Under Blue Cup by Rosalind E. Krauss - ISBN: 9780262551236
Paperback
Memory loss inspires a search for meaning in contemporary art.

Under Blue Cup

  • Paperback

    152 pages

  • Release Date

    6 February 2024

Summary

A personal journey leads a celebrated critic to discover “knights of the medium,” contemporary artists who battle the aesthetic meaninglessness of the post-medium condition.

In Under Blue Cup, Rosalind Krauss explores the relation of aesthetic mediums to memory—her own memory having been severely tested by a ruptured aneurysm that temporarily washed away much of her short-term memory. (The title, Under Blue Cup, comes from the legend on a flash card she used as a mne…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262551236
ISBN-10:0262551233
Author:Rosalind E. Krauss
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:152
Release Date:6 February 2024
Weight:369g
Dimensions:229mm x 178mm
About The Author

Rosalind E. Krauss

Rosalind E. Krauss is University Professor in the Department of Art History at Columbia University, where, from 1995 to 2006, she held the Meyer Schapiro Chair in Modern Art and Theory. She is a founding editor of October and the author of Passages in Modern Sculpture, The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Myths, The Optical Unconscious, Bachelors, Perpetual Inventory, Under Blue Cup, and other books.

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