Collection of 18 major essays by Buchloh, one of the most influential art historians associated with the journal October, who developed an analysis of modern and contemporary art and its relationship to memory, ideology, institutions such as the museum, and history grounded in Marxist and critical theory. With texts analyzing the work of artists such as Asher, Beuys, Broodthaers, Buren, Graham, Klein, Richter, Serra, and Spero. See in particular Hans Haacke: Memory and Instrumental Reason.