Hi all:
Here are short announcements for some recent MIT Press books that may
interest ARLIS readers. I've included links to the Press website where more
information on each book can be found. Thanks!
David
Primary Documents
A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art since the 1950s
edited by Laura Hoptman and Tomas Pospiszyl
http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262083132
This book, the result of years of research by an international team of
artists, curators, editors, translators, and scholars working with the
Museum of Modern Art, presents primary documents drawn from the artistic
archives of Eastern and Central Europe during the second half of the
twentieth century. Because the practice of criticism in this region was for
many years almost completely suppressed, the writings of the artists
themselves often fulfill a critical as well as an aesthetic and ideological
function. The manifestoes, photo essays, proposals, scripts, and other
writings assembled here comprise the first anthology of this material in
any language.
Laura Hoptman is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum of
Art.Tomas Pospiszyl is Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery
of Prague.
6 3/8 x 9 1/2, 304 pp., 90 illus., cloth, ISBN 0-262-08313-2
Distributed for the Museum of Modern Art
Robert Rauschenberg
edited by Branden W. Joseph
http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262100967
This book focuses on Rauschenberg's work during the critical period of the
1950s and 1960s. It opens with a newly prefaced version of Leo Steinberg's
"Reflections on the State of Criticism," the first published version of his
famous 1972 essay, "Other Criteria," which remains the single most
important text on Rauschenberg. Rosalind Krauss's "Rauschenberg and the
Materialized Image" builds on Steinberg's essay, arguing that
Rauschenberg's work represents a decisive shift in contemporary art.
Douglas Crimp's "On the Museum's Ruins" examines Rauschenberg's silkscreens
in the context of the modern museum. Helen Molesworth's "Before Bed" uses
psychoanalytic and economic structures to examine the artist's Black
Paintings of the early 1950s. A second essay by Krauss, "Perpetual
Inventory," revisits both her and Steinberg's articles of nearly
twenty-five years earlier. Finally, Branden Joseph's "A Duplication
Containing Duplications" views Rauschenberg's silkscreens in relation to
the artist's interests in technology, particularly television.
Branden W. Joseph is a Cotsen Fellow in the Princeton Society of Fellows in
the Liberal Arts, Princeton University, and an editor of the journal Grey
Room (MIT Press).
6 x 9, 192 pp., 54 illus., paper ISBN 0-262-60049-8, cloth ISBN 0-262-10096-7
October Files
Virtual Art
From Illusion to Immersion
Oliver Grau
http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262072416
Although many people view virtual reality as a totally new phenomenon, it
has its foundations in an unrecognized history of immersive images. Indeed,
the search for illusionary visual space can be traced back to antiquity. In
this book Oliver Grau shows how virtual art fits into the art history of
illusion and immersion. He describes the metamorphosis of the concepts of
art and the image and relates those concepts to interactive art, interface
design, agents, telepresence, and image evolution. Grau retells art history
as media history, helping us to understand the phenomenon of virtual
reality beyond the hype.
Oliver Grau is Lecturer in Art History at Humboldt University, Berlin,
Associate Professor at the Kunst Universaet Linz, and leader of the German
Science Foundation's project on immersive art.
7 x 9, 360 pp., 89 illus., cloth, ISBN 0-262-07241-6
A Leonardo Book
Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity
Alexander Alberro
http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262011964
In this book Alexander Alberro traces its origins to the mid-1960s, when
its principles were first articulated by the artists Dan Graham, Joseph
Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner, and others. One of Alberro's central
arguments is that the conceptual art movement was founded not just by the
artists but also by the dealer Seth Siegelaub. Siegelaub promoted the
artists, curated groundbreaking shows, organized symposia and publications,
and in many ways set the stage for another kind of entrepreneur: the
freelance curator. Alberro examines both Siegelaub's role in launching the
careers of artists who were making "something from nothing" and his tactful
business practices, particularly in marketing and advertising.
Alexander Alberro is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University
of Florida, Gainesville.
7 x 9, 288 pp., 52 illus., cloth, ISBN 0-262-01196-4
Black Mountain College
Experiment in Art
edited by Vincent Katz, with texts by Martin Brody, Robert Creeley, Vincent
Katz, and Kevin Power
http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262112795
Although it lasted only twenty-three years (1933-1956) and enrolled fewer
than 1,200 students, Black Mountain College was one of the most fabled
experimental institutions in art education and practice. This book, which
accompanies an exhibition organized by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte
Reina Sofía in Madrid, contains nearly 500 color and black and white
illustrations, many never before published. The book also contains detailed
histories of the careers of sixty-five Black Mountain artists, drawing on
new interviews with John Chamberlain, Robert Creeley, Merce Cunningham,
Fielding Dawson, Joseph Fiore, Richard Lippold, Kenneth Noland, Pat
Passlof, Arthur Penn, Dan Rice, Dorothea Rockburne, Gerald van de Wiele,
Susan Weil, and John Wieners.
Vincent Katz is a poet, translator, and curator based in New York City.
9 1/4 x 11 3/5, 352 pp., 470 illus., 235 color, cloth, ISBN 0-262-11279-5
David Weininger
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