Douglas Crimp
Biographic Data
| ID | 762065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas Crimp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Crimp |
| SIGNATURE | CRIMP D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rochester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 172 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Spacious
May 01 2010 Spacious Douglas Crimp Douglas Crimp DOUGLAS CRIMP is Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester and the author of Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics (MIT Press, 2002) and On the Museum's Ruins (MIT Press, 1993). He is completing books on Andy Warhol's films and New York in the 1970s. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Informatio…
Yvonne Rainer, Muciz Lover
Prominence Given, Authority Taken
June 01 2001 Prominence Given, Authority Taken Louise Lawler Louise Lawler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Louise Lawler Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2001 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2001 Grey Room (2001) (4): 70–81. https://doi.org/10.1162/152638101750420816 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views…
Estudos culturais, cultura visual
Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video
Queer Looks is a collection of writing by video artists, filmmakers, and critics which explores the recent explosion of lesbian and gay independent media culture. A compelling compilation of artists' statements and critical theory, producer interviews and image-text works, this anthology demonstrates the vitality of queer artists under attack and fighting back. Each maker and writer deploys a surprising array of techniques and tactics, negotiatin…
Right On, Girlfriend
At Vito Russo's memorial service in December 1990, the first speaker was New York City's mayor David Dinkins. It had been reported in the gay press that Dinkins paid a hospital visit a few days before Vito died, and that Vito had mustered the strength to sit up and say, In 1776, Edmund Burke of the British Parliament said about the slavery clause, 'A politician owes the people not only his industry but his judgment, and if he sacrifices his judgm…
Mourning and Militancy
In a contribution to a special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly on Displacing Homophobia, Lee Edelman applies the lessons of Derridian deconstruction to the AIDS activist movement slogan Silence=Death. Claiming that our slogan calls for a discourse of facts marshalled against a demagogic rhetoric, Edelman concludes that the equation unknowingly produces the literal as a figure, and thereby betrays its ideological entanglement in the binary l…
"Hans Haacke's Contribution to "Points of Reference 38/88
How to Have Promiscuity in an Epidemic
The Second Epidemic
The AIDS Discrimination Unit of the New York City Commission on Human Rights was established in 1983 to document and respond to complaints of AIDS-related discrimination. It now has a full-time staff of sixteen, aided by several interns. In addition to handling individual complaints of discrimination through advocacy and litigation, the commission initiates complaints in cases of widespread systemic discrimination, issues reports on varying forms…
A Conversation with Krzysztof Wodiczko
The Art of Exhibition
So writes Artistic Director Rudi Fuchs in his introduction to the catalogue for the Documenta exhibition of 1982. What one actually encountered, however, at the gate of the splendid palace, the Museum Fridericianum in Kassel, were not heroes at all, but rather a junky-looking construction workers' trailer displaying various objects for sale. The status of these things -whether works of art or merely souvenirs-was not immediately apparent. Among t…
A Conversation with Hans Haacke
Haacke: No, there's another precedent, aside from the paintings I did before I turned to three-dimensional work in the early '60s. For a show in Montreal in 1983, I made what I called a Painting for the Boardroom, an industrial landscape. It is a somewhat impressionistic aerial view of the Alcan aluminum smelter in Arvida, Quebec. I painted it after a photograph that I found in an Alcan P.R. pamphlet. It is a cheerful, sunny picture. Into the bri…
Fassbinder, Franz, Fox, Elvira, Erwin, Armin, and All the Others
As October prepared its special issue on Fassbinder, In a Year of Thirteen Moons became its focus, with the film's script as its central document. representative in Germany responded to our request to publish the script with the following sentence: Es freut uns, dass Sie In a Year of Thirteen Moons publizieren wollen; als ein sehr persbnlicher Film ist dies geradezu ein Schliissel zu gesamten Werk. Because this is a very personal film, it is actu…
Richard Serra: Sculpture Exceeded
The Sculptural Opaque
The fiction of a diachronic/synchronic opposition, introduced by Saussure, is like all those other binary pairs for which our metaphysics is simultaneously the guarantee, product and originator. And like them, once its theoretical foundations are questioned, it ceases to function. The skirmish between theories of structure and theories of history that had been the revelation (from the exterior) of the 1960's, has come to appear as a simple misund…
The End of Painting
The work of art is so frightened of the world at large, it so needs isolation in order to exist, that any conceivable means of protection will suffice. It frames itself, withdraws under glass, barricades itself behind a bullet-proof surface, surrounds itself with a protective cordon, with instruments showing the room humidity, for even the slightest cold would be fatal. Ideally the work of art finds itself not just screened from the world, but sh…
The New French Culture: An Interview with Guy Hocquenghem
Hocquenghem: Mitterrand was, in fact, elected partly on the basis of his position with regard to culture. Under Giscard, a technocracy ruled, and culture was conceived in the usual bourgeois sense, as beaux-arts, an elitist activity that is at the same time marginal. The Socialists, in contrast, insisted upon a notion of culture as it has traditionally been understood by the European left, as something which is essential to every human being, som…
On the Museum's Ruins
The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism
That photography had overturned the judgment-seat of art is a fact which the discourse of modernism found it necessary to repress, and so it seems that we may accurately say of postmodernism that it constitutes precisely the return of the repressed. Postmodernism can only be understood as a specific breach with modernism, with those institutions which are the preconditions for and which shape the discourse of modernism. These institutions can be …
Pictures
Positive/Negative: A Note on Degas's Photographs
In passage from journal kept in his youth, Daniel Halevy relates events of a charming dinner party given on December 29, 1895. Among guests was Edgar Degas (a regular at Halevy household until their break over Dreyfus affair) together with various members of family, including Jules Taschereau and his daughter Henriette, Madame Niaudet and her daughter Mathilde. After dinner Degas went to get his camera, at which point, Halkvy tells us, the pleasu…
Mourning and Militancy
In a contribution to a special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly on Displacing Homophobia, Lee Edelman applies the lessons of Derridian deconstruction to the AIDS activist movement slogan Silence=Death. Claiming that our slogan calls for a discourse of facts marshalled against a demagogic rhetoric, Edelman concludes that the equation unknowingly produces the literal as a figure, and thereby betrays its ideological entanglement in the binary l…
How to Have Promiscuity in an Epidemic
The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism
That photography had overturned the judgment-seat of art is a fact which the discourse of modernism found it necessary to repress, and so it seems that we may accurately say of postmodernism that it constitutes precisely the return of the repressed. Postmodernism can only be understood as a specific breach with modernism, with those institutions which are the preconditions for and which shape the discourse of modernism. These institutions can be …
Pictures
On the Museum's Ruins
The Second Epidemic
The AIDS Discrimination Unit of the New York City Commission on Human Rights was established in 1983 to document and respond to complaints of AIDS-related discrimination. It now has a full-time staff of sixteen, aided by several interns. In addition to handling individual complaints of discrimination through advocacy and litigation, the commission initiates complaints in cases of widespread systemic discrimination, issues reports on varying forms…
The End of Painting
The work of art is so frightened of the world at large, it so needs isolation in order to exist, that any conceivable means of protection will suffice. It frames itself, withdraws under glass, barricades itself behind a bullet-proof surface, surrounds itself with a protective cordon, with instruments showing the room humidity, for even the slightest cold would be fatal. Ideally the work of art finds itself not just screened from the world, but sh…
Right On, Girlfriend
At Vito Russo's memorial service in December 1990, the first speaker was New York City's mayor David Dinkins. It had been reported in the gay press that Dinkins paid a hospital visit a few days before Vito died, and that Vito had mustered the strength to sit up and say, In 1776, Edmund Burke of the British Parliament said about the slavery clause, 'A politician owes the people not only his industry but his judgment, and if he sacrifices his judgm…
