Essential source book of documentation of the Conceptual Art, Land Art, Earth Art, Arte Povera, Minimal Art, Performance Art, Video Art movements. Documents the activities, day by day, month by month, year by year of artists including Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Adrian, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Art-Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, N. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held November 29 - December 20, 1975. Organized and with an essay by Jeffrey Deitch. The pages in the catalogue were prepared by the artists themselves or according to instructions given to Deitch by the artists. ... [details]
Anthology of theatrical/performative scripts and documents conceived as of as a companion to Breakthrough Fictioneers and Essaying Essays. Compiled and edited by Richard Kostelantz. Features contributions by Marina Abramovic, Ulay, Blair H. ... [details]
Essential source book of documentation of the Conceptual Art, Land Art, Earth Art, Arte Povera, Minimal Art, Performance Art, Video Art movements. Documents the activities, day by day, month by month, year by year of artists including Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Adrian, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Art-Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, N. ... [details]
One of the most important publication of the 1970s conceptualism edited by Sarah Charlesworth, Michael Corris, Joseph Kosuth, Andrew Menard, Mel Ramsden, Preston Heller, and Ian Burn. Only three issues published between 1975 and 1976. ... [details]
Artist's book-cum-anthology of works by the Guerrilla Art Action Group made between 1969 and 1976. Includes writing (manifestos, notes, letters), photographs, and documentation of performances. A critical tool to understanding the 1960s and 1970s art activism. [details]
"Institutional Critique" is an artistic practice that reflects critically on its own housing in galleries and museums and on the concept and social function of art itself. Such concerns have always been a part of modern art but took on new urgency at the end of the 1960s, when—driven by the social upheaval of the time and enabled by the tools and techniques of conceptual art—institutional critique emerged as a genre. ... [details]
A collection of actions by the Art Workers Coalition and the Guerrilla Art Action Group (Jon Hendricks, Jean Toche, Poppy Johnson, Silvianna). Includes: "A Call for the Immediate Resignation of All the Rockefellers from the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art," signed by A. ... [details]
Summer 1982 issue of Wedge magazine. Edited by Brian Wallis and Phil Mariani. Essays " "Put me on this train!" An interview with Joseph Beuys," by Art Papier; "The Enigma and Melancholy of Nostalgia," by Jonathan Crary; "Time," by Kathy Acker; "License Action (January 17-18, 1981) Who, me? I don't know nothing. ... [details]