Rosalind E. Krauss

Judy Olausen, Rosalind Krauss, c1978. [1]
Born	November 30, 1941(1941-11-30) Washington, D.C., United States
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Rosalind Epstein Krauss (1941) is an American art critic and theorist. She is a professor at Columbia University in New York City.

Works

(in English unless noted)

Books

• Terminal Iron Works: The Sculpture of David Smith, MIT Press, 1971. Revised from her PhD dissertation, The Sculpture of David Smith (1969).

• Passages in Modern Sculpture, MIT Press, 1977, ix+308 pp; New York: Viking, 1977, PDF, PDF, IA.
  • Passages: une histoire de la sculpture de Rodin à Smithson, trans. Claire Brunet, Paris: Macula, 1997, 313 pp. (French)
  • Passaggi: storia della scultura da Rodin alla Land Art, trans. Elio Grazioli, Milan: B. Mondadori, 1998, 310 pp. (Italian)
  • Caminhos da escultura moderna, trans. Julio Fischer, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 1998, 365 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Pasajes de la escultura moderna, trans. Alfredo Brotons Muñoz, Madrid: Akal, 2002, 292 pp. (Spanish)

• The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths, MIT Press, 1985, xii+307 pp. Excerpts, Intro, [2]. A collection of essays written between 1977-84. Reviews: Bois (AJ 1985). Wiseman (JAE 1986), Partington (OAJ 1986), Karp (JAAC 1988).
  • L'originalité de l'avant-garde et autres mythes modernistes, trans. Jean-Pierre Criqui, Paris: Macula, 1993, 358 pp. (French)
  • Qian wei de yuan chuang xing [前衛的原創性], Tai bei shi: Yuan liu, 1995, 425 pp. (Chinese)
  • La Originalidad de la vanguardia y otros mitos modernos, trans. Adolfo Gómez Cedillo, Madrid: Alianza, 1996, 320 pp. (Spanish)
  • Die Originalität der Avantgarde und andere Mythen der Moderne, ed. & forew. Herta Wolf, trans. Jörg Heininger, Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 2000, 372 pp. (German)
  • in Co je to fotografie?, ed. Karel Císař, Prague: Herrmann a synové, 2004. Trans. of articles "Fotografické podmínky surrealismu", pp 209-233; and "Obraz, text a index. Poznámky k umění 70. let", pp. 251-269 (of "Notes on the Index. Part 1 & 2", pp 196-219). (Czech)
  • Oryginalność awangardy i inne mity modernistyczne, trans. Monika Szuba, Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Słowo/Obraz Terytoria, 2011, 300 pp. (Polish)

• with Jane Livingston, L'Amour fou: Photography & Surrealism, New York: Abbeville Press, 1986.

• Le photographique: pour une théorie des écarts. Histoire et théorie de la photographie, trans. Marc Bloch and Jean Kampf, Paris: Macula, 1990, 232 pp. Collection of essays from 1974-85. (French) Review: Murray (1993-94, EN).
  • Das Photographische: eine theorie der Abstände, forew. Hubert Damisch, trans. Henning Schmidgen, Munich: Fink, 1998, 228 pp. (German)
  • O fotográfico, trans. Anne Marie Davée, Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2002, 237 pp. Excepts.(Spanish)

• Odvrácená strana tvaru... a další, Prague: Respekt, 1991, 104 pp. (Czech)

• The Optical Unconscious, MIT Press, 1993, 365 pp, Log. Reviews: Horowitz (JAAC 1994), Fer (ArtHist 1994), Smith (M/M 1995). Commentary: Kimball (1993), Elkins (2013), Carlson (2014).
  • El inconsciente óptico, trans. J. Miguel Esteban Cloquell, Madrid: Tecnos, 1997, 371 pp, PDF. (Spanish)
  • "Optické nevědomí", in Před obrazem. Antologie americké výtvarné teorie a kritiky, ed. Tomáš Pospiszyl, Prague: OSVU 1998, pp 145-173, Log. Trans. of excerpt. (Czech)
  • L'inconscient optique, trans. Michèle Veubret, Paris: Au même titre, 2002, 469 pp. (French)
  • Das optisch Unbewusste, Dresden: Verl. der Kunst, 2004, 350 pp. (German)
  • L'inconscio ottico, trans. Elio Grazioli, Milan: ESBMO, 2008, 359 pp. (Italian)

• with Yve Alain Bois. Formless: A User's Guide, Zone Books, 1997, 304 pp, Log.

