Adrian Piper
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| Adrian Margaret Smith Piper | |
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| Born | September 20, 1948 New York City, New York, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Field | Conceptual Art, Analytic Philosophy |
| Training | School of Visual Arts, City College of New York, Harvard University, University of Heidelberg |
Adrian Margaret Smith Piper (born September 20, 1948) is a first-generation conceptual artist and analytic philosopher who was born in New York City and lived for many years on Cape Cod, Massachusetts before emigrating from the United States. Since 2005 she has lived and worked in Berlin, where she runs the APRA Foundation.
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[edit] Education
Piper attended Riverside Church then the New Lincoln School throughout grammar school and high school, and the Art Students’ League during high school. She began exhibiting her artwork internationally at the age of twenty, and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 1969 with an A.A. in Fine Art and a concentration in painting and sculpture. While continuing to produce and exhibit her artwork, Piper received a B.A. Summa Cum Laude with Research Honors in Philosophy and a minor in Medieval and Renaissance Musicology from the City College of New York in 1974. For graduate school in philosophy she attended Harvard University, where she received an M.A. in 1977 and a Ph.D. in 1981 under the supervision of John Rawls. She also studied Kant and Hegel with Dieter Henrich at the University of Heidelberg in 1977-1978. Her formal education lasted a total of 27 years.
[edit] Contributions in Philosophy
Adrian Piper taught philosophy at Georgetown, Harvard, Michigan, Stanford, and UCSD. Following in the steps of trailblazing pioneer Dr. Joyce Mitchell Cook, in 1987 she became the first tenured African American woman professor in the field of philosophy. For her refusal to return to the United States while listed as a Suspicious Traveler on the U.S. Transportation Security Administration’s Watch List, Wellesley College forcibly terminated her tenured full professorship in philosophy in 2008. Her principal philosophical publications are in metaethics, Kant, and the history of ethics. Her two-volume study in Kantian metaethics, Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume I: The Humean Conception[1] and Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume II: A Kantian Conception[2], was accepted for publication by Cambridge University Press in 2008 and has been available since then at her website as an open access e-book. This study critically surveys the major moral theories of the late 20th century, develops a Kantian metaethical theory anchored in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, and integrates standard decision theory into classical predicate logic.
Rationality and the Structure of the Self was the culmination of 34 years of work, parts of which were previously published in article form. One early article, “Two Conceptions of the Self” (1985)[3] introduced Piper’s distinction between the Humean and the Kantian conceptions of the self, motivation and rationality. In Rationality and the Structure of the Self, she argues that the second half of the 20th century saw the development in Anglo-American analytic philosophy of a battle for supremacy between these two competing conceptions in ethics. Piper defines the Humean conception as consisting in the belief-desire model of motivation plus the utility-maximizing model of rationality; and the Kantian conception as modeling both motivation and rationality on the canons of deductive and inductive logic. The Kantian conception of the self thereby accords priority to freedom, autonomy and moral obligation over the satisfaction of desire and the maximization of utility. Piper claims that in this competition, both combatants have been handicapped by their own assumptions. In Rationality and the Structure of the Self she surveyed this historical development and proposes solutions to several of the still-unresolved problems it engendered.
