Artforum International - Vol. 36, No. 4 December 1997

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Top row, left to right: Dinos and Jake Chapman, Six Feet Under, 1997, fiberglass, resin, and paint, dimensions variable. Installation view. Left to right: GoGo Fuckface and Joey. Robert Rauschenberg, The ¼ Mile or 2 Furlong Piece, 1981–, mixed media, currently consisting of 189 elements, dimensions variable. Installation view, Ace Gallery, New York, 1997. Joe Brainard, Garden, 1967, gouache, 37 x 27“. Carsten Höller and Rosemarie Trockel, Ein Haus für Schweine und Menschen (A house for pigs and men), 1997, mixed media and pigs; house ca. 13' 1 ½” x 39' 4 ½“ x 19' 8”, garden ca. 1,200 square feet. Installation view. Photo: Arno Declair. Middle row, left to right: “Ellsworth Kelly,” 1997. Installation view, Guggenheim Museum, New York. William S. Burroughs, 1962. Photo: Corbis-Bettmann. Richard Patterson, Young Minotaur (detail), 1997, oil on canvas, 82 ¼ x 48 ¼“. Robert Gober, Untitled, 1995–97, mixed media, dimensions variable. Installation view. Photo: Russell Kaye. Bottom row, left to right: David Cronenberg, Crash, 1996, detail of a still from a color film in 35mm, 100 minutes. Catherine Ballard (Deborah Unger). Wong Kar-Wai, Happy Together, 1997 detail of a still from a color film in 35mm, 90 minutes. Left to right: Lai Yiu-Fai (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) and Ho Po-Wing (Leslie Cheung Kwok-Wing). Flowers at the gates of Kensington Palace before the start of Princess Diana's funeral, London, September 1997. Photo: AP/Bebeto Matthews. Elizabeth Peyton, Beck (detail), 1996, watercolor on paper, 12 x 9”.

December 1997 Vol. 36, No. 4

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In this issue

LETTERS

Dan Cameron on the Endless Biennial

Peter Plagens on Drear and Loathing

Greil Marcus on the Afterlife

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