Collection of critical essays on Marcel Duchamp. Introduction by Rudolf E. Kuenzli, with texts by Beatrice Wood, Arturo Schwarz, Francis M. Naumann, Thierry de Duve, William A. Camfield, Peter Read, Carol P. ... [details]
"This detailed and carefully reasoned study of the domestic architecture of Mies van der Rohe is a landmark contribution to contemporary understanding of the great architect's work. It is devoted to a close analysis of Mie's residential architecture, built and unbuilt, from 1923 to 1951. ... [details]
Edited by Rosalind Krauss and Annette Michelson. Essays "The Duchamp Defense," by Hubert Damisch; "A Conversation about Glacial Deocy," by Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer; "A Portfolio of Photographs of Trisha Brown's Work," by Babette Mangolte; "The Function of the Studio," by Daniel Buren; "Preliminary Notes on the Pragmatic of Works: Daniel Buren," by Jean-François Lyotard; "Richard Serra's Films: An Interview," by Annette Michelson, Richard Serra, and Clara Weyergraf; "Vision in Process," by Birgit Pelzer; "Earthwords," by Craig Owens. [details]
A professional and personal autobiography by Adrian Piper that provides insightful commentary on everything from art and criticism to race and gender relations. Volume 2. Includes some illustrations in black-and-white. ... [details]
Anthology of critical texts by Serge Guilbaut, Jean Baudrillard, John O'Brian, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Timothy J. Clark, Thomas Crow, Thierry de Duve, Françoise-Marc Gagnon, John-Franklin Koenig, Lary May, Laurie J. ... [details]
"In 1964, at age forty, Marcel Broodthaers (1924–1976) proclaimed that his years of writing poetry—of being "good for nothing," in his words—were over, and a brief but dazzling artistic career began. Considered a founding father of institutional critique, Broodthaers created hundreds of objects, books, films, photographs and exhibitions, including a "fictive" museum of modern art that evolved from an installation in his own home to a massive exhibition of over three hundred works representing eagles. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Edith C. Blum Art Institute of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, April 11 - July 5, 1987; the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, July 25 - October 4, 1987; and the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, October 25 - December 19, 1987. ... [details]
A very large-scale reference book describing both the German and American period of the Bauhaus. Covers the pre-history, the Weimar years, the transfer to Dessau, Gropius's Dessau years, Meyer's Dessau years, Mies van der Rohe's Dessau years, the Berlin years, and the New Bauhaus in Chicago. ... [details]
"An examination of a 1970s Conceptual art project—advertisements for fictional shows by fictional artists in a fictional gallery—that hoodwinked the New York art world. From the summer of 1970 to March 1971, advertisements appeared in four leading art magazines—Artforum, Art in America, Arts Magazine, and ARTnews—for a group show and six solo exhibitions at the Jean Freeman Gallery at 26 West Fifty-Seventh Street, in the heart of Manhattan's gallery district. ... [details]
"In Under Blue Cup, Rosalind Krauss explores the relation of aesthetic mediums to memory--her own memory having been severely tested by a ruptured aneurysm that temporarily washed away much of her short-term memory. ... [details]
