jimmy de Sana; "Heads It's Form, Tail It's Not Content," by Thomas McEvilley; "The Dark Side of the Bright Light," by Thomas Lawson; "Constructive Issues in Relief," by Joseph Masheck; "Venice Biennale 1982: No Form, Little Contentment," by Kate Linker and Ida Panicelli. ... [details]
Summer 1982 issue of Artforum edited by Ingrid Sischy. Contents include: "Forum: Waking Up to How We Sleepwalk," by Lawrence Weschler; "Great Expectations: Artists' TV Guide," by Robin White; "Book for Nigel Greenwood," a project by Richard Tuttle; "Framed: Innocence or Gilt?" by Germano Celant; "Three Color + within +," a project by Robert Mangold; "Negative Presences in Secret Spaces: The Art of Eric Orr," by Thomas McEvilley; "In the Absence of Heroes: The Early Work of Georg Baselitz," by Dr. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Melodramatic Tactics," by Kate Linker; "Swallowing Dali," by Carter Ratcliff; "Thieves Like Us," by Judith Russi Kirshner; "Allegorical Procedures: Appropriation and Montage in Contemporary Art," by Benjamin H. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Painterly Edge: A Conversation with Ralph Humphrey," by Amy Baker; "Patience, Observation, and Investigation: Learning from Audubon," by Mike Glier; "Abstract Beauty - Friend or Enemy?" by Wu Guan-zhong; "Marks: Cy Twomby," by John Bernard Myers; "Komar and Melamid from Behind the Ironical Curtain," by Jamey Gambrell; "Presenting the Unpresentable: The Sublime," by Jean-François Lyotard; "Fear of Clay," by John Perreault; "Books: Sarah Charlesworth on 'Camerca Lucida,'" by Sarah Charlesworth. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "The Uncanny Resurrections of 'America is Waiting,'" by Scott Cook; "Yves Klein, Messenger of the Age of Space," by Thomas McEvilley; "John Waters' 'Divine Comedy,'" by Scott MacDonald; "Neither Fool, nor Naive, nor Poseur-Saint: Fragments on R. ... [details]