How Does Art Mean?
Volume 16 Number 3
August-September 1994
The Net
Picketing The Zeitgeist
IT TOO SHALL PASS
Richard Kostelanetz reviews Redrawing the Boundaries, edited by Stephen Greenblatt and Giles Gunn
THEATER
LET’S HEAR IT FOR “THE REAL THING”
Nina daVinci Nichols
FILM
CERTAINLY HIP
Peter Baker reviews Shades of Noir, edited by Joan Copjec
DANCE
PASTEBOARD SUPERHERO?
Rhonda Garelick reviews Life into Art: Isadora Duncan and Her World, edited by Dorée Duncan, Carol Pratl, and Cynthia Splatt
FOCUS: HOW DOES ART MEAN?
TWEAKING THE PUBLIC’S NOSE
Henry Sayre reviews Art in the Public Interest, edited by Arlene Raven, and Art and the Public Sphere, edited by W.J.T. Mitchell
CANONIZING INSANE ART
Mel Freilicher reviews Madness and Art: The Life and Works of Adolf Wölfli by Walter Morgenthaler, M.D., translated by Aaron H. Esman, M.D.
STEPCHILD OF WARHOL
David Antin reviews The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty by Dave Hickey and Making Theory/Constructing Art: On the Authority of the Avant-Garde by Daniel Herwitz
CRITICAL EFFORT DISGUISED
Henry Korn reviews Art Speak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords and Art Spoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords, 1848-1944 by Robert Atkins
MODERNISM AS WHOLLY TOXIC
Libby Lumpkin reviews Art and Otherness: Crisis in Cultural Identity by Thomas McEvilley
SUPREME CONSCIOUSNESS
Corinne Robins reviews The Optical Unconscious by Rosalind E. Krauss
MISLEADING SURFACE RESEMBLANCE
George J. Leonard reviews Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life by Allan Kaprow, edited by Jeff Kelley
UNCANNY SEANCE
Sanda Agalidi reviews Cabaret Performance, Volume II: Europe 1920–1940 Sketches, Songs, Monologues, Memoirs, selected and translated, with commentary, by Laurence Senelick, and Symbolist Theater: The Formation of an Avant-Garde by Frantisek Deak
THE BEST KEPT SECRET
Ellen Zweig reviews Acting Out: Feminist Performances, edited by Lynda Hart and Peggy Phelan, and Presence and Resistance: Postmodernism and Cultural Politics in Contemporary American Performance by Philip Auslander
PAST DESIRE, PRESENT LONGING
Theresa Allen reviews Polyphilo or the Dark Forest Revisited: An Erotic Epiphany of Architecture by Alberto Pérez-Gomez
FEATURE: FOUR TRANSLATIONS
LEGACY OF FRENCH THOUGHT
Dawn Michelle Baude reviews A Lesson in Music by Jean Daive, translated by Julie Kalendek
REDISCOVERED PREDECESSOR
Naomi Lindstrom reviews Piano Stories by Felisberto Hernández, translated by Luis Harss
MUCH MORE IN ANIMALS
John S. Brushwood reviews An Ark for the Next Millennium by José Emilio Pacheco, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
COMMINGLING OF EAST AND WEST
Tomomi Hirade reviews Forbidden Games & Video Poems: The Poetry of Yang Mu and Lo Ch’ing, translated by Joseph R. Allen
FEATURE: GAY IDEAS
COUCHLESS, IT SHIVERS
Jacques Servin reviews Gay Ideas: Outing and Other Controversies by Richard D. Mohr
BOOK REVIEWS
FEEL-GOOD IMAGES
Michael Perkins reviews What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics and Your Native Land, Your Life by Adrienne Rich
DAZZLING REINVENTORS
Eurudice reviews The Autobiography of Cassandra by Ursule Molinaro and Sister Carrie by Lauren Fairbanks
THE FREAKS WIN OUT
Barry Wallenstein reviews Nude Men by Amanda Filipacchi
MORE SEDUCTIVE TO A WRITER
Michael Dorsey reviews Ava by Carole Maso
ROOM FOR A SEQUEL
Steven Boyd Saum reviews Kalifornia by Marc Laidlaw
OCCUPYING THE BORDERS
Lance Dean reviews Death Tractates by Brenda Hillman and Ribbons: The Gulf War by William Heyen
BEYOND THESE CAREFUL INVENTIONS
Curt Rode reviews What We Don’t Know about Each Other by Lawrence Raab and Good Hope Road by Stuart Dischell
NO EXIT OFF THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY
Tim W. Brown reviews The Mind Crime of August Saint by Alain Arias-Misson
THROUGH A COLD AND DISORIENTING FOG
Harry Polkinhorn reviews Three Blondes and Death by Yuriy Tarnawsky
NUANCES OF MUSIC
Denise Duhamel reviews The God of Indeterminacy by Sandra McPherson, The Red Hour by Robin Behn, and Between the Sea and Home by Almitra David
MORALITY OF SEEING
Kenneth Warren reviews Before Our Eyes by Lawrence Joseph
HOUSE WTTH NO WALLS
Warren Woessner reviews No Nature: New and Selected Poems by Gary Snyder
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.