The uncertain states of America reader
By: [edited by Noah Horowitz and Brian Sholis].
Contributors: Horowitz, Noah.; Scholis, Brian.; Astrup Fearnley museet for moderne kunst.
Publisher: Sternberg Press; in association with the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art; and Serpentine Gallery
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York; Oslo; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781933128214
Subjects: Art, American -- 21st century; Art, American -- 21st century -- Themes, motives; Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Themes, motives
Notes: This reader is a further extension of the exhibition "Uncertain states of America" which premiered at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway, November 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-203).
Table of contents: title: Eric Beull, art mover (excerpt from Gig: Americans talk about their jobs) / John Bowe, Marisa Bowe, and Sabin Streeter, eds.; title: The rules of art now / by Julian Stallabrass; title: When procedures become market tools: Johanna Burton and Isabelle Graw in conversation; title: From the critique of institutions to an institution of critique / by Andrea Fraser; title: Boundary issues: the art world under the sign of globalism / by Pamela M. Lee; title: Itinerant artists / by Miwon Kwon; title: Managing the avant-garde / by Matthew Jesse Jackson; title: Tent community: on art fair art / by Jack Bankowsky; title: Whole / by Chris Kraus; title: American mutt barks in the yard / by David Barringer; title: Preface and Jane, Susan, Murielle / by Bernadette Corporation; title: Was ist Los? / by Seth Price; title: Why abstract art? / by Kirk Varnedoe; title: Editor's letter / by Tim Griffin; title: Circling the center / Ralph Rugoff; title: New live queer art / by Matt Wolf; title: Renigged / by Hamza Walker; title: Sublime humility / by Paul Chan; title: No to bio-political tattooing / by Giorgio Agamben; title: When thought becomes crime / by Critical Art Ensemble; title: Disciplining the avant-garde / by Gregory Sholette; title: Startling and effective: writing art and politics after 9/11 / by Alan Gilbert; title: From a Chomskian couch: the imperialistic unconscious / by Robert Morris; title: The state, spectacle , and September 11 / by Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews, and Michael Watts (retort); title: Torture culture, lynching photographs and the images of Abu Ghraib / by Dora Apel; title: Biraciality and nationhood in contemporary American art / by Kymberly N. Pinder; title: Notes from New York / by Molly Nesbit; title: Trisha Donnelly, 2006.