Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. Critical texts and interviews that explore the drawings, animations, and theatrical work of the south african artist william kentridge. May 02, 2019 krauss the optical unconscious pdf the optical unconscious is a pointed protest against the official story of modernism and against the critical tradition that attempted to define modern. Mar 11, 2018 photo of rosalind krauss, via rosalind krauss as a critic and a professor of art history. In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in. Krauss discusses tacita deans work film 2011, in relation to her ongoing championing of medium specificity. She is a founding editor of october and the author of passages in modern sculpture, the originality of the avantgarde and other myths, the optical unconscious, bachelors, perpetual inventory, under blue cup all published by the mit press, and other books. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read.
Pdf rosalind krauss sculpture in the expanded field. The aesthetics of narcissism rosalind krauss it was a commonplace of criticism in the 1960s that a strict application of symmetry allowed a painter to. Krauss on william kentridges norton lectures, artforum international, summer 2012, pp 121122. This book is a belated but sincere attempt to restore her dignity. The originality of the avantgarde and other modernist myths the mit press krauss, rosalind e. Summary of rosalind krauss rosalind krauss was a critic and contributing editor for artforum and one of the founders of the quarterly art theory journal october. Krauss first became interested in 20thcentury art criticism as an undergraduate at wellesley. The idea was popularized in the art world by the critic, rosalind krauss, and is so sacred and accepted that few dare question it. Rosalind krauss, selfstyled liquidator of modern, avantgarde art. Not only was this the greatest public gathering of rodins sculpture, but it included, as well, much of his work never before.
She is a professor at columbia university in new york city. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Rosalind krauss with yvealain bois feb 2012 on the occasion of her recent publication under blue cup mit press, cambridge, massachusetts, london, england yvealain bois visited rosalind krausss soho lofthome to talk about the genesis that led to this particular volume and more. Rosalind epstein krauss 1941 is an american art critic and theorist. A co editor of october magazine and books, he is the editor of the antiaesthetic, and the author of design and crime, recording, the return of the real, compulsive beauty and the artarchitecture complex. Her writing and ideas are pernicious, but one cannot help feeling sorry for rosalind krauss. She was associate editor of artforum from 1971 to 1974 and has been editor of october, a journal of contemporary arts criticism and theory that she cofounded in 1976.
Art in theory the important work of critic rosalind krauss. Rosalind krauss was a critic and contributing editor for artforum and one of the founders of the quarterly art theory journal october. The originality of the avantgarde and other modernist myths the mit press. Oct 19, 2019 rosalind krauss a escultura em campo expandido pdf. To our right was a copper painting by frank stella, its surface burnished by the light which flooded the room. Aug 04, 2000 at age 39, she was committed to an asylum, where she remained in obscurity until her recent death at age 105. Art in the age of the postmedium condition, critic rosalind krauss expands clement greenbergs description of the modernist desire for pure art forms in order to encompass the forms and issues of art today, the art of the postmedium age. Rosalind krauss on tacita deans film tate talks youtube. Apr 28, 2016 krauss argues that, on the contrary, there is a robust continuity of the concerns she has outlined, both in his late ribbon paintings and in his sculpture.
After receiving a diploma from harvard, krauss quickly became a professor of art history at the massachusetts institute of technology. Since the 1970s, the south african artist william kentridge has charted the turbulent terrain of his homeland in both personal and political terms. Rosalind krauss, david carrier, and philosophical art criticism. The originality of the avantgarde and other modernist myths, mit, rosalind epstein krauss is an.
Rosalind krauss biography, art, and analysis of works. A users guide was in its planning stage at the centre georges pompidou, a potentially competing project. She is a founding editor of october and the author of passages in modern sculpture, the originality of the avantgarde and other myths, the optical unconscious. As a critic and theorist she has published steadily since 1965 in artforum, art international and art in america. She has been a highly influential critic and theorist in the postabstract expressionist era. The troubles of the neck, october 167, winter 2019, pp 171175. Rosalind epstein krauss born november 30, 1941 is an american art critic, art theorist and a.
She was associate editor of artforum from 1971 to 1974 and has been editor of october. Krauss is the kind of paradox one only finds in the art world. Krauss, american art critic and historian of 20thcentury art who first came to prominence when she accused the art critic clement greenberg of mishandling the estate of sculptor david smith. Pdf rosalind krauss, david carrier, and philosophical art. Rosalind krauss with yvealain bois the brooklyn rail. Rosalind krauss is university professor of modern art and theory at columbia university. Untitled 1993 some people have told me they remember the film that one of my images is derived from, but in fact i had no film in mind at all. Feeling sorry for rosalind krauss the new criterion. But do we know where the idea that originality is dead came from, and is such a damning idea itself immune to challenges.
Krauss rosalind and annette michelson editors abebooks. Distinguished art historian and critic rosalind krauss analyzes with exceptional clarity and insight the major works that have led 20th century sculpture from the traditional and figurative to the revolutionary conceptual art of the 1970s. She has, for example, been interested in the development of photography, whose historyrunning parallel to that of modernist painting. The originality of the avantgarde and other modernist myths by. Grids rosalind krauss unit 4 creativity and context. With erudition, absurdist humor, and an underlying hope in humankind, kentridges artwork has examined apartheid. Though the theoryheavy art journal shes famous for foundingoctoberonly has a circulation of about 2,000 people, and her myriad books and articles remain littleread outside of academic circles, she is considered one of the most influential critics of modern and contemporary art. How to understand rosalind krauss, the art critic who made. In its confounding of the logic that maintains terms like high and low, or base and sacred as polar opposites, it is this play of the contradictory that allows one to think the truth that bataille never tired of demonstrating. Krauss, 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.
A view of modernism rosalind krauss one day while the show, three american painters was hanging at the fogg museum at harvard, michael fried and i were standing in one of the galleries. Krauss the mit press cambridge, massachusetts london, england. Tracing nadar rosalind krauss though it was written toward the end of his life, nadars memoir, my life as a photographer, was undertaken at a point when its authors activity in the medium had far from ceased. The picasso papers is published by thames and hudson. Vvaa means its a various author book and the name indicated is the coordinator editor. 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. Why, she must wonder, do other people seem to care so much about art and beauty when to her it is all an arid, narcissistic battleground. Since three of the editors of documents were bataille, who was deeply committed to the. The job of an art critic is to take perpetual inventory, constantly re.
Sep 08, 2015 wiki for collaborative studies of arts, media and humanities. The job of an art critic is to take perpetual inventory, constantly revising her ideas about the direction of contemporary art and the significance of th. She is a founding editor of october and the author of passages in modern sculpture, the originality of the avantgarde and other myths, the optical unconscious, bachelors, perpetual inventory, under blue cup. Rosalind epstein krauss is an american art critic, art theorist and a professor at columbia university in new york city. Rosalind epstein krauss born november 30, 1941 is an american art critic, art theorist and a professor at columbia university in new york city. Krauss is known for her scholarship in 20thcentury painting, sculpture and photography. Landscapeview by rosalind krauss et us start with two images, identically titled tufa domes, pyramid lake, nevada. Professor krauss attempts to understand the phenomenon of modernist art, in its historical, theoretical, and formal dimensions, have led her in various directions. Apr 01, 2004 rosalind krauss teaches at columbia university in new york and is an editor of october magazine. Series editor s preface xiii preface xv 1 the image in psychoanalysis and the archaeological metaphor 1 griselda pollock 2 dreaming art 30 mieke bal 3 fascinance and the girltomother matrixial feminine difference 60 bracha l.