Scene of the Crime

Peter Wollen, Anthony Vidler, Ralph Rugoff, Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles. Armand Hammer Museum, Fellows of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.), Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center — 1997

The book is not about works of art that simply document criminal acts. Rather, it is about a strain of art that presents the art object as a clue to absent meanings or actions.