October Jr. is a faithful ¾ scale model of October 12 (Spring 1980). All contents, images, advertisements and articles are precisely rendered, just a little smaller. In an article about Joseph Beuys at the Guggenheim, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Rosalind Krauss, and Annette Michelson try to demystify the almost unanimous praise of Beuys’ work, by teasing out the subtleties between the artist’s theatrical performances, political associations, and autobiography. Robert Morris discusses the place that land-art functions in the contemporary art market–being a mode of art that can hardly be described as commodity production, they assume the role of public service rather than as objects of consumption–and Scott MacDonald interviews Hollis Frampton.
