"Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," in
Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Schocken Books, 1968), 217-51.
Mark Blaug, ed., The Economics of the Arts (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press,
1976). Ernst Bloch et al., Aesthetics and Politics (London: New Left Books, 1977).
Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, trans.
Richard Nice (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Un ..."
"In 1984, the art critic, theorist and gay activist Craig Owens (1950–90) gave a wide-ranging interview with Lyn Blumenthal and Kate Horsfield for their extraordinary video series On Art and Artists. At once personal, political and forward-thinking, Owens recounts his experiences with Rosalind Krauss and the founding of the journal October, the “Pictures Generation” artists and critics, and his evolving understanding of the art market, a ..."
"Perhaps more than any other recent writer, Craig Owens explored the relations among the discourses of contemporary art, sexuality, and power. His familiarity with the New York art world and its practitioners in the 1970's and 1980's makes his writing an unparalleled guide to one of the most riveting periods of contemporary culture."
Haunted by History Separating the Facts and Legends of Eight Historic Hotels and Inns in Southern California by CraigOwens Paperback, 410 Pages, Published 2017 by Sad Hill Llc ISBN-13: 978-0-9976881-0-8, ISBN: 0-9976881-0-6
"Have you ever stayed at a hotel said to be haunted and wondered if its ghost stories are true? Have you ever left a historic hotel feeling certain that you had encountered a ghost? Haunted by History, Volume I, by Craig Owens uncovers little known facts about eight prominent historic hotels in Southern California and the origins behind many of their ghost stories. Not only does his well-documented research separate facts from legends, b ..."
"For the past thirty years, Hal Foster has pushed the boundaries of cultural criticism, establishing a vantage point from which the seemingly disparate agendas of artists, patrons, and critics have a telling coherence. In The Anti-Aesthetic, preeminent critics such as Jean Baudrillard, Rosalind Krauss, Fredric Jameson, and Edward Said consider the full range of postmodern cultural production, from the writing of John Cage, to Cindy Sherm ..."
"For the past few decades Hal Foster's critical gaze has encompassed the increasingly complex machinery of the culture industry. His observations push the boundaries of cultural criticism to establish a vantage point from which the seemingly disparate agendas of artists, patrons, and critics have a telling coherence. The Anti-Aesthetic is a touchstone volume for postmodern debate and theory. Though the cultural stakes and terms have chan ..."
Beyond Recognition Representation, Power, and Culture by CraigOwens Published 1992 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91232-8, ISBN: 0-520-91232-2
"A Village Voice Best Book of the Year that examines contemporary cultural politics.With contributions by: Benjamin H.D. Buchloh James Clifford Douglas Crimp Thomas Crow Virginia Dominguez Michael Feher Michael Fried Dan Graham Alice Jardine Silvia Kolbowski Rosalind Krauss Barbara Kruger Trinh T. Minh-Ha Craig Owens Aimee Rankin Martha Rosler Krzysztof WodiczkoDiscussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series co-published w ..."
"The waning of the century-old modernist movement in the arts has called forth an astonishing array of artistic and critical responses. The twenty-five essays in Art After Modernism provide a comprehensive survey of the most provocative directions taken by recent art and criticism, exploring such topics as the decline of the ideology of modernism in the arts and the emergence of a wide range of postmodern practices; recent directions in ..."
The Shaken and the Stirred The Year's Work in Cocktail Culture (The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory) by Stephen Schneider, Craig N. Owens Paperback, Published 2020 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-04974-2, ISBN: 0-253-04974-1
"The Shaken and the Stirred features essays written by distillers, bartenders and amateur mixologists, as well as scholars, all examining the so-called 'Cocktail Revival' and cocktail culture. Why has the cocktail returned with such force?"
Shepherd Leadership The Metrics That Really Matter (Paperback) by Craig T. Owens Paperback, 158 Pages, Published 2021 by Freiling Agency, Llc, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-950948-98-7, ISBN: 1-950948-98-6
"In this seminal work for the post-pandemic church, pastor Craig T. Owens offers a picture of a church gone astray, succumbed by the "business" of ministry and forgetting the joy of doing ministry."
"With her Untitled Film Stills of the 1970s, Cindy Sherman became one of the era's most important and influential artists. Since then, her metamorphosing self-portraits and appropriation of genres can be seen as a continuous investigation of representation and its complicated relationship to photography. Sherman and her work are often discussed in terms of postmodern theorie ..."
"Looking at women, business and finance in the long nineteenth century, this book challenges our traditional understanding of 'separate spheres'--whereby men operated in the public world of work and women in the private realm of the domestic. Drawing on case studies throughout Europe, the authors reveal that there was much greater diversity in women's economic experience across all social strata than has previously been understood.Intern ..."