by Jon Lackman | 24 January 2007 | Books, Contemporary
From the press release: “London’s famous Whitechapel Gallery and the MIT Press announce a new series, Documents of Contemporary Art. Each volume will cover a single theme, practice, or obsession central to contemporary visual culture … selecting writings that range from foundational texts to freshly made arguments … The first two volumes in the series have just arrived—Participation, edited by Claire Bishop, looks at the phenomenon of participation in art that has been both prevalent and contested since the 1990s … The Archive, edited by Charles Merewether, collects key writings by influential artists and theorists to explore ways in which the archive has become central in visual culture’s investigations of history, memory, testimony, and identity.” The next two volumes will chronicle “the rise of ‘design-art’ and … the shifting relationship between film and photography.”
