""Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in the gap between the two.)" ―Robert RauschenbergThe early 1950s, when Robert Rauschenberg launched his career, was the heyday of the heroic gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism. Rauschenberg challenged this tradition, inventing new interdisciplinary models of artistic practice that shaped the decades to come. Published in conjunction with this century's ..."
"During the 1990s a number of artists claimed the exhibition as their medium. Working independently or in various collaborative constellations, they eschewed the individual object in favour of the exhibition environment as a dynamic arena, ever expanding its physical and temporal parameters. Their work engages directly with the vicissitudes of everyday life, offering subtle moments of transformation. This catalogue, which accompanies a m ..."
"From 1992 to 2004, Dia Art Foundation presented the Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art, in which a distinguished array of scholars, critics and cultural historians engaged in cross-disciplinary critical discourse around Dia's exhibition program. The lectures were subsequently collected into a related series of publications, providing a valuable record and extending the debate on contemporary artistic practice and theory. This fi ..."
"Tony Conrad: Doing the City is the first monograph printed to cover this pioneering film, video, music and installation artist's oeuvre of the last 50 years. The copiously illustrated, full-color catalogue includes essays by noted Columbia University art historian and Conrad scholar Branden Joseph; Whitney Museum Performance Curator and 2012 Whitney Biennial Curator Jay Sanders; filmmaker and Anthology Film Archives Curator Andrew Lampe ..."
"Hungry for Death: Destroy All Monsters is published in collaboration with Cary Loren by the Boston University Art Gallery and An Art Service. Essays contributed by Byron Coley, music critic, poet and biographer; and Branden Joseph, Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. Included CD compiled by Cary Loren."
"Simultaneous Soloists is an artist’s book emerging from the exhibition Anthony McCall: Solid Light Works and its accompanying performance series Four Simultaneous Soloists, organized by David Grubbs. It documents these ephemeral events through multiple means: an extensive conversation between McCall and Grubbs detailing a decade of working together, interviews with sixteen participating musicians, writings by art historians Branden W. J ..."
Experimentations(Reprint) John Cage in Music, Art, and Architecture by Branden Wayne Joseph, Branden Wayne Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2016 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-0639-6, ISBN: 1-5013-0639-1
Beyond the Dream Syndicate Tony Conrad and the Arts After Cage (Zone Books) by Branden Wayne Joseph Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2011 by Zone Books ISBN-13: 978-1-890951-87-0, ISBN: 1-890951-87-0
"Uncollected Texts gathers out-of-print and unpublished early writings by groundbreaking artist Carolee Schneemann (born 1939).Edited by art historian Branden W. Joseph, the texts span diverse formats: included are journal entries, criticism, poems, essays and performance notes culled primarily from short-run magazines such as Caterpillar, Film Culture, The Fox, Manipulations and Matter, as well as academic journals such as Performing Ar ..."
Beyond the Dream Syndicate Tony Conrad and the Arts After Cage (Zone Books) by Branden Wayne Joseph Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 2008 by Zone Books ISBN-13: 978-1-890951-86-3, ISBN: 1-890951-86-2
Random Order(1st Edition) Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde (October Books) by Branden Wayne Joseph, Robert Rauschenberg Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2003 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-10099-1, ISBN: 0-262-10099-1
Donald Judd by Donald Judd 260 Pages, Published 2021 by David Zwirner Books ISBN-13: 978-1-64423-057-2, ISBN: 1-64423-057-7
Experimentations John Cage in Music, Art, and Architecture by Branden Wayne Joseph Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2016 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-0640-2, ISBN: 1-5013-0640-5