An anthology of writing on modernism edited by Brian Wallis and foreword by Marcia Tucker. Includes essays by Kathy Acker, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Benjamin H. ... [details]
Extensive monograph by Kate Linker on Acconci. "This first full-scale study of the artist's career traces the shift from his early 'language pieces' to his first visual art in 1969 (photographs that recorded the actions of his body -- bending, throwing, jumping -- in landscape) to the filmed live performances and provocative installations of the 1970s and to his sculptural furniture and architecture and the public projects of the 1980s and early 1990s. ... [details]
Issue edited by Joseph Masheck. Essays "'Magritte's Inaccessible Woman," by Elena Calas; "Mikhail Vrubel: Madness and Art," by Ann Farkas; "Charles Simonds' Emblematic Architecture," by Kate Linker; "Existential Formalism: The Case of Sharon Gold," by Donald B. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "The Perils of Hindsight," by John Bernard Myers; "Gust, Gusto, Guston," by Carrie Rickey; "From the Series 'Outside the White House,'" by Rosalind Solomon; "Terry Allen (On Everything)," by Marcia Tucker; "Sex and Death and Shock and Schlock: A Long Review of The Times Square Show," by Anne Ominous; "Autochromes: The Bouquet of Lighted Air," by Max Kozloff; "Civil War: Artist Contra Critic," by Donald B. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Public Sculpture II: Provisions for the Paradise," by Kate Linker; "Personal Sensibilities in Public Places," by John Beardsley; "Alexandra Exter's Designs for the Theater," by Ronny H. ... [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]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Solidarnos," by Lawrence Weschler; "Bop Art," by Glenn O'Brien; "Forged Image: Centerfold," by Andy Warhol; "Forged Image: Portrait of Andy Warhol," by Christopher Makos; "Issey Miyake: Sewing a Second Skin"; "Juke Joint Jazz," by Marie Cosindas; "Paradise and Lunch: Advertising's Architecture of Heaven," by Bazon Brock; "Altered States: Newspaper Photographs," by Harold Evans; "Vulgar Modernism," by J. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Editorial: An Appreciation of H.C. Westermann; "Parody and Appropriation in Francis Picabia, Pop, and Sigmar Polke," by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh; "Approaching the Abyss: Monet's Era," by Roger Shattuck; "Strangers in a Strange Land: Timothy O'Sullivan and Henry Adams," by Colin Westerbeck; "Scattered Pictures: The Movies of Werner Schroeter," by Gary Indiana; "Looking Up at Jeff Wall's Modern 'Appassionamento,'" by Donald Kuspit; "Clay and Bronze," a project by Lucas Samaras; "Books: Robert Kushner on 'Man as Art,'" by Robert Kushner. ... [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 "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]