>> CONTENTS April 2005
Issue No 285
13 NEWS
ARTNOTES
COVER Giovanni Anselmo Il panorama con mano che lo indica (Panorama with the hand pointing to it) detail 1982-84
01 FEATURES
Germany Calling Axel Lapp discusses recent attempts by artists to negotiate traumatic events in Germany’s past 07 Abstraction and
Appropriation Vincent Pécoil on the phenomenon of found abstraction
12 COMMENT
EDITORIAL
18 REVIEWS
EXHIBITIONS Jim Isermann Vincent Fecteau Jennifer Thatcher 20 Katy Dove
Morgan Falconer 21 Joseph Beuys
Deborah Schultz 22 Giovanni Anselmo
Ian Hunt 24 Jananne Al-Ani
Maria Walsh 25 An Aside
Eliza Williams 27 The World, Abridged
Martin Herbert 29 Tomoko Takahashi
Dan Smith 30 Urbanbodies
Amna Malik 31 Erika Tan
Nick Crowe 33 ARTISTS’ BOOKS
Archives Stephen Bury
34 BOOKS
Alois Riegl Joseph Masheck 35 Men in Black
Paul O’Neill 36 Thomas Lawson
Maria Fusco
37 REPORTS
NETWORKS Archiving Media Art Michael Gibbs 38 SALEROOMS
London Colin Gleadell
40 ARTLAW
Appropriation Henry Lydiate
42 LISTINGS
EXHIBITIONS
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