3 options
Hotel theory reader / edited by Sohrab Mohebbi in collaboration with Ruth Estévez.
Fine Arts Library - Rare Book BH39 .H68 2016
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Folio series (Vancouver, B.C.) ; D.
- Fillip folio series ; D
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art criticism.
- Art--Philosophy.
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- 203 pages, 9 pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver, BC : Fillip Editions ; Los Angeles, CA : Redcat, 2016.
- Summary:
- The book assembles a collection of texts by David Antin, Art & Language, Ruth Estévez, Bruce Hainley, Wayne Koestenbaum, Chris Kraus, Snejanka Mihaylova, Sohrab Mohebbi, Cally Spooner, V-Girls, Danna Vajda and Tirdad Zolghadr. Taking its title from Wayne Koestenbaum's 2007 book Hotel Theory (a philosophic enquiry into the hotel state of being), this is the fourth title in Fillip's ongoing Folio Series presenting writing by critics, artists and curators that engages specific and recurring questions on international contemporary art.
- Contents:
- A brief quasi-history of Hotel theory / Sohrab Mohebbi
- A single site / Ruth Estévez
- This is chance / Chris Kraus
- A prayer / Snejanka Mihaylova
- The question of Manet's Olympia / V-girls
- Miko 1, 2, and 3 / Danna Vajda
- On false tears and outsourcing / Cally Spooner
- Exhibition of lectures / Art & Language
- The biotechnical haruspex / Tirdad Zolghadr
- Is there a postmodernism? / David Antin
- Five poems / Wayne Koestenbaum
- Custard pie / Bruce Hainley.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "The present volume ... emerges alongside two important referents: the 2015 REDCAT exhibition Hotel Theory and the 2008 Wayne Koestenbaum book of the same name."--Preface.
- Texts by: David Antin, Art & Language, Ruth Estévez, Bruce Hainley, Wayne Koestenbaum, Chris Kraus, Snejanka Mihaylova, Sohrab Mohebbi, Cally Spooner, V-Girls, Danna Vajda, Tirdad Zolghadr.
- Local Notes:
- Issued in conjunction with an exhibition held at Roay and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater, Los Angeles, from 3 October to 20 December 2015.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund.
- Contains:
- Koestenbaum, Wayne. Hotel thoery.
- ISBN:
- 9781927354278
- 1927354277
- OCLC:
- 988591826
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.