{"title":"Silvia Kolbowski","description":"\u003cp\u003eSilvia Kolbowski (born Buenos Aires, 1953) is an artist and writer whose practice has consistently engaged the politics of representation, desire, and institutional power. Working across photography, video, installation, and text, she was a significant figure in the New York art world of the 1980s and 1990s, contributing to the critical discourse around the Pictures Generation and its aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer essay “All Things Being Equal,” published in \u003cem\u003eZG Magazine No. 12: Religion\u003c\/em\u003e (New York, Fall 1984), appeared alongside contributions by Peter Halley, Michael Smith, Rosetta Brooks, and others in one of the decade’s sharpest independent art publications — a large printed support for the circulation of ideas that placed belief, image culture, power, and spectacle into direct contact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe materials gathered here are printed documents of Kolbowski’s critical presence in the period: publications and ephemera that record the points at which her writing and practice entered the printed field.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"rosetta-brooks-zg-magazine-no-12-religion-new-york-fall-1984","title":"ROSETTA BROOKS (ed.) — ZG Magazine No. 12: Religion, New York, Fall 1984","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeriodical, \u003cem\u003eZG Magazine No. 12: Religion\u003c\/em\u003e. Edited by Rosetta Brooks. New York: ZG Magazine, Fall 1984. Offset-printed, staple-bound, pictorial wrappers, black-and-white, 41.9 × 27.9 cm, 27 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributions by Rosetta Brooks, Michael Smith, Jan Wandja, Silvia Kolbowski, Stuart Piggott, Krystina Kitsis, Rhys Chatham, Joseph Nechvatal, Peter Halley, Carlo McCormick, Holly Warburton, Paul Taylor, Adrian Martin, Dena Shottenkirk, Richard Flood, Jonathan Miles, and Robert Kleyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents include “Editorial: The New Fundamentalism,” “All Things Being Equal” by Silvia Kolbowski, “Advertising Death’s Space” by Rosetta Brooks, “Interview with Rhys Chatham \u0026amp; Joseph Nechvatal,” “The Frozen Land” by Peter Halley, “Disco Inferno” by Carlo McCormick, “Duchamp: Lower East Side” by Richard Flood, and “The Shadow Reflected” by Robert Kleyn. Back cover by Michael Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1984, ZG operated between art magazine, critical journal, image-bank, and alternative exhibition space. Under Rosetta Brooks’s editorship, it brought together artists, writers, musicians, and theorists working across post-punk culture, media critique, conceptual art, and politics. This issue, themed Religion, places belief, image culture, power, media, and spectacle into direct contact, with Reagan-era broadcast imagery on the cover and Michael Smith’s nuclear comic scenario on the back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin The New Rare register, this is a strong period object: a large printed support for the circulation of 1980s art and theory. Not a catalogue and not simply a magazine, but a temporary exhibition space in paper form. Its scale, contributors, and survival make it a useful document of how art, media, and politics moved through print before digital circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition. Light rubbing, handling wear, edge and spine wear, minor creasing and surface marks consistent with age and use. Complete and structurally sound. Ships securely packed; UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ZG Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53918326260050,"sku":"ZG-RELIGION-CAT-1984","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/ZG_No._12_Fall_84._Religion.jpg?v=1783160855"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/silvia-kolbowski.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}