PRIZES to win! PROMOTIONS

Close Notification

Your cart does not contain any items

Jack Goldstein

All Day Night Sky

Alexander Dumbadze

$65.95

Hardback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

QTY:

English
University of Chicago Press
20 January 2026
A poignant account of the life and work of conceptual artist Jack Goldstein.

A defining figure of the 1970s–80s New York art world, Jack Goldstein's wide-ranging body of work, which included immaculate color films and radiant paintings of appropriated images composed by assistants, is both seductive and interpretively elusive. Goldstein's legacy has been complicated by the mythology of his later years. Consumed by drug addiction, he dropped out of the art world in the 1990s, lived alone in an East Los Angeles trailer park, and resurfaced in a wave of critical fanfare at the turn of the millennium, before taking his own life in 2003.

Employing his signature blend of biography, theoretical reflection, and archival research, Alexander Dumbadze examines Goldstein's life and career, homing in on the artist's refusal to distinguish between mental and actual images. Progressing chronologically through key moments in Goldstein's artistic and intellectual formation, the book offers a deeply complex portrait of this significant artist, along with a nuanced meditation on the nature of images, the meaning of artistic subjectivity, and the consequences of holding unwavering faith in art.
By:  
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   513g
ISBN:   9780226398655
ISBN 10:   022639865X
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Day One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Night Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Twilight Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Afterword Acknowledgments Notes Illustration Credits Index

Alexander Dumbadze is associate professor of art history at George Washington University. He is the author of Bas Jan Ader: Death Is Elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.  

Reviews for Jack Goldstein: All Day Night Sky

“Like a modern-day bard, Dumbadze vividly recounts the life and times of a legendary artist whose work remains as enigmatic as it is influential. The book, organized around a series of episodic vignettes, captures Goldstein’s uncompromising and visionary practice and meticulously re-creates the larger intellectual and cultural milieu in which it took place.” -- Robert Slifkin, author of ""Quitting Your Day Job: Chauncey Hare’s Photographic Work"" “Jack Goldstein is one of those challenging artists that many of us know of, but few of us really know. Thanks to Dumbadze’s fine book, we get Goldstein’s troubled life served up with the verve of a page-turning biography, and his complex art revealed with the flair and acuity of the best art history.” -- Blake Gopnik, author of ""Warhol"" and ""The Maverick’s Museum"" “This book is a wonderful feast of turbocharged artistic longing, thoughts, cigarettes, and infinite sadness.” -- Ragnar Kjartansson, artist


See Also