Part of Afterall Books "One Work" series in which one work of art is written about in depth. In this volume Boris Groys investigates Ilya Kabakov's "The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment." "Ilya Kabakov's 1988 installation The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment presents an isolated dreamer who develops an impossible project - to fly alone in outer space. ... [details]
"Between 1969 and 1974, Lucy Lippard curated four exhibitions of contemporary art, which have become renowned as her ''numbers shows.'' Each took the population of the city in which it was shown as its title: [details]
"Dan Graham's 'Rock My Religion' (1983 - 84) is a video essay populated by punk and rock performers (Patti Smith, Jim Morrison, Black Flag and Glenn Branca) and historical figures (including Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers). ... [details]
"In The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems (1974—75), Martha Rosler bridged the concerns of art with those of political documentary. The work, a series of twenty-one black-and-white photographs, twenty-four text panels and three blank panels, embraces the codes of the photo-text experiments of the period and applies them to the social reality of New York''s Lower East Side. ... [details]
Critical theory publication edited by Christian Rattemeyer. Texts by Wim Beeren, Charles Harrison, Harald Szeemann, Tommaso Trini, Claudia Di Lecce, Steven ten Thije. Introduction by Teresa Gleadowe. "Afterall Books' new Exhibition Histories series responds to an increased interest in exhibition history with its inaugural volume on two of the most famous exhibitions of the 1960s: Wim Beeren's 'Op Losse Schroeven' (Stedelijk Museum, 1969) and Harald Szeemann's 'Live in Your Head : When Attitudes Become Form' (Kunsthalle Berne, also 1969). ... [details]
"By rephotographing an image from a magazine to make his 1977 work 'Untitled (couple), Richard Prince extracted the uncanny from the generic. For Michael Newman rephotography gives this couple - with their shiny faces and dated clothes - the afterlife of ghosts or vampires. ... [details]