• Bachelors, MIT Press, 1999, 228 pp, Log, ARG. Reviews: Elkins (CAA 1999), Andersson (Leonardo 2000).

• The Picasso Papers, MIT Press, 1999, xvi+272 pp, PDF, IA, PDF, ARG. Review: McCully (NY Books, 1999, reply by Cooper).
  • Les papiers de Picasso, trans. Jean-Louis Houdebine and Sophie Yersin Legrand, Paris: Macula, 1998, 224 pp; 2012. (French)
  • Los papeles de Picasso, Barcelona: Gedisa, 1999, 237 pp. (Spanish)
  • Os papéis de Picasso, trans. Cristina Cupertino, São Paulo: Iluminuras, 2006, 242 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)

• A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition, Thames & Hudson, 2000, 64 pp, Log, ARG. Based on the 1999 Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture. [3]
  • "A voyage on the North Sea": Broodthaers, das Postmediale, trans. Sabine Schulz, Zürich: diaphanes, 2008, 87 pp. (German)

• with Hal Foster, Yve-Alain Bois, and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, London: Thames & Hudson, 2004, 704 pp, ARG, PDF; 2nd ed., rev., 2012, 816 pp. [4] Reviews: Bishop (2005), Collings (2005), Gewen (2005), Richard (LRB 2006), Dahlberg (2006).

• Under Blue Cup, MIT Press, 2011, ARG, PDF, Scribd.
  • Sotto la tazza blu, Milan: ESBMO, 2012, 151 pp. (Italian)

Editor

• October journal, New York, since 1976.
• The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York: Garland, 1977. Revised from her PhD dissertation, The Sculpture of David Smith (1969).
• with Annette Michelson, et al., October: The Second Decade, 1986-1996, MIT Press, 1997, PDF.

Selected essays

• "Sense and Sensibility: Reflection on Post '60s Sculpture", Artforum 12:3, Nov 1973, pp 43-53, PDF.

• "Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism", October 1 (Spring 1976), pp 50-64, PDF, PDF.

• "Notes on the Index: Seventies Art in America", October 3 (Spring 1977), pp 68-81, PDF.

• "Notes on the Index: Seventies Art in America. Part 2", October 4 (Autumn 1977), pp 58-67, PDF.

• "Tracing Nadar", October 5: "Photography" (Summer 1978), pp 29-47, PDF.

• "Sculpture in the Expanded Field", October 8 (Spring 1979), pp 30-44, PDF, PDF, ARG; repr. in The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, ed. Hal Foster, Seattle: Bay Press, 1983, pp 31-42, PDF; repr. in Krauss, The Originality of the Avant-Garde, 1985, pp 276-290, PDF.
  • "A escultura no campo ampliado", Gávea 1 (1984), pp 87-93; repr. Arte & Ensaios 15:17, Rio de Janeiro: EBA, UFRJ, 2008, pp 128-137, PDF. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • "Sochařství v rozšířeném poli", Konserva / Na hudbu 1:3 (1991), pp 7-13; repr. in Stav věcí, ed. Karel Císař, Brno: Dům umění města Brna, 2011, pp 131-143, PDF. (Czech)

• "Grids", October 9 (Summer 1979), pp 50-64, PDF.

• "In the Name of Picasso", October 16, "Art World Follies" (Spring 1981), pp 5-22, PDF.

• "The Originality of the Avant-Garde: A Postmodernist Repetition", October 18 (Fall 1981), pp 47-66, PDF; repr. in Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation, ed. Brian Wallis, New York: New York Museum of Contemporary Art, and Boston: Godine, 1984, pp 12-29; repr. as "The Originality of the Avant Garde", in Krauss, The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths, MIT Press, 1985, pp 151-170, PDF, PDF. Written for 'The Theory of the Avant-Garde', a conference held at the University of Iowa, April 9-11, 1981.

