"To read through a Barthes Reader is finally to be left with the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time, someone who thought out, argued for, and made available several steps in a penetrating reflection on language sign systems, texts - and what they have to tell us about the concept of being human. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, December 3, 2004 - March 6, 2005. Traveled to the Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino, April 6 - July 10, 2005. ... [details]
Summer 1966 issue of Form, a quarterly magazine of the arts. Edited by Philip Steadman, Mike Weaver, and Stephen Bann. Artists, writers, and other figures in the issue include Theo van Doesburg, Roland Barthes, Carolyn Cumming, Crispin Gray, Duncan Robinson, Pedro Xisto, William Carlos Williams, Yvor Winters, Hans Arp, and Fernand Léger. ... [details]
Edited by Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, and Douglas Crimp. Essays "Lecture... ," by Roland Barthes and Leo Bersani; "The Forms of Violence," by Ulysse Dutoit; "Sculpture in the Expanded Field," by Rosalind Krauss; "[f]rom Americans on the Move," by Laurie Anderson; "Stuart Sherman: Object Ritual," by Bérénice Reynaud; "Pictures," by Douglas Crimp; "Seven Prolegomenae to a Brief Treatise on Magrittian Tropes," by Jean Clair; "About Snow," by Annette Michelson. [details]
Parachute magazine of contemporary art, 19th issue released Summer 1980. Essays include: "Upon Hearing a Performance of the Well-Tuned Piano," an interview with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela by Roman Pelinski; "Roy Lichtenstein: L'atelier D'artiste Ou L'auto-Référence dans le Pop," by Nicole Dubreuil-Blondin; "Interview with Bill Beckley," by Chantal Darcy-Lette; "Roland Barthes. ... [details]
A compendium of essays on art by twenty philosophers, edited by Christopher Kul-Want. Texts by Immanuel Kant, Georg W. F. Hegel, Friedrich Nietszche, Sigmund Freud, Georges Bataille, Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Theodor Adorno, Sarah Kofman, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Francois Lyotard , Giorgio Agamben, Jean-Luc Nancy, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Istituto di Cultura di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, March 22 - July 6, 1980. Includes texts by Attilio Codognato, Roland Barthes, Achille Bonito Oliva, David Bourdon, Germano Celant, and David Shapiro. ... [details]
Critical theory, edited by John Sturrock with contributions by John Sturrock, Dan Sperber, Hayden White, Malcolm Bowie and Jonathan Culler. "This book considers the work of five French thinkers closely associated with structuralism, and aims to establish what is of lasting worth and originality in their work. ... [details]