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        Three Cases of Value Reflection

        Three Cases of Value Reflection

        Three Cases of Value Reflection

        Ponge, Whitten, Banksy

        by Isabelle Graw

        ISBN: 9783956795251

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: May 25, 2021

        Examinations of Francis Ponge's texts on Jean Fautrier's “Hostage Paintings,” Jack Whitten's Memorial Paintings, and Banksy's auction stunt Love Is in the Bin.
        Spacing Philosophy

        Spacing Philosophy

        Spacing Philosophy

        Lyotard and the Idea of the Exhibition

        by Daniel Birnbaum and Sven-Olov Wallenstein

        ISBN: 9783956793882

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: December 3, 2019

        The significance of Jean-François Lyotard's innovative 1985 exhibition Les Immatériaux and the “curatorial turn” in critical theory.
        The Outside Can’t Go Outside”

        The Outside Can't Go Outside”

        The Outside Can't Go Outside”

        by Merlin Carpenter

        ISBN: 9783956792779

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: April 13, 2018

        Why has there been so much interest in “surplus value” in recent years? In “The Outside Can't Go Outside”, artist Merlin Carpenter considers how this term has been inserted into contemporary...
        Rich Texts

        Rich Texts

        Rich Texts

        Selected Writing for Art

        by John Kelsey

        ISBN: 9781934105238

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: April 1, 2011

        Compiled for the first time here, the critic, artist, gallerist, dealer, translator John Kelsey's selected essays gamesomely convey some of the most poignant challenges in the art world and in the...
        Painting beyond Itself

        Painting beyond Itself

        Painting beyond Itself

        The Medium in the Post-Medium Condition

        Edited by Isabelle Graw and Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

        ISBN: 9783956790072

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: April 1, 2016

        In response to recent developments in pictorial practice and critical discourse, Painting beyond Itself: The Medium in the Post-medium Condition seeks new ways to approach and historicize...
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        f.

        by Jutta Koether

        Translated by Nick Mauss and Michael Sanchez

        ISBN: 9783956790058

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: September 5, 2014

        First published in German in 1987, this is artist and writer Jutta Koether's meditation on painting. In novella form, f. follows several disembodied female characters as they consider velvet,...
        Is It My Body?

        Is It My Body?

        Is It My Body?

        Selected Texts

        by Kim Gordon

        Edited by Branden W. Joseph

        ISBN: 9783956790386

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: April 4, 2014

        Throughout the 1980s and early '90s, Kim Gordon—widely known as a founding member of the influential band Sonic Youth—produced a series of writings on art and music. Ranging from neo-Conceptual...
        Thinking through Painting

        Thinking through Painting

        Thinking through Painting

        Reflexivity and Agency beyond the Canvas

        Edited by Isabelle Graw, Daniel Birnbaum and Nikolaus Hirsch

        ISBN: 9783943365108

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: September 7, 2012

        Painting has demonstrated remarkable perseverance in the expanding field of contemporary art and the surrounding ecology of media images. It appears, however, to have dispelled its own once-uncontested...
        Art and Subjecthood

        Art and Subjecthood

        Art and Subjecthood

        The Return of the Human Figure in Semiocapitalism

        Edited by Isabelle Graw, Daniel Birnbaum and Nikolaus Hirsch

        ISBN: 9781934105757

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: September 2, 2011

        Many contemporary artworks evoke the human figure: consider the omnipresence of the mannequin in current installations of artists like John Miller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Heimo Zobernig, or David Lieske....
        Chardin Material

        Chardin Material

        Chardin Material

        by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

        Edited by Daniel Birnbaum and Isabelle Graw

        ISBN: 9781934105474

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: September 2, 2011

        Adapted from the lecture she delivered at the Institut für Kunstkritik, Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth's essay explores the dimension of self-reflexivity in the work of...
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