Yve-Alain Bois

Essays that seek to redefine the status of theory in modernist critical discourse

Painting as Model

Susan Kismaric

Glenn Lowry

Manuel Alvarez Bravo (Museum of Modern Art)

Olivier Rolin

Christine Macel

Ive-Alan Bois

Did You See Me?

Sophie Calle

Rosalind Krauss

A User's Guide

Formless

Piet Mondrian

Joop M. Joosten

Hans Janssen

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Kunstmuseum (La Haye, Pays-Bas).

Angelica Zander Rudenstine

Although Mondrian is generally recognized for his powerful influence on twentieth-century art, architecture and design, his achievement as a painter has been underestimated. This comprehensive monograph traces Mondrian's career, from his early Dutch landscapes at the turn of the century to the dazzlingly rhythmic compositions he painted in New York at the end of his life. In this volume, his identity as a modern artist is addressed in detail. While the continuity within his entire evolution is fully explored, particular attention is paid to moments of dramatic change: his discovery of modernism and later of cubism; his struggle toward abstraction; his invention of the "neoplastic" style for which he is best known; and his dynamic development of that style from the 1930s until the end of his career. An emphasis on Mondrian's pictorial development also involves an emphasis on his working process. While this volume stresses the modernity of Mondrian's work, it demonstrates, especially in its presentation of his unfinished works, that Mondrian's abstract art was far from mathematical, either in its origins or in its expression; rather, it was the product of a highly intuitive mind and hand, gradually working toward carefully modulated but far from measurable compositional solutions. In the present volume, the texture and autograph surface of each work are taken into account, and Mondrian's original framing decisions have been recorded and reproduced, often for the first time. Yve-Alain Bois's major essay on the artist's career focuses especially on the invention and development of Mondrian's neoplastic style. In examining the parallel evolution of the artist's theory and his art, Bois supports the painter's own rejection of any interpretation of his abstract work as either geometric or symbolic, and demonstrates that far from constituting a formal exercise, neoplasticism offered an entirely new articulation of painting and thought. Bois pays particular attention to the late work and to the ways in which the artist conceived it as a critique of his earlier achievements. Hans Janssen explores the relationship between theory and practice in Mondrian's neoplasticism. From the early landscapes and throughout the mature career, he sees a fundamental continuity in the role of the symbolic. The fully illustrated Chronology of the artist's life and work and the Catalogue by Joop Joosten and Angelica Z. Rudenstine contain much new documentation, as well as extensive and largely unpublished quotations from Mondrian's correspondence with his contemporaries.

Mondrian

Richard Serra

Ernst-Gerhard Guse

Douglas Crimp

Critical essays accompany a selection of the San Francisco-born sculptor's works and discuss the controversy surrounding his sculpture

A Picturesque Stroll Around Clara-Clara

Rosalind E. Krauss

Centre Georges Pompidou

In Formless: A User's Guide, Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss present a rich and compelling panorama of the formless, charting its persistence within a history of modernism that has always repressed it in the interest of privileging formal mastery, and they assess its destiny within current artistic production.

Hal Foster

David Joselit

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

Five of the most influential and provocative art historians of our time have come together to provide a comprehensive history of art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

Volume 1: 1900 to 1944; Volume 2: 1945 to the Present

Art Since 1900

Sarah Whitfield

Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris

Pierre Bonnard

Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) is among the great artists whose work undoubtedly marked the 20th century. This book, which accompanies a major retrospective of the artist's work at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, shows how Bonnard's contribution to a 'modern' conception of painting makes him a decisive figure in the history of 20th-century art. Starting from the turn of the century, and from the change that moment represented in Bonnard's work, the book looks at some of the recurrent themes in the artist's work - the nude, landscapes, terraces and windows, and self-portraits - and reveals an ongoing re-invention of his vision, drawing from his Nabi experience and leading the painter to the very brink of abstraction. Including essays by a cast of distinguished writers, new interviews with those who knew Bonnard or whose work has been influenced by him, unpublished archival photographs and diary drawings, and full-colour reproductions of 100 paintings, this book provides a major reassessment of the artist's contribution to the history of modernism, as well as a beautifully produced record of his life and work.

