Barnett Newman, Poussin, Diana Nemiroff

Klaus vom Bruch, Roland Barthes, Poussin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Anselm Kiefer, Baselitz, Immendorf, Penck, Polke, Richter, Tom Sherman, Ulrike Rosenbach, Rebecca Horn, Astrid Klein, Marcel Odenbach, Rosemarie Trockel

discusses critical writing about art (mentions several writers, past and present, French and American); different (?) way art is written about in France; relation between art and text; Roland Barthes’ text “The Eiffel Tower”. Artists: Roland Barthes, Albert Londe

Art and capitalism and mass consumerism. Artists: Piero Manzoni

Discusses Ernie Kovacs’ productions from 1950-1962 on various t.v. networks in North America and notes his contribution to the medium as a type of auteur. The author recognizes Kovacs’ work as “sign vehicles” and discusses the “Eugene” episode as a typical Kovacs’ production technique and thematic device. Artists: John Lollos, Richard Serra, Tom Sherman, Martha Rosler, Nancy Nicol, Frank Krutnik, Les Levine, William Wegman, Teddy Dibble, Zbigniew Rybczynksi,