Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle

Cover
Contents
Preface
Allan Kaprow’s “Activities”
Marcel Duchamp’s The Passage from Virgin to Bride
Eleanor Antin’s Nomadic Itineraries
Ed Ruscha’s Real Estate Opportunities
Dennis Oppenheim’s Delirious Operations
Peter Fend’s Global Architecture
Psychopathways: Horror Movies and the Technology of Everyday Life
Eclipse of the Spectacle
J. G. Ballard and the Promiscuity of Forms
Gretchen Bender’s Total Recall
Spectacle, Attention, Counter-Memory
Notes on Rem Koolhaas and Modernization
Dr. Mabuse and Mr. Edison
Dan Flavin and the Desymbolization of Light
Fitful Tracings: David Hockney on Art and Optics
Blade Runner, Artifact of the 1980s
Robert Irwin and the Condition of Twilight
Cerith Wyn Evans’s Luminous Stagings
Color Plates
Spinning Histories at the Sydney Biennial
Bridget Riley’s Activations of the Eye
Paul Virilio’s Aesthetics of Disappearance
On Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma
Uta Barth: The Singularity of the Everyday
John Berger, Art Critic in Dark Times
Terminal Radiance
Acknowledgments
Index
Image Credits