Research Catalog

Title

Walead Beshty : 33 texts : 93,614 words : 581,035 characters : selected writings (2003-2015) / edited by Lionel Bovier, introduction by George Baker.

Author

Beshty, Walead, 1976-

Publication

Zurich : JRP Ringier, [2015], ©2015.

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Additional Authors

• Bovier, Lionel.
• Baker, George.

Description

336 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Positions ; 11

Uniform Title

Positions (Zurich, Switzerland) ; 11.

Alternative Title

• 33 texts : 93,614 words: 581,035 characters : selected writings (2003-2015)
• Thirty-three texts

Subject

• Art criticism
• Artists' writings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The city without qualities: allegorical landscapes and the revolutionary undead -- Notes on the subject without qualities: from the cowboy flâneur to Mr. Smith -- Neo-avantgarde and service industry: notes on the brave new world of relational aesthetics -- Absolu avec vache (and the spectre of the gun) -- Toward an empathetic resistance : Boris Mikhailov's embodied documents -- Wolfgang Tillmans -- Parallax views: Michael Asher at the Santa Monica Museum of Art -- Interview with Nicolas Bourriaud -- Untitled response to the symposium "Is photography over?" -- Abstracting photography (some notes on the problem of allegorical critique as it relates to the conditions of a minor art) -- Untitled response to the "Forum on contemporary photography" -- Toward a minor photography: Annette Kelm's discrete cosmologies -- In camera: on Luisa Lambri's haptic eye -- The whiteness of the whale (on the work of Kelley Walker) -- In medias res (on the work of Sharon Lockhart) -- On the matter of abstraction -- Aesthetics and distribution case (1), preliminary notes on art's ability to radicalize academia -- Introduction: Andrea Fraser -- Introduction: Mark Grotjahn -- Introduction: Raymond Pettibon -- Introduction: Laura Owens -- Introduction: Gabriel Kuri -- Introduction: Paul Pfeiffer -- Introduction: Morgan Fisher -- Introduction: James Welling -- Introduction: Stephen Prina -- Introduction: Jorge Pardo -- Introduction: Allan McCollum -- The ritual of everyday life: on the migrating objects of Jay DeFeo -- The story of O: gesture in the work of Laura Owens -- Lesson: notes for an introductory lecture -- Toward an aesthetics of ethics -- Morgan Fisher in conversation with Walead Beshty.

ISBN

• 3037644427
• 9783037644423

OCLC

• ocn929123819
• 929123819
• SCSB-5842993

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries