Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975 (October Books)

629 Pages·2001·18.36 MB·English

by  Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

NEO-AVANTGARDE AND CULTURE INDUSTRY
OCTOBER Books
Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Hal Foster,
Denis Hollier, and Silvia Kolbowski, editors
Broodthaers,edited by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism,edited by Douglas Crimp
Aberrations,by Jurgis Baltruˇsaitis
Against Architecture: The Writings of Georges Bataille,by Denis Hollier
Painting as Model,by Yve-Alain Bois
The Destruction of Tilted Arc: Documents,edited by Clara Weyergraf-Serra and Martha Buskirk
The Woman in Question,edited by Parveen Adams and Elizabeth Cowie
Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century,by Jonathan Crary
The Subjectivity Effect in Western Literary Tradition: Essays toward the Release of Shakespeare’s Will,
by Joel Fineman
Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture,by Slavoj Zˇizˇek
Cinema, Censorship, and the State: The Writings of Nagisa Oshima,by Nagisa Oshima
The Optical Unconscious,by Rosalind E. Krauss
Gesture and Speech,by André Leroi-Gourhan
Compulsive Beauty,by Hal Foster
Continuous Project Altered Daily: The Writings of Robert Morris,by Robert Morris
Read My Desire: Lacan against the Historicists,by Joan Copjec
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture,by Kristin Ross
Kant after Duchamp,by Thierry de Duve
The Duchamp Effect,edited by Martha Buskirk and Mignon Nixon
The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century,by Hal Foster
October: The Second Decade, 1986–1996,edited by Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, Yve-
Alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, and Silvia Kolbowski
Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910–1941,by David Joselit
Caravaggio’s Secrets,by Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit
Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843–1875,by Carol Armstrong
Bachelors,by Rosalind Krauss
Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture,by Jonathan Crary
Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975,
by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
NEO-AVANTGARDE AND CULTURE INDUSTRY
ESSAYS ON EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN ART
FROM 1955 TO 1975
BENJAMIN H. D. BUCHLOH
ANOCTOBER BOOK
THE MIT PRESS
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
LONDON, ENGLAND
© 2000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or
mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval)
without permission in writing from the publisher.
All works of art by Marcel Broodthaers © Estate of Marcel Broodthaers/SABAM, Belgium/
VAGA, NY, NY.
This book was set in Bembo by Graphic Composition, Inc. and was printed and bound in the
United States of America.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Buchloh, B.H.D.
Neo-avantgarde and culture industry : essays on European and American art from 1955 to
1975 / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh.
p. cm.
“An October book.”
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-262-02454-3 (alk. paper)
1. Avant-garde (Aesthetics)—Europe—History—20th century. 2. Art, European. 3.
Art, Modern—20th century—Europe. 4. Avant-garde (Aesthetics)—United States—
History—20th century. 5. Art, American. 6. Art, Modern—20th century—United States.
I. Title.
N6758.B832000
709´.04´5—dc21
99-059406
To Felix

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
INTRODUCTION xvii
MICHAEL ASHER AND THE CONCLUSION
OF MODERNIST SCULPTURE (1980) 1
BEUYS: THE TWILIGHT OF THE IDOL,
PRELIMINARY NOTES FOR A CRITIQUE (1980) 41
MARCEL BROODTHAERS: OPEN LETTERS,
INDUSTRIAL POEMS (1987) 65
THE MUSEUM AND THE MONUMENT:
DANIEL BUREN’S LES COULEURS/
LES FORMES (1981) 119
MEMORY LESSONS AND HISTORY
TABLEAUX: JAMES COLEMAN’S
ARCHAEOLOGY OF SPECTACLE (1995) 141
MOMENTS OF HISTORY IN THE WORK
OF DAN GRAHAM (1978) 179
CONTENTS
HANS HAACKE: MEMORY AND
INSTRUMENTAL REASON (1988) 203
HANTAÏ/VILLEGLÉ AND THE DIALECTICS
OF PAINTING’S DISPERSAL (1999) 243
PLENTY OR NOTHING: FROM YVES KLEIN’S
LE VIDE TO ARMAN’S LE PLEIN (1998) 257
KNIGHT’S MOVES: SITUATING THE
ART/OBJECT (1986) 285
STRUCTURE, SIGN, AND REFERENCE IN
THE WORK OF DAVID LAMELAS (1997) 305
PARODY AND APPROPRIATION IN FRANCIS
PICABIA, POP, AND SIGMAR POLKE (1982) 343
READYMADE, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND
PAINTING IN THE PAINTING OF
GERHARD RICHTER (1977) 365
PROCESS SCULPTURE AND FILM IN
RICHARD SERRA’S WORK (1978) 405
SPERO’S OTHER TRADITIONS (1996) 429
VILLEGLÉ: FROM FRAGMENT
TO DETAIL (1991) 443
ANDY WARHOL’S ONE-DIMENSIONAL ART,
1956–1966 (1989) 461
viii
CONTENTS
ROBERT WATTS: ANIMATE OBJECTS,
INANIMATE SUBJECTS (2000) 531
THE POSTERS OF LAWRENCE WEINER (1986) 555
INDEX 577
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