Hyperframes:  Un Discorso sulla Post-Appropriazione in Arte
(“The Yale Lectures”)
by Collins & Milazzo.

With Introductory Essays by GianCarlo Pagliasso, Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo.
Compiled, and with a translation, by GianCarlo Pagliasso, with additional translations by Renato Ghiazza.
2 of 3 original Volumes published in English in 1989 and 1990, republished in Italian in 2005, including Volume 3, unpublished in the English edition.
176 pages, with a black and white photograph of the authors on the frontispiece and on the back cover by Robin Weglinski, 1983; 15 black and white and 16 color reproductions; and a color reproduction on the cover of a work by Robert Gober, Corner Bed, 1986-87.
9.25 x 6.5 in., sewn, printed and bound in Italy.
ISBN:  88-456-0680-5.
First edition: 2005.
Udine, Italy:  Campanotto, 2005.

OP IN THE U.S.

Hyperframes:  A Post-Appropriation Discourse in Art, based on six lectures delivered by Collins & Milazzo at Yale University in 1988 and 1989, provides the reader with a history of the new conceptual art of the 1980s.  At issue in the book are the cultural phenomena of reification, critical photography, conceptual abstract painting, and Postmodernism.  In the course of these analyses, Collins & Milazzo provide, in their own inimitable and controversial style, a veritable onslaught of theoretical and ‘post-critical’ frames through which to release (rather than merely describe or judge) art from the habits of language and perception.

Their writings as ‘critics’ and their ‘vision’ as curators fostered both a new critical language and a new active mode of seeing.  This, in turn, allowed them to construct a non-reflexive ‘History’ of new art forms, a ‘critical Spectacle,’ or anti-criticism — a form of working that permitted Collins & Milazzo to function paradoxically, and ultimately, as advocates of a whole new generation of artists, among whom must be counted Ross Bleckner, James Welling, Peter Nadin, Kevin Larmon, Steven Parrino, Richard Prince, Peter Nagy, Sarah Charlesworth, Mark Innerst, Gretchen Bender, Allan McCollum, Peter Halley, Jonathan Lasker, Haim Steinbach, Jeff Koons, Philip Taaffe, Robert Gober, Not Vital, Saint Clair Cemin, Annette Lemieux, Sal Scarpitta, Meg Webster, Lawrence Carroll, and Vik Muniz.

Besides the six lectures, this Italian edition of Hyperframes includes the statements and catalogue essays for the twenty-six exhibitions Collins & Milazzo curated in commercial gallery spaces and museums in the United States and Europe from March 1984 to February 1989, shows such as The New Capital, Paravision, Spiritual America, Modern Sleep, The Antique Future, Extreme Order, The New Poverty, Media Post Media, Art at the End of the Social, Hybrid Neutral, and Pre-Pop Post-Appropriation.  Many of these texts had never been published before.  It includes also the third volume of the lectures, which had, until this edition, remained unpublished.  This thrid volume remains unpublished in the original English.

Hyperframes:  A Post-Appropriation Discourse in Art is a record of Collins & Milazzo’s contribution to American Art of the 1980s.