| Description |
xvii, 429 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Documentary sources in contemporary art ; v. 2 |
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Documentary sources in contemporary art ; v. 2
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| Contents |
Director's foreword / Marcia Tucker -- Telling stories : a fictional approach to artists' writings / Brian Wallis -- Part I.A story is not just a story -- Grandma's story / Trinh T. Minh-ha -- Family stories / Carrie Mae Weems -- Serving the status-quo / Connie Hatch -- Three stories / James Casebere -- Sounds in the distance / David Wojnarowicz -- Words in reverse / Laurie Anderson -- Part II. The order of things -- A tour of the monuments of Passaic, New Jersey / Robert Smithson -- Untitled / Matt Mullican -- If only / Ann Turyn/Robert Fiengo -- Five comments / Sherrie Levine -- The consummate mask of rock / Bruce Nauman -- My files of movie stills / John Baldessari -- Truisms / Jenny Holzer -- Part III. Discourses of power -- Reading an archive / Allan Sekula -- Ideology, confrontation, and political self-awareness : an essay, 1981 / Adrian Piper -- Constructing a life / Martha Rosier -- Spies and watchmen / Thomas Lawson -- In the dark / Eric Bogosian -- from Swimming to Cambodia / Spalding Gray -- The rhetoric of AIDS / Simon Watney -- Part IV. History and memory -- My past, my people / Edgar Heap of Birds -- Clio/History / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha -- The politics of writing / Sekou Sundiata -- Evening tomorrow's here today since the hornet flies I triangle / Candace Hill -- Common origin / Reese Williams -- Views / Peter Nadin -- My bio : notes on an American childhood / Cookie Mueller -- Part V. Modern love -- Modern love / Constance Dejong -- Russian Constructivism / Kathy Acker -- For the future / Lynne Tillman -- Burmese days / Gary Indiana -- Sunlight and personality / Suzanne Jackson -- Four stories / Jane Warrick -- Part VI. Desire, fetish, commodity -- Tea with Madeleine / Victor Burgin -- What is poetry to you? / Cecilia Vicuna -- Transcendent anti-fetishism / Ross Bleckner -- The paintings are dead / David Salle -- On line / Peter Halley -- Casual imagination / Judith Barry -- Part VII. Mass culture and the structure of fantasy -- Dean Martin : entertainment as theater / Dan Graham -- Pathetic readings / William Wegman -- Beyond chiffon : the making of Storme / Michelle Parkerson -- Thoughts on women's cinema : eating words, voicing struggles / Yvonne Rainer -- Discordant views / Silvia Kolbowski -- Remote control / Barbara Kruger -- The perfect tense / Richard Prince |
| Analysis |
English literature American writers 1945- Anthologies |
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English literature American writers, 1945- - Anthologies |
| Notes |
Text on living papers |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [417]-427 |
| Subject |
Arts, American -- 20th century -- Themes, motives.
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Arts, American -- United States -- Themes, motives.
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Arts, Modern -- 20th century -- Themes, motives.
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Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
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Postmodernism -- United States -- Themes, motives.
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| Genre/Form |
Allegories.
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| Author |
Wallis, Brian, 1953-
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New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.)
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| LC no. |
87042766 |
| ISBN |
026223128X (MIT Press) |
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