Alex Coles is a critic, editor, and Professor of Transdisciplinary Studies at the School of Art, Design, and Architecture at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Dan Graham's artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. His writings have appeared in Artforum, Arts, and numerous other magazines, books, and monographs. Hal Foster is Townsend Martin '17 Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University and the author of Prosthetic Gods (MIT Press) and other books. Miwon Kwon is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Kees Dorst is Professor of Design Innovation at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is the author of Understanding Design- 175 Reflections on Being a Designer and the coauthor of Design Expertise. Manfredo Tafuri is the Director of the Department of History of Architecture at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura in Venice. Mary Anne Staniszewski is an Associate Professor in the Department of the Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and author of The Power of Display- A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art (MIT Press) and, during the past twenty-five years, has overseen or contributed to various Exit Art publications and projects. Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was one of the twentieth century's most important artists and cultural icons. Ed Ruscha is an internationally acclaimed artist based in Los Angeles. Mark Wigley is Professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Maria Lind is Director of the Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, and former Director of the graduate program at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. In 2010, Selected Maria Lind Writing was published by Sternberg Press.
Design and Art is an indispensable guide to an an age-old rivalry that has now, as Alex Coles demonstrates, become a productive stimulus to invention and speculation. --Barry Schwabsky, author of Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting.