Eighteen essays written by Buchloh over the last twenty years, each looking at asingle artist within the framework of specific theoretical and historical questions.
Jonathan Crary's Techniques of the Observer provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity
Kant after Duchamp brings together eight essays around a central thesis with manyimplications for the history of avant-gardes. Although Duchamp's readymades broke with allpreviously known styles, de D
How the history of art begins with the myth of the barbarian invasion-the romantic fragmentation of classical eternity. The history of art, argues Eric Michaud, begins with the romantic myth of the
The first English-language monograph devoted to the full oeuvre of Alexander Kluge, the prolific German filmmaker, television producer, digital entrepreneur, author, thinker, and public intellectual.A
In a career that spanned five decades, most of them spent in San Francisco, BruceConner (1933--2008) produced a unique body of work that refused to be contained by medium or style.Whether making found
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 iss
Slavoj Zizek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweepingEastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. Zizek inverts current pedagogicalstrategies to explain t
For the artist Thomas Hirschhorn, writing is a crucial tool at every stage of hisartistic practice. From the first sketch of an idea to appeals to potential collaborators, fromdetailed documentation o
In the 1920s, the European avant-garde embraced the cinema, experimenting with themedium in radical ways. Painters including Hans Richter and Fernand Leger as well as filmmakersbelonging to such avant
In 1961, a solo exhibition by Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana met with ascathing critical response from New York art critics. Fontana (1899--1968), well known in Europe forhis series of slashed
In a career that spanned five decades, most of them spent in San Francisco, Bruce Conner (1933--2008) produced a unique body of work that refused to be contained by medium or style. Whether making fou
Over the past 30 years the writings of Georges Bataille have had a profound influence on French intellectual thought, informing the work of Foucault, Derrida, and Barthes, among others. Against Archi
In the 1920s, the European avant-garde embraced the cinema, experimenting with themedium in radical ways. Painters including Hans Richter and Fernand Leger as well as filmmakersbelonging to such avant
