Testimonial

It\u27s an honor and a pleasure to introduce Douglas Crimp, whom I\u27ve known for more than thirty years. In that time, Douglas has been my fellow student, my inspiring colleague, my attentive editor, my concert, opera, film, and dance-going companion, and, most important, my dear friend

‘It doesn’t reveal itself’: erosion and collapse of the image in contemporary visual practice

The article explores the extent to which ‘pictorial art’ resists legibility, transparency and coherence. The analysis of three artistic case studies, Idris Khan, Maria Chevska and Jane and Louise Wilson, serves to investigate established hierarchies in our perception of visual referents. In the discussion, the article inquires the means of erosion, veiling and dissemblance as ways to critique assumption of the homogeneity of the image. All artists cast a view of the external world by diverting it, defacing it and distancing themselves from the external environment. However, the distancing is never disconnected from the everyday and never succumbs to abstraction. The article argues that the crisis of the image offers a productive framework that allows artists to draw attention to the absence of logical structure and the instability of the visual sign

Evictions : Art and Spatial Politics

"Since the 1980s a great deal has been written on the relationship between art, architecture, and urban planning and design, on the one hand, and the politics of space on the other. In Evictions Rosalyn Deutsche investigates—and protests against—the dominant uses of this interdisciplinary discourse. Deutsche argues that critics on both the left and the right invoke harmonious images of space that conceal and justify exclusions—whether the space in question is a city, park, institution, exhibition, identity, or work of art." -- Publisher's website

James Welling : Abstract

Arguing for an ethical reconsideration of subjectivity, Deutsche posits a complex relationship between Welling and the other, less abstract, artists who critically re-evaluated photography in the 1980s. Like those artists, Welling’s investigation of photography, so Deutsche claims, questions mastery and testifies to the vulnerability of photography’s subject matter. Text in English, French and Dutch. List of works. Brief biographical notes. 27 bibl. ref