issue number 5/6 | january - february 2005 artUS issue 5/6
 
 
 
DEMOCKERY  
It’s a Word! It’s a Claim! … :
Modernism and Related Instances of an Inherently Discredited Conceptual Type
by Benjamin Bennett 		Images in the Mind:
Visual Studies and
Global Imagination
by Susan Buck-Morss
The Axes of Evil:
A Nietzschean Test Site
by Avital Ronell

The Center Is a Concept
by Kay Rosen
The Portrait Under Surveillance
by Laurence A. Rickels
with Penelope Gottlieb		 An Historic Document of Scholarly Interest, Rescued from an Obscure and Mouldering Archive, Preserved by Gary Indiana
Hitchcock’s Black Sun
by Georges Collins		 The Tall Towers
of Art Spiegelman
by Nancy Princenthal

Cover art by Davis & Davis
Reviews

William Eggleston by Tommy Freeman (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA) Freedom of Expression National Monument by Domenick Ammirati (Foley Square, New York NY) "Tall Buildings" by Peter Scott (The Museum of Modern Art Queens, New York NY) "American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection" by Todd Meyers (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC) Joshua Mosley by Michelle Grabner Donald Young Gallery, Chicago IL) Davis & Davis by Alison Bing (Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco CA) The Great Blacks in Wax Museum by Mark Alice Durant (Baltimore MD) "Robert Smithson" by Frances Colpitt (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA) "Palace & Mosque" and "Caliphs & Kings" by David Carrier (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC) 2004-5 Carnegie International by Kathryn Hixson (Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA)