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        1. Research Library

        The Optical Unconscious

        Rosalind Krauss

        Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press 1994

        ISBN 9780262611053

      2. An influential book by October editor Krauss, in which she argues for the uncodified, irrepressible, monstrous strains of modernism (the ‘optical unconscious’) which resist limiting definitions of the modern and avant-garde and ‘haunt’ the project of modernism.

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