Piper examined the Humean conception of the self in depth in Volume I: The Humean Conception. There she acknowledges the impressive historical pedigree of this conception in Hobbes, Hume, Bentham, Mill, and Sidgwick; and analyzes the foundations it provides to contemporary utilitarianism, virtue theory and social contract theory in philosophy[4]. Piper also traces the influence of the Humean conception in economics, psychology, and political theory because of its technical formalization in decision theory and neoclassical economics by Ramsey, Savage, von Neumann & Morgenstern, Allais, and others.[5] She argues that its wide sphere of influence in the social sciences has led late-20th century moral philosophers to presuppose the Humean conception as a given in constructing foundations for their normative moral theories.[6] However, she contends, close analysis of both the belief-desire model of motivation and also the utility-maximizing model of rationality, in both informal and axiomatized versions, reveals that all such formulations are not only either vacuous or internally inconsistent. They also conceal intensional presuppositions that make it impossible to state in what, exactly, the irrationality of a cycle ordering consists; and therefore rob decision theory’s technical apparatus of a viable and formally valid consistency criterion.[7]
Piper criticizes Humean moral philosophers for having displaced these problems onto a straw man: the consequentialist/deontologist debate, rather than confronting them head-on.[8] Consequently, Piper argues, Humean moral philosophers as varied as Rawls, Nagel, Brandt, Gewirth, Baier, Williams, Frankfurt, Gibbard, Lewis, Goldman, Anderson, Anscombe and others have appropriated the Humean conception of the self for foundational purposes.[9] Yet they have been at the same time unsuccessful in their attempts to solve the three insoluble metaethical problems that the Humean conception engenders: of moral motivation, rational final ends, and moral justification.[10] Volume I of Rationality and the Structure of the Self concludes that the Humean conception of the self can be rescued only by embedding it as a special case in a more comprehensive Kantian conception that it implicitly presupposes.[11]
However, Piper also views many Kantian moral philosophers as having also tied their own hands in attempting to formulate an alternative to the Humean conception, by restricting their attention to Kant’s moral philosophy alone. In two earlier articles on Kant-exegesis, “Kant on the Objectivity of the Moral Law” (1994)[12] and “Kant’s Intelligible Standpoint on Action” (2000)[13], she contended that Kant’s own moral theory cannot be properly interpreted without reference to the historically prior Critique of Pure Reason, in which all of the significant technical terms that inform the Groundwork and second Critique are introduced. She suggests that ignoring Kant’s first Critique makes it impossible for contemporary Kantian moral theory to outcompete the Humean conception’s highly refined and systematized formalization of action theory, which proves its success through practical application in the social sciences.[14]
With Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume II: A Kantian Conception, Piper aimed to remedy these oversights. She finds in Kant’s first Critique inspiration for proposed alternative models of motivation, rationality, and the self that are constructed on the relatively firm foundation of classical predicate logic – the same foundation on which Kant’s own conception of reason relied.[15] She proposes a way to integrate standard decision-theoretic axiomatizations into this foundation without loss of predictive power, by (1) rendering explicitly the intensionality of preference orderings using classical predicate logic; and (2) extending the Boolean connectives and quantificational notation of that logic to subsentential constituents.[16] In addition, she argues that integrating the Humean belief-desire model of motivation into a Kantian model of reason as motivation implies solutions to the problems of moral motivation, rational final ends, and moral justification that the Humean conception engendered.
In this second volume, Piper develops a conception of human agency, based on a foundation of logical consistency as literal self-preservation. She proposes two criteria of consistency for the set of concepts that rationally structure the self in the ideal case: horizontal consistency of cognitively operative concepts with one another, which applies the quantified law of non-contradiction to subsentential constituents; and vertical consistency of lower-order concepts with higher-order ones, which applies the quantified law of modus ponens to the inferential relationship among such constituents. Final ends that satisfy these two criteria are rational; substantive moral theories that satisfy them are rationally justified; and actions that are guided by them include those which are morally motivated.[17]
Piper argues that human beings are naturally disposed to preserve at least the appearance of such consistency, both in their cognitions and in their actions, even when the practical reality falls short. This practical shortcoming she refers to as pseudorationality. She argues that this overriding disposition explains how reason can be motivationally effective in the absence of desire, and why it so rarely is in practice.[18] Piper applies this conception of the self and agency, first, to both analyze and also justify the practice of whistle blowing[19]; and second, to an analysis of xenophobia that implies both its inevitability and also its susceptibility to rational reform.[20] In an early article, “Moral Theory and Moral Alienation” (1987), Piper concluded that the phenomenon of moral alienation that has received so much attention in the metaethical literature is a natural by-product of possessing and exercising our cognitive and rational capacities.[21] She concludes Volume II of Rationality and the Structure of the Self with the further argument that without so-called moral alienation, we would be unable to grasp meaning, forge relationships with others, or act transpersonally in the service of selfless or disinterested moral principles.[22]
