All page numbers refer to the 2014 print edition.
Page numbers in italic refer to illustrations.
abc (art berlin contemporary) 98
abstract, an 111
Als, Hilton, ‘Daddy’ (2013) 166
Angus, Jennifer, ‘Artist Statement’ (n.d.) 215–16
Apollinaire, Guillaume, Le Poète assassiné (1916) 36
Aragon, Louis 41
ARCO, Madrid 27
art magazines, and advertising 175; Artforum 14; Burlington 143, 171; Cabinet 36; comparative reviews formats 171; e-flux journal 13, 23; Flash Art 13; frieze 27; Modern Painters 227–28
art-critics, and conflicts of interest 26; and non-specialist art-writers 186–89; as artists 39, 216; as independents 28; as poets 39; origins in West 31–32
ArtSlant (blog) 97
art-writers, ‘good’ v. ‘bad’ 11, 162; and multiple roles 29; types of approach 15; types of background 15
art-writing, format types 19–20, 23, 29; and accuracy 40–41; and artist’s biography 89, 174, 191; and blogs 41, 97; and fiction 16–17, 36; and pay 10; and selling art 28; and structures 107, 112–13, 121–24, 126, 129, 153, 191–97, 198–99; 201–3; as ritual 17, 150; as philosophy 17; for children, 67; like drawing 17
Ashbery, John 39
Autogena, Lise and Joshua Portway 200–1, 201
Azimi, Negar, ‘Fluffy Farhad’ (2010) 95–96
Bad at Sports (blog) 97
Bankowsky, Jack, ‘Previews: Haim Steinbach’ (2013) 183
Bartholomew, Richard 39
Batchelor, David, Chromophobia (2000) 92
Benjamin, Walter 37–38, 52, 68; ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’ (1940) 37
Bhabha, Homi 124
Bishop, Claire, Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (2012) 93–94
Blazwick, Iwona, ‘The Found Object’ (2013) 194
Bourgeois, Louise 197
Bourriaud, Nicolas, ‘Altermodern’ (2009) 40; Relational Aesthetics (1998) 119
Bracewell, Michael 228–29; ‘A Cultural Context for Sarah Morris’ (1999) 229
Braque, George 143
Broodthaers, Marcel 212
Brown, Robert 162
Bruguera, Tania 65
Burn, Gordon 39
Burns, Charlotte, ‘Artists take to the streets…’ (2013) 128
Clark, T.J. 188
Contemporary Art Daily 10
‘contextualization’ 35
Coupland, Douglas 231, 232–33; ‘Behind the Glass Curtain’ (2004) 232
cover sheet (for academic papers) 125
Danto, Arthur C. 24
Davie, Karin 198
Davis, Ben, ‘Frieze New York…’ (2012) 184; ‘Speculations…’ (2012) 185
de la Barra, Pablo León 29
de Man, Paul 38
Dean, Tacita, ‘Palast, 2004’ (2006) 217–18
Demos, T.J. 199–203; ‘Art After Nature: on the Post-Natural Condition’ (2012) 200
Diawara, Manthia 84–86; ‘Talk of the Town: Seydou Keïta’ (1998) 85
Diderot, Denis 36
Dillon, Brian, Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (2009) 88
dOCUMENTA (13) 31, 139–41; catalogues 209
‘Documents of Contemporary Art’ series (MIT/Whitechapel) 108
Dubuffet, Jean, La Fille au Peigne (1950) 156–59
Duchamp, Marcel 24, 32, 63, 92, 165
due diligence 154
Dupin, Jacques 39
‘Duplicate Verb Syndrome’ 81
Durant, Mark Alice and Jane D. Marsching, ‘Out-of-Sync’ (2006) 139
Durham, Jimmie 216
Elkins, James 32
Enwezor, Okwui 50–51, 62; ‘Documents into Monuments: Archives as Meditations on Time’ (2008) 50
Farquharson, Alex 196–97, 225–26; ‘The Avant Garde, Again’ (2002) 196; ‘Review of “Painting Lab”’ (1999) 225
first-hand research 120
Fischli, David and Peter Weiss 82
For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there (2009) 208
Foster, Krauss, Bois, Buchloh and Joselit, Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism (2004) 108
Fox, Dan 40
Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism 36
Fried, Michael 102; ‘Art and Objecthood’ (1967) 92–93
Friedman, Tom 197
Frieze, art fair and magazine 27
getting published, reviews 173; essays 204–5
Gillick, Liam 30
Goya, Francisco 46–48, 47, 53, 74, 186
Graham, Dan 216
Graw, Isabelle 231–32; ‘Reading the Capital: Sarah Morris’ New Pictures’ (2001) 231
Gregory, Alice, ‘On the Market’ (2012) 161–62
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste, Girl with a Dead Canary (1765) 36
Griffin, Tim 39
Hainley, Bruce 197
Harrison and Wood, Art in Theory 1900–2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (2002) 108
Heartney, Eleanor 28
Herbert, Martin, ‘Richard Serra’ (2008–9) 133
Hickey, Dave 16, 28, 188–89; ‘Fear and Loathing Goes to Hell’ (2012) 90; ‘Orphans’ (2009) 188, 230
Hopps, Walter 162
