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 "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]
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]
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]
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 "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 eight of Real Life Magazine, edited by Thomas Lawson. Contents include: "Edit deAk," an interview by Joan Wallace and Geralyn Donohue; "Democratism or, I Went to See Chelsea Girls and Ended Up Thinking About Jenny Holzer," by Rex Reason; "Documentation," by Ken Lum; "A Critique of Authoritarian Rhetoric," by Richard Hertz; "Stations," by Hans Müller; "Contamination," by John Miller; and "Ned Smyth," an interview by Susan Morgan and Dena Shottenkirk. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with a series of building ways shows titled "Critical Perspectives," held at P.S.1, Long Island City, Queens, January 17 - March 14, 1982, and featuring different curators throughout the building. ... [details]
"Special Issue : Brand New York," of The Literary Review published in 1982 and edited by Gillian Greenwood. Contents include: "Editorial," by Lisa Appignanesi; "Between Two New Yorks," by Melvyn Bragg; "Manhattan Letter," by Elizabeth Hardwick; "New York Art: Seven Types of Ambiguity," by Hal Foster; "Urban Kisses," by John Ahearn, Mike Glier, Ken Goodman, Keith Haring, Robert Longo, Judy Rifka, Cindy Sherman; "On Being Scene: New York Fashions Its Steyle," by Michael Sorkin; "Philip Johnson's Post-Modernist Venture;" "Reflecting on Post-Modernism," an interview with Rosalind Krauss; "New York: Heroic City," by Rosetta Brooks; "A Hunger for Imagery," an interview with Brooke Alexander; "Graffiti in Well-Lit Rooms," by Suzi Gablik, includes artists statements and brief introductions to artists including Keith Haring, Jean Michel Basquiat, Wasp, Tim Rollins, Futura 2000, and Fab 5 Fred; "Laurie Anderson: Big Science and Little Men," by Stuart Morgan; "Crossing Over: The Streets, Clubs and Art," by Edit deAk; "New York Performs;" "From Dreamgirls to Satyagraha," an interview with Michael Feingold; "On My Efforts," by Richard Foreman; "Beyond the Theatrical Avant-Garde," by Richard Schechner; "Nuclear Theatre," by Bonnie Marranca; "Serialism, Spontaneity and Sass," by Robert Christgau; "Tailored for Television: The World of New York Video," by Arlene Zeichner; "Mean Streets, Dream Structures: New York Film," by J. ... [details]
Winter 1980/1981 issue of the quarterly periodical Cover, edited by Judith Aminoff. Contents include: "The Heart of the Pigeon," by Henry Korn; "Conversation," a conversation between Marcia Hafif, Olivier Mosset, Howard Smith, and Jerry Zeniuk; "Currents," artwork by Christian Poveda, Shirly Pu & R. ... [details]