Rosalind E. Krauss

Rosalind Epstein Krauss (born November 30, 1941) is an American art critic and theorist and she is a professor at Columbia University in New York City.

After graduating from Wellesley in 1962, she attended Harvard, whose Department of Fine Arts (now Department of History of Art and Architecture) had a strong tradition of the intensive analysis of actual art objects under the aegis of the Fogg Museum. Krauss wrote her dissertation on the work of David Smith, whose recent death had rendered him an acceptable dissertation subject in Harvard's view. Krauss received her Ph.D. in 1969. The dissertation was published as Terminal Iron Works in 1971.

In the late-1960s and early-1970s Krauss began to contribute articles to art journals such as Art International and Artforum. Krauss and Annette Michelson became less satisfied by Artforum and eventually left the magazine to found October in 1976. Thea magazine was specialize in contemporary art, criticism, and theory, published by MIT Press.

Books

• 1971. Terminal Iron Works: The Sculpture of David Smith, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
• 1977. The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 73. New York: Garland.
• 1977. Passages in Modern Sculpture. Cambridge Mass: The MIT Press.
• 1985. The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
• 1986. L'Amour fou: Photography & Surrealism. London: Arts Council, 1986.
• 1990. Le Photographique (articles). Frech translation by Marc Bloch and Jean Kampf: Le Photographique: pour une Théorie des Écarts. Histoire et théorie de la photographie. Paris: Macula, 1990. Includes a preface by Hubert Damisch entitled "À Partir de la photographie," pp. 5-11.
• 1993. Optical Unconscious, MIT Press, 1993, October Book, ISBN 026211173X, 9780262111737, 365 pages [1]
• 1997. with Yve Alain Bois. Formless: A User’s Guide, Zone Books, ISBN 0942299434, 9780942299434, 304 pages [2]
• 1999. Bachelors, MIT Press, October Books, ISBN 0262112396, 9780262112390. 228 pages [3]
• 1999. The Picasso Papers.
• 2000. A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition, Publisher Thames & Hudson, Volume 31 of The Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture Series, ISBN 0500282072, 9780500282076, 64 pages [4]
• 2011. Under Blue Cup. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

Articles and books about Krauss

• David Carrier. Rosalind Krauss and American philosophical art criticism. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002. ISBN 0-275-97520-7, ISBN 978-0-275-97520-3.
• "Rosalind Krauss." In Judy K. Collischan Van Wagner, Women Shaping Art: Profiles of Power, pp. 149–164. New York: Praeger, 1984.
• Janet Malcolm, "A Girl of the Zeitgeist", Part II, The New Yorker, October 27, 1986.
• Scott Rothkopf, "Krauss and the Art of Cultural Controversy," The Harvard Crimson, May 16, 1997.
• Anna C. Chave, "Minimalism and Biography," Art Bulletin March 2000.
• David Raskin, "The Shiny Illusionism of Krauss and Judd", Art Journal Spring 2006.
• Yve-Alain Bois. "Rosalind Krauss with Yve-Alain Bois".The Brooklyn Rail, 2012
• Diane Armitage, "Rosalind Krauss in the 21st Century: Does she stil mater?", THE magazine, VOLUME XX, NUMBER V, november 2012, pp. 37-39.

External links

• Krauss at Wikipedia
• Texts by Rosalind Krauss, 1990, compiled by Eddie Yeghiayan
• October at Wikipedia