Zen for Record

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FORTHCOMING Summer 2026

Zen for Record gathers five essays around Ken Friedman’s 1966 Fluxus event score instructing the production of “a phonograph record with no sound on it.” Originating as a found object, the work has migrated across six decades and multiple incarnations, from an unrealized concept to the LP edition that occasions this volume. These essays accompany[…]

Aesthetic Anthropology: Theory and Analysis of Pop and Conceptual Art in America

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FORTHCOMING Fall 2026

In Aesthetic Anthropology, Marilyn Ekdahl Ravicz makes the case that anthropology — long focused on “primitive” art and non-Western ritual — possesses untapped theoretical resources for analyzing the art of contemporary Western societies. Drawing on structuralism, symbolic anthropology, and the sociology of knowledge, Ravicz constructs a cross-cultural framework for understanding art as a system of[…]