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"Language has been a primary element in visual art since the 1960s - whether in the form of printed texts, painted signs, words on the wall or recorded speech. In 'Words to Be Looked At', Liz Kotz traces this practice to its beginnings, examining works of visual art, poetry, and…
"By the early 1960s, theorists like Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, Foucault, and Barthes had created a world ruled by signifying structures and pictured through the grids of language, information, and systems. Artists soon followed, turning to language and its related forms to devise a ne…
"There they rest, inert, impertinent, in gallery space--those book forms either imitated or mutilated, replicas of reading matter or its vestiges. Strange, after its long and robust career, for the book to take early retirement in a museum, not as rare manuscript but as function…
Dan Graham's Rock My Religion (1982-84) is a video essay populated by punk and rock performers (Patti Smith, Jim Morrison, Black Flag and Glenn Branca) and historical figures (including Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers). This coming together of several narrative voice-overs, of s…
This book elaborates a labor theory of culture as a model for explaining the dynamics of avant-garde art and the modern expansion of the circuits of artitstic authorship. It involves less a discussion of specific artworks than an analysis of the kinds of labor contained in artwo…
How will our increasingly digital civilization persist beyond our lifetimes? Audio and videotapes demagnetize; CDs delaminate; Internet art links to websites that no longer exist; Amiga software doesn't run on iMacs. In Re-collection, Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito argue that…