The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths
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- Paperback
319 pages
- Release Date
9 July 1986
Summary
Co-founder and co-editor of October magazine, a veteran of Artforum of the 1960s and early 1970s, Rosalind Krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory of postmodernism.
In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning wi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262610469 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262610469 |
| Author: | Rosalind E. Krauss |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 319 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 9 July 1986 |
| Weight: | 499g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 175mm x 18mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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All of her observations are unfailingly original and provocative.
All of her observations are unfailingly original and provocative.
—Art DocumentationAbout 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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