"This book makes available a series of documents concerning the attempt by a United States Government Agency (the General Services Administration) to remove and thereby destroy Richard Serra's Tilted Arc, a sculpture at Federal Plaza, New York City. ... [details]
Issue edited by Al Goldstein. Cover art by Ned Sonntag. Essays "Screw You," by Al Goldstein; "Meet Mr. & Mrs. Bozo America!" by D.A. Latimer; "Variations on a Theme Suggested by Onan," by Alfred Alexander Aguero; "Sex Scene," edited by David James; "Strickly Between Us," by Lyle Stuart; "Fuckbooks: The Mingus Dingus," by Michael Perkins; "Dirty Diversions," by Al Goldstein; "Shit List," by Jim Buckley; "Naked City," edited by Anthony Gambino; "Watson's Weirdness," by Christopher Watson. [details]
Monograph on Georges Seurat by John Russell. "In a richly illustrated study, John Russell, art critic of the London Sunday Times, presents an authoritative survey of Seurat's life and art. Carefully interpreting both the famous canvases and what Suerat's colleague Paul Signac called 'the most beautiful painter's drawings in existence,' Mr. ... [details]
1987 edition of COCA's annual review of the years exhibitions. Texts by Martha Winans, Patti Dobrowolski, Mrs. Mogul, Bill Harding, Susan Purves, and Larry Reid. [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held January 7 - 31, 1970 at Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. Artists in the exhibition included Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Hans Arp, Joan Miro, Buckminster Fuller, Jackson Pollock, Christo, Bruce Conner, Walter De Maria, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Whitman, Ellsworth Kelly, James Rosenquist, Oyvind Fahlström, Lucas Samaras, Robert Indiana, Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Barry, Bruce Bauman, Arman, Barry Flanagan, Les Levine, Robert Gordon, George Kuehn, Fred Sandback, George Segal, Picasso, Man Ray, Francis Picabia, Allan Kaprow, Lawrence Weiner, Victor Burgin, Lloyd Hamrol, Peter Hutchinson, George Herms, , Ernst Hesse, William Bollinger, Alan Saret, Robert Rohm, and Robert Watts. ... [details]
Critical theory text discussing themes and origins of contemporary art. The title, "Synnyt," refers to the Finnish word meaning 'birth' and 'to be born,' and also to Finnish mythology, in which the word alluded to a story that "explained the cause or origin of a given creature, disease or other phenomenon and it was believed that knowledge of the true 'synty' or origin gave its possessor power over the phenomenon in question. ... [details]
Issue edited by Jaakov Kohn. Contents include "Hirap," by Jaakov Kohn; "Poor Paranoid's Almanac," by Allan Katzman; "Decomposition," by D.A. Latimer; illustration by unknown; photomontage by unknown; "Inter-Afterimage-View," by Jud Yalkut; "A Is for Apple," by James Lichtenberg; "The Infernal Machine or Apologies to Jean Cocteau," by David Wally; "Rock and Roll for the Academics or Mr. ... [details]
"The future of architecture will be happily welcomed, by those familiar with the life and work of the greatest living architect, as one of the most important books of our time. To the growing number of readers becoming acquainted with Frank Lloyd Wright's vast achievement, this volume, containing his major statements on architecture during the past quarter century, will serve as an indispensable survey. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Hayward Gallery, London, February 27 - April 7, 1980. Essays by John Willett, Júlia Szabó, Krisztina Passuth, Tamás Aknai, and János Brendel. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the 2001 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Awards, granted in painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, video, and craft media. Artists include John Bankston, Suzanne Bocanegra, Nina Bovasso, Marco Brambilla, Christopher Broughton, Francis Cape, Nick Cave, Robert Chambers, Michael A. ... [details]
