Research Catalog

Title

The price club : selected writings (1977-1998) / John Miller ; edited by Lionel Bovier.

Author

Miller, John, 1954-

Publication

Geneva : JRP Editions ; Dijon : Les Presses du réel, c2000.

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Additional Authors

• Bovier, Lionel, 1970-
• Bovier, Lionel

Description

187 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

The collection "Positions" is dedicated to the publication of artist's writings. John Miller perfectly embodies the aim of this series : to interrogate artistic and curatorial practices as well as theory, through the singular position of artists, involved in both their own and other artist's works. This production/reception question might even be a real dialectic in Miller's case. From his early writings, in fact, he argues that the artist has no other choice but to confront sociopolitical questions, the ideological apparat uses involved in the production of cultural "artifacts" and, therefore, the theoretical corpus (be it Walter Benjamin, the Frankfurt School, or feminist and poststructuralist writings) that enables one to (re) conceive these dimensions of artmaking. From "polemical" texts to extensive theoretical essays, passing through Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman or John Baldessari, these writings have proved to be among the most challenging ones.

Series Statement

Positions

Uniform Title

Positions (Zurich, Switzerland)

Subject

• Art, Modern > 20th century
• Art criticism
• Aesthetics
• Artists' writings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Monographs -- Drawings that question diagrams : Jenny Holzer (1977) -- In the beginning there was formica ... : Richard Artschwager (1987) -- The mnemonic book : Ed Ruscha's fugitive publications (1988) -- Lecture theatre : Peter Halley's Geometry and the social (1989) -- The deepest cut : montage in the work of John Baldessari (1989) -- The poet as janitor : Mike Kelley (1993) -- Dada by the numbers : Bruce Nauman (1995) -- The possibility of knowing : Douglas Huebler (1997) -- Polemics -- Jacques Lacan's Television (1987) -- Art supplies and utopia (1990) -- The body as site (1991) -- Esthetics from acorns (1992) -- Dreaming is almost free: audiocassettes at Bilka (1992) -- The body as fetish : an open letter to my would-be compatriots (1993) -- Essays -- The weather is here : wish you were beautiful (1990) -- The avant-garde, sublimation and the patriarchy (1992) -- I want to be a (desiring) machine (1996) -- Be here now : the image of history (1996) -- The therapeutic institution : presentness is grace (1998).

ISBN

• 2940271054
• 2840660393

OCLC

• 49312855
• SCSB-10484304

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library