selected writings

i. catalogues and books

OVERCOMING THE PROBLEMATICS OF ART: THE WRITINGS OF YVES KLEIN (translator). Putnam, Conn.: Spring Publications, 2007.

OPEN EV+A 2007: A SENSE OF PLACE. Limerick, 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.

Gershom Scholem, ALCHEMY AND KABBALAH (translator). Putnam, Conn.: Spring Publications, 2006.

COLOR SYMBOLISM: THE ERANOS LECTURES (editor, translator, introduction). 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, 2003.

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

THE ESSENTIAL MICHELANGELO. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000.

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


ii. essays

"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.

"Introduction," in THE HUMAN ARGUMENT: THE WRITINGS OF AGNES DENES, ed. Klaus Ottmann. Putnam, Conn.: Spring Publications, 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.

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

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

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

"Painting Heads," 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.

"Introduction," in Pierre Restany, YVES KLEIN: FIRE AT THE HEART OF THE VOID. Putnam, Conn.: Spring Publications, 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 (exhibition brochure)

"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" (in Italian and English), 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," (in French) 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.