The Dept. of Corrections: Collected Writings 2007–2015 By Bob Nickas - Softcover

Nickas, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1942607199 ISBN 13: 9781942607199

Publisher: Karma, New York, 2016

Synopsis

This volume is comprised of years of recent writing by the influential New York-based critic and curator Bob Nickas, widely considered one of the few independent voices still at work today. The 50 essays and interviews, written since 2007, are spread across five chapters, touching on encounters with artists from the 1960s to the '80s to the present--among them, Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, On Kawara, Isa Genzken, Steven Parrino, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kara Walker, Wolfgang Tillmans, Kelley Walker and Pierre Huyghe. Writing as if these figures were passing us by in present time, Nickas traces the disappearance of artists, architecture and culture in New York over three decades. As a way to keep the past in every sense present, his writing is always issued from his fictional "Dept. of Corrections."

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Review:

Throughout his oeuvre, Nickas considers art just as we consider other things in life, without hierarchical assumptions of quality that get in the way of curiosity.--Paul Maziar "Artcritical "

About this edition

• Publisher: Karma, New York
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1942607199
• ISBN 13: 9781942607199
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416