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Before Pictures(1st Edition)
by Douglas Crimp
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2016 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42345-6, ISBN: 0-226-42345-X

"Douglas Crimp is the rare art critic whose work profoundly influenced a generation of artists. He is best known for his work with the "Pictures Generation"--the very name of which Crimp coined to define the work of artists like Robert Longo and Cindy Sherman who appropriated images from mass culture to carry out a subversive critique. But while his influence is widely recognized, we know little about Crimp's own formative experiences be ..."

Melancholia and Moralism(Reprint)
Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics (The MIT Press)
by Douglas Crimp
Paperback, 330 Pages, Published 2004 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53264-8, ISBN: 0-262-53264-6

"In Melancholia and Moralism, Douglas Crimp confronts the conservative gay politics that replaced the radical AIDS activism of the late 1980s and early 1990s. He shows that the cumulative losses from AIDS, including the waning of militant response, have resulted in melancholia as Freud defined it: gay men's dangerous identification with the moralistic repudiation of homosexu ..."

Mixed Use, Manhattan(1st Edition)
Photography and Related Practices, 1970s to the Present (The MIT Press)
by Lynne Cooke, Douglas Crimp, Lynne Crimp
Hardcover, 303 Pages, Published 2010 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01482-3, ISBN: 0-262-01482-3

"When the real estate bust of the 1970s hit New York City, artists found their own mixed uses for the city's run-down lofts, abandoned piers, vacant lots, and deserted streets, and photographers and filmmakers documented their work. Gordon Matta-Clark turned a sanitation pier into the celebrated work Day's End, and Betsy Sussler filmed its making; Harry Shunk made a photogra ..."

In the Shadow a Shadow(1st Edition)
The Work of Joan Jonas
by Joan Simon, Barbara Clausen, Douglas Crimp, Johanna Burton, Joan Jonas, Susan Rothenberg, Hatje Cantz
Hardcover, 536 Pages, Published 2015 by Gregory R. Miller & Co.
ISBN-13: 978-0-9800242-8-9, ISBN: 0-9800242-8-5

"One of the most continuously influential figures of the past half century, Joan Jonas was among the first artists to embrace the forms of video, performance and installation. From her beginnings as a sculptor, and her emergence in the New York art and performance scenes of the 1960s and 70s (including the seminal "Vertical Roll" video piece of 1972, in which the titular television malfunction enacted a memorably fractured female identit ..."

On The Museum's Ruins(Updated)
(The MIT Press)
by Douglas Crimp, Louise Lawler
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1995 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53126-9, ISBN: 0-262-53126-7

""Crimp's essays comprise one of the most interesting and incisive bodies of work on practices of contemporary art in relationships to art as institution." -- Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University "Literate and provocative speculations about art, photography, postmodernism, homoeroticism, Rauchenberg and Mapplethorpe, museums and libraries." -- "Interior Design" On the Museum's Ruins presents Douglas Crimp's criticism of contemporary art ..."

AIDS(1st Edition)
Cultural Analysis / Cultural Activism (October Books)
by Douglas Crimp, Leo Bersani
Paperback, 277 Pages, Published 1988 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53079-8, ISBN: 0-262-53079-1

"The literature on AIDS has attempted to teach us the "facts" about this new disease or to provide a narrative account of scientific discovery and developing public health policy. But AIDS has precipitated a crisis that is not primarily medical, or even social and political; AIDS has precipitated a crisis of signification the "meaning" of AIDS is hotly contested in all of the discourses that conceptualize it and seek to respond to it . A ..."

Louise Lawler(1st Edition)
Receptions
by Roxana Marcoci, Rhea Anastas, Mieke Bal, Douglas Crimp, Louise Lawler, Rosalyn Deutsche, Diedrich Diederichsen, David Platzker, Julian Stallabrass, Emily Hall
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2017 by The Museum Of Modern Art, New York
ISBN-13: 978-1-63345-023-3, ISBN: 1-63345-023-6

"A major exhibition on the 40-year career of the Pictures Generation pioneer, whose work engages conceptualism and institutional critiquePublished in conjunction with the exhibition Louise Lawler: WHY PICTURES NOW, at The Museum of Modern Art, this volume charts the creative practice of one of the most influential artists working in the fields of picture-making and institutional critique. For the past 40 years, Louise Lawler has raised q ..."

