Artforum

Vol. 21, No. 9 (May 1983)

Ingrid Sischy, Mark Holborn, Eugenio Battisti, Philip Strick, Sidney Tillim, Carter Ratcliff, Thomas McEvilley, Glenn O'Brien, Edit deAK, Lisa Liebmann, Charles Hagen, Lisa Liebmann, Ronny H. Cohen, Jeanne Silverthorne, Richard Armstrong, Donald Kuspit, Kate Linker, Barbara Kruger, Judith Russi Kirshner, Howard Singerman, Richard Armstrong, Susan C. Larsen, Suzaan Boettger, Gérard-Georges Lemaire, Saskia Bos, Jean Fisher, Ronny H. Cohen

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]