Art Journal
Art Journal, Spring 2008
In This Issue
The Science of the Concrete
5
Artist’s Project
Debris and Immobility
6
Debris Field
9
Forum: Assemblage and Bricolage
The Anthropology of Assemblage
24
Assemblage, Bricolage, and the Practice of Everyday Life
31
“Committing the Perfect Crime”: Sexuality, Assemblage, and the Postmodern Turn in American Art
38
Arman’s System of Objects
54
Bric-a-Brac: The Everyday Work of Tom Friedman
68
Slums Do Stink: Artists, Bricolage, and Our Need for Doses of “Real” Life
82
Interview
From Reaching Heiligendamm: An Interview with Oliver Ressler
100
Reviews
Eric C. H. de Bruyn on David Joselit, Feedback: Television against Democracy; Dina Ramadan on Jessica Winegar, Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt; T’ai Smith on McKenzie Wark, Gamer Theory, and Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker, The Exploit: A Theory of Networks
115
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