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Volume 4
On Postmodernism
Essays on the legacies of postmodernism by Aria Dean and deconstruction & alt-lit by Michael Shorris; longform interviews with Hal Foster, Ottessa Moshfegh, Theodore (ted) Kerr, Ann Hamilton, and Reinhold Martin; reflections on The Flue’s December 1980 issue by Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, and Sherrie Levine, as well an accompanying essay by Bruce Hainley; and a roundtable conversation on the landmark 1993 exhibition “What Happened to the Institutional Critique?,” featuring Gregg Bordowitz, Tom Burr, Andrea Fraser, James Meyer, and Christian Phillip Müller, organized by Nicholas C. Morgan, and Blake Oetting.
Volume 4: On Postmodernism
by Aria Dean
“There is now a postmodernism cobbled together from these antecedents that hangs over contemporary culture.”
Flue-ed Times
Correspondence with Bruce Hainley, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, and Sherrie Levine, and November
“These terms—‘What do we own?’; ‘What is the same?’—were among the modes of address floating around at the time and seemed to fit.”
Institutional Critique
with Gregg Bordowitz, Tom Burr, Aria Dean, Andrea Fraser, James Meyer, Nicholas C. Morgan, Christian Philipp Müller, and Blake Oetting
“Where’s the anti-aesthetic? The critique of practice is gone.”
After the Revolution
by Michael Shorris
“The new tools ended up in the same old hands.”
Ann Hamilton
in conversation with Nolan Kelly
“I think the hardest thing as an artist is to find form for your questions.”
Theodore (ted) Kerr
in conversation with Ryan Mangione
“Activism can be, and often has been, about bringing dignity to life and death.”
Hal Foster
in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa
“Critical theory, not art or architecture, was the avant-garde of that time.”
Ottessa Moshfegh
in conversation with Dawn Chan and Emmanuel Olunkwa
“Why should I be reading something that isn’t going to change or influence me to have a new feeling?”
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On Writing