"Throughout the more than fifty years of his prolific career, Fernand Léger, one of the most influential of twentieth-century painters, wrote enthusiastic, lucid essays to explain his theories about the purposes of art, which he believed had an important role to play in modern life - not as decoration but as an embodiment of the modern spirit on all levels of society. ... [details]
Retrospective catalogue produced in recognition of the tenth anniversary of Off Centre Center, 1975 - 1985. Features chronologies of visual art, performance art, video, and music at the Centre, as well as related essays. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held May 8 - June 15, 1983. Essay by Richard Flood. Artists include John Ahearn, Lynda Benglis, Jonathan Borofsky, Louise Bourgeois, William Crozier, Jedd Garet, Robert Graham, Barry LeDoux, Robert Longo, Robert Morris, Jud Nelson, Manuel Neri, Tom Otterness, Judy Pfaff, Italo Scanga, George Segal, Joel Shapiro, Judith Shea, Martin Silverman, Paul Thek and Daisy Youngblood. ... [details]
Irregularly issued artists' periodical of writings and artists' projects. Contributions by Angelo Savelli, Robert Indiana, Robert Motherwell, David Smyth, Will Insley, Sol LeWitt, Mario Yrissary, Barnett Newman, Gino Severini, Alberto Giacometti, Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Adolf Wölfli, Ad Reinhardt, Peter Hutchinson, May Stevens, Frnacis Picabia, Saul Baizerman, Rosemarie Castoro, Jean Dubuffet, Michael Goldberg, Jean Dubuffet, Rosalind Hodkins, Joseph Cornell, Sari Dienes, David Hare, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Piero Dorazio, Roger Welch, William Tucker, Barbara Kruger, Elyssa Rundle, Peter Plagens, Eugene Kayser, Richard Kostelanetz, Robert De Niro, A. ... [details]
Issue edited by Herbert George. Essays "Excerpts from a Journal," by Frank Moore; "The Pontiac Streak," by Michael Robbins; "Art Delinquency Notes," by Tony Rickaby; "Passages," by Rosemary Mayer; "Chicago," by Barbara Kruger; "She Makes The Wrong Choices," by Barbara Kruger; "Eleven Conversations," by Richard Prince; "Cold Oracle," by Robert Morris; "Billy Builder, or The Painfull Machine," by Carl Andre; "Dancing With Grandin," by Harriet Shorr; "Post-Modernist Painting," by Rackstraw Downes; "PICKUP and How To Get or Keep a Job," by Steven Low; "Manifesto on Behalf of the Toupiniquins or Nambas," by Mario Pedrosa. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held January 15 - March 6, 1988. Examines Marcel Duchamp and his effect on the avant garde since 1950, incorporating images of Duchamp's work, reproductions of work by other artists, and essays by theorists and artists alike. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held in 1997. Editors Hans Ulrich Obrist and Guy Tortosa write in their introduction, "Unbuilt Roads," that "... endeavors in the visual arts that are planned but not carried out ordinarily remain unnoticed or little known. ... [details]
