October : The First Decade, 1976 - 1986

[Second Printing]

Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Douglas Crimp, Joan Copjec, Nadar, Georges Didi-Huberman, Roger Caillois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Sergei Einstein, Maria-Antonietta Macciocchi, Rosalyn Deutsche, Cara Gendel Ryan, Yve-Alain Bois, Daniel Buren, Louise Lawler, Christopher Philips, Homi Bhabha, Mary Ann Doane, Joel Fineman, Babette Mangolte, Peter Handke, Anette Michelson, Georges Bataille, Hollis Frampton, Robert Morris, Hans Haacke, Trisha Brown

"OCTOBER: The First Decade, 1976 - 1986 brings together a selection of some of the most important and representative texts, many from issues long out of print, that have appeared in one of the foremost journals in art criticism and theory. ... [details]

October

No. 31 (Winter 1984)

Denis Hollier, Roger Caillois, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Rosalind Krauss, Jeanne Laurent, Pierre Vaisse, Jacques Chardeau, Rosalyn Deutsche, Cara Gendel Ryan

Edited by Rosalind Krauss and Annette Michelson. Essays "Mimesis and Castration 1937," by Denis Hollier; "Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia," by Roger Caillois; "Rital and Raton," by Pier Paolo Pasolini; "A Note on Photography and the Simulacral," by Rosalind Krauss; "The New Caillebotte Affair," by Jeanne Laurent, Pierre Vaisse, and Jacques Chardeau; "The Fine Art of Gentrification," by Rosalyn Deutsche and Cara Gendel Ryan. [details]

On Being an Exhibition

Joseph del Pesco, Alexander Alberro, Woody Allen, Arjun Appadurai, Michael Asher, Bela Balazs, Robert Barry, Bernard of Chartres, Bill Brown, Daniel Buren, William Bourroughs, John Cage, Roger Caillois, Germano Celant, Michel de Certeau, Gordon Matta Clark, Guy Debord, John Dewey, Clive Dilnot, Terry Eagleton, Andrea Fraser, Alfred Gell, Jean-Luc Godard, Michel Gondry, Elizabeth Grosz, J. Hoberman, Harry Houdini, Ivan Karp, Fred Wilson, Frederick J. Kiesler, Miwon Kwon, Louise Lawler, Félix Leclerc, Bruce Lee, Henry Lefebvre, Jonathan Lethem, James Lingwood, Francisco Lopez, Karl Marx, Mario Merz, Vladimir Nabokov, Carsten Nicolai, Scott Oliver, Georges Perec, Max Perutz, Pet Shop Boys, Dimitri Shostakovich, Robert Smithson, Micheal Taussig, Sven Olav Wallenstein, Paul Virillio, Lawrence Weiner, Gilberto Zorio, BLG, Conrad Bakker, Beth Campbell, Valerie Hegarty, Isola and Norzi, Germaine Koh, Chadwick Rantanen, Derek Sullivan, Anne Walsh, Chris Kubick, Lee Walton, Raimundas Malasaukas, Meredith Johnson

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 12 - December 8, 2007. Essay by Joseph del Pesco. Artists include BGL, Conrad Bakker, Beth Campbell, Germaine Koh, Valerie Hegarty, Isola and Norzi, Chadwick Rantanen, Derek Sullivan and Anne Walsh. ... [details]