Horowitz, Noah, Art of the Deal: Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market (2011) 155–56
house style 145
Hunt, Andrew 25
‘instant artist’s statement’ generator 210
‘International Art English’ 13–14, 31
Internet 15, 41, 103; 119; 138–39; 143, 182, 189; and reviews 182
‘interpretation’ 35
‘inverted triangle structure’ 126
Israel, Nico 170
jargon v. art terminology 91
JSTOR 108
Katz, Alex 178
Kelly, Mary 216
Kelsey, John 30, 81–82; ‘Cars. Women’ (2006) 82
Kempes, Anke, ‘Sarah Morris’ (2005) 221
Klee, Paul (1920) 37–38, 38, 52, 68
Klein, Jochen 226
Kraus, Chris 36; Where Art Belongs (2011) 99–100
Kwon, Miwon, ‘One Place After Another: Notes on Site Specificity’ (1997) 121
Lange, Christy, ‘Andrew Dadson’ (2008–9) 135
Levine, David and Alix Rule 13, 31
Mallarmé, Stéphane 86
Mann, Ted, ‘Mandalay Bay (Las Vegas): Sarah Morris’ (n.d.) 222
McFarland, Dale, ‘Beautiful Things: on Wolfgang Tillmans’ (1999) 77–78
Meyer, James 123
Mokgosi, Meleko, Modern Art: The Root of Africa Savages (2013) 143
Morgan, Stuart 35, 188; ‘Playing for Time’ (1991), 75
Morris, Robert 39
Morris, Sarah 16, 220–33, 224; ‘A Few Observations on Taste or Advertisements for Myself’ (2009) 233
Morton, Tom 151
negative reviews 174
‘new art history’ 33
O’Doherty, Brian, ‘Boxes, Cubes, Installation, Whiteness and Money’ (2009) 103
O’Hara, Frank 39
O’Reilly, Sally ‘Review: Seven Days in the Art World’ (2008) 180–82; 186
Out-of-Sync (Maria Miranda and Norie Neumark) 138, 138–39
‘outlining in reverse’ 117
parts of speech: nouns 74–76, 136, 138, 141; adjectives 76–78, 138; verbs 79–81, 136; adverbs 81–82
Pasolini, Pier Paolo 30
phenomenological approach 231–32
‘Philosophy and Literature Bad Writing Contest’ 72
Picasso, Pablo 63
Piper, Adrian 210
Plagens, Peter 48
platitudes 127
press coverage, accessing 148–49
press releases, alternatives 150–51
Questia 108
Rauschenberg, Robert 54, 83–84
‘Readers’ series (Routledge) 108
Rehberg, Vivian, ‘Aya Takano’ (2008–9) 137
Relyea, Lane 28
Rosenberg, Harold 39
Rosler, Martha 28
‘rule of thirds’ (organizing time for academic papers) 112
Ruskin, John 8
Sala, Anri, ‘Notes for Mixed Behaviour’ (2003) 219
Saltz, Jerry 170; ‘20 Things I Really Liked at the Art Fairs’ (2013) 61
Schjeldahl, Peter 18–19, 22, 39, 78, 177, 219
Schneemann, Carolee, Meat Joy (1964) 41
Searle, Adrian 223–25; ‘Life thru a lens’ (1999) 223
Semiotext(e) 34
Siegelaub, Seth, Xerox Book (1968) 205
Smith, Roberta 26; ‘The Colors and Joys of the Quotidian’ (2013) 177–78
Smithson, Robert 211; ‘A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey’ (1967) 92
Sontag, Susan 19
‘sort’ command to organize 115
Staple, Polly, Dispersion (2008–9) 206–7; 208
Stark, Frances 30
Steinberg, Leo, ‘The Flatbed Picture Plane’ (1968) 83
Steyerl, Hito 16, 30, 79–80, 80; ‘In Defense of the Poor Image’ (2009) 79
Stiles, Kristine and Peter Selz, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings (2012) 211
style guides 120
Szapocznikow, Alina 192–93, 192
Szymczyk, Adam 192–93; ‘Touching from a Distance: on the Art of Alina Szapocznikow’ (2011) 193
tautology 119
The Potosi Principle: How Can We Sing the Song of the Lord in an Alien Land? (2010) 207
‘Themes and Movements’ series (Phaidon) 108
Thompson, Don 187–89; The $12 Million Stuffed Shark (2008) 187
Thompson, Jon 65; ‘New Times, New Thoughts, New Sculpture’ (1993) 102; 208
Thomson & Craighead, ‘Decorative Newsfeeds’ (2004) 142
Thornton, Sarah, Seven Days in the Art World (2008) 180–82; 186
‘three jobs of communicative art writing, The’ 49–52, 63, 118, 134, 136, 138, 143, 169, 172, 184, 190
Tillman, Lynne 36; ‘Portrait of a Young Painter Levitating’ (2006) 198
Tomkins, Calvin 92
Truitt, Anne, ‘Daybook: the Journal of an Artist, 1974–79’ 213
Tuason, Izzy, ‘Seth Price’ (2012) 141
Turner, Christopher, ‘Beijing City Symphony: On Sarah Morris’ (2008) 227–28
UbuWeb 189
Vasari, Giorgio 192
Verwoert, Jan 41; ‘Neo Rauch at David Zwirner Gallery’ (2005) 168
‘waffle’ 56
Wakefield, Neville 188
Warhol, Andy 17, 32; 88–89; 162
Wenzel, Erik ‘100% Berlin’ (2012) 97–98, 98
Winkelmann, Jan, ‘A Semiotics of Surface’ (1999) 230
Wood, Gaby, ‘Cinema Vérité: Gaby Wood meets Sarah Morris’ (2004) 226–27
writer’s block (overcoming) 105
Yau, John 39
‘yeti’s (two-faced adjectives) 43
