Anodyne
Saturday, May 29, 2004
 
New October title: Martha Buskirk's The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art. Buskirk's critical analysis is marked by all the flaws one associates with recent art historical writing (the usual obsequiencies to "institutional critique," poststructuralism, decentered subjectivity, zzz...) but the original research beneath the grey tile floor of her prose is worth every cent of the $40USD I spent at City Lights. Highlight: the increasingly acrimonious exchanges between Italian collector Panza and Donald Judd, with Judd originally considering sculptural plans as equivalents of artworks, then later backtracking as Panza ducks shipping charges and Judd's favorite fabricators by "executing" Judds first purchased in plan. The artworld equivalent of the fat CEO options package, which makes Judd properly apopleptic.
- posted by cjb @ 9:08 AM


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