Issue edited by John Coplans. Essays "The Whitney Annual, Part I," by Carter Ratcliff; "The Films of Peter Kubelka," by Elena Pinto Simon; "Notes from Underground," by Kenneth Frampton; "Vito Acconci and the Conceptual Performance," by Robert Pincus-Witten; "Léger, Le Corbusier, and Purism," by Rosalind Krauss; "Epic Cubism and the Manufactured Object," by John Elderfield; "Video Obscura," by Douglas Davis; "A Note on Caro Influence: Five Sculptors from Bennington," by Joseph Masheck; "Michael Asher: The Thing of It Is. ... [details]
Issue edited by John Coplans. Essays "Inside the White Cube, Part II: The Eye and the Spectator," by Brian O'Doherty; "Notes on Small Sculpture," by Carter Ratcliff; "Jewish Art and the Modernist Jeopardy," by Max Kozloff; "Jasper Johns's New Paintings," by Jeff Perrone; "Drawing Now (and Then), By Roberta Smith; "The Indigenous Vision of Manual Alvarez Bravo," by A. ... [details]
Issue edited by John Coplans. Essays "MOMA's Castle in the Air," by Suzanne Stephens; "L.A. 1976: The Dark Underside," by Nancy Marmer; "Rosemary Mayer," by Lawrence Alloway"; 'Zaïrian Authenticity,'" by Susan Vogel; "The Paint Thickens," by Carter Ratcliff; "Problems in Folk Art," by Amy Goldin; "The Ins and Outs of Video, " by Jeff Perrone; "Art History Textbooks: The Hidden Persuaders," by Patricia Hills; "An Ad for Ad as Ad, Book Review," by Budd Hopkins. ... [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 "Fluxus Focus: Photographs by Peter Moore," by Peter Moore; "George Maciunas: A Finger in Fluxus," by Barbara Moore; "Growing Up," by Patricia C. Phillips and James Wines; "Paikvision," by Bruce Kurtz; "Dali's Dreadful Relevance," by Carter Ratcliff; "Documenta 7: Continued," by Richard Flood, Donald Kuspit, Lisa Liebmann, Stuart Morgan, Annelie Pohlen, and Schuldt. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "David Bowie's Survival," by Carter Ratcliff; "Biographical Notes on a Metaphysical Argonaut - Alberto Savinio," by Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco; "'I'm Really Scared When I Kill in My Dreams,' (from a lyric by Glenn Branca)," by Kim Gordon; "Barry Le Va's Sculpture: Ellipsis and Ellipse," by Klaus Kertess, a project by Barry Le Va; "The 20th New York Film Festival: Virtue and Vice on 65th Street," by Barbara Kruger; "The 20th New York Film Festival: A Penny for the Peep Show," by Gary Indiana; "Books: Kathy Acker on Hans Magnus Enzensberger's 'Critical Essays,'" by Kathy Acker; "The Appearance of the Zeitgeist," by Wolfgang Max Faust. ... [details]
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 "Stampede to the Figure," by Carter Ratcliff; "Gilbert & George: Shake Hands with the Devil," by Rosetta Brooks; "'On the Manner of Addressing Clouds,'" by Thomas McEvilley; "Just North of Modernism," by Kenneth Baker; "Broadway and 42nd Street in the Grass," photographs by Larry Fink; "Markus Raetz: Delusive Illusions," by Max Wechsler. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Breaking the Box: The Electronic Operas of Robert Ashley and Woody Vasulka," by Charles Hagen; "Inside Out," photographs by Peter Campus; "Child's Play: The Late Work of Elie Nadelman," by Klaus Kertess; "Andy Warhol: Inflation Artist," by Carter Ratcliff; "Cosmic Visions from North and South," by Annelie Pohlen; "Bread and Circuses," by Stuart Morgan; "Books: Greil Marcus on 'Our Lives and Our Children,'" by Greil Marcus; "Books: Frederic Tuten on 'The Innocent Eye,'" by Frederic Tuten; "Short Cut, Fast Lane," by Greil Marcus; "Forum: What a Legend Becomes," by John Howell. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Double Vision in Space City: 'The Houston School' of Barbara Rose and Susie Kalil; William Camfield's Houston Artists," by Thomas McEvilley; "American Medical Association," a project by Ida Applebroog; "Robert Morris, a Saint Jerome for Our Times," by Carter Ratcliff; "Richard Wentworth's Ad Hoc Esthetics," by Stuart Morgan; "Robert Smithson's Early Work - A Resurrection," by Stuart Morgan; "What's Natural?," A Conversation between Joseph Love and Jo Kondo; "American Prayers," by Kim Gordon; "John Duff's perfect Sculpture," by Donald Kuspit; "Endless Meaning at the Hirshhorn," by Roberta Smith; "Corrupting the Absolute," by Greil Marcus. ... [details]