Selected Publications

2015

“Rilke's Magic Lantern: Figural Language and the Projection of ‘Interior Action’ in the Rodin Lecture,” in Interiors and Interiority, ed. Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Beate Söntgen (Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming November 2015). Print.

2014

“Rosemarie Trockel’s Idea of Relief,” in Parkett 95 (December 2014). Print.

 “Studio Sessions: On ‘The Order of Time and Things: The Home Studio of Hanne Darboven’ at Museo Nacional Centro de Art Reina Sofía, Madrid,” in Texte zur Kunst 96 (December 2014). Print.

“Titles and Compositions: On Rosemarie Trockel at Gladstone Gallery, New York,” in Texte zur Kunst 94 (May 2014). Print.

Less sauvages than others: On Rosemarie Trockel’s A Cosmos,” in Afterall (Spring 2014). Print.

“Interior Motives,” in Cahiers d’Art Revue, No. 2 (2014). Print.

2013

“Rilke's Magic Lantern,” in The Challenge of the Object / Die Herausforderung des Objekts, Congress Proceedings of the CIHA 2012, ed. G. Ulrich Großmann and Petra Kruitsch (Nürnberg: Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 2013). Print.

“Monster, Medusa, Vera icon: Gesichter und deren Verlegung in Rosemarie Trockels Kunst,” in Gesichter: Kulturgeschichtliche Szenen aus der Arbeit am Bildnis des Menschen, ed. Sigrid Weigel (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2013). Print.

She Is Dead. The Disfiguration of Origins in Rosemarie Trockel’s Collages,” in Rosemarie Trockel: Flagrant Delight, ed. Dirk Snauwaert (Paris: BlackJack Editions, 2013), pp. 134-147. Print.

2011

“Dada in Germany: ‘The Disfiguration of the Contemporary World’,” in The Mad Square: Modernity in German Art, 1910-1937, ed. Jacqueline Strecker (Sydney: Art Gallery New South Wales, 2011), pp. 77-92.

2010

“The Work of Art and the Problem of Politics in Berlin Dada” (2003), reprinted in Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects: Rethinking the Political Culture of Germany in the 1920s, ed. Kathleen Canning, Kerstin Barndt, Kristin McGuire (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2010). Print.

“Rosemarie Trockel’s Monsters,” in Rosemarie Trockel: Drawings, Collages and Book Drafts, ed. Anita Haldemann (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2010), pp. 102-35. In English and German. Print.

 “Animated Origins, Origins of Animation,” in Animism (Berlin: Sternberg, 2010), pp. 126-131. Print.

“End Note — Rosemarie Trockel,” MAP 24 (Winter Issue, December 2010): 112. Print.

“What Is There To Be Learned from Kitsch?” Cabinet 39 (November 2010): 82-89. Print.

2009

“Between the Artwork and Its ‘Actualization’: A Footnote to Art History in Benjamin’s ‘Work of Art’ Essay,” Paragraph 32.3 (2009). Print.

“László Moholy-Nagy: Constructions in Enamel, 1923,” in Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity, ed. Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2009). Print.

2008

The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility and Other Writings on Media, coedited with Michael W. Jennings and Thomas Y. Levin (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008). Print.

Rosemarie Trockel: Eiserner Vorhang / Safety Curtain 2008-2009. Museum in Progress in collaboration with Staatsoper Wien. Vienna, 2008. Print.

“The Museum of Learning Things,” in Manifesta 7: Index, ed. Anselm Franke and Hila Peleg, exhibition catalogue to Manifesta 7: The European Biennial of Contemporary Art (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2008), p. 169. Print.

“Learning Things,” in Manifesta 7: Companion, ed. Adam Budak (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2008), pp. 238-257. Print.

2007

Introjektion, Übertragung, and literarische Medienreflexionen in Rainer Maria Rilke’s Briefe über Cézanne,” in Literarische Medienreflexionen, ed. Dieter Lamping, Sandra Poppe, Sascha Seiler (Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2007), pp. 40-64.

 2006

“The Colportage Phenomenon of Space and the Place of Montage in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project,” in Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project, ed. Beatrice Hanssen (London and New York: Continuum International Publishing Group/Athlone Press, Walter Benjamin Studies Series, 2006), pp. 157-183. Revised and expanded version of article of the same name published in Germanic Review, Winter 2006.

