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Rosalind Krauss
University Professor
20th Century art and theory
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1969

Biography
Professor Krauss' attempts to understand the phenomenon of modernist art, in its historical, theoretical, and formal dimensions, have led her in various directions. She has, for example, been interested in the development of photography, whose history-running parallel to that of modernist painting and sculpture-makes visible certain previously overlooked phenomena in the "high arts," such as the role of the indexical mark, or the function of the archive. She has also investigated certain concepts, such as "formlessness," "the optical unconscious," or "pastiche," which organize modernist practice in relation to different explanatory grids from those of progressive modernism, or the avant-garde.

Contact Information
815 Schermerhorn Hall
Telephone: (212) 854-2164
E-mail: rek8@columbia.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 4:0-5:00

Web Sites

20th Century Art: learn.columbia.edu/art20



Rcent Publications
Krauss, Rosalind. The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths, MIT Press, 1986.
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Krauss, Rosalind. Bachelors, MIT Press, 2000.
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Krauss, Rosalind. Formless: A User's Guide, Zone Books, 2000.
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Krauss, Rosalind. The Optical Unconscious, MIT Press, 1994.
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Krauss, Rosalind. The Picasso Papers, MIT Press, 1999.
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Krauss, Rosalind. October: The Second Decade, 1986–1996, MIT Press, 1998.
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