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  • David Robbins: The Velvet Grind: Selected Essays, Interviews, Satires (1983-2005) by Fabrice Stroun book cover
  • David Robbins: The Velvet Grind: Selected Essays, Interviews, Satires (1983-2005) by Fabrice Stroun book cover
  • David Robbins: The Velvet Grind: Selected Essays, Interviews, Satires (1983-2005) by Fabrice Stroun book cover
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David Robbins: The Velvet Grind: Selected Essays, Interviews, Satires (1983-2005)

by Fabrice Stroun

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Art, media, and the culture industry

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Art, media, and the culture industry

Spanning writings from 1983 to 2005, this collection brings together David Robbins’s essays, interviews, satires, and contributions to his “Institute for Advanced Comedic Behavior.” Its subjects range from the art world’s relationship with the culture industry to the spectacle, the artist’s position in visual culture, and the spectator’s role. Interviews with Richard Prince, Allan McCollum, and Clegg & Gutman sit alongside pieces on television, Hollywood, and Andy Warhol. The collection offers several points of entry into Robbins’s engagement with art and popular media, while its mix of critical writing and comedy keeps that range visible.

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  • Readers interested in art criticism and artists’ changing roles in visual culture.
  • Readers exploring connections between contemporary art, television, Hollywood, and popular culture.
  • Readers seeking a collection that combines essays, interviews, and satire.

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Art and the culture industrySpectacle and visual cultureThe artist and spectatorTelevision, Hollywood, and popular mediaComedy and satire

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Book overview

Asked to contribute to Artforum's "Top Ten" column, David Robbins used one of his entries for "Electricity: That we don't annually celebrate Electricity Day is unfathomable." That sense of whimsy, even amid an advanced critical sensibility, makes this collection of essays from the past quarter century a great read. A regular contributor to magazines such as Real Life (in the 1980s), Purple Prose (in the 1990s) and Artforum, Robbins is one of the first artists and critics to investigate the art world's entrance into the culture industry. His work reflects on the spectacle, the transformation of the position of the artist in the visual system, and the future role of the spectator in art. This publication also brings together his key interviews with Richard Prince, Allan McCollum and Clegg & Gutman; his writings on television, Hollywood and Warhol; and contributions to his "Institute for Advanced Comedic Behavior."
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