• current project

A Popular Western Story

Here's a short shaggy dog story about Ed Ruscha's painting Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half, 1964, the artist's book Twentysix Gasoline Stations, and a 10¢ rootin' tootin pulp periodical.

image from A Popular Western Story
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Situation Aesthetics : The Work of Michael Asher
  • critical theory
  • paper boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 24.6 x 18.4 cm.
  • 222 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9780262013680

Situation Aesthetics : The Work of Michael Asher

Michael Asher, Kirsi Peltomäki

An examination of the work of Michael Asher by Kirsi Peltomäki. "In 'Situation Aesthetics,' Kirsi Peltomäki examines Asher's practice by analyzing the social situations that the artist constructs in his work for viewers, participants, and institutional representatives (including gallery directors, curators, and other museum staff members). ... [details]

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
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$42.93
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$88.00
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Utopia Post Utopia : Configurations of Nature and Culture in Recent Sculpture and Photography
  • exhibition catalogue
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 25.5 x 20.5 cm.
  • 120 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 026260017X

Utopia Post Utopia : Configurations of Nature and Culture in Recent Sculpture and Photography

David A. Ross, Fredric Jameson, Eric Michaud, Elisabeth Sussman, David Joselit, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Alice Jardine, Robert Gober, Albert Bierstadt, Richard Prince, Meg Webster, Dorit Cypis, Larry Johnson, Lorna Simpson, Jeff Wall, Oliver Wasow, James Welling

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held January 29 - March 27, 1988. Introduction by David A. Ross. Essays by Fredric Jameson, Eric Michaud, Elisabeth Sussman, David Joselit, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Alice Jardine. ... [details]

$30.00
Condition:  Good / Very Good. Light wear to cover edge and top of spine on verso. Contents clean and unmarked.
[Object # 7415]
October
  • periodical
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 22.8 x 17.8 cm.
  • 142 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

October

No. 62 (Fall 1992)

Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, Joan Copjec, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, John Rajchman, Susan Buck-Morss, Brigitte Werneburg, Diedrich Diederichsen, Andreas Huyssen, Peter Osborne, Desa Philippi, Thomas Crow, Gertrud Koch

Fall 1992 issue of October, edited by Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, Joan Copjec, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, and John Rajchman. Contents include: "Aesthetics and Anaesthetics: Walter Benjamin's Artwork Essay Reconsidered," by Susan Buck-Morss; "Ernst Jünger and the Transformed World," by Brigitte Werneburg; "Spiritual Reactionaries After German Reunification: Syberberg, Foucault, and Others," by Diedrich Diederichsen; "Kiefer in Berlin," by Andreas Huyssen; "Painting Negation: Gerhard Richter's Negatives," by Peter Osborne; "Moments of Interpretation," by Desa Philippi; "Hand-Made Photographs and Homeless Representation," by Thomas Crow; and "The Richter-Scale of Blur," by Gertrud Koch. [details]

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
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$30.00
Condition:  Good. Light yellowing of covers with spotty ocher spotting to recto and light soiling of verso with rubbing to corners. 12.2 cm. dog-ear to table of contents, light yellowing of page edges. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.
[Object # 6646]
October
  • periodical
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 22.8 x 17.8 cm.
  • 123 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0262752115

October

The Identity in Question : A Special Issue / No. 61 (Summer 1992)

Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, Joan Copjec, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, John Rajchman, John Rajchman, Joan Scott, Cornel West, Chantal Mouffe, Homi Bhabha, Jacques Ranciere, Ernesto Laclau, Stanley Aronowitz, E.E. Smith

Summer 1992 issue of October, edited by Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, Joan Copjec, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, and John Rajchman. Contents include: "Introduction: The Question of Identity," by John Rajchman; "Multiculturism and the Politics of Identity," by Joan Scott; "A Matter of Life and Death," by Cornel West; "Citizenship and Political Identity," by Chantal Mouffe; "Freedom's Basis in the Indeterminate," by Homi Bhabha; "Politics, Identification, and Subjectivization," by Jacques Ranciere; "The Inevitability of Nation: German Intellectuals After Unification;" "Universalism, Particularism, and the Question of Identity," by Ernesto Laclau; "Reflections on Identity," by Stanley Aronowitz; and "The Americans," by E. ... [details]

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
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$35.00
Condition:  Very Good. 8 mm. black ink mark on recto near spine. Bumping of top and bottom right corners of covers and contents. Light yellowing of covers and pages. Contents clean and unmarked.
[Object # 8635]
October
  • periodical
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white
  • 23 x 17.5 cm.
  • 117 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 026275200X

October

No. 50 (Fall 1989)

Gertrud Koch, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Copjec, Jonathan Crary, Andrew Ross

Edited by Joan Copjec, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, and Annette Michelson. Essays "The Body's Shadow Realm," by Gertrud Koch; "Looking Awry," by Slavoj Žižek; "The Sartorial Superego," by Joan Copjec; "Spectacle, Attention, Counter-Memory," by Jonathan Crary; "The Rock 'n' Roll Ghost," by Andrew Ross. [details]