13 Most Wanted Men
Andy Warhol and the 1964 World's Fair: Conversations
by Hilary Ballon, Hh Nicholas Chambers, Professor Diane Di Prima, Douglas Crimp, Dick Elman, Tom Finkelpearl, Albert Fisher, Larissa Harris, Brian Frye, John Giorno, Anthony Grudin, Felicia Kornbluh, Gerard Malanga, Jonas Mekas, Timothy Mennel, Richard Meyer, Billy Name, Andy Warhol, Media Farzin
Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2015 by Queens Museum/The Andy Warhol Museum
ISBN-13: 978-1-929641-19-2, ISBN: 1-929641-19-2

"This volume brings expert opinion and first-hand testimony to bear upon the events surrounding the creation and destruction of Andy Warhol's "Thirteen Most Wanted Men" at the 1964 New York World's Fair. The complex constellation of art, politics and gay life surrounding Warhol's mural and its painting-over comes alive in 13 interviews--with historian Hilary Ballon, critic Douglas Crimp, poet Diane di Prima, 1964 World's Fair head of tel ..."

Elad Lassry(1st Edition)
by Elad Lassry, Douglas Crimp
Hardcover, 72 Pages, Published 2011 by White Cube Gallery
ISBN-13: 978-1-906072-47-6, ISBN: 1-906072-47-7

"A catalogue published on the occasion of Elad Lassry at Luhring Augustine, October 30 - December 18, 2010."

Queer Cultures(1st Edition)
by John D'emilio, Cherry Smyth, Lisa Duggan, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Ruth Goldman, Paula A. Treichler, Douglas Crimp, Samuel R. Delany, Urvashi Vaid, Sherrie A. Inness, Deborah Carlin, Jennifer Digrazia, Jennifer Di Grazia
Paperback, 800 Pages, Published 2003 by Pearson / Prentice Hall
ISBN-13: 978-0-13-041653-7, ISBN: 0-13-041653-3

"This unique anthology presents the most important and influential essays in GLBT and Queer Studies during the past twenty years. Presented in a way that is historically contextualized, politically complex, and far-reaching across different disciplines, the readings demonstrate the ways in which queer theory has begun to transform some of the prevailing assumptions underlying GLBT studies. The 89 essays, poems, fiction, personal narrativ ..."

Mary Kelly(1st Edition)
(Phaidon Contemporary Artist Series)
by Mary Kelly, Margaret Iversen, Douglas Crimp, Margaret Iverson, Homi K. Bhabha, Julia Kristeva, University Of Rochester, New York, Homi I. Bhabha, Vv.Aa., Lynne Tillman, Lynne Till Kristeva
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1997 by Phaidon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7148-3661-4, ISBN: 0-7148-3661-3

"Among the most influential feminist artists working today, Mary Kelly (b.1941) first came to prominence as a Conceptual artist in 1976 with the controversial Post Partum Document series, notorious for incorporating her baby's dirty nappies. She creates large series of indexical works - drawings, images, text panels, photographs - which combine investigations into the diverse relations between psychoanalysis, feminism and art. Kelly ofte ..."

The Anti-Aesthetic(22nd Edition)
Essays on Postmodern Culture
by Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Craig Owens, Kenneth Frampton, Jurgen Habermas, Fredric Jameson, Gregory L. Ulmer, Edward W. Said, Juergen Habermas, Douglas Crimp, Frederic Jameson, Jean Baudrillard, Contributor-Gregory L..., Bay Pr
Paperback, 159 Pages, Published 1994 by Bay Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-941920-01-8, ISBN: 0-941920-01-1

"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 ..."

The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986--2003(Updated)
(Writing Art)
by Gregg Bordowitz, James Meyer, Douglas Crimp, Roger Conover
Paperback, 285 Pages, Published 2006 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52459-9, ISBN: 0-262-52459-7

"The HIV epidemic animates this collection of essays by a noted artist, writer, and activist. "So total was the burden of illness -- mine and others' -- that the only viable response, other than to cease making art entirely, was to adjust to the gravity of the predicament by using the crisis as a lens," writes Gregg Bordowitz, a film- and video-maker whose best-known works, ..."