“On Iceberg and Water. Or, Painting and the ‘Mark of Genre’ in Rosemarie Trockel’s Wool-Pictures,” MLN, Spring 2006, pp. 720-739. Revised and expanded version of essay in the exhibition catalogue Rosemarie Trockel. Post-Menopause (2005). Print.

 “The Colportage Phenomenon of Space and the Place of Montage in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project,” Germanic Review, Winter 2006, pp. 37-64. Print.

 “Dwelling on ‘Spaces’,” in Women Artists at the Millennium, ed. Carol Armstrong and Catherine de Zegher (Cambridge, Mass.: October Books/MIT Press, 2006), pp. 219-240. Print.

 “Dada,” in Encyclopedia of Modern Europe: Europe Since 1914 — Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction, edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter, pp. 766-768 (Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006), Volume 2, pp. 766-768. Print.

 “Fassbinder, Rainer Werner,” in Encyclopedia of Modern Europe: Europe Since 1914 — Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction, edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter, pp. 766-768 (Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006), Volume 2, pp. 1071-1073. Print.

“Iceberg e Acqua. Ovvero la pittura e il ‘segno di genere’ nei lavori in lana di Rosemarie Trockel,” in Rosemarie Trockel: Post-Menopause, ed. Barbara Engelbach. Exhibition catalogue, MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome (Cologne: Walther König, 2006), pp. 52-64. Italian translation of essay originally published in the exhibition catalogue Rosemarie Trockel: Post-Menopause, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2005). Print.

 2005

“Max Ernst: A Retrospective,” review essay, Artforum, September 2005, pp. 295-296, 332, 347. Print.

“On Iceberg and Water. Or, Painting and the ‘Mark of Genre’ in Rosemarie Trockel’s Wool-Pictures,” in Rosemarie Trockel: Post-Menopause, ed. Barbara Engelbach. Museum Ludwig, Cologne (Cologne: Walther König, 2005), pp. 42-54; published in German and English. Print.

“Berlin,” in Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Cologne, Hanover, New York, Paris, ed. Leah Dickerman. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (New York: DAP, 2005), pp. 84-113. Print.

 2004

“La Obra de Arte y el Problema de la Politica en el Dadaismo Berlines,” Cultura Moderna, Spring 2004, pp. 9-30. Spanish translation of “The Work of Art and the Problem of Politics in Berlin Dada,” originally published in October 105, Summer 2003. Print.

“Photography, Typography, and the Modernization of Reading,” in New History of German Literature, ed. David E. Wellbery, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Anton Kaes, Joseph Koerner, Dorothea von Mücke, and Judith Ryan (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004), pp. 733-738. Print.

2003

Introduction to Wieland Herzfelde, “Introduction to the First International Dada Fair,” October 105, Summer 2003, pp. 93-99. Print.

“The Work of Art and the Problem of Politics in Berlin Dada,” October 105, Summer 2003, pp. 73-92. Print.

“Introduction to the First International Dada Fair,” translation of 1920 exhibition catalogue by Wieland Herzfelde, October 105, Summer 2003, pp. 100-104. Print.

 2000

“Test and Gestus in Brecht and Benjamin,” MLN, vol. 115 no. 4, April 2000, pp. 442-81. Print.

 1999

“Hanne Darboven’s ‘Real Writing’ of History,” Hanne Darboven: Menschen und Landschaften, ed. Kira van Lil, Hallen für Neue Kunst, Schaffenhausen (Hamburg: Christians, 1999), pp. 31-46; published in German and English. Print.

Hanne Darboven: Works 1969/1972/1983, co-authored with Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass., 1999. Print.

1998

“Figures of the Pseudorevolution,” October 84, Spring 1998, pp. 65-89. Print.

 1997

“‘See: We Are All Neurasthenics!’ or, The Trauma of Dada Montage,” Critical Inquiry, vol. 24 no. 1, Autumn 1997, pp. 82-132. Print.

 1995

“Fashionable Ladies, Dada Dandies,” Art Journal, vol. 54, Spring 1995, pp. 46-49. Print.

“Fashion,” translation of 1924 manifesto by Raoul Hausmann, Art Journal, vol. 54, Spring 1995, pp. 49-50. Print