The Ruin of Exchange - And Other Writings on Art

The texts in this collection of John Miller's writing and criticism are divided into four sections : monographs, cultural essays, theory, and artist's statements. Throughout, Miller questions artistic, critical, and curatorial theories and practices front the singular position of an artist-writer. The writings relate 10 Miller's larger artistic concerns with the discursive content of the art object and its sociopolitical ramifications : they are also thoroughly informed by his theoretical and practical knowledge of art history and popular culture.
Richly textured and astutely argued, the essays in this volume provide a compréhensive document of one artist's engagement with the practical and philosophical problems of art, as well as an intellectually rigorous view of the aesthetic and political stakes of contemporary culture.