Issue #00 The Obligation to Self-Design

The Obligation to Self-Design

Boris Groys

Issue #00
November 2008










Notes
1

Adolf Loos, “Ornament and Crime,” in Ornament and Crime: Selected Essays, ed. Adolf Opel, trans. Michael Mitchell (Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 1998), 167.

2

Ibid., 174.

3

Ibid., 168.

4

Alexei Gan, “From Constructivism,” in Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, eds., Art in Theory, 1900–1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1993), 320 (translation modified).

5

Nikolai Tarabukin, “From the Easel to the Machine,” in Francis Franscina and Charles Harrison, eds., Modern Art and Modernism: A Critical Anthology (New York: Harper and Row, 1982), 135–42.

6

Adolf Loos, “The Poor Little Rich Man,” in August Sarnitz, Adolf Loos, 1870–1933: Architect, Cultural Critic, Dandy, trans. Latido (Cologne, Taschen, 2003), 21.

7

Hal Foster, “Design and Crime,” in idem, Design and Crime (and Other Diatribes) (London: Verso, 2002), 17.

Translated from the German by Steven Lindberg.

A Chinese translation of this text has been published in issue #5 of Contemporary Art & Investment.

本文的中文版发表在当代艺术与投资第五期上.