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Unfinished Business: Craig Owens and Art Education
Publication
Bibliography about Craig Owens
Collated by Katia Schneller

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.