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OCTOBER 23: ART/ THEORY/ CRITICISM/ POLITICS - WINTER 1982: FILM BOOKS - A SPECIAL ISSUE
(OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss & Annette Michelson, Editors. Cambridge, MA & New York: MIT Press for the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1982. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Good -.. 166pp, 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 thematic issue devoted to film books include: Philosophy and/as Film and/as if Philosophy - Arthur C. Danto; Reading Hitchcock - Fredric Jameson; The Anxiety of the Influencing Machine - Joan Copjec; Documenting the Left - Stuart Liebman; The Formalist's Dreyer - Nick Browne; Address to the Heathen - Noel Carroll. A serviceable example only showing moderate overall soiling, wear, and handling along with some creasing to the last dozen or so pages of the textblock and rear cover. It has been priced accordingly. 0-262-76013-4 Inventory Number: 023865