Conceptual art : a critical anthology / edited by Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson.

"Compared to other avant-garde movements that emerged in the 1960s, conceptual art has received relatively little serious attention by art historians and critics of the past twenty-five years - in part because of the difficult, intellectual nature of the art." "This anthology collects...

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Other Authors: Alberro, Alexander, Stimson, Blake
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA. : MIT Press, c1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • Reconsidering conceptual art, 1966-1977 / Alexander Alberro
  • The promise of conceptual art / Blake Stimson
  • I. 1966-1967. A media art (manifesto) / Eduardo Costa, Raul Escari, Roberto Jacoby
  • Compositions for audio structures / Christine Kozlov
  • Position and program / Helio Oiticica
  • Paragraphs on conceptual art / Sol LeWitt
  • Excerpt from Placement as Language (1928) / Sigmund Bode
  • The serial attitude / Mel Bochner
  • Statement / Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, Michel Parmentier, Niele Toroni
  • Buren, Mosset, Toroni or Anybody / Michel Claura
  • Remarks on air-conditioning: an extravaganza of blandness / Michael Baldwin
  • A defense of the "conceptual" process in art / Adrian Piper
  • General Scheme of the new objectivity / Helio Oiticica
  • II. 1968. The dematerialization of art / Lucy R. Lippard and John Chandler
  • Concerning the article The dematerialization of art / Terry Atkinson
  • Statement / Yvonne Rainer
  • Statement to Lucy Lippard / Hanne Darboven
  • Interview with Daniel Buren: art is no longer justifiable or setting the record straight / Georges Boudaille
  • Tucuman Burns / Maria Teresa Gramuglio and Nicolas Rosa
  • III. 1969. Paris commentary / Michel Claura
  • Painting is obsolete / Gregory Battcock
  • Art Workers' Coalition open hearing presentation / Dan Graham
  • Introduction / Editors of Art-Language
  • Sentences on conceptual art / Sol LeWitt
  • Dialogue / Ian Burn
  • Dialogue piece / Lee Lozano
  • Maintenance art manifesto, proposal for an exhibition, "CARE" / Mierle Laderman Ukeles
  • Patron's statement for "When attitudes become form" / John Murphy
  • Politics and the avant-garde / Piero Gilardi
  • Art tamed and wild / Jean Clay
  • Introduction to konzeption/conception / Rolf Wedewer
  • Beware / Daniel Buren
  • Art after philosophy / Joseph Kosuth
  • Introduction to 557,087 / Lucy R. Lippard
  • IV. 1970. Conceptual art as art / Ian Burn
  • Excerpts from Speculation (1967-1970) / Mel Bochner
  • On exhibitions and the world at large / Charles Harrison and Seth Siegelaub
  • Notes towards art work / Charles Harrison
  • Introduction to Art in the mind / Athena Tacha Spear
  • Introduction to Information / Kynaston McShine
  • Alice's head: reflections on conceptual art / Jack Burnham
  • De-aestheticization / Harold Rosenberg
  • Contemporary Colonial art / Luis Camnitzer
  • Insertions in ideological circuits / Cildo Meireles
  • V. 1971-1974. Interview with Lawrence Weiner / Michel Claura
  • An interview with Han Haacke / Jeanne Siegel
  • Rules of thumb / Victor Burgin
  • Propositions / Terry Smith
  • Interview with Art-Language / Catherine Millet
  • The trouble with art-as-idea / Max Kozloff
  • Cultural Confinement / Robert Smithson
  • Production for production's sake / Robert Smithson
  • L'art conceptual / Michel Claura and Seth Siegelaub
  • Postface, in Six years: the dematerialization of the art object, 1966 to 1972 / Lucy R. Lippard
  • In support of meta-art / Adrian Piper
  • All the "art" that's fit to show / Han Haacke
  • VI. 1975-1977. A declaration of dependence / Sarah Charlesworth
  • The art market: Affluence and degradation / Ian Burn
  • 1975 / Joseph Kosuth
  • Having-your-heart-in-the-right-place-is-not-making-history / Art & Language, UK
  • The timeless lumpenness of radical cultural life / Art & Language, UK
  • To be bien pensant ... or not to be. To be blind / Marcel Broodthaers
  • Documentary and corporate violence / Allan Sekula
  • To argue for a video of representation. To argue for a video against the mythology of everyday life / Martha Rosler
  • Notes on reading the Post-Partum Document / Mary Kelly
  • Moments in history in the works of Dan Graham / Benjamin H.D. Buchloch
  • VII. Memoirs of conceptual art. The sixties: crisis and aftermath (or the memoirs of an ex-conceptual artist) / Ian Burn
  • Statements / Cildo Meireles
  • Conceptual art / Ian Wilson
  • My works for magazine pages: a history of conceptual art / Dan Graham
  • On conceptual art / Adrian Piper
  • Statement / Robert Barry
  • Yes, difference again: what history plays the first time around as tragedy, it repeats as farce / Victor Burgin
  • Working with shadows, working with words / Deke Dusinberre, Seth Siegelaub, Daniel Buren, Michel Claura
  • We aimed to be amateurs / Art & Language
  • A conversation about conceptual art, subjectivity and the Post-Partum Document / Mary Kelly and Terry Smith
  • Intention(s) / Joseph Kosuth
  • Inside a New York art gang: selected documents of Art & Language, New York / Michael Corris
  • Statement / Martha Rosler
  • "Dada
  • situations / tupamaros
  • conceptualism": an interview with Luis Camnitzer / Blake Stimson
  • VIII. Critical histories of conceptual art. Dan Graham's Kammerspiel / Jeff Wall
  • Conceptual art 1962-1969: from aesthetic of administration to the critique of institutions / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh
  • Conceptual art and critical judgement / Charles Harrison
  • The logic of modernism / Adrian Piper
  • Blueprint circuits: conceptual art and politics in Latin America / Mari Carmen Ramirez
  • Unwritten histories of conceptual art / Thomas Crow.