Archives
Lynn Tillman Papers 1939–2008 (Bulk 1984–2006), MSS. 180. Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University.

Texts written by Craig Owens (chronological order)

Book
Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power and Culture. Edited by Scott Bryson, Barbara Kruger, Lynne Tillman, and Jane Weinstock. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992. A selection of texts have been translated in French in Craig Owens, Le discours des autres. Edited  and translated by Gaëtan Thomas. Romainville: Même pas l’hiver, 2022.

Book Chapters
“The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 166–90. Previously published in The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Edited by Hal Foster, 57–77. Seattle: Bay Press, 1983.

“Outlaws: Gay Men in Feminism.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 218–37. Previously published in Men in Feminism. Edited by Alice Jardine, and Paul Smith, 219–32. New York/London: Methuen, 1987.

“The Yen for Art.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 316–23. Previously published in Discussions in Contemporary Culture. Edited by Hal Foster, 16–23. Seattle: DIA Art Foundation/Bay Press, 1987.

Catalogues
“Philip Johnson: History, Genealogy, Historicism.” In Philip Johnson: Processes: The Glass House, 1949 and the AT&T Corporate Headquarters, 1978. Edited by Kenneth Frampton. Catalogue 9, 2–11. New York: Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.

“Introduction.” In Artists at Bennington, Summer 1980, n.p. Bennington: Bennington College, 1980. Exhibition catalogue.

“Justen Ladda.” In Wave Hill 1982: New Perspectives. n.p. New York: Wave Hill, 1982. Exhibition catalogue.

“‘The Indignity of Speaking for Others’: An Imaginary Interview.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 259–62. Previously published in Art & Social Change, U.S.A, Bulletin 40, no. 2 (1982–1983), 83–85. Oberlin: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College.

“The Medusa Effect, or, The Specular Ruse.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 191–200. Previously published in Art in America 72, no. 1 (January 1984): 97–105. Originally published in Barbara Kruger, We Won’t Play Nature to Your Culture, 5–11. London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1983. Exhibition catalogue.

“Allan McCollum: Repetition and Difference.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 117–21. Previously published in Allan McCollum, Surrogates, 5–8. London: Lisson Gallery, 1985. Exhibition catalogue. Originally published in Art in America 71, no. 8 (September 1983): 130–32.

“Sex and Language: In Between.” In Laurie Anderson and Janet Kardon. Laurie Anderson: Works from 1969 to 1983, 48–55. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1984. Exhibition catalogue.

“Posing.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 201–17. Previously published in Difference: On Representation and Sexuality, 7–17. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1985. Exhibition catalogue.

“From Work to Frame, or Is There Life After the Death of Author?” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 122–41. Previously published in Implosion: A Postmodern Perspective. Edited by Lars Nittve. Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 1987. Exhibition catalogue.

“Giulio Paolini.” In Giulio Paolini, n.p. New York: Marian Goodman Gallery, 1987. Exhibition catalogue.

Articles
“Politics of Coppélia.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 239–42. Previously published in Christopher Street 1, no. 3 (November 1976): 51–52.

“On John Curry and Twyla Tharp.” Christopher Street 1, no. 7 (January 1977): 5–7.

“Einstein on the Beach: The Primacy of Metaphor.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 3–15. Previously published in October, no. 4 (Autumn 1977): 21–32.

“Projects by Alice Aycock.” Skyline, no. 1 (April 1, 1978): 3.

“Editor’s Response.” Skyline, no. 2 (May 1, 1978): 2.

“Philip Johnson on Philip Johnson.” Interview with Martha Carroll. Skyline, no. 2 (May 1, 1978): 8–9.

“Footnote.” Skyline, no. 3 (June 1, 1978): 8.

“Issues.” Skyline, no. 3 (June 1, 1978): 8.

“Pope + Pei.” Skyline, no. 3 (June 1, 1978): 6–7.

“Re-vision.” Skyline, no. 3 (June 1, 1978): 8.

“Re: Ward.” Skyline, no. 3 (June 1, 1978): 8.

“Tables and Chairs.” Skyline, no. 3 (June 1, 1978): 8.

“Photography en abyme.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 16–30. Previously published in October, no. 5 (Summer 1978): 73–88.

“Hearing.” Skyline, no. 6 (September 1978): 12.

