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Associate Professor
Modern and Contemporary Art
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1999
Branden W. Joseph received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1999. His first book, Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde, examined all aspects of the artist’s development from 1951 to 1971 — including painting, sculpture, “Combines,” and performance — from a theoretical perspective drawing from Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Georges Bataille. Joseph’s further work on Rauschenberg has appeared in journals from October magazine to the Journal of Art History (Stockholm), as well as in the Robert Rauschenberg: Combines retrospective catalogue (LACMA, 2005). Joseph’s area of specialization is post-War American and European art, focusing particularly on those individuals and practices that cross medium and disciplinary boundaries between visual art, music, and film. Present in the book on Rauschenberg, these concerns have been explored further in the books: Anthony McCall: The Solid Light Films and Related Works (Northwestern/Steidl, 2005) and Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage (Zone Books, 2008). Joseph’s writings have also appeared in Artforum, Bookforum, Art Journal, October, Critical Inquiry, Texte zur Kunst, and Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne, as well as in such catalogues as CTRL [SPACE]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother (MIT Press, 2002), X-Screen: Film Installations and Actions in the 1960s and 1970s (Walther König, 2003), and Angela Bulloch: Prime Numbers (Walther König, 2006). Joseph is also a founding editor of Grey Room, a scholarly and theoretical journal of architecture, art, media, and politics published quarterly by MIT Press since the fall of 2000. To date Grey Room has featured work by such prominent historians and theorists as Yve-Alain Bois, Judith Butler, Georges Canguilhem, Hubert Damisch, Friedrich Kittler, Chantal Mouffe, Antonio Negri, Paolo Virno, Paul Virilio, and Samuel Weber.
613 Schermerhorn Hall
Telephone: (212) 854-2811
E-mail: bwj4@columbia.edu
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Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage. New York: Zone Books, 2008.
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Anthony McCall: The Solid Light Films and Related Works
Text, Branden W. Joseph; interview with the artist, Jonathan Walley; ed., Christopher Eamon. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press/Göttingen: Steidl, 2005.
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Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. Paperback edition, 2007.
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Robert Rauschenberg (ed. and preface) Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. Essays by Leo Steinberg, Rosalind Krauss, Douglas Crimp, Helen Molesworth, and Branden W. Joseph.
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