George Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1947 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Yannis Tsarouchis and Anachronic Modernism
From Incentives to Control to Adaptation
In 1991 we began to model interactions between formal and relational incentive contracts. We saw this work as agency theory. By the time the paper was published (BGM, 1994), we had begun to view the research agenda more broadly - with connections to organizational culture, the theory of firms' boundaries, and more. Eventually, we built from this initial work, analyzing delegation within organizations as necessarily informal and moving beyond rela…
A Questionnaire on Global Methods
October distributed a questionnaire about Global Methods, asking the following: “Coming to terms with global modernisms and global contemporary art calls for an understanding of the different histories, social functions, and aesthetic genealogies that inform art of the 20th and 21st centuries in different localities throughout the world. Is the ‘comparative’ method (foundational in art history, elaborated in comparative literature) adequate anymo…
The Underneaths of Painting, Redux
This essay explores the untold histories opened up by Francis Picabia's painting The Spanish Night, 1922. Out of place within Dada but clearly in dialogue with the work of Marcel Duchamp and parodying conservative or neo-classical styles of painting but also undermining the avant-garde tactics of a still-nascent Surrealism, Picabia's canvas has been too simply dismissed as part of the artist's own return to figuration, a sudden retrenchment and e…
Sharing Seeing
In 2007, artist Sharon Lockhart made a large-scale photograph of two young girls reading braille, based on a specific photograph by August Sander from the 1930s made in an institute for blind children. Turning to the widespread iconography of blindness in the history of photography, this essay considers the importance of such images for a larger theory of photographic spectatorship. Lockhart's image of blind children relates to Sander's photograp…
The Body after Cubism
While the relationship of the body and Cubism has often been posed as one of opposition, one in which the return of the body is described as a lapse back into figuration and realism that takes place after Cubism, George Baker argues that Francis Picabia's Cubist works, those like Dances at the Spring from 1912, are evidence of the intense coupling-as opposed to dissolution-of the terms. Baker asserts that the bodily intensity of Picabia's Orphism…
Totalization and Ressentiment
For the idea uniting the initial series of essays on photography in this issue, I wish to extend gratitude to Matthew Witkovsky, organizer of the 2012 Clark Art Institute conference "Photography as Model?"; and to Susan Bielstein, executive editor at the University of Chicago Press, who kept alive the idea of a publication of this conference and then allowed it ultimately to come to fruition and to be extended here
The Black Mirror
From his films Empire (2002) and Anticultural Positions (2009) to a variety of his modes of drawing, a singular concentration on the photographic negative can be found throughout Paul Sietsema's artistic practice. Rather than grounding a medium, Baker argues, the location of photography's logic in the negative preserves the photograph as a space of reversal and inversion, a deep and powerful force of negation rather than a servant of the real. To…
Mike Kelley
January 01 2012 Mike Kelley: Death and Transfiguration George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online ISSN: 1536-013X Print ISSN: 0162-2870 © 2012 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2012 October (2012) (139): 183–191. https://doi.org/10.1162/OCTO_a_00085 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…
Leather and Lace
January 01 2010 Leather and Lace George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2010 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2010 October (2010) (131): 116–149. https://doi.org/10.1162/octo.2010.131.1.116 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views Articl…
An Interview with Paul Chan
January 01 2008 An Interview with Paul Chan George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2008 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2008 October (2008) (123): 205–233. https://doi.org/10.1162/octo.2008.123.1.205 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon V…
The Other Side of the Wall
April 01 2007 The Other Side of the Wall George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online ISSN: 1536-013X Print ISSN: 0162-2870 © 2007 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2007 October (2007) (120): 106–137. https://doi.org/10.1162/octo.2007.120.1.106 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email …
Film Beyond Its Limits
October 01 2006 Film Beyond Its Limits George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2006 by Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.2006 Grey Room (2006) (25): 92–125. https://doi.org/10.1162/grey.2006.1.25.92 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Vi…
Photography's Expanded Field
October 01 2005 Photography's Expanded Field George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2005 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2005 October (2005) (114): 120–140. https://doi.org/10.1162/016228705774889574 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon V…
An Interview with Pierre Huyghe
October 01 2004 An Interview with Pierre Huyghe George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2004 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2004 October (2004) (110): 80–106. https://doi.org/10.1162/0162287042379856 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon V…
Introduction to "Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics" by Clair Bishop
October 01 2004 Introduction to “Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics” by Clair Bishop George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2004 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2004 October (2004) (110): 49–50. https://doi.org/10.1162/octo.2004.110.1.49 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share …
