Krauss Rozalind

Rosalind Krauss (English: Rosalind E. Krauss, née Rosalind Epstein; November 30, 1941, Washington, USA) is a leading American analyst of contemporary art.

Biography She studied at Columbia and Harvard Universities. A student of Clement Greenberg, she was later influenced by theorists such as Roland Barthes (post-structuralism, semiotics), Jacques Lacan (a structuralist revision of Freudian analysis), Georges Bataille (postmodernism), Jacques Derrida (deconstructivism), and Gilles Deleuze (postmodernism).

Activities and works Editor-in-chief of the journal October, founded by her in 1975 together with film scholar and cultural theorist Annette Michelson. Critic, curator, professor at Columbia University in New York, USA, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and member of the scientific society of the Institute for Advanced Study in New York. Her works, including Terminal Iron Works: The Sculpture of David Smith (1971), The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (1985), The Photographic Condition (1990), and The Optical Unconscious (1993), have been published in English and French. Since 1965, Rosalind Krauss has regularly published as a critic and theorist in Artforum, Art International, Art in America, and others.