Russell Ferguson, William Olander, Marcia Tucker, Karen Fiss (Editors)
Discourses: Conversations in Postmodern Art and Culture.
The MIT Press, 1990. First edition. 0262061252 471 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 7.75" x 10", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear, with one small closed tear at top edge of front panel and one at bottom edge of rear panel. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"These highly polemical discourses document the critical ideas and strategies that characterize the culture of the 1980s and record the dialectical means through which these ideas and strategies were formulated.
Engaging more than 80 artists, theorists, and critics from a variety of fields, the conversations touch on numerous topics of current contention: the relationship between theory and artistic production, the role of art in the community, the meaning of postmodernism, the effects of representation on racial and sexual stereotypes, the relationship between high art and popular culture, and the responsibilities of art institutions.
Among the discussants are Michel Foucault, Fredric Jameson, Edward Said, Tim Rollins, Greil Marcus, Ethyl Eichelberger, Douglas Crimp, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Gayatri Spivak and Laurie Anderson.
This is the third volume in the New Museum of Contemporary Art series Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art which includes "Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation" and "Blasted Allegories: An Anthology of Writings by Contemporary Artists." Other publications by The New Museum include "Haws Haacke: Unfinished Business," and "Impresario: Malcolm McLaren and the British New Wave."
Discourses is copublished with The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and distributed by The MIT Press."