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OCTOBER 124: ART/ THEORY/ CRITICISM/ POLITICS - SPRING 2008: POSTWAR ITALIAN ART - A SPECIAL ISSUE
(OCTOBER). Krauss, Rosalind, Annette Michelson, George Baker, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, Mignon Nixon, Malcolm Turvey & Adam Lehner, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 2008. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Fine.. 196pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this special Claire Gilman-edited thematic issue devoted to Postwar Italian Art include: Introduction - Claire Gilman, From Vietnam to Fiat-nam: The Politics of Arte Povera - Nicholas Cullinan, Making Art Matter: Alberto Burri's Sacchi - Jaimey Hamilton, Pistoletto's Staged Subjects - Claire Gilman, Substantive Thoughts? The Early Work of Alighiero Boetti - Christopher G. Bennett, Industrial Painting's Utopias: Lucio Fontana's "Expectations" - Anthony White, Giovanni Anselmo: Matter and Monochrome - Rosalind Krauss, Fontana's Atomic Age Abstraction: The Spatial Concepts and the Television Manifesto - Jaleh Mansoor, The Irony of Marisa Merz - Dieter Schwarz, Disencumbered Objects - Alex Potts, and Index: Numbers 121-124 (Summer 2007 - Spring 2008). A most handsome example. 0-262-75274-3 Inventory Number: 019721