October: The First Decade, 1976-1986

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987. Hardcover. VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear overall but pages are otherwise clean and clear.). Red cloth boards with black lettering; white dj with red and black lettering; bw illustrated; xii, 456 pp, bw illustrations. "Brings together a selection of some of the most important and representative texts ... that ha appeared in one of the foremost journals in art criticism and theory"--Cover. Contents: Notes on the index : seventies art in America / Rosalind Krauss -- My life as a photographer / Nadar -- The index of the absent wound (monograph on a stain) / Georges Didi-Huberman -- Mimicry and legendary psychasthenia / Roger Caillois -- Historical materialism -- From Faktura to factography / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh -- Notes for a film of Capital / Sergei Eisenstein -- Pasolini : murder of a dissident / Maria-Antonietta Macciocchi -- The fine art of gentrification / Rosalyn Deutsche, Cara Gendel Ryan -- Critique of institutions -- A conversation with Hans Haacke / Yve-Alain Bois, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss -- The function of the studio / Daniel Buren -- Arrangements of pictures / Louise Lawler -- The art of exhibition / Douglas Crimp -- The judgment seat of photography / Christopher Phillips -- Psychoanalysis -- Flavit et dissipati sunt / Joan Copjec -- Of mimicry and man : the ambivalence of colonial discourse / Homi Bhabha -- Woman's stake : filming the female body / Mary Ann Doane -- Rhetoric -- A picturesque stroll around Clara-Clara / Yve-Alain Bois -- The structure of allegorical desire / Joel Fineman -- The body -- A portfolio of photographs of Trisha Brown's work / Babette Mangolte -- Blue poem for B. / Peter Handke -- On the eve of the future : the reasonable facsimile and the philosophical toy / Annette Michelson -- Extinct America / Georges Bataille -- Erotic predicaments for camera / Hollis Frampton -- Fragments from the Rodin museum / Robert Morris.