Felix Gonzalez-Torres

by Ault, Julie

• ISBN13: 9783865211965
• ISBN10: 3865211968
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-15
• Publisher: Steidl

Summary

Artwork by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Edited by Nancy Spector.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Julie Ault
Acknowledgments	xiv
Method and Morphology
When This You See Remember Me	5	(34)
Robert Storr
Felix Gonzalez-Torres: All the Time in the World	39	(13)
Robert Nickas
The Means of Pleasure	52	(8)
Amada Cruz
The Modern Theater is the Epic Theater	60	(8)
Bertolt Brecht
Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Interview	68	(13)
Tim Rollins
Social Relations and Production of Meaning
Authority Figure	81	(24)
Russell Ferguson
The Authorized Viewer	105	(11)
Rainer Fuchs
The Death of the Author	116	(5)
Roland Barthes
Exhibition Statement	121	(2)
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
The Ethos of the Edition: The Stacks of Felix Gonzalez-Torres	123	(5)
Susan Tallman
Practices: The Problem of Divisions of Cultural Labor	128	(6)
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
The Telly and Death	134	(7)
Marguerite Duras
Perfect Lovers: Context and Romantic Union
Hiroshima Mon Amour Synopsis	141	(6)
Marguerite Duras
1990: L.A., ``The Gold Field''	147	(5)
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
The Fall	152	(2)
Virgilio Pinera
Selected Correspondence	154	(31)
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
subversive beauty: new modes of contestation bell hooks	177	(8)
Passion of Remembrance: History and Memory
Common Properties	185	(13)
Carlos Basualdo
Statement on Sheridan Square Billboard	198	(3)
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
How Do You Memorialize a Movement that Isn't Dead?	201	(3)
David Deitcher
Remember My Name	204	(4)
Gerardo Mosquera
Blood-Remembering	208	(3)
Rainer Maria Rilke
(sans titre), Felix Gonzalez-Torres	211	(10)
Lewis Baltz
Spatial Poetics and Spatial Politics
The past to come: Felix Gonzalez-Torres	221	(8)
Charles Merewether
Felix Gonzalez-Torres: etre un espion	229	(12)
Robert Storr
Projects 34: Felix Gonzalez-Torres	241	(6)
Anne Umland
Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour	247	(2)
Wallace Stevens
Travel as Metaphor	249	(20)
Nancy Spector
Unguided Tour	269	(12)
Susan Sontag
Social Landscape: Between Private and Public
The Becoming of a Work of Art: FGT and a Possibility of Renewal, a Chance to Share, a Fragile Truce	281	(36)
Miwon Kwon
Contradictions and Containment	317	(13)
David Deitcher
Press Release	330	(3)
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
In Purgatory: The Work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres	333	(15)
Simon Watney
A Conversation	348	(13)
Joseph Kosuth
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Chronology	361	(20)
Julie Ault
Back Matter
Exhibition History and Bibliography	381	(20)
Contributors	401	(4)
Reproduction Credits	405	(2)
Index	407