May 12, 2005
The MIT Press sale
Hey bibliophiles and art lovers, The MIT Press--which is to my mind the best university press in the country--is having a sale. Most hardcovers are less than twenty dollars and most paperbacks less than ten. Here are a few selections to whet your appetite (and mine): Alex Alberro's Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity; The Glass State: The Technology of the Spectacle, Paris, 1981-1998; Ann Reynolds's Robert Smithson: Learning From New Jersey and Elsewhere;Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics;Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology; Douglas Crimp's Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics;Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents;Irene Gammel's Baroness Elsa;Ed Ruscha's Leave Any Information at the Signal;and Anthony Vidler's Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture. There are many more.
I can personally vouch for The Glass State, Reynolds's Smithson book, the Situationist anthology, and Vidler's text; I am buying the Alberro, Crimp, and Ruscha volumes.