Volume I of the Franklin Furnace Archive Artists' Book Bibliography. 144 white note cards, including 1 cover / colophon card. These cards descriptively catalogue books in the Franklin Furnace Artists' Book Collection, and supply artists' statements. ... [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]
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 "The Uncanny Resurrections of 'America is Waiting,'" by Scott Cook; "Yves Klein, Messenger of the Age of Space," by Thomas McEvilley; "John Waters' 'Divine Comedy,'" by Scott MacDonald; "Neither Fool, nor Naive, nor Poseur-Saint: Fragments on R. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Editorial: An Appreciation of H.C. Westermann; "Parody and Appropriation in Francis Picabia, Pop, and Sigmar Polke," by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh; "Approaching the Abyss: Monet's Era," by Roger Shattuck; "Strangers in a Strange Land: Timothy O'Sullivan and Henry Adams," by Colin Westerbeck; "Scattered Pictures: The Movies of Werner Schroeter," by Gary Indiana; "Looking Up at Jeff Wall's Modern 'Appassionamento,'" by Donald Kuspit; "Clay and Bronze," a project by Lucas Samaras; "Books: Robert Kushner on 'Man as Art,'" by Robert Kushner. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Fluxus Focus: Photographs by Peter Moore," by Peter Moore; "George Maciunas: A Finger in Fluxus," by Barbara Moore; "Growing Up," by Patricia C. Phillips and James Wines; "Paikvision," by Bruce Kurtz; "Dali's Dreadful Relevance," by Carter Ratcliff; "Documenta 7: Continued," by Richard Flood, Donald Kuspit, Lisa Liebmann, Stuart Morgan, Annelie Pohlen, and Schuldt. ... [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]
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 "Robert Doisneau's 'Oblique Regard,'" by Max Kozloff; "A Project by Giuseppe Penone"; "'The Other,'" by John Bernard Myers; "'Jiri Georg Dokoupil: The Imprisoned Brain," by Rainer Crone; "A Project by Robert Graham"; "Diogenes of Sinope (ca. ... [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]