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Most ReadOctober
Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson (1922—2018), George Baker, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Leah Dickerman, Devin Fore, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, David Joselit, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Mignon Nixon, and Malcolm Turvey, Editors
At the forefront of art criticism and theory, October focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts—film, painting, music, media, photography, performance, sculpture, and literature—and their various contexts of interpretation.
Examining relationships between the arts and their critical and social contexts, October addresses a broad range of readers. Original, innovative, and provocative, each issue presents the best, most current texts by and about today’s artistic, intellectual, and critical vanguard.
Impact Measures:
- #10 in Visual Arts (2017 Google Scholar Metrics)
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Most Read
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Questionnaire on “The Contemporary”
(3667 times)
OctoberNo. 130 -
Make-Believe: Parafiction and Plausibility
(2295 times)
OctoberNo. 129 -
Art in the Face of Radical Evil
(860 times)
OctoberNo. 125
(Note that the Most Read numbers are based on the number of full text downloads over the last 12 months.)
Most Cited
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Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics
(33 times)
OctoberNo. 110 -
An Archival Impulse
(19 times)
OctoberNo. 110 -
Room-for-Play: Benjamin's Gamble with Cinema
(11 times)
OctoberNo. 109
(Note that the Most Cited numbers are based on Crossref's Cited-by service and reflect citation information for the past 24 months. )

