Hello all:

Three more books I thought might be of interest to this list.  I've trimmed 
the announcements and included links to more information from the Press 
website.

Thanks!
David

http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262025302

Between Worlds
A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes, 1910-1930
edited by Timothy O. Benson and Éva Forgács

The avant-garde movements of Central Europe were an integral part of 
modernism's evolution as it reached its peak throughout the continent 
during the 1920s. Written documents--manifestoes, artists' statements, and 
reviews--were the lifeblood of these movements and, during the periods when 
political events conspired to isolate them, one of their few means of 
communication and exchange.  Between Worlds contains primary documents of 
the avant-gardes in Austria, the Czech lands, Germany, Hungary, Poland, 
Romania, and Yugoslavia from 1910 to 1930. The manifestoes and magazines of 
Western European radical art circles are well known to Western scholars, 
but few have researched the pages of magazines such as Zenit, Integral, 
Punct, 75 HP, Tank, and Ma. The hundreds of documents in the book, almost 
all of them translated into English for the first time, bring back into 
circulation landmark texts by the major writers, editors, artists, 
magazines, and movements of Central Europe.

Timothy O. Benson is Curator of the Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German 
Expressionist Studies at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Éva Forgács is 
an art historian, critic, and curator. She teaches at Art Center College of 
Design, Pasadena.

6 3/8 x 9 1/2, 736 pp., 32 illus., cloth, ISBN 0-262-02530-2
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http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262182203

Leave Any Information at the Signal
Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages
Ed Ruscha
edited and with an introduction by Alexandra Schwartz

Ed Ruscha is among the most innovative artists of the last forty years. He 
is also one of the first Americans to introduce a critique of popular 
culture and an examination of language into the visual arts. His work is 
characterized by the tensions between high and low, solemn and irreverent, 
and serious and nonsensical, and it draws on popular culture as well as 
Western art traditions. Leave Any Information at the Signal not only 
documents the work of this influential artist as he rose to prominence but 
also contains his writings and commentaries on other artistic developments 
of the period. The book is divided into three parts, each of which is 
arranged chronologically. Part one contains statements, letters, and other 
writings. Part two consists of more than fifty interviews, some of which 
have never before been published or translated into English. Part three 
contains sketchbook pages, word groupings, and other notes that chart how 
Ruscha develops ideas and solves artistic problems.

Ed Ruscha is an internationally acclaimed artist based in Los Angeles. 
Alexandra Schwartz is a doctoral candidate in art history at the University 
of Michigan. She lives in New York City.

7 x 9, 472 pp., 89 illus., cloth, ISBN 0-262-18220-3
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http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262112655

One Place after Another
Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity
Miwon Kwon

Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction to the growing 
commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art's autonomy and 
universality. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as site-specific art 
intersected with land art, process art, performance art, conceptual art, 
installation art, institutional critique, community-based art, and public 
art, its creators insisted on the inseparability of the work and its 
context. One Place after Another offers a critical history of site-specific 
art since the late 1960s and a theoretical framework for examining the 
rhetoric of aesthetic vanguardism and political progressivism associated 
with its many permutations. It examines site specificity as a complex 
cipher of the unstable relationship between location and identity in the 
era of late capitalism.

Miwon Kwon is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of 
California, Los Angeles.

7 x 9, 51 illus., cloth, ISBN 0-262-11265-5

David Weininger
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MIT Press
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