selected writings

i. catalogues and books (author, editor, or translator)

YVES KLEIN BY HIMSELF: HIS LIFE AND PHILOSOPHY (forthcoming).

YVES KLEIN: WORKS, WRITINGS. Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, 2010.

RACKSTRAW DOWNES: ONSITE PAINTINGS, 1972-2008. London: D Giles Ltd.; Southampton, N.Y.:
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, N.Y., 2010.

FAIRFIELD PORTER: RAW – THE CREATIVE PROCESS OF AN AMERICAN MASTER. London: D Giles Ltd.;
Southampton, N.Y.: Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, N.Y., 2010.

F.W.J. Schelling, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION (1804), translated, annotated, and with an introduction by KLAUS OTTMAN. Putnam, Conn.: Spring Publications, 2010.

THE HUMAN ARGUMENT: THE WRITINGS OF AGNES DENES, edited and with an introduction by KLAUS OTTMANN. Putnam, Conn.: Spring Publications, 2008).

OVERCOMING THE PROBLEMATICS OF ART: THE WRITINGS OF YVES KLEIN, translated and with an introduction by KLAUS OTTMANN. Putnam, Conn.: Spring Publications, 2007.

OPEN EV+A 2007: A SENSE OF PLACE. Limerick: Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland, 2007.

STILL POINTS OF THE TURNING WORLD: SITE SANTA FE'S SIXTH INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL. Santa Fe: SITE Santa Fe, 2006.

THOUGHT THROUGH MY EYES: WRITINGS ON ART, 1977 - 2005. Putnam, Conn.: Spring Publications, 2006.

THE REST IS SILENCE: JAMES LEE BYARS. New York: Mary Boone, Perry Rubenstein, and Michael
Werner Galleries, 2006.

Gershom Scholem, ALCHEMY AND KABBALAH, translated and with an introduction by KLAUS OTTMANN. Putnam, Conn.: Spring Publications, 2006.

COLOR SYMBOLISM: THE ERANOS LECTURES, edited, translated, and with an introduction by KLAUS OTTMANN. Putnam, Conn.: Spring Publications, 2005.

SOCIAL STRATEGIES: REDEFINING SOCIAL REALISM (with Pamela Auchincloss). Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003.

THE GENIUS DECISION: THE EXTRAORDINARY AND THE POSTMODERN CONDITION. Putnam, Conn.: Spring Publications, 2004.

JAMES LEE BYARS: LIFE, LOVE, AND DEATH. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2004 (English/German).

THE ESSENTIAL MARK ROTHKO. New York: Harry N. Abrams/The Wonderland Press, 2003.

WOLFGANG LAIB: A RETROSPECTIVE. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000.

THE ESSENTIAL MICHELANGELO. New York: Harry N. Abrams/The Wonderland Press, 2000.

MARK MORRISROE. Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publishing, 1999.


ii. essays, articles, and interviews

“The Human Form Divine: Wangechi Mutu’s ‘Enceptual’ Art/Götter in Menschengestalt: Wangechi Mutus ‘enzeptionelle’ Kunst” in WANGECHI MUTU. Berlin: Deutsche Guggenheim, 2010.

"YVES le philosophe," in YVES KLEIN: WITH THE VOID, FULL POWERS. Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2010.

Entries on “James Lee Byars, Janine Antoni, Roni Horn, Ann Hamilton, Christian Marclay, Agnes Martin, Larry Poons, Richard Prince, Mike and Doug Starn, Rackstraw Downes, Peter Voulkos, David Wojnarowicz, Neil Jenney, Dorothy Miller, and the American Federation of Arts” for the forthcoming GROVE DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN ART, to be published by Oxford University Press.

"Turin Goes Vedic," ART IN AMERICA (November 2009): 166–69.

"The Ethos of Tobi Kahn's Sacred Spaces," in TOBI KAHN: SACRED SPACES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY. New York: Museum of Biblical Art, 2009.

"A Sense of Place," in SPRING: A JOURNAL OF ARCHETYPE AND CULTURE 79 (2008): 219-28.

"Cristina Iglesias's Metaphysical Forests,"in THE ARCHITECTURE OF DESIRE. Colorado Springs: Colorado College, 2008.

"From Grief to Spring," in JOAN SNYDER: ... AND SEEKING THE SUBLIME. Boston: Nielsen Gallery, 2008.

"A Sense of Place," SPRING: A JOURNAL OF ARCHETYPE AND CULTURE 79 (2008), 219–228.

"From the Other Side (De l'autre côte)," in CHANTAL AKERMAN: MOVING THROUGH TIME AND SPACE, ed. Terrie Sultan. Houston: Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, 2008.

"(Un)Holy Grounds: The Floor Sculptures of Carl Andre and Wolfgang Laib," SCULPTURE (March 2008): 30–35.

"Sundry Pragmatic Thoughts on Lawrence Weiner's A MEANS TO AN END," in SUMMER 2007. East Hampton, N.Y.: Salomon Contemporary, 2007.

"Somewhere in the 20th Century," in CARSTEN NICOLAI: STATIC FADES. Zurich: Haus Konstruktiv, 2007.

"Experience or Interpretation: What You See Is Not What You Read," THE JOURNAL OF AESTHETIC EDUCATION, vol. 41, no. 2 (Summer 2007).

"Robert Grosvenor in His Own Place," SCULPTURE (October 2005): 38–43.

"Painting Heads," in TONY BEVAN. Valencia: IVAM, 2005.

"Turning Banality into Magic," in ANDREI ROITER. Helsinki: Galerie Anhava, 2005.

"Robert Grosvenor as an American," in ROBERT GROSVENOR. Porto: Museu Serralves, 2005.

"Gateways of the Now: Remarks on the Drawings of Wolfgang Laib," in THE ESSENCE OF THE REAL: WOLFGANG LAIB – DRAWINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS. Bonn: Kunstmuseum, 2005.

"James Lee Byars: A Lifetime's Death in Love," in JAMES LEE BYARS: THE PERFECT SILENCE. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2004.

"Frank Stella's Prince of Ambiguity," SCULPTURE (June 2004): 35–39.

"The Art of Happenstance: The Performative Sculptures of James Lee Byars," SCULPTURE (November 2002): 32–37.

"Spiritual Materiality: Contemporary Sculpture and the Responsibility of Forms," SCULPTURE (April 2002): 36–41.

"Beyond Transcendence," in THE INWARD EYE: TRANSCENDENCE IN CONTEMPRARY ART. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 2001.

"'Certitude is the Imaginary': The Drawings of Wolfgang Laib," ART ON PAPER (November-December 2000): 61–65.

"Io Sono: un'nuovo umanesimo nell'arte e nel design americani / I am: A New Humanism in American Art and Design," DOMUS 816 (June 1999): 108-109.

"Criticism and the Common Consciousness," ACME JOURNAL, Vol 1, No. 1 (Spring 1992): 61-67.

"Heidegger, Beuys, and the Consequences," FLASH ART 154 (October 1990): 123–124.

"L'activité fractaliste," ART PRESS (Paris) 144 (February 1990): 31–33.

"The New Spiritual," ARTS (October 1989): 44–46.

"The Reinvention of Painting," ARTS Magazine (January 1989): 40–42.

"The Spectacle of Chaos," FLASH ART 135 (Summer 1987): 60–61.

"The World According to ... Byars, Beuys, Dokoupil," FLASH ART 125 (December 1985/January 1986): 55–56.

"The Solid and the Fluid: Bartlett, Laib, Kiefer," FLASH ART 123 (Summer 1985): 48–49.

"Painting in an Age of Anxiety," FLASH ART 118 (Summer 1984): 32–35.