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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Associate Publicist MIT Press 5 Cambridge Center, 4th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 617.253.2079 617.253.1709 fax [log in to unmask] __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org//membership.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]