Critical history of the art scene in San Francisco between 1945 and 1995 by Thomas Albright. Artists include Thomas Albright, George Abend, Arlo Acton, Ann Adair, Lee Adair, Mark Adams, Tom Akawie, James Alberson, Maxine Labro, Robert Alexander, William Allan, Boyd Allen, Gary Allen, Jesse Allen, John Almond, Alex Anderson, David Anderson, Jeremy Anderson, Steven Andresen, Ruth Armer, Victor Arnautoff, Robert Arneson, Ruth Asawa, Olive Ayhens, Heléne Aylon, Mowry Baden, Jennifer Badger, Martin Baer, Clayton Bailey, Jerrodl Ballaie, Joel Barletta, Carroll Barnes, Matthew Barnes, Raymond Barnhart, John Battenberg, John Baxter, Bruce Beasley, Paul Beattie, Mona Beaumont, Robert Bechtle, Scott Bell, Cleveland Bellow, Jordan Belson, Fletcher Benton, Elio Benvenuto, Richard Berger, Henrietta Berk, Wallace Berman, Roger Berry, David Best, Bernice Lee Bing, Elmer Bischoff, Sue Bitney, Ed Blackburn, Ronald Bladen, Dianne Blell, J. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Light," photographs by Joel Meyerowitz; "Light," watercolors by Agnes Martin; "A Light Opportunity," editorial by Edit deAk and Ingrid Sischy; "A Light Compass"; "Northern Lights," by Per Kirkeby and Komar and Melamid; "Eastern Lights, Western Lights," by Francesco Clemente, Eiko Ishioka, Gerhard Richter, Pat Place, and Linda Yablonsky; "Southern Lights," by Nicola De Maria and Peter Magubane; "Shadow Captions. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "On Location: Sculpture and Painting in Emilio Vedova's Studio in Venice," by Germano Celant; "Ground Up: Architecture without Architecture Critics: Ideal for the Architects," by Herbert Muschamp; "Turned Out: Richard Avedon, Sam Shepard, Joan Didion, and the Pull of the American West," by William Wilson; "Modern Life: Utopianism become Survialism - the Quantum Mechanics of Body-Building, in the West and in the East," by Carter Ratcliff; "Like Art: The New Ads and their Gift of Art. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Museum Piece: On the Job," by Jan Hoet; "Ground Up: Dresser and Bureaus of Internal Affairs," by Herbert Muschamp; "Like Art: H-h-h-heads and Tails," by Glenn O'Brien; "Speaker to Speaker: S--f-censorship," by Greil Marcus; "What in the World: Missing Sign Language," by Andrew Solomon; "Production Values: Tinkering with Toys," by Dan Cameron; "On Location: At Noriyuki Haraguchi's Studio on Tokyo Bay," by Kazue Kobata; "Customs: A Roman Correspondent Observes a New York Instituition," by Ida Panicelli; "A Canvas of Episodes: Mazel Tov," by Frederic Tuten; "The Dictatorship of Clement Greenberg: A Critic Looks at a Critic," by Kay Larson; "The Adventure of the Third Essay: In Which We Lose Our Bearings and Gain Our Freedom. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Today Crossed Out," a Project for Artforum by Hanne Darboven with an Introcuction by Coosje van Bruggen; "Zarina's Balm: Objects of Exchange," by Lisa Liebmann; "Just Say Noh: The Esthetics of Banality," by Richard Goldstein; "Enter Elliott Erwitt"; "Time Bandits, Space Vampires," by Thomas Lawson; "Ostentatious Perfectionism: Four-Color Whites, 'One Hundred Flowers,' Georgia O'Keefe. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ida Panicelli. Essays "Books," Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe on Fashion and Surrealism; "Object," Alessandro Mendini on Design; "Remote Control," Barbara Kruger on Television; "Curies' Children," Vilém Flusser on Discovery; "Believe it or Not," J. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ida Panicelli. Essays "Object," Alessandro Mendini on Design; "Like Art," Glenn O'Brien on Advertising; "Ground Up," Herbert Muschamp on Architecture; "Here, There & Otherwise," John Welchman on Elsewhere; "Curies' Children," Vilem Flusser on Discovery; "Between the Lines," Dan Cameron on Criticism; "Books," Melissa Harris on Dance and Photography; "Working Watteau," by Mike Glier; "Body Building," by Mario Pisani; "Vanishing Act: Philippe Thomas," by Claudia Hart; "Borrowed Shoes," Suzanne Bloom and Ed Hill; "Diffusions: A Project for Artforum," by Susan Rothenberg; "The History of X," by Mary Josephson; "Under the Singing Eucalyptus Tree. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ida Panicelli. Essays "Like Art," Glenn O'Brien on Advertising; "The Cave: Maria Nadotti on Film"; "Here, There & Otherwise," John Welchman on Elsewhere; "Object," Alessandro Mendini on Design; "Remote Control," Barbara Kruger on Television; "Curies' Children," Vilém Flusser on Discovery; "Special Effects," by Carol Squiers on the News and Its Pictures; "William Eggleston: Democracy & Chaos," by Mark Holborn; "Seductive Lures: Shirazeh Houshiary," by Pier Luigi Tazzi; "The Ground Has Been Covered," by Jimmie Durham and Jean Fisher; "Hinged Victories," by Patricia C. ... [details]
Special issue of artforum on "wonder" edited by Ida Panicelli. "As you will see, no article focuses particularly on the field of art. Instead, we asked over 200 artists to respond to the word 'wonder' by supplying us with an image, a statement, or both. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ida Panicelli. Essays "Special Effects: Carol Squiers on Susan Meiselas' 'Pictures from a Revolution," by Carol Squiers; "Backdrop: RoseLee Goldberg on Urban Bush Women," by RoseLee Goldberg; "Books: Michael Archer on 'Technique Anglaise,'" by Michael Archer; "Commedia Dell'Arte: A Project for Artforum," by Will Eisner; "Exits and Entrances: Maria Nadotti on Two Tempests," by Maria Nadotti; "Real Life Rock: Greil Marcus' Top Ten," by Greil Marcus; "Believe it or Not: J. ... [details]