Entr'acte
July 01 2003 Entr'acte George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2003 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2003 October (2003) (105): 159–165. https://doi.org/10.1162/016228703769684254 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views Article contents …
Long Live Daddy
July 01 2003 Long Live Daddy George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2003 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2003 October (2003) (105): 37–72. https://doi.org/10.1162/016228703769684155 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views Article conte…
Reanimations (I)
April 01 2003 Reanimations (I) George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2003 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2003 October (2003) (104): 28–70. https://doi.org/10.1162/016228703322031703 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views Article con…
Artist Questionnaire
April 01 2002 Artist Questionnaire: 21 Responses George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2002 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2002 October (2002) (100): 6–98. https://doi.org/10.1162/016228702320218402 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Ma…
The Space of the Stain
The Artwork Caught by the Tail
If it were married to logic, art would be living in incest, engulfing, swallowing its own tail.... -Tristan Tzara, Manifeste Dada 1918 The only word that is not ephemeral is the word death.... To death, to death, to death. The only thing that doesn't die is money, it just leaves on trips. -Francis Picabia, Manifeste Cannibale Dada, 1920
Incentives and cooperation
We examine the joint effects of task interdependence and reward interdependence on group behavior and performance. We develop a model that predicts that task and reward interdependence will interact to increase performance, and present results of a laboratory experiment that confirms our prediction. We explore the efficacy of group reward systems for different task designs, and the relationship between cooperation and performance. We confirm earl…
A Balancing Act
One of the more melancholic, at times devastating, laws of history lies in the fact that it is only with the decay of a given object-with the ruination of an institution, the break-up of a cultural formation, the obsolescence of a conceptthat its history becomes visible for the first time, that it becomes available for historical contemplation. What then are we to make of a Documenta exhibition defined by its curator as a retroperspective, as an …
Photography between Narrativity and Stasis
Photography's Expanded Field
October 01 2005 Photography's Expanded Field George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2005 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2005 October (2005) (114): 120–140. https://doi.org/10.1162/016228705774889574 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon V…
Photography between Narrativity and Stasis
Artist Questionnaire
April 01 2002 Artist Questionnaire: 21 Responses George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2002 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2002 October (2002) (100): 6–98. https://doi.org/10.1162/016228702320218402 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Ma…
An Interview with Pierre Huyghe
October 01 2004 An Interview with Pierre Huyghe George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2004 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2004 October (2004) (110): 80–106. https://doi.org/10.1162/0162287042379856 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon V…
Introduction to "Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics" by Clair Bishop
October 01 2004 Introduction to “Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics” by Clair Bishop George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2004 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2004 October (2004) (110): 49–50. https://doi.org/10.1162/octo.2004.110.1.49 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share …
The Other Side of the Wall
April 01 2007 The Other Side of the Wall George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online ISSN: 1536-013X Print ISSN: 0162-2870 © 2007 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2007 October (2007) (120): 106–137. https://doi.org/10.1162/octo.2007.120.1.106 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email …
The Artwork Caught by the Tail
If it were married to logic, art would be living in incest, engulfing, swallowing its own tail.... -Tristan Tzara, Manifeste Dada 1918 The only word that is not ephemeral is the word death.... To death, to death, to death. The only thing that doesn't die is money, it just leaves on trips. -Francis Picabia, Manifeste Cannibale Dada, 1920
A Balancing Act
One of the more melancholic, at times devastating, laws of history lies in the fact that it is only with the decay of a given object-with the ruination of an institution, the break-up of a cultural formation, the obsolescence of a conceptthat its history becomes visible for the first time, that it becomes available for historical contemplation. What then are we to make of a Documenta exhibition defined by its curator as a retroperspective, as an …
Singing and Dental Plates
A Career in Music
America Discovers Africa
Journal Article America Discovers Africa Get access GEORGE BAKER GEORGE BAKER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 57, Issue 227, April 1958, Pages 110–119, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a094545 Published: 01 April 1958
The Place of Information in Developing Africa
On the Objective, Design and Construction of My Kinetic Metal Sculptures
The article deals with the design arid construction of George Baker’s kinetic metal sculptures and with the aesthetic effects that he strives to produce. Design features for controlling the motion of components of the sculptures are presented, with particular emphasis on their application to sculpture of large size for indoor and outdoor installations. The design arid construction of a 50 ft kinetic sculpture entitled ‘Hanging Discus’, installed …