Fassbinder, Franz, Fox, Elvira, Erwin, Armin, and All the Others
As October prepared its special issue on Fassbinder, In a Year of Thirteen Moons became its focus, with the film's script as its central document. representative in Germany responded to our request to publish the script with the following sentence: Es freut uns, dass Sie In a Year of Thirteen Moons publizieren wollen; als ein sehr persbnlicher Film ist dies geradezu ein Schliissel zu gesamten Werk. Because this is a very personal film, it is actu…
Yvonne Rainer, Muciz Lover
Estudos culturais, cultura visual
A Conversation with Hans Haacke
Haacke: No, there's another precedent, aside from the paintings I did before I turned to three-dimensional work in the early '60s. For a show in Montreal in 1983, I made what I called a Painting for the Boardroom, an industrial landscape. It is a somewhat impressionistic aerial view of the Alcan aluminum smelter in Arvida, Quebec. I painted it after a photograph that I found in an Alcan P.R. pamphlet. It is a cheerful, sunny picture. Into the bri…
The Sculptural Opaque
The fiction of a diachronic/synchronic opposition, introduced by Saussure, is like all those other binary pairs for which our metaphysics is simultaneously the guarantee, product and originator. And like them, once its theoretical foundations are questioned, it ceases to function. The skirmish between theories of structure and theories of history that had been the revelation (from the exterior) of the 1960's, has come to appear as a simple misund…
The New French Culture: An Interview with Guy Hocquenghem
Hocquenghem: Mitterrand was, in fact, elected partly on the basis of his position with regard to culture. Under Giscard, a technocracy ruled, and culture was conceived in the usual bourgeois sense, as beaux-arts, an elitist activity that is at the same time marginal. The Socialists, in contrast, insisted upon a notion of culture as it has traditionally been understood by the European left, as something which is essential to every human being, som…
Positive/Negative: A Note on Degas's Photographs
In passage from journal kept in his youth, Daniel Halevy relates events of a charming dinner party given on December 29, 1895. Among guests was Edgar Degas (a regular at Halevy household until their break over Dreyfus affair) together with various members of family, including Jules Taschereau and his daughter Henriette, Madame Niaudet and her daughter Mathilde. After dinner Degas went to get his camera, at which point, Halkvy tells us, the pleasu…
Positive/Negative: A Note on Degas's Photographs
In passage from journal kept in his youth, Daniel Halevy relates events of a charming dinner party given on December 29, 1895. Among guests was Edgar Degas (a regular at Halevy household until their break over Dreyfus affair) together with various members of family, including Jules Taschereau and his daughter Henriette, Madame Niaudet and her daughter Mathilde. After dinner Degas went to get his camera, at which point, Halkvy tells us, the pleasu…
Pictures
On the Museum's Ruins
The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism
That photography had overturned the judgment-seat of art is a fact which the discourse of modernism found it necessary to repress, and so it seems that we may accurately say of postmodernism that it constitutes precisely the return of the repressed. Postmodernism can only be understood as a specific breach with modernism, with those institutions which are the preconditions for and which shape the discourse of modernism. These institutions can be …
Richard Serra: Sculpture Exceeded
The Sculptural Opaque
The fiction of a diachronic/synchronic opposition, introduced by Saussure, is like all those other binary pairs for which our metaphysics is simultaneously the guarantee, product and originator. And like them, once its theoretical foundations are questioned, it ceases to function. The skirmish between theories of structure and theories of history that had been the revelation (from the exterior) of the 1960's, has come to appear as a simple misund…
The End of Painting
The work of art is so frightened of the world at large, it so needs isolation in order to exist, that any conceivable means of protection will suffice. It frames itself, withdraws under glass, barricades itself behind a bullet-proof surface, surrounds itself with a protective cordon, with instruments showing the room humidity, for even the slightest cold would be fatal. Ideally the work of art finds itself not just screened from the world, but sh…
The New French Culture: An Interview with Guy Hocquenghem
