 10/04/04 Artforum
This month Artforum devotes its biggest issue ever to the exploration of a single theme. Guest edited by Jack Bankowsky, Artforum's editor at large, "This Is Today: Pop After Pop" examines the myriad ways artists work with, through, and even in pop culture today. "Is there life after Warhol, and if so, what does it look like?" The question opens a roundtable convened for the issue that brings together seven far-flung panelists, including contributing editor Thomas Crow, artists Jeff Wall and Stephen Prina, curator and critic Alison M. Gingeras, and Artforum chief editor Tim Griffin. "There are a lot of angles and surfaces, but when it comes to Warhol, depth is a much harder read." --Kara Walker Walker joins twelve artists, including Maurizo Cattelan, Thomas Hirschhorn, Pierre Huyghe, Cady Noland, and Richard Prince, as well as poet Wayne Koestenbaum, in "My Warhol," a collection of personal reflections on the artist and his influence. Charles Ray's Souper Ideas, a project created especially for Artforum, leads the section. "Back to Tomorrow" contains articles charting the course of "Pop before Pop." Thomas Crow opens the proceedings with an essay that tracks the pop/art dialectic from the eighteenth century atelier of Jean-Antoine Watteau to the studios of London's Royal College of Art in the mid-1950s. "Pop Art," Clement Greenberg's previously unpublished lecture appears here with an introduction by the art historian James Meyer, who unearthed the text in Greenberg's papers at the Getty Research Institute. "My Pop," a series of remarks by contemporary artists on the influence of Pop art and its relationship to their practices are scattered throughout the issue. Contributors include assume vivid astro focus, Dara Birnbaum, Andrea Bowers, Urs Fischer, Gary Hume, Isaac Julian, Chris Ofili, Raymond Pettibon, and a dozen others. Also in October: Artforum senior editor Scott Rothkopf ventures into Jeff Koons's digital studio and unpacks the many sources and layers behind the artist's recent painting, Olive Oyl. Plus: Thomas Lawson on "Infotainment," Robert Rosenblum on "Post Human," Robert Storr on Mike Kelley, Alison M. Gingeras on Martin Kippenberger, David Rimanelli on Los Super Elegantes, and Hal Foster on Pop Architecture. Visit Artforum online at http://www.artforum.com To subscribe, visit http://www.artforum.com/subscribe Visit our free online directory of international museums at http://www.artforum.com/museumfinder |
