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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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Robert Ryman
Used Paint
ISBN: 9780262551205
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 6, 2024
This first book-length study of Robert Ryman argues that his work is a continuous experiment in the possibilities of painting.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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
Robert Ryman
Used Paint
ISBN: 9780262551205
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 6, 2024
This first book-length study of Robert Ryman argues that his work is a continuous experiment in the possibilities of painting.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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