Craig Owens (critic)

Craig Owens (critic)

Craig Owens (1950 – 1990) was an American post-modernist art critic,[1] gay activist[2] and feminist.

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Biography

Craig Owens was a senior editor of Art in America,[3] a contributor to such scholarly journals as Skyline and October, a graduate of Haverford College, and a professor of art history at Yale University and Barnard College.[citation needed] He wrote many essays on such diverse topics as photography, feminism, gay politics, art in the marketplace, serial art, and psychoanalysis, as well as a number of seminal essays on individual contemporary individual artists, including Allan McCollum, William Wegman, and Barbara Kruger.

One of Owens's most influential essays was The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism, an article in two parts in which he explores the allegorical aspects of contemporary art. The two parts were published in the journal October in Spring 1980 and Summer 1980. In the first part Owen says that, "Allegorical imagery is appropriated imagery" (Owens, p54) and discerns an allegorical impulse at work in the appropriation art of artists such as Sherrie Levine. With reference to Walter Benjamin in The Origin of German Tragic Drama, he also links allegory with impermanence, the piling up of fragments and obsessional accumulation. These impulses can be seen, respectively, in site-specific art, photomontage and art that follows a mathematical progression (for instance Sol LeWitt). (Owens, p55-57). In the second part he considers the work of Laurie Anderson, Robert Rauschenberg and Cindy Sherman.[4]

Bibliography

Books

  • Beyond Recognition – Representation. Power, and Culture, Scott Bryson, Barbara Kruger, Lynne Tillman, Jane Weinstrock (eds.), Berkley, Los Angeles & London: University California Press, 1994.

Selected articles

  • "Earthwords" (1979).
  • "The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism" (1980).
  • "The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism (Part 2)" (1980).
  • "Representation, Appropriation, and Power" (1982).
  • "The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism" (1983).
  • "Outlaws: Gay Men in Feminism" (1987).
  • "’The Indignity of Speaking for Others’: An Imaginary Interview" (1983).
  • "Analysis Logical and Ideological" (1985).
  • "From Work to Frame, or, Is There Life After ’The Death of the Author’?" (1985).

References

  1. ^ Andy Grundberg, ' ART VIEW; As It Must to All, Death Comes To Post-Modernism', New York Times, September 16, 1990
  2. ^ Owens, Craig (1992), Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture, University of California Press, ISBN 0520077407 
  3. ^ Grace Glueck, ' ART: 'REPRESENTATION AND SEXUALITY,' MIXED MEDIA SHOW AT NEW MUSEUM', New York Times, January 4, 1985
  4. ^ Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Tendencies, Duke University Press, 1993, page 104

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