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November in Artforum: In last springs Whitney Biennial Rachel
Harrison
was a surprise favorite among critics from diverse, even rival camps. In
this months double-feature cover story, Saul Anton and Bruce Hainley
offer their takes on the artists slipshod constructions, which serve
both
as sculptures and as supports for found photos and objects. Hainley:
"Harrison is no queen of the between. Her work doesnt operate by
opposition. . . . Her photography and sculpture bear an analogical, even
allegorical relation to the cultural/artistic condition in which
opposition has ceased to exist."
Also in November: Robert Storr revisits the career of Carroll Dunham on
the eve of the painters first retrospective. "Count Dunham as one of
the
last of the 80s painters to make a splash, but take note that he
slipped
in from the wings, belonged to no nameable tendency, and, like the most
skillful of character actors, knew how to upstage the leads just as they
were finishing their big speeches."
Also in this issue: In anticipation of the release this month of Far
from
Heaven, Todd Hayness eagerly awaited homage to Douglas Sirk,
Geoffrey
OBrien paid a visit to the director at his Portland, Oregon, home,
where
they discussed Hayness canny redeployment of 50s cinema in the
service
of a decidedly nonperiod melodrama. OBrien writes: "In early
scenes--a
pickup in a gay bar, an interrupted assignation in an office, a session
with a therapist offering the latest theories on curing
homosexuality--one
has the sense that Haynes is having fun by messing with the proprieties
of
50s cinema, showing what could not have been shown."
Artforum opens its archives each month in "10.20.30.40": Four
decades ago
Pop art was making its first bid to challenge the primacy of Abstract
Expressionism. Contributing editor Thomas Crow revisits John Coplanss
November 1962 article "The New Painting of Common Objects," the then
associate editors assessment of Walter Hoppss landmark Pasadena
survey
of the nascent Pop movement.
Plus: Barbara Rose remembers Larry Rivers, Rhonda Lieberman on The
World
of Proust, David Rimanelli on Jack Pierson, A Thousand Words from
Jeremy
Diller, Bridget Rileys First Break, Piotr Uklanski, Forcefield,
Shelby
Lee Adams, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, over 30 reviews from 20 cities worldwide,
and much more.
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