A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation
by: Goldstein, Ann and Mary Jane Jacob

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MOCA / MIT Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth with gilt and black stamping, 176 pages color & b/w pls. A fine exhibition catalogue featuring works by Jenny Holzer, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Laurie Simmons, Sherrie Levine, Cindy Sherman, Matt Mullican etc. The development of these issues and their role in shifting the focus of much recent art from insistence on the art as object, to a host of representations is addressed in four essays and a section of "artists' pages." In the first essay, exhibition co-organizer Ann Goldstein discusses the individual artists and points to key issues and methods in their art. The artists themselves are represented by a 60 page portfolio of their works. Designed by the artists, these pages include personal statements, the remarks of others, works made specifically for the book and works using the tools of mechanical reproduction.