Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief: 'Primitivism' in 20th Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984," by Thomas McEvilley; "Sign on a Truck," by Jenny Holzer; "Campaign 1984," by Alison Gardner Pratt; "Terry Winters' Earthly Anecdotes," by Prudence Carlson; "Naming Pictures: Conversations between Lee Krasner and John Bernard Myers," by John Bernard Myers; "In the American Grain: Robert Helm," by James Ivory; "Tracking Some Angles: A Talk with Alain Resnais," by Frederic Tuten; "Poets and Art: John Ashbery, Tony Towle, Ann Lauterbach, and Barry Schwabsky interviewed by John Yau; with poems by Michael Brownstein, Ashbery, Towle, Lauterbach, Schwabsky, and Rene Ricard"; "Hilton Kramer: An Appreciation," by Thomas Lawson; "Books: Lionel Lambourne on 'The Collected Letters of William Morris,'" by Lionel Lambourne; "Forum: Philosophy and Art: Elective Affinities in and Arranged Marriage," by Donald Kuspit; "Bruce Springsteen: In Your Heart You Know He's Right," by Greil Marcus. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Not Utopia: Jan Vercruysse: The Present Unclosed," by Pier Luigi Tazzi; "Three's a Company: James Ivory, Ismail Merchant, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Talk Talkies," by Anthony Korner; "Baptism: A Project for Artforum," by Jeff Koons; "Renovating the New: The Art of Lucio Fontana," by Jole de Sanna; "Black and White Light: Getting Home in Charcoal and Pastel," by John Yau; "Artist Envy: The Art of Interpretation and its Interpretation of the Artist," by Donald Kuspit; "A Song to the Avant-Garde: 'Tadeusz Kantor and the Duck, Robert Wilson Riding Hood, Un Mélange de Styles,' and Six More Plays by Kenneth Koch Here Staged on the Page in a Project for Artforum by Larry Rivers"; Book Preview: The sounds of Silents. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ida Panicelli. Essays "Undertone: Howard Hampton on Heavy Metal," by Howard Hampton; "Media Kids: Collier Schorr on a Girl's Own Story," by Collier Schorr; "The Cave: Maurice Berger on Olvier Stone's JFK," by Maurice Berger; "David Deitcher on the Story that Won't Go Away," by David Deitcher; "Museum Piece: Sabine B. ... [details]