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Book SynopsisI Stand in My Place with My Own Day Here features essays by more than fifty renowned international writers considering thirteen monumental works of art commissioned by The New School between 1930 and the present.
Trade Review"The writings in this volume, just like artworks in the New School’s collection, each create their own universe.
I Stand in My Place with My Own Day Here gives the reader access to a multiplicity of possibilities for engagement. Any library that supports research in postmodern/contemporary art, site-specific art, or comparative studies could benefit from including this book in their collection." -- Rosemary K. J. Davis * ARLIS/NA *
Table of ContentsForeword: Co-Designing a Kaleidoscope/ Lydia Matthews 7
Introduction/ Sylvia Rocciolo and Eric Stark 11
Various, Humane, Political/ Holland Cotter 16
Schooled in the New: The Arts as Social Research/ Julia L. Foulkes 20
Living and Learning from the University Center to 66 West 12th Street; or, Arendt in Mar-a-Lago/ Reinhold Martin 26
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street 33
Thomas Hart Benton
America Today, 1930-31
From the New School to the Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Odyssey of Thomas Hart Benton's America Today/ Randall Griffey 43
The Ghost of Progress Past/ Luc Sante 47
Paid in Eggs/ Mira Schor 50
José Clemente Orozco
Call to Revolution and Table of Universal Brotherhood (The New School Mural Cycle), 1930-31
Orozco's New School Murals: Activating Revolutionary Thought/ Anna Indych-López and Lynda Klich 65
The Chains in Orozco's Murals/ Otto Von Busch 69
Center of Gravity: Orozco/ Roberto Tejada 72
Camilo Egas
Ecuadorian Festival, 1932
A Celebration of Dance/ Michele Greet 81
Celebration as Resistance/ Heather Reyes 84
New School Desires: "Poised Precisely Between Fantasy and Reality"/ Jasmine Rault 87
Gonzalo Fonseca
Untitled, 1961
Gonzalo Fonseca and Universalist Modernism/ Edward J. Sullivan 95
Solve et Coagula/ Hugh Raffles 99
When a Mural is a Blueprint/ Mónica de la Torre 102
Martin Puryear + Michael Van Valkenburgh
Vera List Courtyard, 1997
Vera List Courtyard: A Brief History/ Kathleen Goncharov 111
Inside Out: Outside In/ Sarah E. Lawrence 113
Seats of Tension: Collaboration, Access, Security Expression/ Laura Y. Liu
Vera List Courtyard and the Culture Wars/ Olu Oguibe 119
Dave Muller
Interpolations and Extrapolations, 2002-03
Extensions (Interpolations and Extrapolations), 2008
Interpolating and Extrapolating/ Stefano Basilico 127
Brand New/ Jeffrey Kastner 129
Identity Interpolated and Extrapolated/ Jamer Hunt 133
Arnold Hall
55 West 13th Street 137
Sol LeWitt
Wall Drawing #1073, Bars of Color (New School), 2003
#1073/ Tan Lin 143
LeWitt's Problem(s)/ Jennifer Wilson 144
One Sentence for Sol LeWitt/ Saul Anton 150
Kara Walker
Event Horizon, 2005
History's Worth of Fictions/ Mabel O. Wilson 158
On Kara Walker's Event Horizon/ Maggie Nelson 162
Black Atlantis/ Naomi Beckwith 167
Brian Tolle
Threshold, 2006
The Gentle Wind Doth Move Visibly/ Shannon Mattern 173
Unsettled/ Victoria Hattam 176
Of Two Minds/ Carin Kuoni 178
Quiet Possibilities of the Subjunctive/ G. E. Patterson 181
University Center
63 Fifth Avenue 185
Rita McBride
Bells and Whistles, 2009-14
Mnemonics and Pneumatics/ Robert Kirkbride 191
Ringing Bells, Blowing Whistles/ Daniel A. Barber 194
Breaking Out of School/ Elizabeth Ellsworth 198
Alfredo Jaar
Searching for Africa in LIFE, 1996/ 2014
Searching Blindly/ Radhika Subramaniam 207
An Absence That Conjures a Presence/ Omar Berrada 209
Alfredo Jaar: Dialect of Sight/ Jennifer A. González 213
The Blink of Failure: Imagining Life in Africa/ Tisa Bryant 216
Glenn Ligon
For Comrades and Lovers, 2015
Democratic Vistas of Space/ Carl Hancock Rux 225
Among the Throng: Glenn Ligon Situates Whitman/ Wendy S. Walters 227
Incantations/ Luis Jaramillo 229
For Comrades and Lovers: a dialogue/ Claudia Rankine 233
Agnes Denes
Pascal's Perfect Probability Pyramid & the People Paradox--The Predicament (ppppppp), 1980/2016
In Formation/ Aruna D'Souza 241
The one who is the one who is the one who is not many. Thoughts called forth by Agnes Denes's Pascal's Perfect Probability Pyramid & the People Paradox (ppppppp)/ Andrea Geyer 243
Agnes Denes: Promethea of Paradox/ Lucy R. Lippard 246
"Organized by Fascination": A Roundtable Conversation on Art, Institutions, and Pedagogy/ Carol Becker, Gregg Bordowitz, Pablo Helguera, and Lydia Matthews; Moderated by Frances Richard
Histories of the Commissions 266
Contributors 295
Index 300
