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Founded in 1989, OCTOBER Books provides a forum for critical engagement with crucial moments in the development of the historical and contemporary avant-gardes. Building on the important role the journal played in introducing poststructural theory to the American art world, OCTOBER offers a platform for the innovative work of scholars today.
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Gerhard Richter
Painting after the Subject of History
ISBN: 9780262543538
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 6, 2022
The first full-scale monographic study in English of one of the most important artists of the second half of the twentieth century.
Art Demonstration
Group Material and the 1980s
ISBN: 9780262543521
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 24, 2022
A study of Group Material, the influential but underexamined New York–based artist collective, investigating a series of key works.
On the Wings of Hypothesis
Collected Writings on Soviet Cinema
ISBN: 9780262044493
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 13, 2020
Annette Michelson's erudite and incisive readings of the revolutionary films of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, collected for the first time.
Total Expansion of the Letter
Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
ISBN: 9780262043717
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 26, 2020
How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stéphane Mallarmé.
The Long Front of Culture
The Independent Group and Exhibition Design
ISBN: 9780262043892
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 14, 2020
How a group of artists and theorists turned to exhibition design as the only medium capable of synthesizing high and low in postwar culture.
Heritage and Debt
Art in Globalization
ISBN: 9780262043694
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 17, 2020
How global contemporary art reanimates the past as a resource for the present, combating modern art's legacy of Eurocentrism.
The Barbarian Invasions
A Genealogy of the History of Art
ISBN: 9780262043151
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 3, 2019
How the history of art begins with the myth of the barbarian invasion—the romantic fragmentation of classical eternity.
Gesture and Speech
ISBN: 9780262515429
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 4, 2018
Combines in one volume Technics and Language and Memory and Rhythms, the cornerstones of Leroi-Gourhan's comprehensive theory of human behavior and cultural development
Toward Fewer Images
The Work of Alexander Kluge
ISBN: 9780262037976
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 7, 2018
The first English-language monograph devoted to the full oeuvre of Alexander Kluge, the prolific German filmmaker, television producer, digital entrepreneur, author, thinker, and public intellectual.
The Filming of Modern Life
European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s
ISBN: 9780262525114
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 13, 2013
The complex stance toward modernity taken by 1920s avant-garde cinema, as exemplified by five major films.
Gerhard Richter
Painting after the Subject of History
ISBN: 9780262543538
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 6, 2022
The first full-scale monographic study in English of one of the most important artists of the second half of the twentieth century.
Art Demonstration
Group Material and the 1980s
ISBN: 9780262543521
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 24, 2022
A study of Group Material, the influential but underexamined New York–based artist collective, investigating a series of key works.
On the Wings of Hypothesis
Collected Writings on Soviet Cinema
ISBN: 9780262044493
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 13, 2020
Annette Michelson's erudite and incisive readings of the revolutionary films of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, collected for the first time.
Total Expansion of the Letter
Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
ISBN: 9780262043717
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 26, 2020
How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stéphane Mallarmé.
The Long Front of Culture
The Independent Group and Exhibition Design
ISBN: 9780262043892
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 14, 2020
How a group of artists and theorists turned to exhibition design as the only medium capable of synthesizing high and low in postwar culture.
Heritage and Debt
Art in Globalization
ISBN: 9780262043694
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 17, 2020
How global contemporary art reanimates the past as a resource for the present, combating modern art's legacy of Eurocentrism.
The Barbarian Invasions
A Genealogy of the History of Art
ISBN: 9780262043151
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 3, 2019
How the history of art begins with the myth of the barbarian invasion—the romantic fragmentation of classical eternity.
Gesture and Speech
ISBN: 9780262515429
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 4, 2018
Combines in one volume Technics and Language and Memory and Rhythms, the cornerstones of Leroi-Gourhan's comprehensive theory of human behavior and cultural development
Toward Fewer Images
The Work of Alexander Kluge
ISBN: 9780262037976
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 7, 2018
The first English-language monograph devoted to the full oeuvre of Alexander Kluge, the prolific German filmmaker, television producer, digital entrepreneur, author, thinker, and public intellectual.
The Filming of Modern Life
European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s
ISBN: 9780262525114
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 13, 2013
The complex stance toward modernity taken by 1920s avant-garde cinema, as exemplified by five major films.