Hocquenghem: Mitterrand was, in fact, elected partly on the basis of his position with regard to culture. Under Giscard, a technocracy ruled, and culture was conceived in the usual bourgeois sense, as beaux-arts, an elitist activity that is at the same time marginal. The Socialists, in contrast, insisted upon a notion of culture as it has traditionally been understood by the European left, as something which is essential to every human being, som…
Fassbinder, Franz, Fox, Elvira, Erwin, Armin, and All the Others
As October prepared its special issue on Fassbinder, In a Year of Thirteen Moons became its focus, with the film's script as its central document. representative in Germany responded to our request to publish the script with the following sentence: Es freut uns, dass Sie In a Year of Thirteen Moons publizieren wollen; als ein sehr persbnlicher Film ist dies geradezu ein Schliissel zu gesamten Werk. Because this is a very personal film, it is actu…
The Art of Exhibition
So writes Artistic Director Rudi Fuchs in his introduction to the catalogue for the Documenta exhibition of 1982. What one actually encountered, however, at the gate of the splendid palace, the Museum Fridericianum in Kassel, were not heroes at all, but rather a junky-looking construction workers' trailer displaying various objects for sale. The status of these things -whether works of art or merely souvenirs-was not immediately apparent. Among t…
A Conversation with Hans Haacke
Haacke: No, there's another precedent, aside from the paintings I did before I turned to three-dimensional work in the early '60s. For a show in Montreal in 1983, I made what I called a Painting for the Boardroom, an industrial landscape. It is a somewhat impressionistic aerial view of the Alcan aluminum smelter in Arvida, Quebec. I painted it after a photograph that I found in an Alcan P.R. pamphlet. It is a cheerful, sunny picture. Into the bri…
A Conversation with Krzysztof Wodiczko
How to Have Promiscuity in an Epidemic
The Second Epidemic
The AIDS Discrimination Unit of the New York City Commission on Human Rights was established in 1983 to document and respond to complaints of AIDS-related discrimination. It now has a full-time staff of sixteen, aided by several interns. In addition to handling individual complaints of discrimination through advocacy and litigation, the commission initiates complaints in cases of widespread systemic discrimination, issues reports on varying forms…
Mourning and Militancy
In a contribution to a special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly on Displacing Homophobia, Lee Edelman applies the lessons of Derridian deconstruction to the AIDS activist movement slogan Silence=Death. Claiming that our slogan calls for a discourse of facts marshalled against a demagogic rhetoric, Edelman concludes that the equation unknowingly produces the literal as a figure, and thereby betrays its ideological entanglement in the binary l…
"Hans Haacke's Contribution to "Points of Reference 38/88
Right On, Girlfriend
At Vito Russo's memorial service in December 1990, the first speaker was New York City's mayor David Dinkins. It had been reported in the gay press that Dinkins paid a hospital visit a few days before Vito died, and that Vito had mustered the strength to sit up and say, In 1776, Edmund Burke of the British Parliament said about the slavery clause, 'A politician owes the people not only his industry but his judgment, and if he sacrifices his judgm…
Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video
Queer Looks is a collection of writing by video artists, filmmakers, and critics which explores the recent explosion of lesbian and gay independent media culture. A compelling compilation of artists' statements and critical theory, producer interviews and image-text works, this anthology demonstrates the vitality of queer artists under attack and fighting back. Each maker and writer deploys a surprising array of techniques and tactics, negotiatin…
Estudos culturais, cultura visual
Prominence Given, Authority Taken
June 01 2001 Prominence Given, Authority Taken Louise Lawler Louise Lawler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Louise Lawler Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2001 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2001 Grey Room (2001) (4): 70–81. https://doi.org/10.1162/152638101750420816 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views…
Yvonne Rainer, Muciz Lover
Spacious
May 01 2010 Spacious Douglas Crimp Douglas Crimp DOUGLAS CRIMP is Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester and the author of Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics (MIT Press, 2002) and On the Museum's Ruins (MIT Press, 1993). He is completing books on Andy Warhol's films and New York in the 1970s. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Informatio…
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