• "The Photographic Conditions of Surrealism", October 19 (Winter 1981), pp 15-34, ARG.

• "Photography's Discursive Spaces: Landscape/View", Art Journal 42:4 (Winter 1982), pp 311-319, ARG, PDF, PDF; repr. in Krauss, The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths, MIT Press, 1985, pp 131-150.

• "A Note on Photography and the Simulacral", October 31 (Winter 1984), pp 49-68, IA, PDF. A version of this essay was delivered as the keynote address for the National Conference of the Society for Photographic Education in Philadelphia, March 1983.

• "Corpus Delicti", October 33 (Summer 1985), pp 31-72, PDF, ARG.

• "Antivision", October 36: "Georges Bataille" (Spring 1986), pp 147-154, PDF.

• with Yve-Alain Bois, A User's Guide to Entropy, October 78 (Autumn 1996), pp 38-88, PDF, ARG

• "The Cultural Logic of the Late Capitalist Museum", October 54 (Autumn 1990), pp 3-17, PDF; repr. in Guglielmo Cinque, Types of Dependencies, MIT Press, 1990.

• "Welcome to the Cultural Revolution", October 77 (Summer 1996), pp 83-96, PDF.

• "'Informe' without Conclusion", October 78, (Autumn 1996), pp 89-105, PDF.

• "Postmodernism’s Museum Without Walls", in Thinking About Exhibitions, eds. R. Greenberg, B. Ferguson and S. Nairne, London: Routledge, 1996; 2005, pp 241-245, Scribd.

• "Reinventing the Medium", Critical Inquiry 25:2: "'Angelus Novus': Perspectives on Walter Benjamin" (Winter 1999), pp 289-305, PDF.

• "'Specific' Objects", RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 46: "Polemical Objects" (Autumn 2004), pp 221-224, PDF.

• "Two Moments from the Post-Medium Condition", October 116 (Spring 2006), pp 55-62, PDF.

• "Dialectic of Enlightenment: Rosalind E. Krauss on William Kentridge's Norton Lectures", Artforum International (Summer 2012), pp 121-122, PDF.

More

• Articles in Artforum

Bibliography

• Eddie Yeghiayan, "Rosalind Krauss. A Selected Bibliography", 1995.

Interviews

• David Plante, "The Real Thing: An Interview with Rosalind E. Krauss" [2003], ArtCritical, 2013, HTML.

Literature

• "Rosalind Krauss", in Judy K. Collischan Van Wagner, Women Shaping Art: Profiles of Power, New York: Praeger, 1984, pp 149-164.
• Janet Malcolm, "A Girl of the Zeitgeist", Part II, The New Yorker, 27 Oct 1986. [5]
• Scott Rothkopf, "Krauss and the Art of Cultural Controversy", The Harvard Crimson, 16 May 1997.
• Jean Lauzon, "Notes sur l’indice à l’index: contribution au 'photographique' de Rosalind Krauss", Horizons philosophiques 9:1 (1998), pp 73-85, PDF. (French)
• Anna C. Chave, "Minimalism and Biography", Art Bulletin (Mar 2000).
• David Carrier, Rosalind Krauss and American Philosophical Art Criticism, Greenwood Publishing, 2002, IA, PDF.
• David Raskin, "The Shiny Illusionism of Krauss and Judd", Art Journal (Spring 2006).
• Katia Schneller, "Sur les traces de Rosalind Krauss. La réception française de la notion d’index. 1977-1990", Études photographiques 21 (Dec 2007), pp 123-143, HTML. (French)
• Peter Osborne, "October" and the Problem of Formalism, Barcelona: MACBA, 2013, 22 pp, PDF. (English)

Bibliography

• Texts on Rosalind Krauss, compiled by Eddie Yeghiayan.

See also

• Postmedia

Links

• Krauss at The Art Story