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
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$25.00
Condition:  Very Good / Fine. Light wear to covers. Covers and contents clean and unmarked. Due to large size and weight additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.
[Object # 39512]
October
  • periodical
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white
  • 23 x 17.5 cm.
  • 112 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0262751992

October

No. 49 (Summer 1989)

Tania Modleski, Eric Michaud, Denis Hollier, Joan Copjec, Thierry de Duve, D. A. Miller , Allen S. Weiss

Issue 49 of the periodical October. Edited by Joan Copjec, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, and Terri L. Cafaro. Contents include: "Some Functions of Feminist Criticism, or The Scandal of the Mute Body," by Tania Modleski; "Van Gogh, or The Insufficiency of Sacrifice," by Eric Michaud; "French Customs, Literary Borders," by Denis Hollier; "The Orthopsychic Subject: Film Theory and the Reception of Lacan," by Joan Copjec; "Yves Klein, or The Dead Dealer," by Thierry de Duve; "Sontag's Urbanity," by D. ... [details]

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
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$25.00
Condition:  Fine. Covers and contents clean and unmarked. Due to large size and weight additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.
[Object # 39511]
$20.00
Condition:  Good. Light dusting of covers and edge-wear. Red and black ink underling to pages 3-24 and 73-74. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.
[Object # 38981]
October
  • periodical
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white
  • 23 x 17.5 cm.
  • 109 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0262751984

October

No. 48 (Spring 1989)

Thierry de Duve, Gertrud Koch, Andreas Huyssen, Eric Rentschler, Hans Haacke, Werner Fenz, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh

Edited by Joan Copjec, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, and Terri L. Cafaro. Essays "Andy Warhol, or The Machine Perfected," by Thierry de Duve; "The Aesthetic Transformation of the Image of the Unimaginable," by Gertrud Koch; "Anselm Kiefer: The Terror of History, the Temptation of Myth," by Andreas Huyssen; "Fatal Attractions: Leni Riefenstahl's The Blue Light," by Eric Rentschler; "Contribution to Points of Reference 38/88," by Hans Haacke; "The Monument is Invisible, the Sign Visible," by Werner Fenz; "A Note on Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977," by Benjamin H. ... [details]

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
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$25.00
Condition:  Very Good / Fine. Small coffee stain dot to front cover. Covers and contents clean and unmarked. Due to large size and weight additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.
[Object # 39510]
October
  • periodical
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white
  • 22.7 x 17.5 cm.
  • 119 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0262751941

October

No. 44 (Spring 1988)

Leo Steinberg, Denis Hollier, John Rajchman

Edited by Joan Copjec, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, and Annette Michelson. Essays "The Philosophical Brothel," by Leo Steinberg; "The Word of God: "I am dead,' " by Denis Hollier; "Foucault's Art of Seeing," by John Rajchman. [details]

Cambridge, CA: MIT Press,
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$25.00
Condition:  Fair / Fine. Cirular coffee cup stains to front cover. Contents clean and unmarked. Due to large size and weight additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.
[Object # 39509]
October
  • periodical
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white
  • 23 x 17.5 cm.
  • 118 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0262751917

October

No. 41 (Summer 1987)

Jacques-Alain Miller, Patricia Mainardi, Ann Smock, Giuliana Bruno, Peter Wollen, Friedrich Kittler

Summer 1987 issue of October, edited by Joan Copjec, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss and Annette Michelson. Contents include: "Jeremy Bentham's Panoptic Device," by Jacques-Alain Miller; "Postmodern History at the Musée d'Orsay," by Patricia Mainardi; "Learn to Read, She Said," by Ann Smock; "Ramble City: Postmodernism and Blade Runner," by Guiliana Bruno; "An Interview with Steve Fagin," by Peter Wollen; and "Gramophone, Film, Typewriter," by Friedrich Kittler. [details]

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
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$35.00
Condition:  Fine. Covers and contents clean and unmarked. Due to large size and weight additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.
[Object # 39508]
$20.00
Condition:  Fair / Good. 5 cm. wide water damage along the height of the spine edge on both the recto and the verso and throughout contents. Additional soiling of covers with light yellowing and rubbing of cover edges. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.
[Object # 37706]
October
  • periodical
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white
  • 23 x 17.5 cm.
  • 131 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0262752069

October

High / Low : A Special Issue / No. 56 (Spring 1991)

Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, Joan Copjec, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, John Rajchman, Molly Nesbit, David James, Jonathan Crary

Issue edited by Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, Joan Copjec, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, John Rajchman. Essays "The Rat's Ass," by Molly Nesbit; "The Unsecret Life: A Warhol Advertisement," by David James; "'Where Is Your Rupture?': Mass Culture and the Gesamtkunstwerk," by Annette Michelson; "Armor Fou," by Hal Foster; "From Detail to Fragment: Décollage Affichiste," by Benjamin H. ... [details]

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
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$25.00
Condition:  Fine. Covers and contents clean and unmarked. Due to large size and weight additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.
[Object # 39507]
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