The New Art Practice in Yugoslavia, 1966-1978 (1978) [English, SerboCroatian]

Catalogue for an exhibition on The New Art Practice held in September-October 1978 in Zagreb. The New Art Practice was a term created for a generation of artists in the former Yugoslavia active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. These artists shifted their practice to spaces outside the traditional studio, onto city streets, into artist-run spaces, and in multimedia performances and experimental publications.

With texts by Marijan Susovski, Ješa Dengri, Tomaž Brejc, Davor Matičević, Nena Baljković, Ida Biard, Mirko Radojičić, Bálint Szombathy, Vladan Radovanović, Jasna Tijardović, Slavko Timotijević, Vladimir Kulić, Vladimir Mattioni.

Editor Marijan Susovski
Publisher Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 1978
Volumes 3-6 of Documents
80+[61] pages

Exhibition of the artists’ publications of the New Art Practice (MoMA, New York, 2011).

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John Kelsey: Rich Texts: Selected Writing for Art (2010)

“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 many social roles it creates. “When the critic chooses to become a smuggler, a hack, a cook, or an artist,” Kelsey said at a 2007 conference at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, “it’s maybe because criticism as such remains tied to an outmoded social relation.” It is precisely this relation that Kelsey intends to not only critique but also to surpass. In this way, Kelsey’s Rich Texts play the double role of explaining the art world and actively participating in it; they close the distance between the work of art and how we talk about it.

Originally published in Artforum—where Kelsey is a contributing editor—Texte zur Kunst, Parkett, and various artists’ catalogues, the essays compiled in Rich Texts have all been written over the last decade, and therefore embody a timeliness that strikes at the core of the contemporary art world and the crises that have come to define it.”

Edited by Daniel Birnbaum, Isabelle Graw, Institut für Kunstkritik, Frankfurt am Main
Publisher Sternberg Press, 2010
ISBN 1934105236, 9781934105238
245 pages

Commentary: Anon (Mute, 2014).

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Hal Foster (ed.): The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (1983)

“A collection of late-twentieth-century cultural criticism, named a Best Book of the Year by the Village Voice. In The Anti-Aesthetic, critics such as Jean Baudrillard, Rosalind Krauss, Fredric Jameson, and Edward Said consider the full range of postmodern cultural production, from the writing of John Cage, to Cindy Sherman’s film stills, to Barbara Kruger’s collages. The book provides an introduction for newcomers and a point of reference for those already engaged in discussions of postmodern art, culture, and criticism.”

With essays by Jean Baudrillard, Douglas Crimp, Kenneth Frampton, Jurgen Habermas, Fredric Jameson, Rosalind Krauss, Craig Owens, Edward W. Said, and Gregory L. Ulmer.

Edited and with an Introduction by Hal Foster
Publisher Bay Press, Port Townsend, WA, 1983
ISBN 0941920011, 9780941920018
xvi+159 pages

Reviews: Dana Polan (New German Critique, 1984), Laura Kipnis (Minnesota Review, 1984).

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