TY - BOOK AU - Krauss,Rosalind E. TI - Perpetual inventory SN - 9780262518727 (pbk.) : AV - N6490 .K73 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - MIT Press KW - Krauss, Rosalind. KW - Krauss, Rosalind E., KW - Art, Modern KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Art criticism KW - fast KW - Kunstkritik KW - gnd KW - Ästhetik KW - swd KW - Aufsatzsammlung N1 - An October book; Includes bibliographical references and index; I. Post-medium Condition -- II. Medium -- III. Art Criticism -- IV. Apostate -- V. Formless -- VI. Subject of the Sign N2 - This volume contains a collection of essays -- spanning three decades -- of the writings of American art critic and theorist Rosalind E. Krauss (b. 1941). Krauss is a leading voice among modern art historians, prominent in the field of deconstructionist, feminist, and psychoanalytical art criticism. Krauss examines what she has come to call the "post-medium condition"--The abandonment by contemporary art of the modernist emphasis on the medium as the source of artistic significance. Krauss maintains that master narrative of contemporary art ended when conceptual art and other contemporary practices jettisoned the specific medium in order to juxtapose image and written text in the same work ER -