"How did a small art college in Nova Scotia become the epicenter of art education--and to a large extent of the postmimimalist and conceptual art world itself--in the 1960s and 1970s? Like the unorthodox experiments and rich human resources that made Black Mountain College an improbable center of art a generation earlier, the activities and artists at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (aka NSCAD) in the 1970s redefined the means and methods of art education and the shape of art far beyond Halifax. ... [details]
Compendium of writings and projects for publication by Dan Graham, edited by Brian Wallis. Essays include "My Works for Magazine Pages: 'A History of Conceptual Art;'" "Information: Conceptual Art / Magazines / The Sixties"; "Eisenhower and the Hippies"; "Side Effect / Common Drug"; "Homes for America"; "Schema (March 1966)"; "Information"; "Figurative"; "'Aspen': One Proposal"; "Income Piece"; "Subject Matter"; "Detumescence"; "Dean Martin / Entertainment as Theater"; "Past Future/Split Attention"; "The End of Liberalism"; "Rock My Religion"; "Punk as Propaganda"; "Performer / Audience / Mirror"; "New Wave Rock and the Feminine"; "Body Press"; "McLaren's Children"; "Performance and Stage Set"; "The Lickerish Quartet"; "Cinema"; "Theater, Cinema, Power"; "Public Space / Two Audiences"; "Gordon Matta-Clark"; "Alteration of a Suburban House"; "Art as Design"; "Video Design"; "Art in Relation to Architecture / Architecture in Relation to Art"; "Video View of Suburbia in an Urban Atrium"; "The City as Museum"; "Two Adjacent Pavilions"; "Corporate Arcadias"; "Pergola / Conservatory"; "Garden as Theater as Museum"; and "Children's Pavilion. ... [details]
Compendium of critical texts on the art of Claes Oldenburg. Edited and with an essay by Nadja Rottner. Additional essays by Joshua Shannon, Yve-Alain Bois, Julia E. Robinson, Ellen H. Johnson, Benjamin H. ... [details]
"In 'Conceptual Art and Painting,' Charles Harrison reconsiders Conceptual Art in light of renewed interest in the original movement and of the various forms of 'neo-Conceptual Art.' The essays are written from the point of view of Art & Language, the artistic movement based in England - and briefly in the United States - with which Harrison has been associated since 1970. ... [details]
"When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: twenty-one layers of fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function, custom-sewn for them by seamstresses whose usual work was fashioning bras and girdles. ... [details]
"In 1961, a solo exhibition by Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana met with a scathing critical response from New York art critics. Fontana (1899–1968), well known in Europe for his series of slashed monochrome paintings, offered New York ten canvases slashed and punctured, thickly painted in luridly brilliant hues and embellished with chunks of colored glass. ... [details]
Compendium of transcripts and texts based on "Open Circuits : An International Conference on the Future of Television," which was organized by Fred Barzyk, Douglas Davis, Gerald O'Grady, and Willard Van Dyke for the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, in January 1974. ... [details]
Scholarly book by art historian Ann Reynolds on the work of Robert Smithson. "In 'Robert Smithson,' Ann Reynolds elucidates the complexity of Smithson's work and thought by placing them in their historical context, a context greatly enhanced by the vast archival materials that Smithson's widow, Nancy Holt, donated to the Archives of American Art in 1987. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 17, 1999 - February 13, 2000. Traveled to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 13 - October 22, 2000. ... [details]
Collection of writings by Ai Weiwei published between 2006 and 2009 on his blog. Edited and translated by Lee Ambrozy. "In 2006, even though he could barely type, China''s most famous artist started blogging. ... [details]
