Rosalyn Deutsche teaches modern and contemporary art at Barnard College and Columbia University. She is the author of Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics and Hiroshima After Iraq: Three Studies in Art and War.

“Deutsche’s writing brilliantly reveals the complexities and tensions of a period that no one categorical designation can fully encompass. Her deep, sustained relationships with many of the artists she writes about make this collection invaluable to writers and artists as a model for balancing affective engagement with rigorous critical fairness and independence.”

• IntroductionPart One: Psychoanalytic Feminism1 Not-Forgetting: Mary Kelly’s Love Songs (2006)2 Inadequacy: Silvia Kolbowski’s History of Conceptual Art (2004)3 Darkness: The Emergence of James Welling (2002)4 Breaking Ground: Barbara Kruger’s Spatial Practice (1999)5 Louise Lawler’s Rude Museum (2006)Part Two: Radical Democracy6 Christopher D’Arcangelo’s Elliptical Interruptions (2020)7 The Art of Not Being Governed Quite So Much: Hans Haacke’s Polls (2007)8 Art from Guantánamo Bay (2020)9 Reasonable Urbanism (1999)Part Three: War Resistance10 Un-War: An Aesthetic Sketch (2014)11 Museum of Innocence (2014)12 “We don’t need another hero”: War and Public Memory (2017)13 Louise Lawler’s Play Technique (2017)14 Mary Kelly’s Attunement (2017/2020)15 Martha Rosler’s Unrest (2018)AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Rosalyn Deutsche teaches modern and contemporary art at Barnard College and Columbia University. She is the author of Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics and Hiroshima After Iraq: Three Studies in Art and War.

“Deutsche’s writing brilliantly reveals the complexities and tensions of a period that no one categorical designation can fully encompass. Her deep, sustained relationships with many of the artists she writes about make this collection invaluable to writers and artists as a model for balancing affective engagement with rigorous critical fairness and independence.”

• IntroductionPart One: Psychoanalytic Feminism1 Not-Forgetting: Mary Kelly’s Love Songs (2006)2 Inadequacy: Silvia Kolbowski’s History of Conceptual Art (2004)3 Darkness: The Emergence of James Welling (2002)4 Breaking Ground: Barbara Kruger’s Spatial Practice (1999)5 Louise Lawler’s Rude Museum (2006)Part Two: Radical Democracy6 Christopher D’Arcangelo’s Elliptical Interruptions (2020)7 The Art of Not Being Governed Quite So Much: Hans Haacke’s Polls (2007)8 Art from Guantánamo Bay (2020)9 Reasonable Urbanism (1999)Part Three: War Resistance10 Un-War: An Aesthetic Sketch (2014)11 Museum of Innocence (2014)12 “We don’t need another hero”: War and Public Memory (2017)13 Louise Lawler’s Play Technique (2017)14 Mary Kelly’s Attunement (2017/2020)15 Martha Rosler’s Unrest (2018)AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Rosalyn Deutsche teaches modern and contemporary art at Barnard College and Columbia University. She is the author of Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics and Hiroshima After Iraq: Three Studies in Art and War.

“Deutsche’s writing brilliantly reveals the complexities and tensions of a period that no one categorical designation can fully encompass. Her deep, sustained relationships with many of the artists she writes about make this collection invaluable to writers and artists as a model for balancing affective engagement with rigorous critical fairness and independence.”

• IntroductionPart One: Psychoanalytic Feminism1 Not-Forgetting: Mary Kelly’s Love Songs (2006)2 Inadequacy: Silvia Kolbowski’s History of Conceptual Art (2004)3 Darkness: The Emergence of James Welling (2002)4 Breaking Ground: Barbara Kruger’s Spatial Practice (1999)5 Louise Lawler’s Rude Museum (2006)Part Two: Radical Democracy6 Christopher D’Arcangelo’s Elliptical Interruptions (2020)7 The Art of Not Being Governed Quite So Much: Hans Haacke’s Polls (2007)8 Art from Guantánamo Bay (2020)9 Reasonable Urbanism (1999)Part Three: War Resistance10 Un-War: An Aesthetic Sketch (2014)11 Museum of Innocence (2014)12 “We don’t need another hero”: War and Public Memory (2017)13 Louise Lawler’s Play Technique (2017)14 Mary Kelly’s Attunement (2017/2020)15 Martha Rosler’s Unrest (2018)AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex