But the idea of transformation has always been something that I romanticize in a work. I’m cautious of it but I also need it to connect my thoughts with the process of making. That’s really important.
—
Nari Ward
The Rose Tower by Giorgio de Chirico
- Autumn Melancholy by Janet Hamill
- Memory (One Kind of Time) by Kathy Acker
- Prelude to Delay the End by Liliana Ramos Collado
- Four Poems by Mutabaruka
- Four Poems by Nancy Morejón
- Murder in the Bog: A Mungo Stank Story by Patrick McGrath
- There is a Country in the World by Pedro Mir
- Three Poems by Janet Hamill
- Robber by Andrew Beddoe
- même le soleil est nu by Anthony Phelps
- Memories of the Chalkstone Years by Dawad Philip
- A Glimpse of Robert Musil by Edouard Roditi
- The Cross by Felix Morrisseau LeRoy
- Five Poems by Georges Castera
First Proof
- Meat Show by Robert Delford Brown
- Meditations on the Red Mass by Ann McCoy
- Bird in Hand by Mark DeMuro
- Self-Portrait by Maurice Grosser
- Young Christ Jesus by David Walter McDermott & Mssrs. McDermott
- Flora by Ophrah Shemesh
- Black Slipping by Peter Blake
- Two Drawings by Roberto Juarez
- Two Photographs by Sarah Charlesworth
- Untitled Drawing by Stephen Hale
- Two Photographs by Susan Unterberg
- Knowledge from the Foreign Fields by Carl Apfelschnitt
- Theatrical by David Walter McDermott & Peter McGough
- The Nostalgia of the Infinite by Giorgio de Chirico
- The Rose Tower by Giorgio de Chirico
- Head of Apollo by Unknown Artists
- Ornament by Suzanne Joelson
- Sacre Coeur for Proinsias Stagg by Ann McCoy
- Torso of an Ephebos
- Two Photographs by Tom Drahos
- Blood of a Poet Box by Eleanor Antin
- Portrait of Maurice Grosser by Virgil Thomson
- The Seal of Life by Carl Apfelschnitt
- Heads by Yves Oppenheim
- Two Drawings by Dan Asher
- Two Drawings by Francesco Clemente
- Two Paintings by George Condo
- Two Photographs by Kate Simon
More
Giorgio de Chirico, The Rose Tower, 1913, 29½ × 39½ inches.
Related
Black-and-white photograph, The Artist on Holiday by Geralyn Donahue.
Two photographs of serene, water-filled landscapes, Patrick and Amazon by Sally Gall.
Painting by Giorgio de Chirico, 1913–14, 53 × 23½ inches.
Originally published in
BOMB 14,
Winter 1986
Roy Lichtenstein, Jackie Winsor, art by Sarah Charlesworth, Francesco Clemente, and more.