[edit] Contributions in Art
Adrian Piper’s early LSD Paintings of 1965-67, some of which were executed while she was still in high school, were discovered and curated by Robert del Principe, exhibited for the first time in 2002 at Galeria Emi Fontana in Milan, and quickly entered the international canon of psychedelic art.[23] Influenced by the work of Sol LeWitt in 1967, Piper then embraced the principle of Conceptual art that accords highest priority to the idea or concept that generates a work, and regards different art media – painting, sculpture, drawing, performance, video, installation, soundworks, photo-documentation, etc. – as equally available and valuable instruments for realizing it.[24] Since then, she has maintained this approach to materials in all of her work.[25]
From 1967 to 1970, her early work as a first-generation Conceptual artist brought to bear the techniques and resources of yoga and meditation – what she called the “indexical present,” acquired through her personal practice, on the exploration of consciousness, perception, and infinite permutation using maps, diagrams, photographs and descriptive language.[26] Her Hypothesis: Situation series (1968-1970) forged a connection between passive contemplation of objects and the dynamic character of self-conscious agency navigating through time that then led her briefly into unannounced street performance.[27] In the 1970s, Piper introduced issues of xenophobia, race and gender into the vocabulary of Conceptual art with her Catalysis (1970-72) and Mythic Being (1973-75) performance series.[28] She then introduced explicit political content into Minimalism with her mixed media constructed environment Art for the Art World Surface Pattern (1976).[29]
In the 1980s, Piper sharpened the focus of her artwork, by applying her meditational concept of the indexical present to the interpersonal dynamics of racism and racial stereotyping.[30] Works that explore these themes and strategies include her pencil drawing Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features (1981); her collective performance and video Funk Lessons (1982-4); her unannounced Calling Card interactive performances (1986-1990); her mixed media installation Close to Home (1987); her video installation Cornered (1988); and Vanilla Nightmares (1986-1989), her series of racially and sexually transgressive charcoal drawings on pages of the New York Times. Her first retrospective in 1987 at the Alternative Museum in New York, Adrian Piper: Reflections 1967-1987, reintroduced the art public and a new generation of viewers to the media, strategies and preoccupations of first-generation Conceptual art.[31] Her mixed media video installation, The Big Four-Oh (1988), won the New York Dance & Performance Award (the Bessie) for Installation & New Media in 2001.
The 1990s saw Piper extend many of the same concepts and preoccupations to several large-scale, commissioned multi-media works and video installations in the formal tradition of Serial Minimalism. Among these were Vote/Emote (1990)[32], Out of the Corner (1990)[33], What It’s Like, What It Is #1 – 3 (1991-2)[34], and Black Box/ White Box (1992)[35]. Piper’s multi-panel photo-text collage series Decide Who You Are (1991-92) combined appropriated photographic imagery with silk-screened drawing and poetically compressed texts, in a sequence of formal permutations on the themes of political self-deception and disingenuity. Her photo-text oil crayon drawing, Self-Portrait as a Nice White Lady (1995)[36], continues to shock, outrage and amuse its viewers. Also in 1995, Piper withdrew her work from an important museum exhibition survey of early Conceptual art, in protest against its funding by the Philip Morris Tobacco Company[37]. To replace it, she created Ashes to Ashes (1995), a photo-text work narrating both of her parents’ deaths from smoking-related diseases. This work exists in both English and Italian versions.
Piper further expanded the vocabulary of Conceptual art to include Vedic philosophical imagery and concepts in 2000, with her silk-screened graphic permutational Color Wheel Series, which combined Sanskrit text with drawing, photography, and representations of a Vedic divinity. Since then she has extended these concepts into an introspective investigation of loss, desire, detachment and self-transcendence in her video YOU/STOP/WATCH (2002), her open-ended multi-media series Everything (2003- ), her videotaped lecture/performance Shiva Dances with the Art Institute of Chicago (2004), and her PacMan Trilogy (2005-8), a series of three video animations that schematize certain essential human dynamics using PacMan imagery. Her most recent Vanishing Point series (2009- ) consisting in sculptural installations, drawings and collective performance, further sharpens the focus of her investigation into the nature, structure and boundaries of the ego-self.
Adrian Piper’s artwork is in many important collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Generali Foundation, Vienna; and the Aomori Museum of Art, Japan. Her sixth traveling retrospective, Adrian Piper since 1965, closed at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona in 2004. Her two-volume collection, OUT OF ORDER, OUT OF SIGHT: Selected Writings in Meta-Art and Art Criticism 1967 – 1992 (MIT Press, 1996), is available in paperback.
[edit] Yoga Practice
Piper began her study and practice of yoga in 1965 with the Upanishads and Swami Vishnudevananda’s Complete Book of Yoga. She studied with Swami Satchidananda from 1966, became a svanistha in 1971 and a brahmacharin in 1985. Between 1992 and 2000, she studied at Kripalu with Gitanand and with Arthur Kilmurray, Patricia Walden, Chuck Miller, Erich Schiffmann, Leslie Bogart, Richard Freeman, Tim Miller, David Swenson, Gary Kraftsow, Georg Feuerstein, David Frawley, and John Friend. Her asana practice, grounded in Iyengar principles, is vinyasa- and pranayama-based. Her meditation practice is samyama-based and follows the Samkhyan structure of the 24 Tattvas, but regards these as equivalent to the Five Koshas and the Vedantic Atman as the actual referent of the Samkhyan concept of Purusha.
