October (magazine)
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| description | American art journal |
| language | English |
| publishing company | MIT Press (USA) |
| First edition | 1976 – today |
| founder | Rosalind E. Krauss and Annette Michelson |
| Frequency of publication | quarterly |
| Editor-in-chief | Adam Lehner |
| Web link | www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/octo |
| ISSN (print) | 0162-2870 |
| ISSN (online) | 1536-013X |
October is an academic journal specializing in contemporary art, criticism and theory and has been published quarterly in MIT Press since 1976.
Foundation and orientation
October was founded in 1976 in New York City by Rosalind E. Krauss and Annette Michelson . His name is an allusion to the eponymous film by Sergei Eisenstein ( October ) and set the tone of the intellectual, politically committed writing that became the magazine's trademark. The journal was partly responsible for introducing post-structuralist theories into the English-speaking academic world.
October's other notable editors later included Douglas Crimp , Yve-Alain Bois , Hal Foster and Benjamin HD Buchloh , Pamela M. Lee and Leah Dickermann .
content
The focus of October is on contemporary art - film, painting, music, media, photography, performance, sculpture and literature - and their different socio-critical interpretative contexts.