“Mews.” Skyline, no. 6 (September 1978): 12.

“Mirrors and Windows.” Skyline, no. 6 (September 1978): 5.

“Past and Present.” Skyline, no. 6 (September 1978): 12.

“Tilt.” Skyline, no. 6 (September 1978): 12.

“Beached.” Skyline, no. 7 (October 1978): 4.

“The Postcard as Fetish.” Skyline, no. 8 (November 1978): 10.

“Reading.” Skyline, no. 9 (December 1978): 12.

“Skylights.” Skyline, no. 10 (January 1979): 12.

“Dog-Killing Machine.” Skyline, no. 12 (March 1979): 12.

“Helmsley Hires Arquitectonica.” Skyline, no. 12 (March 1979): 12.

“Ménagerie.” Skyline, no. 12 (March 1979): 12.

“Black and White.” Skyline, no. 13 (April 1979):16.

“Editor’s Note.” Skyline, no. 13 (April 1979): 2.

“By the Sea.” Skyline, no. 14 (May 1979): 8.

“Detachment from the Parergon.” In Owens. Beyond Recognition, 31–39. Previously published in October, no. 9 (Summer 1979): 42–49.

“Earthwords.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 40–51. Previously published in October, no. 10 (Autumn 1979): 120–30.

“The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 52–69. Previously published in Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation. Edited by Brian Wallis, 217–36. New York and Boston: New Museum of Contemporary Art/ David. R. Godine, 1984. Originally published in October, no. 12 (Spring 1980): 67–86.

“The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism Part 2.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 70–87. Previously published in Art After Modernism: Representation. Edited by Brian Wallis, 217–36. New York and Boston: New Museum of Contemporary Art/David. R. Godine, 1984. Originally published in October, no. 13 (Summer 1980): 58–80.

“Robert Wilson: Tableaux.” Art in America 68, no. 9 (November 1980): 114–16.

“Amplifications: Laurie Anderson.” Art in America 69, no. 3 (March 1981): 121–23.

“The Pro-Scenic Event.” Art in America 69, no. 3 (March 1981): 128–31.

“Robert Longo at Metro Pictures.” Art in America 69, no. 3 (March 1981): 125–26.

“Telling Stories.” Art in America 69, no. 5 (May 1981): 129–35.

“Sects and Language.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 243–52. Previously published in Art in America 69, no. 6 (Summer 1981): 11–17.

With Christian Hubert, Sherrie Levine, David Salle, and Julian Schnabel. “Post-modernism—a symposium.” REAL LIFE Magazine: Selected Writings and Projects 1979–1994. Edited by Miriam Katzeff, Thomas Lawson, and Susan Morgan, 89–95. New York: Primary Information, 2007. Previously published in REAL LIFE Magazine, no. 6 (Summer 1981): 4–10.

“The Critic as Realist.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 253–58. Previously published in Art in America 69, no. 7 (September 1981): 9–11.

“Back to the Studio.” Art in America 70, no. 1 (January 1982): 99–107.

“Michael Uhlenkott and Jeffrey Vallance at LACE.” Art in America 70, no. 3 (March 1982): 155–56.

“Phantasmagoria of the Media.” Art in America 70, no. 5 (May 1982): 98–99.

“Representation, Appropriation and Power.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 88–113. Previously published in Art in America 70, no. 5 (May 1982): 9–21.

“Sarah Charlesworth at 421 West Broadway.” Art in America 70, no. 5 (May 1982): 141.

“Sherrie Levine at A&M Artworks.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 114–16. Previously published in Art in America 70, no. 6 (Summer 1982): 148.

“Bayreuth ’82.” Art in America 70, no. 7 (September 1982): 132–39, 191.

“Honor, Power and the Love of Women.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 143–55. Previously published in Art in America 71, no. 1 (January 1983): 7–13.

“Mark Tansey at Borgenicht.” Art in America 71, no. 3 (February 1983): 137–38.

“William Wegman’s Psychoanalytic Vaudeville.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 156–65. Previously published in Art in America 71, no. 3 (March 1983): 101–09.

“Allan McCollum: Repetition and Difference.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 117–21. Previously published in Surrogates, 5–8. London: Lisson Gallery, 1985. Originally published in Art in America 71, no. 8 (September 1983): 130–32.

