Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held January 12-March 30, 1986. Contributions by Sam Hunter, James D. Robinson, Elliot B. Barnett, George Bolge, Harry F. Gaugh, Robert C. Morgan, Richard Sarnoff, Malcolm Daniel, Karen Koehler and Kim Levin. ... [details]
"How can an art exhibition function as a stand-in for the artists and their studios? How can a gallery project provide greater insight into an artist's practice, the way the formality of a slide lecture or the intimacy of a studio visit can? How can the back-story of the work on display be understood, without being solely reliant on a curatorial statement, catalogue essay or press release? This exhibition allows art to be understood as an ongoing and slippery practice, and less the finite, linear and object-oriented one assumed by the standard exhibition format. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held in 1994, in celebration of 30th anniversary of The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, founded by Larry Aldrich in 1964. With texts by Brendan Gill, Barry A. ... [details]
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 John Coplans. Essays "MOMA's Castle in the Air," by Suzanne Stephens; "L.A. 1976: The Dark Underside," by Nancy Marmer; "Rosemary Mayer," by Lawrence Alloway"; 'Zaïrian Authenticity,'" by Susan Vogel; "The Paint Thickens," by Carter Ratcliff; "Problems in Folk Art," by Amy Goldin; "The Ins and Outs of Video, " by Jeff Perrone; "Art History Textbooks: The Hidden Persuaders," by Patricia Hills; "An Ad for Ad as Ad, Book Review," by Budd Hopkins. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Robert Cumming's Subject Object," by Charles Hagen; "Unpopular Culture (Travels in Kienholzland)," by Carrie Rickey; "A Project," by Nancy Graves; "Carroll Dunham: Painting Against the Grain - Painting with the Grain," by Klaus Kertess; "Getting Ready for the Golden Eighties: A Conversation with Chantal Akerman," by Gary Indiana; "Art in the Dark," by Thomas McEvilley; "A Fvnny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forvm (In the Name of Love)," by Duncan Smith. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "A Note Concerning Francis Picabia," by Harald Szeemann; "Imagining Nowhere: Richard Tuttle's 'Monkey's Recovery,'" by Klaus Kertess; "Breaking the Contract: A Conversation with Peter Greenaway," by Stuart Morgan; "Triple Entendre," a project by General Idea; "Enchantment and Revolution - Joan Miró," by Roland Penrose; "Jack Goldstein: The Trace of Absence," by Jean Fisher; "Vija Celmins: Drawings without Withdrawing," by Kenneth Baker; "Susan Sontag's Unguided Tour," by Gary Indiana; "'Books': Frederic Tuten on 'Ranxerox,'" by Frederic Tuten; "Gulliver Speaks," by Greil Marcus; "Forum," by John Howell and Lisa Liebmann. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. "On Location. A Studio Made en Plein Air: James Nares Reaps the Wind in Golden Green," by Ingrid Sischy; "Marginalia: The Original Sin," by Thomas McEvilley; "Like Art: Docu-Ads, Marketing Realism in 30-second Spots," by Glenn O'Brien; "Turned Out," by William Wilson; "Modern Life. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "On Location: Inventing Pangaea, Jon's and Ginzel's Whole-earth Recipe"; "Ground Up," by Herbert Muschamp; "Like Art: The Star-spangled Pitch," by Glenn O'Brien; "The Cave: Local Technicolor," by Wolfram Schutte; "Object: Abracadabra, The Magic Space of Supple Geometry," by Seigow Matsuoka; "Slant: On Success and Pittsburgh's 1985 Carnegie International," by Donald Kuspit; "Modern Life: The Manet Tapes and More Recent Dupes," by Carter Ratcliff; "Speaker to Speaker: The Clash find the Sound of Silence, Plus the 1985 Top Ten," by Greil Marcus; "Ask Not What: The Kennedys, the Camera, and Us," by Thomas McEvilley; "Earth Angles: Michael Heizer's Sculpture at Buffalo Rock, A New Species of Life for Trampled Soil," by Klaus Kertess; "Blinky Palermo: Abstract Medicine for the Senses," by Donald Kuspit; "The Stridentists: Excavating a Forgotten Avant-garde; the Revolutionary Forebears of Mexico's Muralists," by Serge Fauchereau; "Hungary by Heart: A Trip with André Kertész," by Sylvia Plachy; "Project for Artforum: Two Moods," by Sylvia Plimack Mangold. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "What in the World: Eureka - Mona Helga," by Herbert Muschamp; "Object: Antiques Regain Their Youth," by Alessandro Mendini; "Exits and Entrances: Oedipus in Reverse," by Jon Savage; "Speaker to Speaker: Can We Talk?," by Greil Marcus; "Books: A Review of David Byrne's 'True Stories' and Nan Goldin's 'Ballad of Sexual Dependency," by John Howell; "Like Art: Extrasensory Perception," by Glenn O'Brien; "A Canvas of Episodes: Rex Gets His Feet Wet," by Frederic Tuten; "The Leap of Faith: In Colin McCahon's Paintings, the Cliffs of Otakimiro and Motutara Describe a Path of Grace," by Stuart Morgan; "Ettore Spalletti's Archipelago of Color: Islands and Gardens, Basins, Columnns, and Hills, in Sensuous Dust," by Germano Celant; "Peter Hutton: A Tale of Two Cities, An American Avant-garde Filmaker in Budapest," by J. ... [details]
