October Files

October Files is a series of inexpensive paperback books edited by the editors of October journal. Each book addresses a body of work by an artist of the postwar period who has altered our understanding of art in significant ways and prompted a critical literature that is sophisticated and sustained. Each book in this series traces not only the development of an important oeuvre but also the construction of the critical discourse inspired by it.

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Kara Walker

Edited by Vanina Géré

ISBN: 9780262544474

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 22, 2022

Selected texts that survey the full range of Kara Walker's artistic practice, emphasizing the work itself rather than the debates and controversies around it.

Hollis Frampton

Edited by Michael Zryd

ISBN: 9780262543576

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 10, 2022

The first collection of critical writing on the work of experimental filmmaker Hollis Frampton.

Carrie Mae Weems

Edited by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis

With Christine Garnier

ISBN: 9780262538596

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 1, 2021

Essays and interviews explore the work of Carrie Mae Weems and its place in the history of photography, African American art, and contemporary art.

Donald Judd

Edited by Annie Ochmanek and Alex Kitnick

ISBN: 9780262539456

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 2, 2021

Artists, architects, art historians, critics, and curators explore the work of Donald Judd as both artist and critic in essays spanning all of Judd's career.