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REMAKING HISTORY
Dia Art Foundation
Discussions in Contemporary Culture
Number 4
REMAKING HISTORY
Edited by Barbara Kruger and Phil Mariani
BAY PRESS S EATT L E 19 89
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1989 Dia Art Foundation
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LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-Publication Data
(Revised for no. 4)
Discussions in Contemporary Culture.
Nos. 1-2 edited by Hal Foster. No. 3 edited by Gary Garrels. No. 4
edited by Barbara Kruger and Phil Mariani.
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Contents: no. 1 [without special title]. no. 2. Vision and visuality.
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no. 3. The work ofAndy Warhol. no. 4. Remaking history.
1. History and culture. 2. Historiography.
I. Kruger, Barbara. II. Mariani, Phil. III. Dia Art Foundation.
N72.S6D57 1987 700'.1'03 87-71579
ISBN 0-941920-12-0 (no. 4: pbk.)
Carol Squiers's article, "At Their Mercy," is a compilation and edited
version ofarticles published inArforum, Summer 1988, September
1988, November 1988, and March 1989. © Artforum and the author
1988, 1989; reprinted here by permission ofthe author andArtforum.
Homi K. Bhabha's article, "Remembering Fanon," originally appeared
as the preface to the British edition ofFrantz Fanon's Black Skin, White
Masks (London: Pluto Press Limited, 1986), and is reprinted by
permission ofthe author.
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CONTENTS
Barbara Kruger and Phil Mariani
INTRODUCTION
Edward W. Said
YEATS AND DECOLONIZATION
Paula A. Treichler
AIDS AND HIV INFECTION IN THE THIRD
WORLD: A FIRST WORLD CHRONICLE
Cornel West
BLACK CULTURE AND POSTMODERNISM
Michele Wallace
READING 1968 AND THE GREAT AMERICAN
WH TEWASH
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Janet Abu-Lughod
ON THE REMAKING OF HISTORY: HOW TO
REINVENT THE PAST
Homi K. Bhabha
REMEMBERING FANON: SELF, PSYCHE, AND
THE COLONIAL CONDITION
Alice Yaeger Kaplan
THEWELEIT AND SPIEGELMAN: OF MEN
AND MICE
J. Hoberman
VIETNAM: THE REMAKE
Carol Squiers
AT THEIR MERCY: A READING OF PICTURES
FROM 1988
Victoria de Grazia
THE ARTS OF PURCHASE: HOW AMERICAN
PUBLICITY SUBVERTED THE EUROPEAN
POSTER, 1920-1940
Bernard Tschumi
DE-, DIS-, EX-
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
WHO CLAIMS ALTERITY?
A NOTE ON THE SERIES
In 1987, the Dia Art Foundation initiated a commitment to crit-
ical discussion and debate through a program oflectures and
symposia, with related publications in some cases, called "Dis-
cussions in Contemporary Culture." Events in the series are or-
ganized usually by artists, scholars, and critics from outside the
Dia Foundation. More ambitious lectures or symposia are tran-
scribed and edited, sometimes with related contributed essays,
furthering the "Discussions in Contemporary Culture" publica-
tion series. We look forward to the continuation ofthis series as
a chronicle for topics ofconcern to cultural communities in
downtown Manhattan and, through our publications, to broader
national communities.
This is the fourth volume we have published. It documents
lectures that took place over several months in 1987-88, and in-
cludes several commissioned essays, all ofwhich treat from vari-
ous perspectives alternatives to the received, standard, or official
histories ofdifferent cultures, eras, ideas. We are very grateful to
the lecturers who participated in the series and the writers who
contributed to this publication for their research and thought on
the question of"remaking" history. The entire project was con-
ceived and organized by Barbara Kruger and Phil Mariani. Phil
Mariani also acted as coordinator ofthis publication, and we are
particularly grateful to her for her careful and thoughtful work.
The Dia staffworked under pressure both in the planning ofthe
lecture series and in the production ofthe publication. We also
thank Bethany Johns, our designer, and Thatcher Bailey, our
publisher at Bay Press.
As always, the continued support ofour programming by
the Board ofDirectors ofthe Dia Foundation has made this
project possible.
CharlesWright
Executive Director
Dia Art Foundation
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