The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths

Co-founder and co-editor of October magazine, a veteran of Artforum of the 1960s and early 1970s, Rosalind Krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory of postmodernism.

In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has fo...

Co-founder and co-editor of October magazine, a veteran of Artforum of the 1960s and early 1970s, Rosalind Krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory of postmodernism.

In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning with the almost mythic idea of the avant-garde. Krauss uses the analytical tools of semiology, structuralism, and poststructuralism to reveal new meanings in the visual arts and to critique the way other prominent practitioners of art and literary history write about art. In two sections, "Modernist Myths" and "Toward Postmodernism," her essays range from the problem of the grid in painting and the unity of Giacometti's sculpture to the works of Jackson Pollock, Sol Lewitt, and Richard Serra, and observations about major trends in contemporary literary criticism.

Rosalind E. Krauss is Professor of Art History at Hunter College.

罗莎琳·克劳斯（Rosalind E. Krauss，1941- ）美国当代著名的艺术理论家和艺术批评家之一，美国纽约哥伦比亚大学教授。克劳斯以研究二十世纪的绘画、雕塑和摄影而著称。罗莎琳?克劳斯是《十月》杂志的主编者和创始人之一，自1965年以来，她也是《艺术论坛》《艺术国际》《美国艺术》的老将，同时也是后现代主义理论的主要主持者和构建者。