"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]
Spanish language edition of an essential source book, "Six Years : The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972," compiling the documentation of the Conceptual Art, Land Art, Earth Art, Arte Povera, Minimal Art, Performance Art, Video Art movements. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held September 16, 1987 - October 31, 1987. Includes a tribute to Dewey by John Hightower, as well as essays / contributions by Barbara Moore, Frances Alenikoff, Mark Boyle, John Giorno, Ann Horton, Alison Knowles, Terry Riley and Robert Wilson. ... [details]
Summer 1982 issue of Art Journal. Guest edited by Clive Phillpot. "Editor's Statement," by Clive Phillpot; "Looking at a Printed Page," by Tony Rickaby; "Messages Received," by Howardena Pindell; artist's project by Sol LeWitt; "Kangaroo? (Some Songs by Art & Language and the Red Crayola," by Art & Language, The Red Crayola; "artist's project by Davi Det Hompson; "Why Write," by Daniel Buren; Color / Language Studies 1973 - 82, by Iain Baxter" artist's project by John Fekner; "The Walking Man 1975 - 1978 and The Artist's Dream," by Ian Breakwell; "Extracts fom Personhood's Self-Cancellation," by Henry 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]
Single sided flyer / poster published in protest of the proposed 1979 / 1980 United States Criminal Code Reforms Acts. Flyer dated February 8, 1980. [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]
Reissue of the 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. ... [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]
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]