Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Books: Peter Galassi on 'Photography: A Concise History,'" by Peter Galassi; "David True's 'Pendulums,'" by John Yau; "William Eggleston's Color Photographs: Matters of Record"; "Eikoh Hosoe and Yukio Mishima: The Shadow in the Time Machine," by Mark Holborn; "Statuary Versus Idols," by Alain Kirili; "Escher or Newman: Who Puts the Ghosts in the Machine?" by Gary Stephan; "Bracusi + Mondrian: A Sum, a Summa," by Sidney Geist. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "The Extravagant Depression: John Gutmann's Photographs of the Thirties," by Max Kozloff; "The Pledge of Allegiance," by Rene Ricard; "Portrait of Patti Astor," by Jimmy de Sana; "Heads It's Form, Tail It's Not Content," by Thomas McEvilley; "The Dark Side of the Bright Light," by Thomas Lawson; "Constructive Issues in Relief," by Joseph Masheck; "Venice Biennale 1982: No Form, Little Contentment," by Kate Linker and Ida Panicelli. ... [details]
Summer 1982 issue of Artforum edited by Ingrid Sischy. Contents include: "Forum: Waking Up to How We Sleepwalk," by Lawrence Weschler; "Great Expectations: Artists' TV Guide," by Robin White; "Book for Nigel Greenwood," a project by Richard Tuttle; "Framed: Innocence or Gilt?" by Germano Celant; "Three Color + within +," a project by Robert Mangold; "Negative Presences in Secret Spaces: The Art of Eric Orr," by Thomas McEvilley; "In the Absence of Heroes: The Early Work of Georg Baselitz," by Dr. ... [details]
Issue nine of Real Life Magazine, edited by Thomas Lawson. Contents include: "Paul McMahon," by Susan Morgan; "Nancy Chunn," interviewed Susan Davis; "Condensation and Dish-Placement," by The Holy Ghost Writers [ZouZou Lebovici, Lisa Phillips, Bérénice Reynaud, and Lyn Shapiro]; "POPISM," by Paul Taylor; "Paragraphs Toward an Essay Entitled 'Restoration Comedies,'" by Howard Singerman; "Laurie Anderson," by Sarah Taylor States; and "This Indigestible Wedding Cake," by Bérénice Reynaud. ... [details]
Issue eight of Real Life Magazine, edited by Thomas Lawson. Contents include: "Edit deAk," an interview by Joan Wallace and Geralyn Donohue; "Democratism or, I Went to See Chelsea Girls and Ended Up Thinking About Jenny Holzer," by Rex Reason; "Documentation," by Ken Lum; "A Critique of Authoritarian Rhetoric," by Richard Hertz; "Stations," by Hans Müller; "Contamination," by John Miller; and "Ned Smyth," an interview by Susan Morgan and Dena Shottenkirk. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Painterly Edge: A Conversation with Ralph Humphrey," by Amy Baker; "Patience, Observation, and Investigation: Learning from Audubon," by Mike Glier; "Abstract Beauty - Friend or Enemy?" by Wu Guan-zhong; "Marks: Cy Twomby," by John Bernard Myers; "Komar and Melamid from Behind the Ironical Curtain," by Jamey Gambrell; "Presenting the Unpresentable: The Sublime," by Jean-François Lyotard; "Fear of Clay," by John Perreault; "Books: Sarah Charlesworth on 'Camerca Lucida,'" by Sarah Charlesworth. ... [details]
September - October 1981 issue of Journal Contemporary Art Magazine, edited by Bridget Johnson. Contents include: "David Salle Interview," by Peter Schjeldahl; "Knud Merrild: To Be Transformed in the Flux," by Susan Ehrlich; "Pastel, Juice and Gunpowder: The Pico Iconography of Ed Ruscha," by Robert C. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "The Gallery as a Gesture," by Brian O'Doherty; "The Radiant Child," by Rene Ricard; "A Project," by Nicholas Nixon; "Absent-Minded Female Nude on Bed," by Peter Schjeldahl; "Not Post-Modernism: History as Against Historicism, European Archetypal Vernacular in Relation to American Commercial Vernacular, and the City as Opposed to the Individual Building," by Dan Graham; "Looking at Life," by Carol Squiers; "A Conversation with Pontus Hulten About the New Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. ... [details]
Issue seven of Real Life Magazine, edited by Thomas Lawson. Contents include: "Too Good to be True," by Thomas Lawson; "Paintings Are More Than Medals of Honor," by Malcolm Kesselman; "Out of Breath," by Mitchell Kriegman; "Painted Babies," by Paul McMahon; "Michael Powell," an interview by Laura Cottingham and Richard Martin; "Better Living Through Chemistry," by Susan Morgan; "Untitled," by Mike Roddy; "Elk Grazed as if Nothing had Happened," by Jenny Bolande; "Notes Toward Film," by David Robbins; "Driftings," by Douglas Blau; "Filmmaker Seeks Funding," by Richard Howorth; "The Extinction of Sculpture," by Robin Peck; "Pissing on Ice," by Fulton Ryder [Richard Prince]; and "Fascination," by Eric Bogosian. ... [details]
Edited by Bridget Johnson, cover design by Doug Wheeler. Essays "Art at Large," by Peter Clothier; "At Large in Santa Barbara," by Richard Ross; "You Can't Tell a Book by Its Cover (But You Can Locate a Text by Its Spine)," by Robert C. ... [details]