A History of Seeing
From the beginnings of his work, Fisher has engaged with the evolution of culture throughout the information age and all its implications in the present. Fisher has written about his own works but also, implicitly or explicitly, about those of other artists and filmmakers. A reflection on the history of seeing and its techniques, Fisher believes, also implies a form of appropriation, transformation, and ironic reflection. In his writings, Fisher embeds each of his works in a cosmos of tropes, autobiographical allusions, and references. Carl Andre, Marcel Duchamp, Blinky Palermo, Ad Reinhardt, and Gerhard Richter, as well as numerous filmmakers such as Peter Kubelka and Paul Sharits, represent only some of the many figures of reference in Fisher’s cosmos whom he comments on. Over the past two decades, he has increasingly devoted himself to a retrospective analysis and a revision of his own work; and for just as long, there has been a plan to make his writings, which have grown to a considerable volume, accessible to a wider audience.

Important Contribution to Twentieth-Century Art and Film Theory
The shows at Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach and at the Generali Foundation in Vienna (2011/2012) provided the occasion to realize this ambitious and much-deferred project: the first comprehensive collection of Morgan Fisher’s writings. They are an important contribution to art and film theory, juxtaposing the conceptual issues of both media, revealing the similarities and differences between them, and illustrating tropes and models of phenomenology and structuralism.

First Publication of Writings
The most comprehensive collection to date, Morgan Fisher. Writings features almost all the texts—including previously published as well as unpublished ones—Fisher has written about his films since the 1960s and his work in painting since the 1990s, as well as about work by others. The writings are complemented by a comprehensive presentation of transcripts and narrations of Fisher’s films and videos. This organization allows the reader to trace overarching questions, cross-references, and interconnections within the groups of texts as well as within series of works.

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