Olafur Eliasson: TYT (Take Your Time) Vol. 1: Small Spatial Experiments (2007)

An in-house production, TYT (Take Your Time) presents current research and projects by Olafur Eliasson and the studio in the format of an intermittently recurring magazine, with an emphasis on the process of developing and testing ideas and artworks.

Concept by Olafur Eliasson
Edited and published by Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin, November 2007
Design by Michael Heimann
208 pages

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Rosalind Krauss: Bachelors (1999)

“Since the 1970s Rosalind Krauss has been exploring the art of painters, sculptors, and photographers, examining the intersection of these artists concerns with the major currents of postwar visual culture: the question of the commodity, the status of the subject, issues of representation and abstraction, and the viability of individual media.

These essays on nine women artists—gathered as Bachelors—are framed by the question, born of feminism, “What evaluative criteria can be applied to women’s art?” In the case of surrealism, in particular, some have claimed that surrealist women artists must either redraw the lines of their practice or participate in the movement’s misogyny. Krauss resists that claim, for these “bachelors” are artists whose expressive strategies challenge the very ideals of unity and mastery identified with masculinist aesthetics. Some of this work, such as the “part object” (Louise Bourgeois) or the “formless” (Cindy Sherman) could be said to find its power in strategies associated with such concepts as écriture feminine. In the work of Agnes Martin, Eva Hesse, or Sherrie Levine, one can make the case that the power of the work can be revealed only by recourse to another type of logic altogether. Bachelors attempts to do justice to these and other artists (Claude Cahun, Dora Maar, Louise Lawler, Francesca Woodman) in the terms their works demand.”

Publisher MIT Press, 1999
October Books
ISBN 0262112396, 9780262112390
228 pages

Reviews: James Elkins (CAA Reviews 1999), Fred Andersson (Leonardo 2000).

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Siegfried Giedion: Architecture, You and Me: The Diary of a Development (1956/1958)

Collection of essays from 1937-1956 by an influential Prague-born and Switzerland-based historian and critic of architecture.

First published in German as vol. 18 of the Deutsche Enzyklopaedie under the title Architektur und Gemeinschaft by Rowohlt, Hamburg, 1956

Translated by Jaqueline Tyrwhitt
Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1958
221 pages

Review: Harold Ehrensperger (The Saturday Review).

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