NSF Award for Three Year Study of Guatemalan Earthquake
Understanding the New Religions
Journal Article Understanding the New Religions, ed. by Jacob Needleman and George Baker. New York: Seabury Press, 1978, xxi. + 298 pp. $8.95 Get access Meredith B. McGuire Meredith B. McGuire Montclair State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 40, Issue 3, Fall 1979, Pages 272–274, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710251 Published: 01 October 1979
Understanding the New Religions
Photography between Narrativity and Stasis
Incentives and cooperation
We examine the joint effects of task interdependence and reward interdependence on group behavior and performance. We develop a model that predicts that task and reward interdependence will interact to increase performance, and present results of a laboratory experiment that confirms our prediction. We explore the efficacy of group reward systems for different task designs, and the relationship between cooperation and performance. We confirm earl…
A Balancing Act
One of the more melancholic, at times devastating, laws of history lies in the fact that it is only with the decay of a given object-with the ruination of an institution, the break-up of a cultural formation, the obsolescence of a conceptthat its history becomes visible for the first time, that it becomes available for historical contemplation. What then are we to make of a Documenta exhibition defined by its curator as a retroperspective, as an …
The Space of the Stain
The Artwork Caught by the Tail
If it were married to logic, art would be living in incest, engulfing, swallowing its own tail.... -Tristan Tzara, Manifeste Dada 1918 The only word that is not ephemeral is the word death.... To death, to death, to death. The only thing that doesn't die is money, it just leaves on trips. -Francis Picabia, Manifeste Cannibale Dada, 1920
Artist Questionnaire
April 01 2002 Artist Questionnaire: 21 Responses George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2002 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2002 October (2002) (100): 6–98. https://doi.org/10.1162/016228702320218402 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Ma…
Entr'acte
July 01 2003 Entr'acte George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2003 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2003 October (2003) (105): 159–165. https://doi.org/10.1162/016228703769684254 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views Article contents …
Long Live Daddy
July 01 2003 Long Live Daddy George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2003 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2003 October (2003) (105): 37–72. https://doi.org/10.1162/016228703769684155 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views Article conte…
Reanimations (I)
April 01 2003 Reanimations (I) George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2003 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2003 October (2003) (104): 28–70. https://doi.org/10.1162/016228703322031703 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views Article con…
An Interview with Pierre Huyghe
October 01 2004 An Interview with Pierre Huyghe George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2004 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2004 October (2004) (110): 80–106. https://doi.org/10.1162/0162287042379856 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon V…
Introduction to "Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics" by Clair Bishop
October 01 2004 Introduction to “Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics” by Clair Bishop George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2004 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2004 October (2004) (110): 49–50. https://doi.org/10.1162/octo.2004.110.1.49 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share …
Photography's Expanded Field
October 01 2005 Photography's Expanded Field George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2005 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2005 October (2005) (114): 120–140. https://doi.org/10.1162/016228705774889574 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon V…
Film Beyond Its Limits
October 01 2006 Film Beyond Its Limits George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2006 by Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.2006 Grey Room (2006) (25): 92–125. https://doi.org/10.1162/grey.2006.1.25.92 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Vi…
The Other Side of the Wall
April 01 2007 The Other Side of the Wall George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online ISSN: 1536-013X Print ISSN: 0162-2870 © 2007 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2007 October (2007) (120): 106–137. https://doi.org/10.1162/octo.2007.120.1.106 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email …
An Interview with Paul Chan
January 01 2008 An Interview with Paul Chan George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2008 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2008 October (2008) (123): 205–233. https://doi.org/10.1162/octo.2008.123.1.205 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon V…
Leather and Lace
January 01 2010 Leather and Lace George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2010 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2010 October (2010) (131): 116–149. https://doi.org/10.1162/octo.2010.131.1.116 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views Articl…
Mike Kelley
January 01 2012 Mike Kelley: Death and Transfiguration George Baker George Baker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information George Baker Online ISSN: 1536-013X Print ISSN: 0162-2870 © 2012 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2012 October (2012) (139): 183–191. https://doi.org/10.1162/OCTO_a_00085 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…
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