books by Rosalind Krauss     books:       David Smith: A Centennial2 reviews David Smith, Carmen Gimenez, ... Guggenheim Museum, 2006 I saw the show and NEED the book! I just saw the show at the Guggenheim and was stunned by the clarity of Smith's vision and how it evolved. He changed the nature of modern sculpture, one work at a time...and gave new meaning to poise, frame, gesture, implication, and force. I looked at the book there and it was just too much to carry back on the plane, from NYC to Seattle, with all of the other books I picked up. So I am pleased ...             The Optical Unconscious2 reviews Rosalind E. Krauss The MIT Press, 1993 Can you see the watcher? Kraus's "The Optical Unconcious" is a good companion, as it were, to Martin Jay's "Downcast Eyes." Both discuss the dilema of visuality in Modernist thought and then -whoa - bring out post-modernism just by speaking about the eye and seeing. While Jay gets technical with his notion of "occular centrism," Kraus lets us feel what it means to watch or be watched. Her approach to the male gaze, the ...             Agnes Martin2 reviews Barbara Haskell, Anna C. Chave, ... Whitney Museum of Art, 1992 Joy in Simplicity Agnes Martin is one of the world's most respected abstract expressionist painters. Awarded the US National Medal for the Arts and many others, at 88 years young, she continues to paint daily in her Taos, New Mexico studio. This book highlights an extensive collection of her past and present work. The fascination of the work is that she is able to simplify and reduce the visual experience to ...             "Primitivism" in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern1 review Paul Gauguin, Ezio Bassani, ... The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002 Outstanding work! If you feel any kinship with 20th century modern art, and are unaware of how deeply influential tribal artifacts have been, this two-volume set will be both a delight and a revelation. Suitable as an introduction to both, and useful for novices or connoisseurs. Should you discover an interest in tribal art as a result, and would like to view the remarkable aesthetic range available through ...             Cindy Sherman 1975-19931 review Rosalind Krauss Rizzoli, 1993 Amazing! This is the most comprhensive book out on Cindy Sherman. Rosalind E. Krauss is a very insightful and educated author. Definately a must have for any Cindy Sherman fanatic!             Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, Vol. 1: 1900-19442 reviews Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, ... Thames & Hudson, 2005 student review This book was recommended for the senior-level art history course at the art academy I currently attend. Clear, erudite reading, followed by colorful reproductions and chronological tabs. The visual breakdowns are though-provoking, often raising more than one opinion of the piece. Elaboration on the artist, their backround, and their life really helps the reader understand the piece of art and ...             October: The Second Decade, 1986-1996 (October Books)1 review The MIT Press, 1998 grab bag a good collection, but October has sure pulled back from any connection to actual contemporary art (which is a shame).             Robert Rauschenberg : A Retrospective4 reviews Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Davidson, ... Harry N. Abrams, 1997 Wonderful, though more text than I wanted I was very pleased by the large number of high-quality reproductions. Still, as far as I'm concerned there should have been *more*. The book contains (a rough count) about 280 pages containing text or mostly text, out of about 630 total pages. However, I'm very happy with the book.             3x An Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing by Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, and Agnes Martin1 review Yale University Press, 2005 Opening the Doors of perception With a few notable exceptions including M.C. Escher, Dali, and a few others, I'd never really thought of drawing or painting in terms of being a means to an end other than self expression. Af Klint, Kunz, and Martin came from three different parts of the world and from three different generations. Each of them had a slightly different approach to drawing. What they had in common was that they ...             Surrealism: Two Private Eyes1 review Timothy Baum, Jose Pierre, ... Guggenheim Museum, 2003 SUREALISM: TWO PRIVATE EYES I have been buying art books related to private collections for the past 10 years and this is the most comprehensive book of a private collection that I have seen. I has been divided for the works on canvas, paper, sculpture, art objects, etc. I am also a collector and if I would try to make a book of my own collection I would follow the same format of this book. Finnaly to make this book ...             Formless: A User's Guide3 reviews Yve-Alain Bois, Rosalind E. Krauss Zone Books, 2000 Form and Content Georges Bataille was a provocative thinker. Associated freely with the Surrealists, playing around with the fascists, Gnostics, psychoanalysis and eroticism, he managed to create a highly explosive cultural blend which proves influential in our times, like a real time-bomb should. Was he really that quasi-Postmodern thinker some interpreters try to make him look? Anyway, he wrote some of the most ...             The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture3 reviews Jurgen Habermas, Kenneth Frampton, ... Bay Press (WA), 1983 Accessible and Comprehensive The majority of the essays are well-written in an approachable rhetoric that can be understood by a reader with relatively limited knowledge of the subject-matter. It also serves as a concise anthology of essays written by some of the leading critical thinkers in this area, making this both an excellent introductory book as well as a collection worthy to be on the expert's shelf.             Bachelors (October Books)2 reviews Rosalind E. Krauss The MIT Press, 2000 Fairly unconvinced I haven't read all of the essays in this book. I might not want to. I think I've read five of the eight and parts of two others. Overall, I have not been particularly impressed. My introduction to Krauss came in an essay she authored on James Coleman, which I read for a class in college. It was particularly sophisticated: employing ideas from Barthes and Benjamin, she touched on ideas about ...             The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths4 reviews Rosalind E. Krauss MIT Press (MA), 1985 prophetic insights anyway... As Hal foster... writes, miss Krauss cannot be blamed of the conceptual limitations of the time... if read within a historical context, this book Is very enlightening and very compromised with structural analysis, as it is with it's by- products (of wihch, we often make so much of a deal these days) ... this includes early -and pure- examples of deconstructivist meta-texts. It seems to me ...             Passages in Modern Sculpture1 review Rosalind E. Krauss Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1977 An impressive achievement This is Krauss's first book, and the one I like best. Her history of modern sculpture from Rodin to Robert Smithson is grounded in a sophisticated theoretical perspective, but it's not collapsing under the weight of theory like many later Krauss's texts. Her theoretical framework in this early book is phenomenological -- she made a transition to structuralist and poststructuralist theories ...             The Picasso Papers1 review Rosalind E. Krauss Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1998 An Important Text Rosalind Krauss's brief, glimmering text offers the perfect counterpoint to thin biographical essays on the artist. In _Picasso Papers_, Krauss looks closely at Picasso's early collages, reading them in light of her keen understanding of Picasso's overall ouevre and life. Krauss argues effectively for Picasso's revolutionary use of linguistic structures in the early collages, and mirrors her ...             Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism18 reviews Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, ... Thames & Hudson, 2005 beating their cannons into canon I suspect that a number of these comments were inspired by a scathing review in the Wall Street Journal by Eric Gibson (the "culture war" ones at least). But maybe not... I would have liked to write a more critical review of this book, although, or perhaps, because I liked it so much, but with all of these rather "blunt" opinions, it is hard to do anything but just praise it. Still, I'll throw ...              search for books 1900-1944, 1975-1993, 1986-1996, abstraction, aesthetic, affinity, anti-aesthetic, antimodernism, avant-garde, bachelors, centennial, century, culture, drawing, formless, methods, modernism, modernist, originality, passages, picasso, postmodern, postmodernism, primitivism, private, rauschenberg, retrospective, sculpture, surrealism, unconscious books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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