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Theft is Vision

table of contents
Introduction

Other Plans: John Miller


Chapter I

Some of 1971 (Fairies Wear Boots)
Everything I Know About Art I Learned from Andy Warhol and On Kawara
Painting the grassy Knoll: Wayne Gonzales
Phil Ochs. Gunfight at Carnegie Hall
The Stars and Stripes: Now On Sale Everywhere
Stephen Shore's American Surfaces
Traces of Corporeality in The Ramble


Chapter II

Some of 1981 (Written on the Wind)
John Armleder
McDermott & McGough
Philip Taaffe
Jeff Wall
Cady Noland, Publyck Sculpture
Whatever Happened to Laurie Parsons?
Camera Libido: The Photography of Walter Pfeiffer


Chapter III

Some of 1991 (What's In and What's Out)
Lily van der Stokker. We Have Gotten
Through Difficult Times or, Female Trouble: Brightening the Corners Since 1990
Art Chantry. Some People Can't Surf
Jamie Reid
Leigh Bowery. What Becomes a Legend Must
The Fall in: Palace of Swords Reversed
No New York: A Personal Account of the Downtown Scene, Late '70s/Early '80s (To the Best of My Recollection)
Johnny Vomit and the Dry Heaves. "Chokin' on a Lude"
Steven Parrino. The Return of Goo Goo Muck


Chapter IV

Some of 2001 (Two Prints of Ice Cream, a Can of Gasoline, and Some Other Plans)
Verne Dawson. Painting the Vernal Equinox, or, Party of the Green
Wolfgang Tillmans
Is Society at a Point Where Everyone
Is Becoming an Artist? Is Everything Art?
To Be Read (Once Every Two Years)
Questions About Art Criticism: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words. Are a Thousand Words Worth a Thousand Dollars
Kelley Walker. Collision's Course
Gregory Crewdson's Slight of Hand
Jules de Balincourt. Covert Operations
Gardar Eide Einarsson
How to Write About... Jutta Koether
Trisha Donnelly. Verdun Cemetery
Steven Parrino. Dark Star


Epilogue

And then all wars ended. Terry Riley


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