Critical theory documenting the years 1966 - 1976, written by Robert Pincus-Witten. Artists include Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Eva Hesse, Richard Tuttle, Bruce Nauman, Mel Bochner, Sol LeWitt, Barry Le Va, Jackie Ferrara, Vito Acconci, Lynda Benglis, James Collins and Scott Burton. ... [details]
Compendium of profiles on artists Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Robert Longo, Gary Stephan, Eric Fischl, Siah Amarjani, Ross Bleckner, Mel Bochner, Sol LeWitt, Joel Shapiro, Scott Burton, Benni Efrat, Lucio Pozzi, Jackie Winsor and Michael Hurson. ... [details]
A collection of transcripts and photos originally produced as part of the exhibition "Discussions" held at New York University, May 9 - 20, 1977. Edited by Annina Nosei Weber. Artist's contributions by Joseph Beuys, Lucio Pozzi, International Local (Sarah Charlesworth, Joseph Kosuth, Anthony McCall), Victor Burgin, David Antin, Carolee Schneemann, Guiseppe Chiari, Ian Wilson, and Robert Ashley. [details]
A well crafted argument for Acconci's early works with texts mostly in Italian, but fair English content too. [details]
A collection of concrete / visual poetry. In parallel Italian / English texts. English translation by Claudette Asselin. Includes a few black-and-white illustrations. [details]
"Divided into three sections, ONtoLOGIC, LOGIC, and ANALOGIC, the book's non-linear organization locates its centers in a reading of James Reineking's sculpture, which can thus be regarded as a combined effort of artist / maker and artist / user" -- from publisher's statement. ... [details]
A collection of essays on the artistic device by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe with text in English. [details]
.".What's Hecuba to Him or He to Hecuba? substitutes the emancipation of invariableness (substantive assumption of speach, space and pauses) for the everlasting obsolescence or rarity, of private (specialistic) metaphors, of controversial and transgressional instances, and reveals in counterpoint, the infallibly depletive nature of pre-disposed articulation (gender, number, mode, tense, person). ... [details]
"How else might 'essays' be written? 'Essaying Essays,' writes Richard Kostelanetz, 'are those printed pieces that essay to redefine the genre. By realizing the other ways of doing what essays have traditionally done, they are essays twice over, confronting not only their particular subjects but, by implication, alternative possibilities for the form itself. ... [details]
