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Art Journal Vol. 60, no. 2 Summer 2001

Executive Editor Janet A. Kaplan Reviews Editor Steven Nelson Editor Michelle-Lee White

Designer Katy Homans

Acting Director of Publications John Alan Farmer Editorial Board Carol Becker, Maureen Connor, Joanna Frueh, David Joselit, Janet A. Kaplan, Simon

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Cover: Zhan Wang. Beyond Twelve Nautical Miles-Floating Rock Drifts on the Open Sea, 2000. See p. 79

In This Issue/Home 3 John Alan Farmer

Responses 4 Caroline Arscott

Network Society 6 Gregg Bordowitz

Features

9 Connie Butler, Saskia Sassen, Gavin Hipkins, Lee Weng Choy, Allan Sekula

Flight Patterns

38 Moira Roth Obdurate History: Dinh Q. Le, the Vietnam War, Photography, and

Memory

54 Simon Leung Contemporary Returns to Conceptual Art: Renee Green, Silvia Kolbowski, and Stephen Prina

72 Britta Erickson Material Illusion: Adrift with the Conceptual Sculptor Zhan Wang

82 Maura Reilly The Drive to Describe: An Interview with Catherine Opie

Obsessions 96 Margaret Honda

Chelonian Notes

Reviews

101 Rachel Baum on Mieke Bal, Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History; Alison McQueen on Richard Morphet, Encounters: New Art from Old; Danielle Carrabino on Joyce Scott, George Cisle, and Leslie King- Hammond, Joyce J. Scott: Kickin' it with the Old Masters; Joyce Kozloff on Elaine Reichek, When This You See . .; Mark H. C. Bessire on Emma Baker, ed., Contemporary Cultures of Display and Mary Anne Staniszewski, The Power of

Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art; Sydelle Rubin on Milly Heyd, Mutual Reflections: Jews and Blacks in American Art and Nicholas Mirzoeff, ed., Diaspora and Visual Culture: Representing Africans and Jews; Laura Auricchio on Bruce Mau, Life Style

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