[edit] Fellowships and Awards
Adrian Piper has been a Non-Resident Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University since 1994. She was a Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in 1998-1999. She has been awarded Guggenheim, AVA, NEA, NEH, Andrew Mellon, Woodrow Wilson, IFK and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Institute for Advanced Study Research Fellowships, as well as the Skowhegan Medal for Sculptural Installation and the New York Dance & Performance Award (the Bessie) for Installation & New Media.
[edit] The APRA Foundation
Adrian Piper founded the Adrian Piper Research Archive (APRA) in 2002, after being diagnosed with a chronic, progressive, and incurable medical condition. Although the condition had vanished within two years after she emigrated to Germany in 2005, she continued to develop APRA as a personal and public resource for students, scholars, curators, collectors, writers, and members of the general public who have a constructive curiosity or scholarly or professional interest in her work and life.
APRA is maintained as a document of Piper's activities in her three chosen areas of specialization: art, philosophy and yoga. It comprises (1) the archive, housing Piper’s art work, correspondence, manuscripts, documents, family photo and letters archive; book, catalogue and articles library; video and soundwork library; reproductions library; Vedic and Western philosophy library; art library, fiction and poetry library, music collection, video collection; artwork inventory, text inventory; and, eventually, preserved personal living and working space, furnishings, and personal possessions exactly as she designed, built and arranged and/or used them; and (2) the APRA web site, offering professional and biographical information about Piper’s life and work.
In 2009 Piper established APRA as a foundation that also funds the APRA Foundation Multi-Disciplinary Fellowship, a single, annual competitive research grant designed for intellectuals who (i) are proven high achievers in at least two seemingly disparate fields of scholarship and/or the arts simultaneously; and (ii) wish to use APRA’s resources to research the conception, constitution and/or structure of the self in either or both of them. Thus the APRA Foundation supports research that exemplifies, models, analyzes, and/or theorizes the same creative multi-disciplinary expressions of the self, encouraged by globalization and cross-cultural journeying, that her own work also embodies. The Fellowship picks up where Rationality and the Structure of the Self leaves off. It aims to extend and encourage further investigation into the same broad family of concepts and theories that Piper’s own research in philosophy and art engages. Its goal is to identify the constructive influence of cross-culturation and globalization on the development of divergent modes of creative self-expression; and to illuminate how these, in turn, help one to adapt to and flourish in that panoply of divergent cultures.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Adrian M. S. Piper, Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume I. The Humean Conception. Formally accepted for publication by Cambridge University Press, 2008. Published as an open-access, online E-Book at http://adrianpiper.com/rss/index.shtml
- ^ Adrian M. S. Piper, Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume II. A Kantian Conception. Formally accepted for publication by Cambridge University Press, 2008. Published as an open-access, online E-Book at http://adrianpiper.com/rss/index.shtml
- ^ Adrian M. S. Piper, “Two Conceptions of the Self.” Philosophical Studies 48, 2. September l985 pages 173-197. Reprinted in The Philosopher’s Annual VIII, 1985, pp. 222-246.
- ^ Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume I. The Humean Conception. For the discussion of Hobbes, see Chapters I and XII. For the discussion of Hume, see Chapters XIII and XIV. For the discussions of Bentham, Mill and Sidgwick, see Chapter XII. For the discussion of virtue theory, see Chapters I and V, and also Chapter VI of Volume II. A Kantian Conception.
- ^ Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume I. The Humean Conception. See Chapters III and IV.
- ^ See Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Chapter I. General Introduction to the Project: The Enterprise of Socratic Metaethics. This chapter is the introduction in both volumes.
- ^ Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume I. The Humean Conception. For discussion of the belief-desire model of motivation, see Chapter II. For discussion of the utility-maximizing model of rationality, see Chapters III and IV.
- ^ Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume I. The Humean Conception. See Chapter V.
- ^ Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume I. The Humean Conception. For the critique of Rawls, see Chapters VI.2 and X. For the critique of Thomas Nagel, see Chapter VII. For the critique of Brandt, see Chapter XI. For the critique of Gewirth, see Chapter IX.3. For the critique of Annette Baier, see Chapter XIII. For the critique of Williams, see Chapter VIII.3.2. For the critique of Frankfurt, see Chapter VIII.2. For the critique of Gibbard, see Chapter XII.5. For the critique of David Lewis, see Chapters II.1.3 and XII.5. For the critique of Alvin Goldman, see Chapter II.1.2. For the critique of Elizabeth Anderson, see Chapter IX.1. For the critique of Anscombe, see Chapter V.
- ^ Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume I. The Humean Conception. For analysis of the problem of moral motivation, see Chapter VI. For analysis of the problem of rational final ends, see Chapter VIII. For analysis of the problem of moral justification, see Chapter IX.
- ^ Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume I. The Humean Conception. See Chapter XV.
- ^ Adrian M. S. Piper, “Kant on the Objectivity of the Moral Law.” In Andrews Reath, Christine M. Korsgaard and Barbara Herman, Eds. Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays for John Rawls. pp. 240-269. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- ^ Adrian M. S. Piper, “Kants intelligibler Standpunkt zum Handeln.” In Hans-Ulrich Baumgarten and Carsten Held, Eds. Systematische Ethik mit Kant, pp. 162-190. München/Freiburg, 2001. Available in English at http://adrianpiper.com/docs/intelstandpoint.pdf
- ^ Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Chapter I.
- ^ Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume II. A Kantian Conception, Chapter II.
- ^ Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume II. A Kantian Conception, Chapter III.
- ^ Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume II. A Kantian Conception. For the proposed solution to the problem of moral motivation, see Chapter V. For the proposed solution to the problem of rational final ends, see Chapter VIII.7. For the proposed solution to the problem of moral justification, see Chapters IX and X.
- ^ Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume II. A Kantian Conception. For the idealized theory, see Chapters II and V. For discussion of its practical applications see Chapters VII and VIII.
- ^ Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume I: The Humean Conception, Chapter VI.5.2; and Volume II. A Kantian Conception, Chapters VI.8 and IX.8.
- ^ Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume II. A Kantian Conception, Chapter XI.
- ^ Adrian M. S. Piper, “Moral Theory and Moral Alienation.” The Journal of Philosophy LXXXIV, 2, pages 102-118. February 1987.
- ^ Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume II. A Kantian Conception, Chapter XI.8.
- ^ Breitwieser, Sabine, Ed. and Introduction Adrian Piper seit 1965: Metakunst und Kunstkritik, preface by Dietrich Karner. Vienna: Generali Foundation, 2002; Adrian Piper, „Self-portrait from the Inside Out, 1965“ and “LSD womb, 1965”, The War is over: 1945-2005 La libertá dell’arte. Exhibition catalogue, galleria d’arte moderna e contemporanea, p. 168. Bergamo, 2005; “Alice in Wonderland, 1966,” Metropolis M, Magazine on Contemporary Art, no.1, 2008. p. 75; Corgnati, Martina, “Adrian Piper sotto l'effetto dell' LSD, ” La Repubblica-Milano, online edition. December 7, 2002; Guarnaccia, Matteo, “18 pezzi psichedelelici, ” Il Manifesto, p. 15. December 19, 2002; Guarnaccia, Matteo, “Tele dal Gusto Acido alla Scoperta della Realtà,” in Alias (il Manifesto), pp. 4-5. Col 6, no. 14. April 5, 2003; Memeo, Francesca, “Gli anni Psichedelici di un artista contro il razzimo,” Vivere Milano, La Stampa, p. 10. November 21, 2002.
- ^ Adrian Piper, “A Defense of the ‘Conceptual’ Process in Art, 1967,” in OUT OF ORDER, OUT OF SIGHT Volume II: Selected Writings in Art Criticism 1967-1992, pp. 3-4. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996; Adrian Piper, “My Art Education, 1968” in OUT OF ORDER, OUT OF SIGHT Volume I: Selected Writings in Meta-Art 1968-1992, pp. 3-7; Goldstein, Ann, “Adrian Piper,” Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-1975, pp. 196-199. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 1995.
- ^ Adrian Piper, “Xenophobia and the Indexical Present II: Lecture, 1992,” in Adrian Piper, OUT OF ORDER, OUT OF SIGHT Volume I: Selected Writings in Meta-Art 1968-1992, pp. 255-273.
- ^ ibid. See also “Xenophobia and the Indexical Present I: Essay, 1988” pp. 245-251.
