"Путешествие по Северному морю" by Rosalind E. Krauss

Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition

An incisive essay on contemporary art’s “post-medium condition,” it argues that the erosion of traditional medium specificity under conceptual strategies, institutional framing, and technical reproducibility yields a hollow intermediality. Through close readings—especially of Marcel Broodthaers’s “Un Voyage en Mer du Nord”—it shows how supports, formats, and distribution systems structure meaning across photography, film, and installation, and contends for a reinvented, rigorous notion of medium grounded in technical support.