Writings by artists convey a specific type of knowledge or way of thinking about artistic practice that the writings of academic and professional observers do not. It is not just a matter of artists' texts filling discursive gaps between critical writing and artistic production; it is also a question of texts by artists creating intellectual, political, and cultural possibilities that would not otherwise exist. The books in this series remind us that art's manifestations and meanings are rendered more complex when artists' voices are heard, and when artists engage in direct debate and dialogue with each other, the public, and scholars. This series carries the spirit of several earlier book series that shaped aesthetic theory and art writing practice in the twentieth century into the twenty-first century: the Documents of Modern Art series edited by Robert Motherwell (1944-61), the Jargon Society Press founded by Jonathan Williams at Black Mountain College in 1951, Dick Higgins' Something Else Press (1964-75), and the Nova Scotia Series edited first by Kaspar Koenig and later by Benjamin Buchloh in Halifax in the 1970s. The Writing Art series of MIT Press was initiated by Roger Conover in 1991. The series now contains over two dozen titles.
Art After Philosophy and After Collected Writings, 1966-1990 Joseph Kosuth; Edited by Gabriele Guercio; Foreword by Jean-Francois Lyotard
The articles, statements, and interviews collected here, produced over a period of twenty-four years, range over philosophy of language, anthropology, Marxism, and linguistics to discover the common principles that inform representation while negotiating the endlessly complex debates about art over the last two decades. Cloth / October 1991 OUT OF PRINT
Art After Philosophy and After Collected Writings, 1966-1990 Joseph Kosuth; Edited by Gabriele Guercio
The articles, statements, and interviews collected here, produced over a period of twenty-four years, range over philosophy of language, anthropology, Marxism, and linguistics to discover the common principles that inform representation while negotiating the endlessly complex debates about art of the last two decades. Paper / August 1993 OUT OF PRINT
Conceptual Art and Painting Further Essays on Art & Language Charles Harrison
Further critical and theoretical essays by a long-time participant in the Art & Language movement. Cloth / December 2001 OUT OF PRINT
Conceptual Art and Painting Further Essays on Art & Language Charles Harrison
Further critical and theoretical essays by a long-time participant in the Art & Language movement. Paper / October 2003 Price $28.00 | ADD TO CART
Continuous Project Altered Daily The Writings of Robert Morris Robert Morris
Illustrated throughout, this collection of his seminal essays from the 1960s to the 1980s addresses wide-ranging intellectual and philosophical problems of sculpture, raising issues of materiality, size and shape, anti-illusionism, and perceptual conditions. Cloth / January 1994 OUT OF PRINT
Cuts Texts 1959-2004 Carl Andre; Edited by James Meyer
Statements, dialogue, letters, epigrams, and poems by sculptor Carl Andre, a central figure in minimalism. Cloth / June 2005 Price $48.00 | ADD TO CART
Decoys and Disruptions Selected Writings, 1975-2001 Martha Rosler
The first comprehensive collection of writings by
Martha Rosler considers the intersection of art and politics, the
operation of art systems, feminist art practices, and the media.
Cloth / August 2004 Price $37.95 | ADD TO CART
Decoys and Disruptions Selected Writings, 1975-2001 Martha Rosler
The first comprehensive collection of writings by
Martha Rosler considers the intersection of art and politics, the
operation of art systems, feminist art practices, and the media.
Paper / April 2006 Price $24.95 | ADD TO CART
Destruction of the Father / Reconstruction of the Father Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997 Louise Bourgeois Destruction of the Father—the title comes from
the name of a sculpture she did following the death of her husband in
1973—contains both formal texts and what the artist calls
"pen-thoughts": drawing-texts often connected to her drawings and
sculptures, with stories or poems inscribed alongside the images. Paper / May 1998 Price $35.00 | ADD TO CART
Feelings Are Facts A Life Yvonne Rainer
Memoir by the avant-garde dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker recounting her childhood years, sexual misadventures, and artistic explorations. Cloth / June 2006 Price $38.95 | ADD TO CART
