A humiliating military defeat by Bismarck's Germany, a brutal siege, and a bloody uprising--Paris in 1871 was a shambles, and the question loomed, "Could this extraordinary city even survive?" Mary McAuliffe takes the reader back to these perilous years following the abrupt coll…
"The typewriter, the card index, and the filing cabinet : these are technologies and modalities of the archive. To the bureaucrat, archives contain little more than garbage, paperwork no longer needed; to the historian, on the other hand, the archive's content stands as a quasi-…
"Video Green examines the explosion of late 1990s art produced by high-profile graduate programs that catapulted Los Angeles into the epicenter of the international art world. Probing the programs' own art-critical buzzwords, Chris Kraus asks how LA art came to be so completely …
"Ce livre conjugue des univers singuliers, met des mots sur des images, rend hommage aux inventeurs de l'impossible, souligne l'irrationnel de notre monde, salue la force des fragiles et nous invite à voir les mots et à lire les images d'un autre œil." JOHN R. PORTER Président d…
"Ce livre conjugue des univers singuliers, met des mots sur des images, rend hommage aux inventeurs de l'impossible, souligne l'irrationnel de notre monde, salue la force des fragiles et nous invite à voir les mots et à lire les images d'un autre œil." JOHN R. PORTER Président d…
"Portraits of ten artists whose work and lifestyles embody the future of contemporary art"--Cover.