- ^ Adrian Piper, “Hypothesis 1969 & 1992,” in Adrian Piper, OUT OF ORDER, OUT OF SIGHT Volume I: Selected Writings in Meta-Art 1968-1992, pp. 19-23.
- ^ Adrian Piper, “Untitled Performance for Max’s Kansas City, 1970,” in Adrian Piper, OUT OF ORDER, OUT OF SIGHT Volume I: Selected Writings in Meta-Art 1968-1992, pp. 27-28; Adrian Piper, Talking to Myself, The Ongoing Autobiography of An Art Object. Bari, Italy. Marilena Bonomo, 1975; English-Italian, also Brussels, Belgium: Fernand Spillemaeckers, 1974; English-French. Reprinted in Adrian Piper, OUT OF ORDER, OUT OF SIGHT Volume I: Selected Writings in Meta-Art 1968-1992, pp. 29-55; Adrian Piper seit 1965: Metakunst und Kunstkritik, Ed. and Introduction by Sabine Breitwieser, Preface by Dietrich Karner. Vienna: Generali Foundation, 2002; Adrian Piper: Textes d’oeuvres et essais, Ed. Dirk Snauwaert. Villeurbanne: Institut d'art contemporain, 2003; Adrian Piper desde 1965, Ed. Mela Dávila, Introduction by Sabine Breitwieser. Barcelona: MACBA/ACTAR, 2003.
- ^ Adrian Piper, “Art for the Artworld Surface Pattern, 1976” in Adrian Piper, OUT OF ORDER, OUT OF SIGHT Volume I: Selected Writings in Meta-Art 1968-1992, pp. 161-168. Also Adrian Piper: Reflections 1967-1987, Ed. Jane Farver. New York, N.Y.: The Alternative Museum, 1987; Adrian Piper, Ed. Elizabeth MacGregor. Birmingham, UK: Ikon Gallery and Cornerhouse, 1991; Adrian Piper: A Retrospective, Ed. Maurice Berger and Dara Meyers-Kingsley. Baltimore: University of Maryland Baltimore County Press, 1999.
- ^ Adrian Piper, “Xenophobia and the Indexical Present I: Essay, 1988” in OUT OF ORDER, OUT OF SIGHT Volume I: Selected Writings in Meta-Art 1968-1992, pp. 245-251
- ^ Adrian Piper: Reflections 1967-1987, Ed. Jane Farver. New York, N.Y.: The Alternative Museum, 1987; Brenson, Michael, “Adrian Piper,” The New York Times, p. C31. May 1, 1987; McEvilley, Thomas, “Adrian Piper,” Artforum XXVI, 1, pp. 128-9. September 1987; Phillpot, Clive, “Adrian Piper: Talking to Us,” Adrian Piper: Reflections 1967-87, Retrospective Catalogue. New York: The Alternative Museum, 1987; Smith, Virginia Warren, “The Art of Confrontation,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, pp. 12J-13J. December 6, 1987; Hammond, Marsha, “Adrian Piper,” Art Papers 12, 2. pp. 40-41. March/April 1988; Thompson, Mildred, “Interview: Adrian Piper,” Art Papers 12, 2, pp. 27-30. March/April 1988; Raven, Arlene, “Colored,” The Village Voice, p. 92 . May 31, 1988; Lida, Marc, “Outside Looking In,” 108 Reviews 12, pp. 1, 5. May/June 1988; Art in America Editorial Board, “1987 in Review,” Art in America Annual 1988-89 76, 8, p. 53. August 1988; Boyd, Wallace, “Image Reveals Personal Art,” The Emory Wheel, p. 8. Tuesday, October 18, 1988; Staniszewski, Mary Anne, “Conceptual Art,” Flash Art 143, p. 88. November/December 1988; Failing, Patricia, “Black Artists Today: A Case of Exclusion?,” Art News, pp. 124-131. March 1989; Sims, Lowery Stokes, “Mimicry, Xenophobia, Etiquette and Other Social Manifestations: Adrian Piper’s Observations from the Margins,” Adrian Piper: Reflections 1967-1987. The John Weber Gallery, New York, NY, 1989; Marks, Laura U., “Adrian Piper: Reflections 1967-87,” Fuse, pp. 40-42. Fall 1990.
- ^ Commissioned by the John Weber Gallery, New York and is in the collection of the Adrian Piper Research Archive, Berlin, Germany.
