Martha Buskirk

Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA

January–June 2004

Martha Buskirk, associate professor of art history at Montserrat College of Art, is author of The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art (MIT Press, 2003); co-editor with Mignon Nixon of The Duchamp Effect (MIT Press, 1996); and former managing editor of October magazine. She also co-edited The Destruction of Tilted Arc: Documents (MIT Press, 1990) and Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc (Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, 1988), both with Clara Weyergraf-Serra. At the Clark, Buskirk will pursue her current book project Now and Then: Tradition as Subject and Method in Contemporary Art, a compilation of linked essays investigating the divergent agendas of formal analysis and cultural history through a consideration of form as both conscious choice and potential reference.