Critical theory book on the development of periodicals by artists. Includes index to most of the major titles in appendix as "A Compendium of Artists' Magazines from 1945 to 1989." Includes details on +-0 (Plus Moin Zéro); 0 to 9; 4 Taxis; 8 x 10 Art Portfolio; A (Edition A); ABC No Rio Magazine; Agentzia; Aggie Weston's; Aktual Art; Alfabeta; Amazon Quarterly: A Lesbian Arts Journal; American Living; Analytical Art; An Anthology; Apeïros; Appearances; De Appel; Approches; Aqui; Archibras; Archigram; Ark; Art Aktuell; Art & Project Bulletin; Art Communication Edition (ACE) / Strike; Arte Postale!; Artes Visuales; Artitudes International; Art-Language; Art Now: New York; Art Papers; Artpolice; Artpoll Letter (Aktuális Levél); Art-Rite; Artscribe; Art & Text; Art Workers Newsletter / Artworkers News / Art & Artists; Artzien; Aspen; Assembling; Audio Arts; Ausgabe; Avalanche; Axe; A/YA; Azimuth; The Balloon Newspaper; Benzene; Big Deal; Bijutso Shihyo; Bile; Bit; Bit International; Black Art; Black on White (Cerné na Bílém / Schwarz auf Weiss / Black on White / Noir sur Blanc); Black Phoenix; Blast; Blok; Boa; Bomb; Brumes Blondes; Bulletin From Nothing; Caterpillar; Centerfold / Fuse; Cheval d'Attaque; Choke; Chorus; Chrysalis; Circolare Sinistra; La Città di Riga; Cobra; Collective-Copy; Collective Farm; Commonpress; Control; Cover; Criss-Cross Communications / Criss-Cross Art Communications; Cris Cross Double Cross; Culture Hero; D. ... [details]
"In Under Blue Cup, Rosalind Krauss explores the relation of aesthetic mediums to memory--her own memory having been severely tested by a ruptured aneurysm that temporarily washed away much of her short-term memory. ... [details]
Large-scale monograph on the pioneering movement "Bit International." "This book documents a short but intense artistic experiment that took place in Yugoslavia fifty years ago but has been influential far beyond that time and place: the ''little-known story'' of the advent of computers in art. ... [details]
Critical anthology of essays on Dan Graham by Alex Kitnick, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Alexander Alberro, Birgit Pelzer, Thierry de Duve, William Kaizen, Jeff Wall, John Miller, Beatriz Colomina. "Since the 1960s, Dan Graham''s heterogeneous practice has touched on such disparate subjects as tract housing, the Shakers, punk music, and architectural theory; he has made videos, architectural models, closed-circuit installations, and glass pavilions. ... [details]
Critical anthology of essays on Dan Graham by Alex Kitnick, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Alexander Alberro, Birgit Pelzer, Thierry de Duve, William Kaizen, Jeff Wall, John Miller, Beatriz Colomina. "Since the 1960s, Dan Graham''s heterogeneous practice has touched on such disparate subjects as tract housing, the Shakers, punk music, and architectural theory; he has made videos, architectural models, closed-circuit installations, and glass pavilions. ... [details]
"In 1961, a solo exhibition by Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana met with a scathing critical response from New York art critics. Fontana (1899–1968), well known in Europe for his series of slashed monochrome paintings, offered New York ten canvases slashed and punctured, thickly painted in luridly brilliant hues and embellished with chunks of colored glass. ... [details]
"When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: twenty-one layers of fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function, custom-sewn for them by seamstresses whose usual work was fashioning bras and girdles. ... [details]
"Work by black artists today is almost uniformly understood in terms of its "blackness," with audiences often expecting or requiring it to "represent" the race. In How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness, Darby English shows how severely such expectations limit the scope of our knowledge about this work and how different it looks when approached on its own terms. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, June 10 - September 27, 2010. Edited by Lynne Cooke and Douglas Crimp with Kristen Poor. Artists include Alvin Baltrop, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Dara Birnbaum, Jennifer Bolande, Stefan Brecht, Matthew Buckingham, Tom Burr, Roy Colmer, Moyra Davey, Terry Fox, William Gedney, Bernard Guillot, David Hammons, Sharon Hayes, Peter Hujar, Joan Jonas, Louise Lawler, Zoe Leonard, Sol LeWitt, Glenn Ligon, Robert Longo, Vera Lutter, Danny Lyon, Babette Mangolte, Gordon Matta-Clark, Steve McQueen, John Miller, Donald Moffett, James Nares, Max Neuhaus, Catherine Opie, Gabriel Orozco, Barbara Probst, Emily Roysdon, Cindy Sherman, Harry Shunk & Janos Kender, Charles Simonds, Thomas Struth, James Welling, David Wojnarowicz, and Christopher Wool. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, June 19 – October 4, 2010. Essays by Julia Robinson, Hannah Feldman, Agnes Berecz, Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, and Benjamin H. ... [details]