Texte zur Kunst Issue No. 85 out now—Art History Revisited
March 2012
Conceived by Sven Beckstette, Isabelle Graw, and
Oona Lochner
“ART HISTORY REVISITED”
Titled “Art History Revisited”, issue 85 of “Texte zur Kunst” is dedicated to art historiography. This is now the third time that the magazine seeks to shed light on the methods and principles of this humane discipline, the discourses of which form its crucial foundation. While the 1994 issue under the heading “Art History Under Construction” put the import of theories from the Anglo-American countries to Germany up for debate, an issue from 2006 was concerned with reflecting on the state of affairs of a discipline that at the time was extremely influenced by visual studies and an increasing enthusiasm for “contemporary art”. The current issue, in contrast, focuses on the norms to which historiography is subjected and the effects produced by its view to the past. In seven essays, common art-historical paradigms are called into question and examined a new perspective. Established academic notions are revised on the one hand; while selected themes are taken up to elucidate the principles of knowledge and theory production on the other. As with any form of historicization, the history of art is also a constantly changing, identity-forging process. In this light, the contributions compiled here can be read as proposals for a different construction of the past extending to the present.
Plus reviews from New York, Chicago, Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Frankfurt/M., Paris, Innsbruck, Amsterdam, and Antwerp.
Exclusive new artists’ editions:
Kerstin Brätsch and Michael Sailstorfer
ENGLISH CONTENT
PREFACE
TOBIAS VOGT
THE MAKING OF THE READY-MADE
MIRJAM WITTMANN
TRACING THE PATH OF THE INDEX
IMAGES OF THEORY IN ART HISTORY
MAX ROSENBERG
THROUGH THE WALL, SLOWLY
JOSEPH BEUYS’S ECONOMY OF TRANSFORMATION
MARINA GERBER
INTERPRETIVE REFLEX
ON THE MOSCOW ARTISTS’ GROUP COLLECTIVE ACTIONS AND THE CONCEPT OF REFLECTION IN SOVIET ART THEORY
MAGNUS SCHÄFER
PAINTING AFTER MODERNISM
CANONICAL HISTORIOGRAPHY AND RECURSIVE DIFFERENTIATION
OONA LOCHNER
… AND CUT!
FILM AND FILMIC REGISTER IN GORDON MATTA-CLARK
SVEN BECKSTETTE
EXIT FROM THE BOOK
ON THE INFLUENCE OF CONCRETE POETRY ON 1960S ART
PICTURE SPREAD
CYRILL LACHAUER
REVIEWS
LAURENCE A. RICKELS
REST IN PIECES
On Ulrike Ottinger at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
MARIE MURACCIOLE
EXHIBITION/INHIBITION
On “Paul Klee Polyphonies” at Cité de la musique and “Danser sa vie” at Centre Pompidou, both Paris
GREGORY SHOLETTE
LET’S DO IT AGAIN, COMRADES; LET’S OCCUPY THE MUSEUM!
On Occupy Museums, New York
MATHIEU MALOUF
A painting is a TV that doesn’t work
On Simon Denny at Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
SVEN LÜTTICKEN
Abstraction on Display
On Agency at Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp
DAVID REISMAN
The Political Is Also Personal
On Andrea Bowers at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
CAROLINE BUSTA
BUREAUCRACY TO PLOUGHSHARES
On Peter Fend at Essex Street, New York
ERIC DE BRUYN
COLONIAL SPECTERS
On Sven Augustijnen at de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam
CHRISTINE MEHRING
CONCEPTUAL ATLANTIC
On “Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph: 1964–1977″ at the Art Institute of Chicago
MIKE KELLEY OBITUARIES
GEORGE BAKER / TONY CONRAD / KIM GORDON / JUTTA KOETHER / JOHN MILLER / ELISABETH SUSSMAN
ARTISTS’ EDITIONS
Kerstin Brätsch
“Glow Rod Tanning with….Home Kit Box (XS Version)”, 2012
Michael Sailstorfer
“Wolke”, 2012
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