Third Text, 6: Magiciens de la Terre (1989)

A special issue of the journal consisting of a translation of the special issue of Les cahiers du musée national d’art moderne published to coincide with the exhibition Magiciens de la terre.

Foreword by Rasheed Araeen, introduction by Yves Michaud, interview with the exhibition curator Jean‐Hubert Martin by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, essays by Fumio Nanjo, John Mundine, Jyotindra Jain, Louis Perrois, Carlos Severi, Sally Price, James Clifford, Jean Fisher, Yves Michaud, Guy Brett

Publisher Third Text, Spring 1989
ISSN 0952-8822
96 pages

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Hal Foster: Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency (2015)

“Bad New Days examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency instilled by neoliberalism and the war on terror.

Considering the work of artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tacita Dean, and Isa Genzken, and the writing of thinkers like Jacques Rancière, Bruno Latour, and Giorgio Agamben, Hal Foster shows the ways in which art has anticipated this condition, at times resisting the collapse of the social contract or gesturing toward its repair; at other times burlesquing it.

Against the claim that art making has become so heterogeneous as to defy historical analysis, Foster argues that the critic must still articulate a clear account of the contemporary in all its complexity. To that end, he offers several paradigms for the art of recent years, which he terms “abject,” “archival,” “mimetic,” and “precarious.””

Publisher Verso, London and New York, 2015
ISBN 1784781460, 9781784781460
208 pages

Presentation and discussion (video, The Kitchen, NYC, Sep 2015)
Interview (John Douglas Millar, Mute, Nov 2015)

Reviews: Mark Steven (Affirmations 2015), Brian Dillon (Guardian 2015), Rachel Wetzler (ArtNews 2015).

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Ramon Gómez de la Serna: Ismos (1921/1943) [Spanish]

A monograph by the Spanish writer, dramatist and avant-garde agitator (1888-1963) providing a survey of 27 art styles of the period.

Apollinerismo, Picassismo, Futurismo, Negrismo, Luminismo, Klaxismo, Estantifermismo, Toulouselautrecismo, Monstruosismo, Archipenkismo, Maquinismo, Lhoteísmo, Simultaneísmo, Jazzbandismo, Humorismo, Lipchitzmo, Tubularismo, Ninfismo, Dadaísmo, Charlotismo, Surrealismo, Botellismo, Riverismo, Novelismo, Serafismo, Ducassismo, Daliismo.

First edition as El cubismo y todos los ismos, Biblioteca nueva, Madrid, 1921; new ed. as Ismos, Biblioteca nueva, Madrid, 1931.

Publisher Poseidón, Buenos Aires, 1943
448 pages

Commentary: Andrés Soria Olmedo (in English, 1995).

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See also Reina Sofia catalogue on Ismos (Spanish, 20 MB, 2002), and Lissitzky and Arp’s Die Kunstismen / Les Ismes De L’Art / The Isms of Art (1925).