"This volume is a revised and expanded version of a special issue of the journal October (Winter 1997) that was devoted to the work of the Situationist International (SI). The first section of the issue contained previously unpublished critical texts, and the second section contained translations of primary texts that had previously been unavailable in English. ... [details]
"Greil Marcus, author of 'Mystery Train,' widely accepted as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols : that scandalous antimusical group, invented in London in 1975 and dead within two years, which sparked the emergence of the culture called punk. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue?," by Thierry de Duve; "Tadanori Yokoo: Between Painting and Graphic Art," by Yoshiaki Tono; "Richard Artschwager," by Coosje van Bruggen; "Marina Abramovic," by Thomas McEvilley; "Der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk," by Germano Celant; "Brice Marden: Two Drawings"; "Photograph into Sculpture," by Sam Wagstaff; "Books: Carrie Rickey on 'Overlay,'" by Carrie Rickey; "Airtime," by Greil Marcus; "Forum," by Richard Armstrong. ... [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. Essays "Bill Woodrow: Material Truths," by Mark Francis; "In the Heart of the Tinman. An Essay on John Chamberlain," by Duncan Smith; "A Project by Pontus Hulten and Jean Tinguely;" "Freeing Dance from the Web: On Collaboration, Trisha Brown's 'Set and Reset,' and 'Lucinda Childs' Available Light," by Thomas McEvilley; "Two Sides of the Brain: Molissa Fenley's Hemisphere's," by RoseLee Goldberg; "Up Rocking, Locking, Old Style, 1990 Moves," by Michael Holman; "Selected Funk Lessions: a project," by Adrian Piper; "A Use for Beauty," by Kenneth Baker; "Executioner's Song," by Greil Marcus; "Books: Gilles Deleuze on Francis Bacon," by Gilles Deleuze; "Forum," by Kate Linker. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "De Kooning," by Sidney Tillim; "Bob Colescott Ain't Just Misbehavin,'" by Lowery S. Sims; "Picasso's Late Work - Swan Song or Apotheosis? An Interview with Gert Schiff," by Ronnie Cohen; "My Dog Neo," by Thomas McEvilley; "Eric Fischl's Year of the Drowned Dog: Eight Characters in Search of an Autumn," by Lisa Liebmann; "William Eggleston's View of Graceland: The Absence of Elvis," by Greil Marcus; "Psychedelic Art: Flashing Back," by Glenn O'Brien; "Books: An Interview with Eiko Ishioka," by Ingrid Sischy; "Never Too Late," by Greil Marcus; "Forum," by Donald Kuspit. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Chasing Dreams: Victor Hitchcock and Alfred Burgin," by Jean Fisher; "Obsessive Pictures or Opposition to the Norm: Noteworthy Aspects of the Engaged Imagination in the New German Art," by Annelie Pohlen; "A Progression by Chuck Close: Who's Afraid of Photography?" by Chuck Close; "The Death of Semiotics (In Late Modern Architecture); The Corruption of Metaphor (In Post-Modernism); The Birth of the 'Punctum' (In Neomania)," by Douglas Davis; "Romare Bearden Sees in a Memory," by Myron Schwartzman; "Books: For Georges Remi/Hergé," by Frederic Tuten; "Free Speech," by Greil Marcus; "Forum," by Max Kozloff, Kay Larson, and Donald Kuspit. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "About Garry Winogrand," by Ben Lifson; "Astral America," by Jean Baudrillard; "Once Upon a Time in Amerika: Straub/Huillet/Kafka," by J. Hoberman; "De Chirico in America, 1935-37: His Metaphysics of Fashion," by Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco; "Signs: A Conversation with Luis Jimenez," by Amy Baker Sandback; "Waiting for Dr. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Rebecca Horn: Dancing on the Egg," by Germano Celant; "Modern Art from a Japanese Viewpoint," by Shigeo Chiba; "Modern-Postism," by Glenn O'Brien; "Stubborn Ideas and LeWitty Walls," by Lisa Liebmann; "Jim Starrett, Pacifist Painter," by Donald Kuspit; "A Project by Dorothea Rockburne"; "Robert Wilson: It's About Time," by Franco Quadri; "Gone With the Wind," by Greil Marcus. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief: 'Primitivism' in 20th Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984," by Thomas McEvilley; "Sign on a Truck," by Jenny Holzer; "Campaign 1984," by Alison Gardner Pratt; "Terry Winters' Earthly Anecdotes," by Prudence Carlson; "Naming Pictures: Conversations between Lee Krasner and John Bernard Myers," by John Bernard Myers; "In the American Grain: Robert Helm," by James Ivory; "Tracking Some Angles: A Talk with Alain Resnais," by Frederic Tuten; "Poets and Art: John Ashbery, Tony Towle, Ann Lauterbach, and Barry Schwabsky interviewed by John Yau; with poems by Michael Brownstein, Ashbery, Towle, Lauterbach, Schwabsky, and Rene Ricard"; "Hilton Kramer: An Appreciation," by Thomas Lawson; "Books: Lionel Lambourne on 'The Collected Letters of William Morris,'" by Lionel Lambourne; "Forum: Philosophy and Art: Elective Affinities in and Arranged Marriage," by Donald Kuspit; "Bruce Springsteen: In Your Heart You Know He's Right," by Greil Marcus. ... [details]