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Shaping the Glass
Life is not an idea, but ideas are part of life. Thinking is the only way out of our enmities and miseries. Vision—seeing better and more freshly, with less habit and personal bias—awakens us to life. The point of waking … READ MORE
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Shame: The One That Got Away
Five gravestones—a family named Wilmott—are mounted side by side facing east in a cemetery south of London.[1] Acid rain has eroded the words. Lichens, like Van Gogh blooms in orange and yellow, cling to the mauve stone. I try to … READ MORE
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We Are Pop People
Hal Foster. The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. 338 pp., 77 color ill., 80 b/w. $29.95 Anyone seeking a crisp argument for the importance … READ MORE
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Attention Deficit
Perhaps minor among reasons to celebrate the fact that the world did not end as predicted on 12.12.12 is that Art Journal is a little behind in its publication schedule. The apocalyptic reprieve buys us time to get out the … READ MORE
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Planet of the Apes: John Szarkowski, My Lai, and The Animals
The reasons for their problems are not difficult to guess: they are under-employed and overly-sociable; they are deprived of the chance of both success and failure, and receive their food, their shelter, and their mates as welfare handouts; their relationship … READ MORE
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Agnes Martin, Under New Auspices
Lynne Cooke, Karen Kelly, and Barbara Schröder, editors. Agnes Martin. New York: Dia Art Foundation and New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2011. 268 pp., 78 color ills, 27 b/w. $40 Finally—a book of criticism about Agnes Martin. No other book … READ MORE
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What Are You Working On?
This issue of Art Journal comes after two issues that tightly revolved around a single concept: the medium of print (Winter 2011) and the Pacific Standard Time initiative (Spring 2012). Most of the essays, reviews, and artists’ projects in those … READ MORE
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Another Time
Sometime in the early 1950s, the artist Eduardo Paolozzi began making collages from the covers of Time magazine, cutting them up and putting them back together again in new ways.[1] Founded in 1923, in the wake of World War I, … READ MORE
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Invisible Products
Julia Bryan-Wilson’s essay “Invisible Products” explores a most unusual archive of photographs by Ansel Adams—some seven thousand photographs he took in the mid-1960s on commission from the University of California. The university intended the photographs to serve as a composite … READ MORE
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New Realisms in the 1960s
Julia Robinson, ed. New Realisms: 1957–1962; Object Strategies between Readymade and Spectacle. Exhibition catalogue. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2010, dist. MIT Press. 294 pp., 250 color ills., 50 b/w. $44.95 Jill Carrick. Nouveau Réalisme, 1960s France, … READ MORE
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