Judson Dance Theater(1st Edition)
The Work Is Never Done
by Carlos Basualdo, Juliet Bellow, Philip Bither, Roger Copeland, Mary Coyne, Douglas Crimp, Hiroko Ikegami, Kelly Kivland, Claudia La Rocco, Benjamin Piekut, Victoria Brooks, Danielle Goldman, Aram Basualdo Moshayedi, Fionn Meade, Joan Rothfuss, Merce Cunningham, Olga Viso, Chicago. Museum Of
Hardcover, 456 Pages, Published 2017 by Walker Art Center
ISBN-13: 978-1-935963-14-1, ISBN: 1-935963-14-7

"How Cunningham transformed postwar culture through collaborationRenowned as both choreographer and dancer, Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) also revolutionized dance through his partnerships with the many artists who created costumes, lighting, films and videos, and decor and sound for his choreographic works. Cunningham, together with partner John Cage, invited those artists to help him rethink what dance could mean, both on the stage and ..."

"Our Kind of Movie"(1st Edition)
The Films of Andy Warhol (The MIT Press)
by Douglas Crimp, University Of Rochester, New York
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2014 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52607-4, ISBN: 0-262-52607-7

""We didn't think of our movies as underground or commercial or art or porn; they were a little of all of those, but ultimately they were just 'our kind of movie.'" -- Andy WarholAndy Warhol was a remarkably prolific filmmaker, creating more than 100 movies and nearly 500 of the film portraits known as Screen Tests. And yet relatively little has been written ..."

Our Kind of Movie"
The Films of Andy Warhol -- SIGNED BOOK
by Douglas Crimp, Andy Warhol
Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2012 by Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01729-9, ISBN: 0-262-01729-6

""We didn't think of our movies as underground or commercial or art or porn; they were a little of all of those, but ultimately they were just 'our kind of movie.'"--Andy WarholAndy Warhol was a remarkably prolific filmmaker, creating more than 100 movies and nearly 500 of the film portraits known as Screen Tests. And yet relatively little has been writt ..."

Melancholia and Moralism
Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics
by Douglas Crimp, Bhandari M.
Hardcover, 330 Pages, Published 2002 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-03295-7, ISBN: 0-262-03295-3

"Winner, Trade Illustrated Category, 2003 Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. In Melancholia and Moralism, Douglas Crimp confronts the conservative gay politics that replaced the radical AIDS activism of the late 1980s and early 1990s. He shows that the cumulative losses from AIDS, including the waning of militant response, have resulted in melancholia as Freud defined it: gay men's dangerou ..."

About Face(1st Edition)
Andy Warhol Portraits
by Nicholas Baume, Andy Warhol, Richard Meyer, Peter C. Sutton, Douglas Crimp, Thomas W. Sokolowski, Bank Of America, Wadsworth Atheneum
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1999 by The Wadsworth Atheneum/The Andy Warhol Museum/Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52272-4, ISBN: 0-262-52272-1

"The most widely admired paintings by Andy Warhol—and the most reviled—are his portraits. About Face, which accompanies an exhibition organized by the Wadsworth Atheneum, presents the first overview of Warhol's portraiture to embrace all periods and media. "About face" refers both to Warhol's fascination with images of the human face and to his characteristic method of reversal. For example, Warhol reverses the portraitist's goal to capt ..."

AIDS Demo Graphics(1st Edition)
by Douglas Crimp, Adam Rolston
Paperback, 141 Pages, Published 1990 by Bay Pr
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ISBN-13: 978-0-941920-16-2, ISBN: 0-941920-16-X

"(Douglas Crimp and Adam Ralston's compilation of the graphics that appeared in conjunction with ACT UP'S first three years of activity, amply demonstrates the complexity and importance of cultural production .4)"

October(Updated)
The First Decade, 1976-1986
by Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Douglas Crimp, Joan Copjec
Paperback, 472 Pages, Published 1987 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-63119-8, ISBN: 0-262-63119-9

"Black and white illustrations. Brings together a selection of October articles from 1976-1986. Contributors include Rosalind Krauss, Sergei Eisenstein, Peter Handke, Georges Didi Huberman, Mary Ann Doane, and Hans Haacke. 456p."

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