The Object (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)
This exciting collection is a pleasure to read from beginning to end. Here readers will discover texts that offer a thoughtful interrogation of the possibilities, status and stakes of the object-world we inhabit. Wide-ranging in scope, these writings tackle the psychic, social and physical means by which objects and subjects find, address, impel and produce both themselves and each other, in complex and illuminating ways. This is a welcome introduction to, and provocative rethinking of the object, in all its many formal and theoretical formations - from immaterial concept to obdurate and material 'thing'.  - Jo Applin, author of 'Eccentric Objects: Rethinking Sculpture in 1960s America' (Yale University Press, 2012).--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.