Toward Fewer Images

Philipp Ekardt

• Hardcover | Engels | October Books
• The first English-language monograph devoted to the full oeuvre of Alexander Kluge, the prolific German filmmaker, television producer, digital entrep... Lees meer

Being Watched

Carrie Lambert-Beatty

• Paperback | Engels | October Books
• How Yvonne Rainer's art shaped new ways of watching as well as performing; how it connected 1960s avant-garde art to politics and activism. In her dan... Lees meer

Total Expansion of the Letter

Trevor Stark

• Hardcover | Engels | October Books
• How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stéphane Mallarmé. At the outset of the... Lees meer

Robert Ryman

Suzanne P Hudson

• Paperback | Engels | October Books
• This first book-length study of Robert Ryman argues that his work is a continuous experiment in the possibilities of painting. In this first book-leng... Lees meer

Lucio Fontana

Anthony White

• Paperback | Engels | October Books
• A new view of Fontana showing how the artist combined modernist aesthetics with outmoded forms of kitsch. In 1961, a solo exhibition by Argentine-Ital... Lees meer

Cinema, Censorship, and the State

Nagisa Oshima

• Paperback | Engels | October Books
• The texts in this volume make up an intellectual autobiography that reveals a rare conjunction of personal candor and political commitment. Nagisa Osh... Lees meer

Prosthetic Gods

Hal Foster

• Paperback | Engels | October Books
• Imagining a new self equal to the new art of modernism; primordial and futuristic fictions of origin in the work of Guaguin, Picasso, F. T. Marinetti,... Lees meer

Decoys and Disruptions

Martha Rosler

• Paperback | Engels | October Books
• The first comprehensive collection of writings by Martha Rosler considers the intersection of art and politics, the operation of art systems, feminist... Lees meer

Against Architecture

Denis Hollier

• Paperback | October Books
• Against Architecture offers the first serious interpretation of this challenging thinker, spelling out the profoundly original and radical nature of B... Lees meer

On the Wings of Hypothesis

Annette Michelson

• Hardcover | Engels | October Books
• Annette Michelson's erudite and incisive readings of the revolutionary films of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, collected for the first time. This... Lees meer

Painting as Model

Yve-Alain Bois

• Paperback | Engels | October Books
• Informed by both structuralism and poststructuralism, these essays by art critic and historian Yve Alain Bois seek to redefine the status of theory in... Lees meer

Looking Awry

Slavoj Zizek

• Paperback | Engels | October Books
• Slavoj Zizek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweeping Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. Zizek... Lees meer

Perpetual Inventory

Rosalind E Krauss

• Paperback | Engels | October Books
• In essays that span three decades, one of contemporary art's most esteemed critics celebrates artists who have persevered in the service of a medium. ... Lees meer

The Return of the Real

Hal Foster

• Paperback | Engels | October Books
• In The Return of the Real Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar avan... Lees meer

The Duchamp Effect

• Paperback | Engels | October Books
• This expanded edition of the fall 1994 special issue of October includes new essays by Sarat Maharaj and by Molly Nesbit and Naomi Sawelson-Gorse. It ... Lees meer

Gesture and Speech

Andre LeRoi-Gourhan

• Paperback | Engels | October Books
• Combines in one volume Technics and Language and Memory and Rhythms, the cornerstones of Leroi-Gourhan's comprehensive theory of human behavior and cu... Lees meer

Realism after Modernism

Devin Fore

• Paperback | Engels | October Books
• The paradox at the heart of the return to realism in the interwar years, as seen in work by Moholy-Nagy, Brecht, and others. The human figure made a s... Lees meer

Compulsive Beauty

Hal Foster

• Paperback | Engels | October Books
• In Compulsive Beauty , Foster reads surrealism from its other, darker side: as an art given over to the uncanny, to the compulsion to repeat and the d... Lees meer

The Long Front of Culture

Kevin Lotery

• Hardcover | Engels | October Books
• How a group of artists and theorists turned to exhibition design as the only medium capable of synthesizing high and low in postwar culture. In 1950s ... Lees meer

The Artwork Caught by the Tail

George Baker

• Paperback | Engels | October Books
• A new theory of the readymade via a new reading of Picabia and a new writing of Dada. The artist Francis Picabia--notorious dandy, bon vivant , painte... Lees meer

Heritage and Debt

David Joselit

• Hardcover | Engels | October Books
• How global contemporary art reanimates the past as a resource for the present, combating modern art's legacy of Eurocentrism. If European modernism wa... Lees meer

Looking for Bruce Conner

Kevin Hatch

• Paperback | Engels | October Books
• A new perspective on the enormously influential but insufficiently understood work of San Francisco-based artist Bruce Conner (1933-2008). In a career... Lees meer

Women Artists at the Millennium

• Paperback | Engels | October Books
• Artists, art historians, and critics look at the legacies of feminism and critical theory in the work of women artists, more than thirty years after t... Lees meer

The Optical Unconscious

Rosalind E Krauss

• Paperback | Engels | October Books
• The Optical Unconscious is a pointed protest against the official story of modernism and against the critical tradition that attempted to define moder... Lees meer