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 "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]
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]
Two volume exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Museum Fridericianum, Neue Galerie, Orangerie, Karlsaue, Kassel, Germany, June 19 - September 28, 1982. Introduction by R.H. Fuchs, artistic director. ... [details]