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NUMBER Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2014 https://archive.org/details/remakinghistorydOObarb REMAKING HISTORY Dia Art Foundation Discussions in Contemporary Culture Number 4 REMAKING HISTORY Edited by Barbara Kruger and Phil Mariani BAY PRESS S EATT L E 19 89 — © 1989 Dia Art Foundation All rights reserved. No part ofthis book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher and author. Printed in the United States ofAmerica 95 94 93 92 91 5 4 3 2 1 Bay Press 115 West Denny Way Seattle, Washington 98119 Design by BethanyJohns Typesetting by The Sarabande Press, NewYork Printing by Edwards Brothers, Lillington, North Carolina Set in Perpetua LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-Publication Data (Revised for no. 4) Discussions in Contemporary Culture. Nos. 1-2 edited by Hal Foster. No. 3 edited by Gary Garrels. No. 4 edited by Barbara Kruger and Phil Mariani. — Contents: no. 1 [without special title]. no. 2. Vision and visuality. — no. 3. The work ofAndy Warhol. no. 4. Remaking history. 1. History and culture. 2. Historiography. I. Kruger, Barbara. II. Mariani, Phil. III. Dia Art Foundation. N72.S6D57 1987 700'.1'03 87-71579 ISBN 0-941920-12-0 (no. 4: pbk.) Carol Squiers's article, "At Their Mercy," is a compilation and edited version ofarticles published inArforum, Summer 1988, September 1988, November 1988, and March 1989. © Artforum and the author 1988, 1989; reprinted here by permission ofthe author andArtforum. Homi K. Bhabha's article, "Remembering Fanon," originally appeared as the preface to the British edition ofFrantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks (London: Pluto Press Limited, 1986), and is reprinted by permission ofthe author. iv CONTENTS Barbara Kruger and Phil Mariani INTRODUCTION Edward W. Said YEATS AND DECOLONIZATION Paula A. Treichler AIDS AND HIV INFECTION IN THE THIRD WORLD: A FIRST WORLD CHRONICLE Cornel West BLACK CULTURE AND POSTMODERNISM Michele Wallace READING 1968 AND THE GREAT AMERICAN WH TEWASH I Janet Abu-Lughod ON THE REMAKING OF HISTORY: HOW TO REINVENT THE PAST Homi K. Bhabha REMEMBERING FANON: SELF, PSYCHE, AND THE COLONIAL CONDITION Alice Yaeger Kaplan THEWELEIT AND SPIEGELMAN: OF MEN AND MICE J. Hoberman VIETNAM: THE REMAKE Carol Squiers AT THEIR MERCY: A READING OF PICTURES FROM 1988 Victoria de Grazia THE ARTS OF PURCHASE: HOW AMERICAN PUBLICITY SUBVERTED THE EUROPEAN POSTER, 1920-1940 Bernard Tschumi DE-, DIS-, EX- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak WHO CLAIMS ALTERITY? A NOTE ON THE SERIES In 1987, the Dia Art Foundation initiated a commitment to crit- ical discussion and debate through a program oflectures and symposia, with related publications in some cases, called "Dis- cussions in Contemporary Culture." Events in the series are or- ganized usually by artists, scholars, and critics from outside the Dia Foundation. More ambitious lectures or symposia are tran- scribed and edited, sometimes with related contributed essays, furthering the "Discussions in Contemporary Culture" publica- tion series. We look forward to the continuation ofthis series as a chronicle for topics ofconcern to cultural communities in downtown Manhattan and, through our publications, to broader national communities. This is the fourth volume we have published. It documents lectures that took place over several months in 1987-88, and in- cludes several commissioned essays, all ofwhich treat from vari- ous perspectives alternatives to the received, standard, or official histories ofdifferent cultures, eras, ideas. We are very grateful to the lecturers who participated in the series and the writers who contributed to this publication for their research and thought on the question of"remaking" history. The entire project was con- ceived and organized by Barbara Kruger and Phil Mariani. Phil Mariani also acted as coordinator ofthis publication, and we are particularly grateful to her for her careful and thoughtful work. The Dia staffworked under pressure both in the planning ofthe lecture series and in the production ofthe publication. We also thank Bethany Johns, our designer, and Thatcher Bailey, our publisher at Bay Press. As always, the continued support ofour programming by the Board ofDirectors ofthe Dia Foundation has made this project possible. CharlesWright Executive Director Dia Art Foundation vii
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