Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "On Location: Milton Resnick, New York City," by Milton Resnick; "Turned Out: Christo in Paris, The Bridge Wore Beige," by John Howell; "Speaker to Speaker: Heart from the Heartland," by Greil Marcus; "Modern Life: AIDS, A Buried Allegory," by Carter Ratcliff; "Ground Up: Parabuilding - The Postmodern Tick on the Modern Elephant," by Herbert Muschamp; "Like Art: The Model Critic, A New Face in the Empire of Signs," by Glenn O'Brien; "Remote Control: Waiting for Gloria," by Barbara Kruger; "Books: Sarah Bodine on 'Moholy-Nagy;' Mark Francis on 'Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Visual Primer;' Charles Hagen on 'The Indelible Image: Photographs of War - 1846 to the Present;' Mark Holborn on 'Tokyo 1970 - 1985;' Donald Kuspit on 'The Sense of Sight;' Greil Marcus on 'Dada/Dimensions;' 'Herbert Muschamp on 'Ballet' and 'Balanchine's Tchaikovsky: Interviews with George Balanchine;' Carter Ratcliff on 'Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris;' Barry Schwabsky on 'Jim Dine Drawings;' Frederic Tuten on 'History of the Universe;'" "Hysterical Painting: Civilization and Francis Bacon's Exhibition of its Discontents," by Donald Kuspit; "A Project for Artforum: Written Leaf," by Mario Merz; "Cultivated Canvases: Richard Diebenkorn's Uneasy Grace," by Susan C. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "On Location. Robert Ryman's Studio: A Wall of Reminders," by Amy Baker Sandback; "Ground Up. Science Fiction, Westerns, Odysseys, Romance, Head-Lines, Obits: Narrative Architects Design the City as it Lives, Stories on Top of Stories, A Plot on Every Plot," by Herbert Muschamp; "Remote Control: Television, the Permanent Guest - We'll Be Right Back," by Barbara Kruger; "Modern Life. ... [details]
"On Metaphor, a collection of fourteen essays by eminent philosophers, literary critics, theologians, art historians, and psychologists, illustrates and explores a striking phenomenon in modern intellectual history : the transformation of metaphor from a specialized concern of rhetoricians and literary critics to a central concept in the study of human understanding. ... [details]
Issue edited by John Wilcock. Essays "The Fiery Death of Sampati Koer," by K.L. Gauba; "Unconfirmed Bachelor," by Sivakami; "Auroville : Where Science Meets the Wisdom of the Past," by John Wilcock; "Priesthood Holds Progress to Ransom," by Ratan Lal Bansal; "Bombay Bootlegger," by Kulamarva Baladrishna; "Sadhana Tattwa," by H. ... [details]