Artists' book of compiled double-page spreads by broad collection of artists. "What if an ordinary little coloring book were to be upgraded with a set of 54 energetic line drawings by some of today's best-known contemporary artists instead of the usual dumbed-down pedagogical renderings? And what if the proceeds from the sale of this high-art coloring book were to go to a worthy charitable organization that seeks to install upbeat, original contemporary artworks in participating hospitals? Well, then you would have Between the Lines, this lively new collection of work by Vito Acconci, Rita Ackermann, John Baldessari, Jeremy Blake, Will Cotton, R. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held January 20 - April 9, 1975. Curated by John Hanhardt, Barbara Haskell, James Monte, Elke Solomon, and Marcia Tucker. Foreward by Tom Armstrong, director of the Whitney Museum. ... [details]
Special Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. "I am on a train moving eastward," by Mark Holborn; "For some time now, in order to write this wretched article, I have been thinking about automatons," by Eugenio Battisti; "The monster and the city have always been symbiotic," by Philip Strick; "Since the late 18th century the function of art as a form of value, and how that value was to be defined, has been anything but clear," by Sidney Tillim; "There is more of traditional beauty in Modernist art than we care to admit," by Carter Ratcliff; "ANKEBUTA, AN ANCIENT BABYLONIAN SCIENTIST, WROTE A WORK ON ARTCRITICAL PRODUCTIONS IN WHICH HE CLAIMED TO HAVE MANUFACTURED A LIVING HUMAN BEING," by Thomas McEvilley; "God made the first copy," by Glenn O'Brien; "Culture in the most fertilized substance," by Edit deAK; "At this quick and weightless moment late in the Century of Abstraction. ... [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 "On Location: Milton Resnick, New York City," by Milton Resnick; "Turned Out: Christo in Paris, The Bridge Wore Beige," by John Howell; "Speaker to Speaker: Heart from the Heartland," by Greil Marcus; "Modern Life: AIDS, A Buried Allegory," by Carter Ratcliff; "Ground Up: Parabuilding - The Postmodern Tick on the Modern Elephant," by Herbert Muschamp; "Like Art: The Model Critic, A New Face in the Empire of Signs," by Glenn O'Brien; "Remote Control: Waiting for Gloria," by Barbara Kruger; "Books: Sarah Bodine on 'Moholy-Nagy;' Mark Francis on 'Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Visual Primer;' Charles Hagen on 'The Indelible Image: Photographs of War - 1846 to the Present;' Mark Holborn on 'Tokyo 1970 - 1985;' Donald Kuspit on 'The Sense of Sight;' Greil Marcus on 'Dada/Dimensions;' 'Herbert Muschamp on 'Ballet' and 'Balanchine's Tchaikovsky: Interviews with George Balanchine;' Carter Ratcliff on 'Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris;' Barry Schwabsky on 'Jim Dine Drawings;' Frederic Tuten on 'History of the Universe;'" "Hysterical Painting: Civilization and Francis Bacon's Exhibition of its Discontents," by Donald Kuspit; "A Project for Artforum: Written Leaf," by Mario Merz; "Cultivated Canvases: Richard Diebenkorn's Uneasy Grace," by Susan C. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "On Location: Balancing Bigger and Smaller, Alberto Burri's Studio," by Ida Panicelli; "Modern Life: Close Encounters with Unidentified Flying Zeitgeists," by Carter Ratcliff; "Turned Out: Biology 101 invades Art History 407. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Esthetics and Loss: AIDS," by Edmund White; "Imi Knoebel's Triangle: The Ecology of Nonobjectivity," by Donald Kuspit; "The Mirror Turned Lamp: Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner defy the Forces of Gravity," by C. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Corporate Arcadias: Green Thumbs and Gray Flannel," by Dan Graham and Robin Hurst; "Haim Steinbach's Wild Wild West: Serving Color on the Horizon," by Germano Celant; "Arms: Around Chet Baker," by Bruce Weber; "Kane's Welles: The Phantom of the Opus, Velásquez in Xanadu," by Brian O'Doherty; "Ventriloquism. ... [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]
Issue edited by Jack Bankowsky. Essays "All-Around Esthetes: Jeffrey Slonim on the Book Picture," by Jeffrey Slonim; "Books: Richard Flood on 'Leni Riefenstahl: A Memoir," by Richard Flood; "Books: Mike Davis on 'Virtual Light,'" by Mike Davis; "Ecoculture: Andrew Ross' Weather Report," by Andrew Ross; "Performance: Liz Kotz on the Five Lesbian Brothers," by Liz Kotz; "Real Life Rock: Greil Marcus' Top Ten," Greil Marcus; "It's Been Nice Gnawing You," Rhonda Lieberman and Cary S. ... [details]