Article: From Montreal to the world: Parachute Magazine--1975-2006? Tammer El-Sheikh looks at the history of Parachute and talks with the magazine's editor, Chantal Pantbriand, about its future as a publication--and a brand.

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The magazine's ambition "to develop a critical language" (5) for a borderless discourse on current art practices was signalled by Poulin's design for the craft-paper cover of Issue 1: a reproduction of Vladimir Tatlin's sketch for a Monument to the Third International (1919-1920). A "hybrid criticism" (6) was sought using tools developed by writers from both sides of the pond. Pontbriand explains that the magazine's critical tool kit was developed out of the work of French thinkers like Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, as well as that of Anglo-American critics working in the long shadow of Greenbergian formalism, such as Rosalind Krauss ...

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