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Table of Contents
Artist’s Project
From “Connecting the Dots/Hijacking Typography,” Karen L. Schiff
Karen L. Schiff, Counter to Type
Drawings appear on the front and back covers of this issue, on pages 2-3, on pages 5–11 with the artist’s essay, “Connecting the Dots/Hijacking Typography,” and in the Reviews section, pages 76–85.
Features
Nell Andrew, Sophie Taueber-Arp, Free Vertical-Horizontal Rhythms (Rythmes verticaux-horizontaux libres) , 1919, gouache, 11 15⁄16 x 8 9⁄16 in. (30.3 x 21.8 cm). Stiftung Hans Arp und Sophie Taeuber Arp e.V., inv. 003.205 (artwork in the public domain; photograph provided by Stiftung Hans Arp und Sophie Taeuber Arp)
Lisa Frye Ashe, Visitors with Barnett Newman’s The Wild (1950) at the Museum of Modern Art, 2010 (photograph by the author)
Melissa L. Mednicov, James Rosenquist, Big Bo , 1966, oil on shaped canvas, 7 ft. 8 in. x 65½ in. (233.7 x 166.4 cm). Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France (artwork © James Rosenquist/licensed by VAGA, New York, NY; photograph provided by the artist)
Emilia Terracciano, Nasreen Mohamedi, Untitled, ca. 1970, ink on paper, 19¼ x 27⅛ in. (49 x 69 cm). Glenbarra Art Museum, Japan (artwork © Estate of Nasreen Mohamedi/Talwar Gallery, New York; photograph provided by Glenbarra Art Museum)
Nell Andrew
Dada Dance: Sophie Taeuber’s Visceral Abstraction , 12
Lisa Frye Ashe
On Barnett Newman’s The Wild , 30
Emilia Terracciano
Fugitive Lines: Nasreen Mohamedi, 1960–75, 44
Melissa L. Mednicov
Pink, White, and Black: The Strange Case of James Rosenquist’s Big Bo , 60
Reviews
Chuck Smith, Forrest Bess: The Key to the Riddle
Claire Elliott and Robert Gober. Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible
Lev Manovich, Software Takes Command
Nathaniel Stern, Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance
Elisabeth Kley on Chuck Smith, Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle , and Claire Elliott and Robert Gober, Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible , 76
Michael A. Morris on Lev Manovich, Software Takes Command , 79
Troy Rhoades on Nathaniel Stern, Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance , 82