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Documentation of three installations by Barber that deploy text andimages within a precisely drawn critical framework addressing issues ofcorporate advertising ( Reading Room: A Visual Analysis of CorporateAdvertising, 1985), the Vietnam war (Reading Room II: Remembering Vietnam, again, 1987) and the representation of masculinity (Reading Room III: The Red Room, 1992). Texts, lecture notes and essays by Barber, an introduction by Mark Cheetham and essay by Richard Bolton contextualize the work while laying a foundation for a general theory of critically engaged art practice.