Rosalind Krauss's "A Voyage forward the North Sea": Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition (Thames & Hudson) a brilliant strange chapter in her continuing investigation of medium specificity.Rosalind Krauss's "A Voyage forward the North Sea": Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition (Thames & Hudson) a brilliant strange chapter in her continuing investigation of medium specificity, was published late in 1999--too late, in fact, to make that year's "best of" lists. between the walls of a close analysis of the work of Marcel Broodthaers, Krauss redefines the universal of "medium" as a differential single in kind a complex aggregate made to cohere no other than by the sheer consistency of the artist's oeuvre Krauss spreads up a large and intricate theoretical territory that should enable the critical reading of many non-canonical works--by artists like Gego Lygia Clark, and Helio Oiticica--that have prov to be particularly resilient to interpretation based onward the (American) high-modernist critical apparatus and to fuzzy postmodernist theorizing as well. Carlos Basualdo is Chief Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts, and a cocurator of Documenta II, which explains in 2002. COPYRIGHT 2000 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. |
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