The Work of Art : Suspending Time

Bonnard

Denis Hollier

Annette Michelson

Professor Emeritus Founding Ed October Magazine Annette Michelson

Silvia Kolbowski

October: The Second Decade collects examples of the innovative critical and theoretical work for which the journal October is known. A journal anthology draws a collective portrait; together, the gathered texts demonstrate the journal's ambitions and strengths. From the outset, October's aim has been to consider a range of cultural practices and to assess their place at a particular historical juncture. That task has now taken on an intensified urgency. The catastrophic state of our urban economies and the attendant social crises, as well as the more general predicaments of a postcolonial era, have had an inescapable impact on the cultural and discursive practices that are October's concern. Hence, October in its second decade has had an intensified concern with the role of cultural production within the public sphere and a sharper focus on the intersections of cultural practices with institutional structures. The topics of inquiry include body politics and psychoanalysis, spectacle and institutional critique, art practice and art history, and postcolonial discourse. Contributors: Carol Armstrong, Leo Bersani, Homi Bhabha, Yve-Alain Bois, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Susan Buck-Morss, Lygia Clark, T. J. Clark, Jonathan Crary, Gilles Deleuze, Manthia Diawara, Peter Eisenman, Hal Foster, Group Material, Denis Hollier, Alexander Kluge, Gertrud Koch, Silvia Kolbowski, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, Helen Molesworth, V. Y. Mudimbe, Oskar Negt, Mignon Nixon.

The Second Decade, 1986-1996

October

Suzanne Pagé

Essays by Yve-Alain Bois, Sarah Whitfield and Georges Rocque.

The Work of Art, Suspending Time : Musée D'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2 February-7 May 2006

Con una estructura clara año a año, los autores presentan más de un centenar de artículos que, centrados en un acontecimiento crucial –la creación de una obra seminal, la publicación de un texto importante o la inauguración de una exposición fundamental, por ejemplo– contienen un gran volumen de información sobre el arte desde 1900 hasta nuestros días. Se exploran en profundidad todos los puntos de inflexión y los avances clave de la modernidad y la posmodernidad, sin olvidar las frecuentes reacciones modernas que proponían visiones alternativas del arte y del mundo. Cada uno de los autores ha escrito una introducción en la que se ocupa de las metodologías en boga en la historia del arte, informando y aumentando el grado de comprensión del lector en lo tocante a su práctica actual. La estructura flexible y las numerosas referencias cruzadas permiten que éste trace su propio camino a lo largo del siglo y siga cualquiera de las muchas narraciones que se despliegan en el libro, ya sea la historia de un medio como la pintura, el desarrollo del arte en un país determinado, la influencia de un movimiento como el Surrealismo o la aparición de un corpus estilístico o conceptual como la abstracción o el Minimalismo. El texto está ilustrado con más de seiscientas obras canónicas (y anticanónicas) del siglo, la mayoría en color. Recuadros con información sobre acontecimientos, lugares y personajes clave, así como un glosario y una amplia bibliografía, completan este excepcional volumen. Además de las introducciones a sus enfoques teóricos, los autores también han tomado parte en dos mesas redondas –una situada a mediados de siglo, la otra al final del libro– en las que se discuten algunas de las cuestiones planteadas por las décadas precedentes, al tiempo que dirigen su mirada al arte del futuro. Destinada a convertirse en la referencia sobre la materia, «Arte desde 1900» es una lectura esencial para cualquier persona que quiera comprender las complejidades del arte en el mundo contemporáneo.

Arte desde 1900

Bois

Rosalind Epstein Krauss

Published to accompany exhibition held at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 22/5 - 26/8 1996.

B. H. D. Buchloh

1945 to the Present

Benjamin H D Buchloh

1900 to 1944

Yve-Alain Bois

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