Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "On Location: Sculpture and Painting in Emilio Vedova's Studio in Venice," by Germano Celant; "Ground Up: Architecture without Architecture Critics: Ideal for the Architects," by Herbert Muschamp; "Turned Out: Richard Avedon, Sam Shepard, Joan Didion, and the Pull of the American West," by William Wilson; "Modern Life: Utopianism become Survialism - the Quantum Mechanics of Body-Building, in the West and in the East," by Carter Ratcliff; "Like Art: The New Ads and their Gift of Art. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. "On Location. A Studio Made en Plein Air: James Nares Reaps the Wind in Golden Green," by Ingrid Sischy; "Marginalia: The Original Sin," by Thomas McEvilley; "Like Art: Docu-Ads, Marketing Realism in 30-second Spots," by Glenn O'Brien; "Turned Out," by William Wilson; "Modern Life. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "On Location. Robert Ryman's Studio: A Wall of Reminders," by Amy Baker Sandback; "Ground Up. Science Fiction, Westerns, Odysseys, Romance, Head-Lines, Obits: Narrative Architects Design the City as it Lives, Stories on Top of Stories, A Plot on Every Plot," by Herbert Muschamp; "Remote Control: Television, the Permanent Guest - We'll Be Right Back," by Barbara Kruger; "Modern Life. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "On Location: Cindy Sherman's Camera Kabuki," by Ingrid Sischy; "Marginalia: Who Will Occupy the Deep Space in Recent Painting?" by Thomas McEvilley; "The Cave: Claude Lanzmann's Film 'Shoah' (Annihilation) and the Ethics of Reconstructing the Third Reich," by Wolfram Schutte; "Ground Up: Time-Sharing," by Herbert Muschamp; "Object: Duchampian Chance and Poetry in Japanese-Language Word Processors. ... [details]
"Throughout the more than fifty years of his prolific career, Fernand Léger, one of the most influential of twentieth-century painters, wrote enthusiastic, lucid essays to explain his theories about the purposes of art, which he believed had an important role to play in modern life - not as decoration but as an embodiment of the modern spirit on all levels of society. ... [details]