Conceptual Art : A Critical Anthology

by Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson (Eds.)

• ISBN13: 9780262511179
• ISBN10: 0262511177
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-28
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

Compared to other avant-garde movements that emerged in the 1960s, conceptual art has received relatively little serious attention from art historians and critics of the past twenty-five years. This landmark anthology collects for the first time the key historical documents that helped give definition and purpose to the movement. It also contains more recent memoirs by participants, as well as critical histories of the period by some of today's leading artists and art historians. Many of the essays and artists' statements have been translated into English specifically for this volume. A good portion of the exchange between artists, critics, and theorists took place in difficult-to-find limited-edition catalogs, small journals, and private correspondence. These influential documents are gathered here for the first time, along with a number of previously unpublished essays and interviews.

Author Biography

Alexander Alberro is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Blake Stimson is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Davis.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	xii
Preface	xiv
Reconsidering Conceptual Art, 1966-1977	xvi
Alexander Alberro
The Promise of Conceptual Art	xxxviii
Blake Stimson
I 1966-1967
A Media Art (Manifesto)	2	(4)
Eduardo Costa
Raul Escari
Roberto Jacoby
Compositions for Audio Structures	6	(2)
Christine Kozlov
Position and Program	8	(4)
Helio Oiticica
Paragraphs on Conceptual Art	12	(6)
Sol LeWitt
Excerpt from Placement as Language (1928)	18	(4)
Sigmund Bode
The Serial Attitude	22	(6)
Mel Bochner
Statement	28	(2)
Daniel Buren
Oliver Mosset
Michael Parmentier
Niele Toroni
Buren, Mosset, Toroni or Anybody	30	(2)
Michel Claura
Remarks on Air-Conditioning: An Extravaganza of Blandness	32	(4)
Michael Baldwin
A Defense of the ``Conceptual'' Process in Art	36	(4)
Adrian Piper
General Scheme of the New Objectivity	40	(6)
Helio Oiticica
II 1968
The Dematerialization of Art	46	(6)
Lucy R. Lippard
John Chandler
Concerning the Article ``The Dematerialization of Art''	52	(8)
Terry Atkinson
Statement	60	(2)
Yvonne Rainer
Statement to Lucy Lippard	62	(4)
Hanne Darboven
Interview with Daniel Buren: Art is No Longer Justifiable or Setting the Record Straight	66	(10)
George Boudaille
Tucuman Burns	76	(6)
Maria Teresa Gramuglio
Nicolas Rosa
III 1969
Paris Commentary	82	(6)
Michel Claura
Painting Is Obsolete	88	(4)
Gregory Battcock
Art Worker's Coalition Open Hearing Presentation	92	(6)
Dan Graham
Introduction	98	(8)
Editors of Art-Language
Sentences on Conceptual Art	106	(4)
Sol LeWitt
Dialogue	110	(2)
Ian Burn
Dialogue Piece	112	(10)
Lee Lozano
Maintenance Art Manifesto, Proposal for an Exhibition, ``CARE''	122	(4)
Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Patron's Statement for ``When Attitudes Become Form''	126	(2)
John Murphy
Politics and the Avant-Garde	128	(8)
Piero Gillardi
Art Tamed and Wild	136	(6)
Jean Clay
Introduction to Konzeption/Conception	142	(2)
Rolf Wedewer
Beware	144	(14)
Daniel Buren
Art After Philosophy	158	(20)
Joseph Kosuth
Introduction to 557, 087	178	(10)
Lucy R. Lippard
IV 1970
Conceptual Art as Art	188	(4)
Ian Burn
Excerpts from Speculation (1967-1970)	192	(6)
Mel Bochner
On Exhibitions and the World at Large	198	(6)
Charles Harrison
Seth Siegelaub
Notes Towards Art Work	204	(6)
Charles Harrison
Introduction to Art in the Mind	210	(2)
Athena Tacha Spear
Introduction to Information	212	(4)
Kynaston McShine
Alice's Head: Reflections on Conceptual Art	216	(4)
Jack Burnham
De-aestheticization	220	(4)
Harold Rosenberg
Contemporary Colonial Art	224	(8)
Luis Camnitzer
Insertions in Ideological Circuits	232	(4)
Cildo Meireles
V 1971-1974
Interview with Lawrence Weiner	236	(6)
Michel Claura
An Interview with Hans Haacke	242	(6)
Jeanne Siegel
Rules of Thumb	248	(10)
Victor Burgin
Propositions	258	(4)
Terry Smith
Interview with Art-Language	262	(6)
Catherine Millet
The Trouble with Art-as-Idea	268	(12)
Max Kozloff
Cultural Confinement	280	(4)
Robert Smithson
Production for Production's Sake	284	(2)
Robert Smithson
L'art conceptual	286	(8)
Michel Claura
Seth Siegelaub
Postface, in Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object, 1966 to 1972	294	(4)
Lucy R. Lippard
In Support of Meta-Art	298	(4)
Adrian Piper
All the ``Art'' That's Fit to Show	302	(6)
Hans Haacke
VI 1975-1977
A Declaration of Dependence	308	(12)
Sarah Charlesworth
The Art Market: Affluence and Degradation	320	(14)
Ian Burn
1975	334	(16)
Joseph Kosuth
Having-Your-Heart-in-the-Right-Place-Is-Not-Making-History Art & Language, UK	350	(4)
The Timeless Lumpenness of Radical Cultural Life Art & Language, UK	354	(4)
To Be bien pensant... or Not to Be To Be Blind	358	(2)
Marcel Broodthaers
Documentary and Corporate Violence	360	(6)
Allan Sekula
To Argue for a Video of Representation. To Argue for a Video Against the Mythology of Everyday Life	366	(4)
Martha Rosler
Notes on Reading the Post-Partum Document	370	(6)
Mary Kelly
Moments of History in the Work of Dan Graham	376	(16)
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
VII Memoirs of Conceptual Art
The `Sixties: Crisis and Aftermath (or the Memoirs of an Ex-Conceptual Artist)	392	(18)
Ian Burn
Statements	410	(4)
Cildo Meireles
Conceptual Art	414	(4)
Ian Wilson
My Works for Magazine Pages: ``A History of Conceptual Art''	418	(6)
Dan Graham
On Conceptual Art	424	(2)
Adrian Piper
Statement	426	(2)
Robert Barry
Yes, Difference Again: What History Plays the First Time Around as Tragedy, It Repeats as Farce	428	(4)
Victor Burgin
Working with Shadows, Working with Words	432	(10)
Deke Dusinberre
Seth Siegelaub
Daniel Buren
Michel Claura
We Aimed to Be Amateurs Art & Language	442	(8)
A Conversation About Conceptual Art, Subjectivity and the Post-Partum Document	450	(10)
Mary Kelly
Terry Smith
Intention(s)	460	(10)
Joseph Kosuth
Inside, a New York Gang: Selected Documents of Art & Language, New York	470	(16)
Michael Corris
Statement	486	(6)
Martha Rosler
``Dada--Situationism/Tupamaros--Conceptualism'': An Interview with Luis Camnitzer	492	(12)
Blake Stimson
VIII Critical Histories of Conceptual Art
Dan Graham's Kammerspiel	504	(10)
Jeff Wall
Conceptual Art 1962-1969: From the Aesthetic of Administration to the Critique of Institutions	514	(24)
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
Conceptual Art and Critical Judgement	538	(8)
Charles Harrison
The Logic of Modernism	546	(4)
Adrian Piper
Blueprint Circuits: Conceptual Art and Politics in Latin America	550	(14)
Mari Carmen Ramirez
Unwritten Histories of Conceptual Art	564
Thomas Crow