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Vile days : the Village Voice art columns, 1985-1988
- Title
- Vile days : the Village Voice art columns, 1985-1988 / Gary Indiana ; edited by Bruce Hainley.
- Author
- Indiana, Gary
- Publication
- South Pasadena, CA : Semiotext(e), [2018]
- Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Hainley, Bruce
- Description
- 595 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- From March 1985 through June 1988 in The Village Voice, Gary Indiana reimagined the weekly art column. Thirty years later, 'Vile Days' brings together for the first time all of those vivid dispatches, too long stuck in archival limbo, so that the fire of Indiana's observations can burn again. In the midst of Reaganism, the grim toll of AIDS, and the frequent jingoism of postmodern theory, Indiana found a way to be the moment's Baudelaire. He turned the art review into a chronicle of life under siege. As a critic, Indiana combines his novelistic and theatrical gifts with a startling political acumen to assess art and the unruly environments that give it context. No one was better positioned to elucidate the work of key artists at crucial junctures of their early careers, from Sherrie Levine and Richard Prince to Jeff Koons and Cindy Sherman, among others. But Indiana also remained alert to the aesthetic consequence of sumo wrestling, flower shows, public art, corporate galleries, and furniture design. Edited and prefaced by Bruce Hainley, with an afterword by Tobi Haslett, 'Vile Days' provides an opportunity to track Indiana's emergence as one of the most prescient writers of his generation.
- Series Statement
- Semiotext(e) active agents series
- Uniform Title
- Semiotext(e) active agents series.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Call Number
- JQE 19-92
- ISBN
- 9781635900378
- 1635900379
- OCLC
- 1029789223
- Author
- Indiana, Gary, author.
- Title
- Vile days : the Village Voice art columns, 1985-1988 / Gary Indiana ; edited by Bruce Hainley.
- Publisher
- South Pasadena, CA : Semiotext(e), [2018]
- Distributor
- Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Semiotext(e) active agents seriesSemiotext(e) active agents series.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Hainley, Bruce, editor.
- Research Call Number
- JQE 19-92