Rosalind Krauss

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Rosalind Epstein Krauss (born November 30, 1941 in Washington, DC ) is an American art critic and theorist, professor and curator .

life and work

Krauss has taught at Wellesley College , the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Princeton University , Hunter College, and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York . Since 1992 she has been Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory at Columbia University , New York, where she became a University Professor in 2005 .

As a critic and theorist, she has published in Artforum , Art International and Art in America since 1965 . She was co-editor of Artforum from 1971 to 1974 and editor of October , a journal for contemporary art criticism and theory, which she co-founded in 1976. Their role model inspired Yve-Alain Bois and Benjamin HD Buchloh to emigrate to the USA. She herself is influenced by the American art critic Clement Greenberg .

Krauss is known for her studies of 20th century painting, sculpture and photography. She tries to understand the phenomenon of modern art in its historical, theoretical and formal dimensions. Krauss' strength is to translate the ephemeral nature of the visual and physical experiences into precise, lively English. In her investigations into the development of photography, the history of which runs parallel to that of modern painting and sculpture, she reveals previously neglected phenomena in "high art", such as the role of indexicality or the function of the archive. She is interested in concepts such as the formlessness, the optically unconscious or the pasticcio . She entrusts the artist with the task of wresting the observer's habits from the conventionalized, ossified, academic and ultimately false norms.

The peculiarity of Krauss as an art historian is to make the experience of art understandable through philosophical categories. Her work has contributed to establishing the positions of thinkers such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty , Ferdinand de Saussure , Jacques Lacan , Jean-Francois Lyotard , Jacques Derrida , Georges Bataille and Roland Barthes in the art sciences.

In 1994 Krauss was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2012 to the American Philosophical Society .

Literature (German)

  • Cindy Sherman. Works from 1975 to 1993 (together with Norman Bryson), Munich: Schirmer / Mosel (1993)
  • The photographic. A theory of distances , Munich: Fink (1998)
  • The originality of the avant-garde and other myths of modernity , Amsterdam a. Dresden: Verlag der Kunst (2000)
  • "A Voyage on the North Sea" , Zurich / Berlin: diaphanes (2008)
  • The optical unconscious , Hamburg: Philo Fine Arts (2011)

Literature (english)

  • Terminal Iron Works: The Sculpture of David Smith . Cambridge, Mass .: MIT Press, 1971.
  • The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalog Raisonné . Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 73. New York: Garland, 1977.
  • The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths . Cambridge, Mass .: MIT Press, 1985.
  • L'Amour fou: Photography & Surrealism . London: Arts Council, 1986. Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, July to September 1986.
  • Richard Serra / Sculpture , New York: Museum of Modern Art (1986)
  • Beverly Pepper: Sculpture in Place , New York: Abbeville Press Inc. (1986)
  • The Optical Unconscious (1993)
  • Formless. A User's Guide , Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press (1997)
  • A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition (1999)
  • The Picasso Papers , Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press (1999)
  • Bachelors , Cambridge (Mass.) / London: MIT Press (1999)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member History: Rosalind Krauss. American Philosophical Society, accessed January 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Krauss, Rosalind
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krauss, Rosalind E .; Krauss, Rosalind Epstein; Epstein, Rosalind (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art critic and theorist, professor and curator
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC