Perpetual Inventory

Rosalind E. Krauss (Editor, October magazine / Professor, Columbia University)

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English

MIT Press
08 February 2013

Art & design styles: from c 1960

Series: October Books

"In essays that span three decades, one of contemporary art's most esteemed critics celebrates artists who have persevered in the service of a medium.

The job of an art critic is to take perpetual inventory, constantly revising her ideas about the direction of contemporary art and the significance of the work she writes about. In these essays, which span three decades of assessment and reassessment, Rosalind Krauss considers what she has come to call the ""post-medium condition""-the abandonment by contemporary art of the modernist emphasis on the medium as the source of artistic significance. Jean-Fran ois Lyotard argued that the postmodern condition is characterized by the end of a ""master narrative,"" and Krauss sees in the post-medium condition of contemporary art a similar farewell to coherence. The master narrative of contemporary art ended when conceptual art and other contemporary practices jettisoned the specific medium in order to juxtapose image and written text in the same work. For Krauss, this spells the end of serious art, and she devotes much of Perpetual Inventory to ""wrest ling

new media to the mat of specificity.""

Krauss also writes about artists who are reinventing the medium, artists who persevere in the service of a nontraditional medium (""strange new apparatuses"" often adopted from commercial culture), among them Ed Ruscha, Christian Marclay, William Kentridge, and James Coleman."

By: Rosalind E. Krauss (Editor October magazine / Professor Columbia University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 708g
ISBN: 9780262518727
ISBN 10: 0262518724
Series: October Books
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 08 February 2013
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rosalind E. Krauss is University Professor in the Department of Art History at Columbia University, where, from 1995 to 2006, she held the Meyer Schapiro Chair in Modern Art and Theory. She is a founding editor of October and the author of Passages in Modern Sculpture, The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Myths, The Optical Unconscious, Bachelors, Perpetual Inventory, Under Blue Cup (all published by the MIT Press), and other books.

Reviews for Perpetual Inventory

Krauss manages to instruct without sounding professorial...These essays are exacting in clarity even at their most lyrical and theoretical. —Stephan Delbos, The Prague Post