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| Discipline | Contemporary art |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Adam Lehner |
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| History | 1976–present |
| Publisher | MIT Press (United States) |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
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| ISO 4 | October |
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| ISSN | 0162-2870 (print) 1536-013X (web) |
| LCCN | 2001-213401 |
| JSTOR | 01622870 |
| OCLC no. | 47273509 |
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October is anacademic journal specializing incontemporary art,criticism, andtheory, published byMIT Press.
October was established in 1976 in New York byJeremy Gilbert-Rolfe (who resigned from the journal after the third issue),Rosalind E. Krauss,Annette Michelson andLucio Pozzi (who withdrew before the first issue was published). The founders of the journal were originally known as "Octoberists".[1] Its name is a reference to theEisenstein film[1][2] that set the tone of intellectual, politically engaged writing that has been the hallmark of the journal. The journal was a participant in introducing Frenchpost-structural theory on the English-speaking academic scene.[1][3] According toThe Art Story, Krauss used the journal "as a way to publish essays on her emergent ideas on post-structuralist art theory,Deconstructionist theory,psychoanalysis,postmodernism andfeminism".[1]Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, one of the co-founders of the journal, withdrew after only a few issues, and by the spring of 1977,Douglas Crimp joined the editorial team. In 1990, after Crimp left the journal, Krauss and Michelson were joined byYve-Alain Bois,Hal Foster,Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Denis Hollier, andJohn Rajchman.[4]
As well as in-depth articles and reviews of 20th century andcontemporary art, the journal features critical interpretations of cinema and popular culture from aprogressive viewpoint.
According toEncyclopædia Britannica, the journal was an "influential vehicle for the debate surrounding the emergence of postmodernism and New Historicism in 20th-century art-historical studies", and the journal "contributed greatly to Anglo-American academics' adoption of French theoretical innovations, especially those pertaining to the analysis of cinema".[5]The Art Story describes the journal as "significant for revisiting and stressing the historical importance of early modes of 20th-century avant-garde art, such as Cubism, Surrealism and Expressionism".[1]
MIT Press has released two anthologies of articles[6][7] and a book series.
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