"On the Museum's Ruins" presents Douglas Crimp's criticism of contemporary art, its institutions, and its politics alongside photographic works by the artist Louise Lawler to create a collaborative project that is itself an example of postmodern practice at its most provocative. Taking the museum as the paradigmatic institution of artistic ...
MELANCHOLIA AND MORALISM collects 14 years of essays from AIDS activist Douglas Crimp. Here he provides a look back at the AIDS crisis and how various institutions, such as the government, arts organizations, and the gay community have responded to it. In chronicling the history of AIDS, Crimp calls out to everyone to rethink how they conceive of ...
This is the first collection of writings by a noted artist and activist whose work has focused on the AIDS epidemic. The HIV epidemic animates this collection of essays by a noted artist, writer, and activist. "So total was the burden of illness - mine and others' - that the only viable response, other than to cease making art entirely, was to ...
OCTOBER: The First Decade 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.
For the past 20 years, Louise Lawler has photographed art as it is "presented" in private homes, museums, galleries, auction houses, public buildings, and museum and gallery storage areas. From an exhibition of Degas' masterpieces to an Andy Warhol installation, this book invites you to discover Lawler's unique vision of modern and contemporary ...
This title contains critical essays on Cindy Sherman and one of contemporary art's most innovative bodies of work. With her "Untitled Film Stills" of the 1970s, Cindy Sherman became one of the era's most important and influential artists. Since then, her metamorphosing self-portraits and appropriation of genres can be seen as a continuous ...
The first book to document the work of ACT UP, this volume features the bold and provocative graphic images--and the intensity of the political message--put forward by this activist group in its struggle against government inaction, media distortion, and public apathy.
This collection of Warhol's portraits of pop culture icons contains 80 full-color reproductions, including his radical representations of James Dean, Greta Garbo, Debbie Harry. Curator Nicholas Baume and art historian Richard Meyer offer critical assessment.
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