- ^ Commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and is in the collection of the Whitney Museum.
- ^ What It’s Like, What It Is #1 was commissioned by the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C. and is in the collection Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, N.Y. What It’s Like, What It Is #2 was commissioned by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D. C. and is in the collection of the Adrian Piper Research Archive, Berlin, Germany. What It’s Like, What It Is #3 was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, N.Y. and is in the collection of the Adrian Piper Research Archive, Berlin, Germany.
- ^ Black Box/White Box was commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, and is in the collection of the Generali Foundation, Vienna.
- ^ Collection Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY.
- ^ Vogel, Carol, “Inside Art: Philip Morris Loses an Artist,” The New York Times, November 24, 1995; Robinson, Walter, “Artworld: Tobacco Road, Part II,” Art in America 84, 1, p. 126. January 1996; Adrian Piper, “Philip Morris’ Artworld Fix,” The Drama Review 40, 4, pp. 5-6. Winter 1996; Adrian Piper, “Withdrawal Clarified,” Art in America 84, 4, p. 29. April 1996.
[edit] References
By Adrian Piper:
Selected Articles and Book Chapters in Philosophy:
- “Utility, Publicity, and Manipulation,” Ethics 88, 3 (April 1978), 189-206
- “Property and the Limits of the Self,” Political Theory 8, 1 (February 1980), 39-64
- “A Distinction Without a Difference,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy VII: Social and Political Philosophy (1982), 403-435
- “Two Conceptions of the Self,” Philosophical Studies 48, 2 (September l985), 173-197, reprinted in The Philosopher’s Annual VIII (1985), 222-246
- “Instrumentalism, Objectivity, and Moral Justification,” American Philosophical Quarterly 23, 4 (October 1986), 373-381
- “Moral Theory and Moral Alienation,” The Journal of Philosophy LXXXIV, 2 (February 1987), 102-118
- “Personal Continuity and Instrumental Rationality in Rawls’ Theory of Justice’,” Social Theory and Practice 13, 1 (Spring 1987), 49-76
- “Pseudorationality,” in Amelie O. Rorty and Brian McLaughlin, Eds. Perspectives on Self-Deception (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988), 297-323
- “Hume on Rational Final Ends,” Philosophy Research Archives XIV (1988-89), 193-228
- “Higher-Order Discrimination,” in Amelie O. Rorty and Owen Flanagan, Eds. Identity, Character and Morality (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990), 285-309; reprinted in condensed form in the monograph series Studies on Ethics in Society (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Western Michigan University, 1990)
- “’Seeing Things’,” Southern Journal of Philosophy XXIX, Supplementary Volume: Moral Epistemology (1990), 29-60
- “Impartiality, Compassion, and Modal Imagination,” Ethics 101, 4, Symposium on Impartiality and Ethical Theory (July 1991), 726-757
- “Xenophobia and Kantian Rationalism,” Philosophical Forum XXIV, 1-3 (Fall-Spring 1992-93), 188-232; reprinted in Robin May Schott, Ed. Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant, (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997), 21-73; and in John P. Pittman, Ed. African-American Perspectives and Philosophical Traditions, (New York: Routledge, 1997)
- “Two Kinds of Discrimination,” Yale Journal of Criticism 6, 1 (1993), 25-74. Reprinted in Bernard Boxill, Ed. Race and Racism, (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 193-237
- “Making Sense of Value,” Ethics 106, 2 (April 1996), 525-537
- “Kant on the Objectivity of the Moral Law,” in Andrews Reath, Christine M. Korsgaard and Barbara Herman, Eds. Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays for John Rawls, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
- “The Enterprise of Socratic Metaethics,” in Naomi Zack, Ed. Nonwhite Women and Philosophy: A Critical Reader, (London: Blackwell, 2000)
- “Kants intelligibler Standpunkt zum Handeln,” in Hans-Ulrich Baumgarten and Carsten Held, Eds. Systematische Ethik mit Kant, (München/Freiburg, 2001)
- “Intuition and Concrete Particularity in Kant’s Transcendental Aesthetic,” in F. Halsall, J. Jansen and T. O’Connor, Eds., Rediscovering Aesthetics (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2008)
Books:
- Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume I. The Humean Conception (formally accepted for publication by Cambridge University Press [2008] and published as an open-access, online E-Book at http://adrianpiper.com/rss/index.shtml)
- Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume II. A Kantian Conception (formally accepted for publication by Cambridge University Press [2008] and published as an open-access, online E-Book at http://adrianpiper.com/rss/index.shtml)
About Adrian Piper:
Selected Interviews and Critical Articles Primarily in Art:
- Altschuler, Bruce, “Adrian Piper: Ideas Into Art,” Art Journal 56, 4 (Winter 1997), 100-101
- Baldauf, Anette, “Rassismus und Fremdenangst: Gespräch mit der Konzeptkünstlerin und Philosophin Adrian Piper,” Wiener Zeitung Kulturmagazin, (Number 30, 1993), 16
- Bailey, David A., “Adrian Piper: Aspects of the Liberal Dilemma,” Frieze, October 1991, 14-15
- Barrow, Claudia, “Adrian Piper: Space, Time, and Reference 1967-1970,” in Adrian Piper', (catalogue to accompany exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England, September 1991), 11-15
- Berger, Maurice, Adrian Piper: A Retrospective (catalogue to accompany retrospective) (Baltimore: University of Maryland Baltimore County Press, 1999)
- Bowles, John P., “Adrian Piper and the Rejection of Autobiography,” American Art (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), Fall 2007
- Dávila, Mela, Ed., Adrian Piper. Despe 1965, trans. Rodrigo, Cristina, Palou, Jordi, Perazzo, Martin (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, 2003)
- Farver, Jane, “Adrian Piper,” Adrian Piper: Reflections 1967-87 (Retrospective Catalogue), (New York, N.Y.: The Alternative Museum, 1987)
- Fisher, Jean, “The Breath between Words,” in Maurice Berger, Adrian Piper: A Retrospective (catalogue to accompany retrospective) (Baltimore: University of Maryland Baltimore County Press, 1999), 34-44
- Franks, Pamela, “Conceptual Rigor and Political Efficacy, Or, The Making of Adrian Piper,” in
- Rhea Anastas and Michael Brenson, Eds. Witness to Her Art (Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies, Annadale-on-Hudson: New York), November 2006, 75-82
- Gau, Sønke, "Adrian Piper-Seit 1965: Metakunst und Kunstkritik," Camera Austria International, 79 (2002), 73-74
- Goldstein, Ann, “Adrian Piper,” Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-1975 (catalogue) (Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 1995), 196-199
- Guarnaccia, Matteo, “Tele dal Gusto Acido alla Scoperta della Realtà,” in Alias (il Manifesto), Col 6, no. 14 (April 5, 2003), 4-5
- Hayt-Atkins, Elizabeth, “The Indexical Present: A Conversation with Adrian Piper,” Arts Magazine, (March 1991), 48-51
- Heiser, Joerg, "Questionnaire: Adrian Piper," Frieze, no. 87 (November /December 2004), 126
- Kester, Grant, “Adrian Piper in Concept,” The Nation 264, 4 (February 3, 1997), 25-27
- Maddex, Bobby, “Maximizing Clarity: An Interview with Conceptual Artist Adrian Piper,” Gadfly 1, 2 (April 1997), 22-25
- Mayer, Rosemary, “Performance and Experience,” Arts, (December 1972), 33-36
- Phelan, Peggy, “Portrait of the Artist, “ The Women’s Review of Books XV, 5, (February 1998)
- Phillpot, Clive, “Adrian Piper: Talking to Us,” Adrian Piper: Reflections 1967-87, (Retrospective Catalogue), (New York: The Alternative Museum, 1987)
- Raven, Arlene, “Civil Disobedience,” The Village Voice, (September 25, 1990), Arts Section and Cover and 55, 94
- Rorimer, Anne, “New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality,” (London: Thames and Hudson, 2001), 160-162, 164, 193
- Svenungsson, Jan, “An Artist’s Text Book,” (Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, 2007), 69-77
- Wilson, Judith, “’In Memory of the News and of Ourselves’: The Art of Adrian Piper,” Third Text 16/17, (Autumn/Winter 1991), 39-62
- Yancy, George, “Adrian M. S. Piper, “ in George Yancy, Ed., African American Philosophers: Seventeen Conversations (New York: Routledge, 1998), 49-71
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation
- Adrian Piper Exhibition at Elizabeth Dee Gallery in New York
- Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Part I: The Humean Conception and Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Part II: A Kantian Conception
- OUT OF ORDER, OUT OF SIGHT: Selected Writings in Meta-Art and Art Criticism 1967 – 1992 (MIT Press, 1996)