“The Medusa Effect, or, the Specular Ruse.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 191–200; Previously published in Art in America 72, no. 1 (January 1984): 97–105. Originally published in Kruger, We Won’t Play Nature to Your Culture, 5–11.

“Commentary: The Problem with Puerilism.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 263–67. Previously published in Art in America 72, no. 6 (Summer 1984): 162–63.

“Analysis Logical and Ideological.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 268–83. Previously published in Art in America 73, no. 5 (May 1985): 25–31.

“Improper Names.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 284–97. Previously published in Art in America 74, no. 8 (October 1986): 126–34, 187.

“Global Issues.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 324–28. Previously published as “The Global Issue: A Symposium.” Art in America 77, no. 6 (Summer 1989): 88–89.

Interviews
“Sexual Identity: You Are Not Yourself,” (1 and 2). In conjunction with the exhibition Difference: On Representation and Sexuality. Panel discussion moderated by Kate Linker. New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, December 12, 1984.
https://archive.newmuseum.org/sounds/7091
https://archive.newmuseum.org/sounds/8658

Stephanson, Anders. “Interview with Craig Owens, February 27, 1987.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, 298–315. Previously published in Social Text, no. 27 (1990): 55–71.

Blumenthal, Lyn, and Kate Horsfield eds. Craig Owens: Portrait of a Young Critic. New York: Baldlands Unlimited, 2018.

Translations
Derrida, Jacques. “The Parergon.” Translated by Craig Owens. October, no. 9 (Summer 1979): 3–41.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo. “Observations on the Long Take.” Translated by Norman MacAfee and Craig Owens. October, no. 13 (Summer 1980): 3–6.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo. “What is Neo-Zhdanovism and What Is Not?” Translated by Norman MacAfee and Craig Owens. October, no. 13 (Summer 1980): 7–10.

Clay, Jean. Romanticism. Translated by Craig Owens. New York: Vendôme Press, 1981.

Texts about Craig Owens (alphabetical order)
Adler, Tracy and Frederick Gross. “Interview with Rosalind Krauss.” October 16, 1997, New York: Hunter College. https://huntercollegeart.org/artists-research-group/rosalind-krauss/

Armelagos, Adina. “Dance Critics Conference: The Subject of Style a Conference Report.” Dance Research Journal 16, no. 1 (Spring 1984): 57–59.

Burr, Tom. “Architecture of Influence: Thinking Through Craig Owens.” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 26, no. 1 (2016): 1-6.

Curtis, Cathy. “O.C. Art: List of AIDS Victims Hits at Heart.” Los Angeles Times, June 15, 1992. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-06-15-ca-460-story.html

Day, Gail. “Absolute Dialectical Unrest: Or, the Dizziness of a Perpetually Self-Engendered Disorder.” In Dialectical Passions: Negation in Postwar Art Theory, 132–81. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

Deitcher, David. “Craig Owens: 1950–90.” Village Voice, July 24, 1990, 99.

D’Souza, Aruna. Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts. New York: Badlands Unlimited, 2018.

Frenkel, Vera. “This is Your Messiah Speaking.” In Capital Culture: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(s) of Art. Edited by Jody Berland and Shelley Hornstein, 185. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000.

Horton, Christopher. “Post-modernism.” Art New England (April 1981).

Marmer, Nancy. “Craig Owens, 1950–1990.” Art in America 79, no. 7 (September 1990): 184–86.

Meyer, James. “Outside the Box: Unpacking Craig Owens’s Slide Library.” Artforum 41, no. 7 (March 2003): 63, 65–66, 260–61, 264.

Preciado, Paul. “Un message de Craig Owens.” Libération, April 20, 2018. https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2018/04/20/un-message-de-craig-owens_1644857

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. “Memorial for Craig Owens.” In Tendencies, 104–06. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.

Steinberg, Carol. “Repainting the Battle Lines.” In Mutiny and the Mainstream: Talk That Changed Art, 1975–1990. Edited by Judy Seigel, 221–22. New York: Midmarch Arts Press, 1992. Previously published in Women Artists News 8, no. 5–6 (Summer 1983).

Tillman, Lynne. “Craig Owens, 1950–1990,” Art in America 79, no. 7 (September 1990), 185.

Watney, Simon. “Craig Owens: ‘The Indignity of Speaking for Others.” In Owens, Beyond Recognition, ix–xvii.