"The great strength of this landmark anthology is its inclusive strategy, which by dint of a simultaneous editorial economy has not resulted, thank heavens, in a monstrous tome. From Malek Alloula to Gil J. Wolman, the voices sampled here introduce the reader to artistic practices and theoretical concepts that anyone interested in appropriation ought to know." Anne M. Wagner , Class of 1936 Chair and Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of California, Berkeley
David Evans is the author of the catalogue raisonne John
Heartfield- AIZ/VI 1930-38 and a Research Fellow in Photography at
the Arts Institute, Bournemouth, England. He has published numerous
articles in such journals as Afterimage, Eye, and Source.
Georges Didi-Huberman, a philosopher and art historian based in
Paris, teaches at the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales.
Recipient of the 2015 Adorno Prize, he is the author of more than
fifty books on the history and theory of images, including
Invention of Hysteria- Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of
the Salpatri re (MIT Press), Bark (MIT Press), Images in Spite of
All- Four Photographs from Auschwitz, and The Surviving Image-
Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms- Aby Warburg's History of
Art.
Writer, filmmaker, and cultural revolutionary, Guy Debord
(1931-1994) was a founding member of the Lettrist International and
Situationist International groups. His films and books, including
Society of the Spectacle (1967), were major catalysts for
philosophical and political changes in the twentieth century, and
helped trigger the May 1968 rebellion in France.
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was one of the twentieth century's most
important artists and cultural icons.
Reiko Tomii is a New York-based scholar and curator who
investigates post-1945 Japanese art in local and global
contexts.
Writer, filmmaker, and cultural revolutionary, Guy Debord
(1931-1994) was a founding member of the Lettrist International and
Situationist International groups. His films and books, including
Society of the Spectacle (1967), were major catalysts for
philosophical and political changes in the twentieth century, and
helped trigger the May 1968 rebellion in France.
Douglas Crimp is Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the
University of Rochester. He is the author of On the Museum's Ruins
and Melancholia and Moralism- Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics,
both published by the MIT Press.
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a philosopher, sociologist,
cultural critic, and theorist of postmodernity who challenged all
existing theories of contemporary society with humor and precision.
An outsider in the French intellectual establishment, he was
internationally renowned as a twenty-first century visionary,
reporter, and provocateur.
Michael Newman is Associate Professor of Art History, Theory, and
Criticism in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has
published in ArtForum, Art in America, Parachute, and other
journals and is coeditor of the book Rewriting Conceptual Art.
Barbara Kruger is an artist whose pictures and words engage issues
of power, sex, money, difference, and death. Her work has appeared
throughout America, Europe, and Japan in galleries, newspapers,
magazines, and museums and on billboards, matchbooks, TV programs,
t-shirts, postcards, and shopping bags. She has written about
television, film, and cultures for Artforum, Esquire, the New York
Times, and the Village Voice.
Barbara Kruger is an artist whose pictures and words engage issues
of power, sex, money, difference, and death. Her work has appeared
throughout America, Europe, and Japan in galleries, newspapers,
magazines, and museums and on billboards, matchbooks, TV programs,
t-shirts, postcards, and shopping bags. She has written about
television, film, and cultures for Artforum, Esquire, the New York
Times, and the Village Voice.
Laura Mulvey is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck
College, University of London. She was Director of Birkbeck
Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI) from 2012 to 2015. She is the
author of Visual and Other Pleasures (1989 and 2nd ed., 2009),
Fetishism and Curiosity (1996), Citizen Kane (1992),
"The great strength of this landmark anthology is its inclusive strategy, which by dint of a simultaneous editorial economy has not resulted, thank heavens, in a monstrous tome. From Malek Alloula to Gil J. Wolman, the voices sampled here introduce the reader to artistic practices and theoretical concepts that anyone interested in appropriation ought to know." Anne M. Wagner , Class of 1936 Chair and Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of California, Berkeley
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