Criticism, Volume 56, Number 2, Spring 2014

Criticism provides a forum for current scholarship on literature, media, music and visual culture. A place for rigorous theoretical and critical debate as well as formal and methodological self-reflexivity and experimentation, Criticism aims to present contemporary thought at its most vital.

Criticism Volume 56, Number 2 (Spring 2014)
Jack Smith: Beyond the Rented World
A special issue edited by Marc Siegel

Table of Contents

Introduction
Marc Siegel

Batman and Dracula: The Collaborations of Jack Smith and Andy Warhol
Callie Angell

A History of Failure
Ann Reynolds

Modern Death: Jack Smith, Fred Herko, and Paul Thek
Dominic Johnson

Camp Materialism
Juliane Rebentisch

Wise Latinas
José Muñoz

Not Being Able to Work That Way as an Endangered Ability—Jack Smith, Das Kapital: Volumes I, II and III
Diedrich Diederichsen

Jack Smith: Notes on Some Homeless Objects
John Matturri

Jack Smith, Hélio Oiticica, Tropicalism
Juan. A. Suárez

Interviews/Archival Materials:

Do It Again! Do It Again! An Interview with Ronald Tavel
Matthias Haase and Marc Siegel

The Return of Mario Montez
Marc Siegel

Introduction to and Héliotape Mario Montez: A Discussion Between Hélio Oiticica and Mario Montez From 1971
Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz

Reviews

John Davies on Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture By Dominic Johnson

Ara Osterweil on Optic Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs by Michele Pierson