"Molly Nesbit shows how American pragmatism has informed art theory from Meyer Shapiro to T.J. Clark and Linda NochlinFirst published in 2013 and quickly going out of print, Molly Nesbit’s The Pragmatism in the History of Art traces the questions that modern art history and theory has used to make sense of the changes overtaking both art and life. Opening with a consideration of pragmatism’s origins in the thought of Charles Sanders Pier ..."
"Gabriel Orozco has rapidly emerged as the most important contemporary artist to come out of Mexico in the past twenty years and is doing some of the most exciting and engaging work in the fields of sculpture and conceptual art today. With a career developed primarily in Europe and the United States, Orozco is representative of a new, transnational sensibility in contemporary art. The intense interest that his work has generated in the p ..."
Atget's Seven Albums(Updated) (Yale Publications in the History of Art) by Professor MollyNesbit, Eugene Atget Paperback, 440 Pages, Published 1994 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-05916-8, ISBN: 0-300-05916-7
"Examining the complex set of political, social and cultural circumstances that produced one of the most important art movements of the 20th century, this book also serves as the catalogue for an exhibition of Dada at the Whitney Museum of American Art. More than 200 paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and related documentary material explore the branch of Dada that flourished in New York from about 1915 to the early 1920s. Incl ..."
"Art History and Emergency assesses art history’s role and responsibilities in what has been described as the “humanities crisis”—the perceived decline in the practical applications of the humanities in modern times. This timely collection of critical essays and creative pieces addresses several thought-provoking questions on the subject. For instance, as this so-called crisis is but the latest of many, what part has “crisis” played in t ..."
Midnight(1st Edition) The Tempest Essays by MollyNesbit Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2013 by Periscope Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-934772-81-2, ISBN: 1-934772-81-X
"In the essays in this book, she considers art seeking, not to represent reality, butrather to be grasped by its many contingencies."
"Born in Cologne in 1936 and based in New York since 1965, Haacke's strong political, cultural and social concerns are reflected in his installations, texts and sculptures. Throughout his fifty-year career Haacke has frequently changed the presentation of his art to get his message across. Often borrowing from non-art sources such as corporate advertising, questionnaires or scientific experimentation, Haacke is probably the most successf ..."
"A Guggenheim Museum Publication Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963) creates spare, poetic sculptures that challenge perceptions of the commonplace. Working from everyday domestic items, she casts-in rubber, concrete, plaster, and polyester resin-the negative spaces inside closets and underneath beds, sinks, bathtubs, and chairs. Now, in what may be her most personal project to date, the Turner Prize-winning artist has been commissioned by Deut ..."
Midnight The Tempest Essays: Pre-Occupations 2 by Professor MollyNesbit Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2017 by Inventory Press ISBN-13: 978-1-941753-14-9, ISBN: 1-941753-14-0
"Through richly illustrated essays and entries, this publication reveals the stories behind the long history of Vassar's art museum and the depth of its rich art collection."
"Gabriel Orozco's work is sometimes considered uncategorizable; but his sculpture, photography, drawing, collage, and installations are unified by their devotion to the antispectacular, to the everyday, and to the explorations of complexities that are not immediately obvious. Orozco (born in Mexico in 1962) pays meticulous attention to what he calls the "liquidity of things" ..."
"Introduction by Joseph Backstein, Daniel Birnbaum, Sven-Olov Wallenstein Contributions by Giorgio Agamben, Daniel Birnbaum and Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Boris Groys, Mikhail Iampolski, Boris Kagarlitzky, Chantal Mouffe, Molly Nesbit, Valery Podoroga, Jacques Rancière, Mikhail Ryklin, Saskia Sassen, Bernard Stiegler Thinking Worlds brings together contributions from a two-stage symposium organized in connection with the 2nd Moscow Biennale ..."
"During the 1990s a number of artists claimed the exhibition as their medium. Working independently or in various collaborative constellations, they eschewed the individual object in favour of the exhibition environment as a dynamic arena, ever expanding its physical and temporal parameters. Their work engages directly with the vicissitudes of everyday life, offering subtle moments of transformation. This catalogue, which accompanies a m ..."
"New Lower Price! Rachel Whiteread creates spare, poetic sculptures that challenge perceptions of the commonplace. Working from everyday domestic items, she casts--in rubber, concrete, plaster and polyester resin--the negative spaces inside closets and underneath beds, sinks, bathtubs and chairs. In one of her most personal projects, the artist was commissioned by Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin to make two large-scale casts from distinct spa ..."
"From Parr & Badger: "Tracht (a German word with no English equivalent, but 'national costume' comes close) began when Teller was asked to photograph Miss Venezuela in Caracas. Later, in November 1999, he photographed all the Miss World contestants when they were in London, portraying them in a way that is both expected and unexpected. These young ladies, who full intend their faces and their figures to make their fortunes, are trained t ..."
"For about ten years, beginning with the Armory Show in 1913, New York City was host to the odd-sounding accents and queerer-looking paintings and constructions of a mixed bag of European and American avant-gardists. Besides the inscrutable figure of artist Marcel Duchamp, the European contingent included such iconoclastic visitors as the playboy painter Francis Picabia, the composer Edgard Varese, the diplomat Henri-Pierre Roche (author ..."
"The Duchamp scholars represented here are the leading European and American critics of their generation - a number of whom have staked out opposing territories, making for a particularly animated critique of this fascinating artist and his provocative work. Eric Cameron, Herbert Molderings, and Francis Naumann probe the philosophical implications of Duchamp's skepticism, eroticism, and paradoxical acceptance of contradiction. William ..."