Public Fantasy

Published by ICA, 1991.

Available at Printed Matters, Inc

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SUMMARY While many artists use postmodernism as a buzzword, Judith Barry takes an active part in shaping its fundamental critical debates. Both as an artist and as a writer, Barry extends discussions of postmodern culture well beyond formal issues pertaining to the art or its purported demise. Instead, she confronts, with refreshing curiosity and intellectual rigor, the essential dilemma of the postmodern viewer: How does one define subjectivity in an age of radically transformed relationships between technology, perception, and individual identity? Intensely political, yet neither declamatory nor doctrinaire, these essays will provide stimulating reading for even the most cynical postmodernist.

Brian Wallis

Editor, Art in America