Modernities: Art-Matters in the Present

Contents

Introduction in Praxis

Foundations

Alberti’s “Window”: Art Historical Notes on an Anti-Modernist Misprision
On Cycladic Ultramodernity
Neolithic-Modern

Architecture in Review

Expressionist Fantasias: The Chrystal Chain Letters
Temples to the Dynamo: The “Daylight Factory” and the Grain Elevator
Living Modern” James Stirling’s Sackler Museum at Harvard

Sculpture and Things

Readymades: Art Accompli
The Propeller and the Bird in Space
Attaining to Nature: Maureen Connor
Robert Gober’s Non-Readymades

Photo-Ideas

Think-Shots: Henri Le Secq
Photo-Gloss: On Paul Strand’s Cristo with Thorns
Mike and Doug Starn: Photoexhibitionism 1930/1990

Pre-expressionism to Neoexpressionism

(T)Rapt in Tvilight: On Scandinavian “Symbolism”
Raw Art: “Primitive” Authenticity and German Expressionism
A Note on Sigmar Polke
Street Wisdom: Judy Rifka and Graffiti Culture

The Play of Texts

Two Blasts from the Past in Picasso (and Yes, Marcel, You Too)
Notes on Influence and Appropriation
Snake-Oil from Julio Schnitzel (a Parody)
Peter Haley on the Nature, Blah-blah-blah, of Abstract Art
Mike Bidlo as Pablo 

New Abstract Painting 

Piecing Things Together: A Conversation with Sean Scully
A Note on David Reed
Thomas Nozkowski: Painting and the Struggle of Analogy
Painting in Double-Negative: Jonathan Lasker
Antic Gravity: Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
David Rowe, C.S. Peirce, and the Texture of Thought in Painting 

University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993

ISBN: 0-271-00808-3