Q & A Douglas Crimp

Q & A Douglas Crimp.

- Daniel S. Palmer

In 1977, Douglas Crimp, then a grad student at the City University of New York, organized a group exhibition called “Pictures” at the small downtown New York alternative gallery Artists Space. The show launched the careers of Troy Brauntuch, Jack Goldstein, Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo, and Philip Smith, who had in common their interest in appropriation (or, as Crimp put it in an accompanying text, “representation freed from the tyranny of the represented”) and who, in the years that followed, became known (along with others like Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince) as the “Pictures Generation.” So influential was “Pictures” that it seems only appropriate that Crimp should call his new memoir