Co-founder and co-editor of October magazine, a veteran of Artforum of the 1960s and early 1970s, Rosalind Krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory of postmodernism.

In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning with the almost mythic idea of the avant-garde. Krauss uses the analytical tools of semiology, structuralism, and poststructuralism to reveal new meanings in the visual arts and to critique the way other prominent practitioners of art and literary history write about art. In two sections, "Modernist Myths" and "Toward Postmodernism," her essays range from the problem of the grid in painting and the unity of Giacometti's sculpture to the works of Jackson Pollock, Sol Lewitt, and Richard Serra, and observations about major trends in contemporary literary criticism.

罗莎琳德-克劳斯是《十月》杂志的共同创始人和联合编辑，是1960年代和1970年代初《艺术论坛》的老手，她主持并参与了后现代主义理论的主要制定。

在这本由15篇文章组成的具有挑战性的文集中，她探讨了产生后现代主义的风格断裂是如何迫使我们对二十世纪艺术的各种理解发生变化的，首先是对前卫艺术的几乎神话般的想法。克劳斯使用符号学、结构主义和后结构主义的分析工具来揭示视觉艺术中的新含义，并批判其他著名的艺术和文学史工作者对艺术的书写方式。在 "现代主义神话 "和 "走向后现代主义 "两个部分中，她的文章从绘画中的网格问题和贾科梅蒂雕塑的统一性到杰克逊-波洛克、索尔-卢伊特和理查德-塞拉的作品，以及对当代文学批评主要趋势的观察。