December 1972 issue of Artforum, edited by John Coplans. Contents include: "Mel Bochner: The Constant as Variable," by Robert Pincus-Witten; "American Geometric Abstraction in the Late Thirties," by John Elderfield; "Oskar Schlemmer Sculpture," by Karin von Maur; "Notes on Recent Dance," by Don McDonagh; "Pivot," by Robert Dunn; "Performance, A Conversation," by Stephen Koch; "A Note on Bernhard and Hilla Becher," by Carl Andre; "Man Ray as Film Maker," by Steven Kovács; "Los Angeles: The Ecology of Evil, " by Peter Plagens; "Bonnard Drawings," by Joseph Masheck; and "Reviews," by Joseph Masheck, April Kingsley, Bruce Boice, Lizzie Borden, and Carter Ratcliff. ... [details]
Issue edited by John Coplans. Essays "A Talk with George Kubler," by Robert Joseph Horvitz; "Hanne Darboven: Deep in Numbers," by Lucy Lippard; "Theater of the Conceptual: Autobiography and Myth," by Robert Pincus-Witten; "Robert Smithson on Duchamp, An Interview," by Moira Roth; "The Suppression of Art in the McCarthy Decade," by William Hauptman; "Pointing, Hybrids, and Romanticism: John Baldessari," by James Collins; "What is Content? Notes Toward an Answer," by Douglas Davis; "'Anemic Cinema,' Reflections on an Emblematic Work," by Annette Michelson; "Brancusi: The Centrality of the Gate," by Sidney Geist; "In Support of Meta-Art," by Adrian Piper; "L. ... [details]
Anthology of critical texts on Robert Ryman written from 1967 on, edited by Vittorio Colaizzi and Karsten Schubert. Includes contributions by Volker Adolphs, Laura Arici, Dore Ashton, Kenneth Baker, Neal Benezra, Bruce Boice, Yve-Alain Bois, Christian Bonnefoi, Daniel Buren, Dan Cameron, John Canaday, David Carrier, Jean Clay, Douglas Crimp, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Arthur Danto, Jan Dibbets, Willis Domingo, Thierry de Duve, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Marcia Hafif, Ellen Handy, Gerrit Henry, Suzanne Hudson, Robert Hughes, Steven L. ... [details]
Artist's book with drawings by Mel Bochner, text on Mel Bochner by Bruce Boice reprinted from Arts Magazine, May 1973, and instillation images. [details]
Issue edited by John Coplans. Essays "'Such Good Intentions': Architecture for the Arts at Purchase," by Suzanne Stephens; "Problems from Early Kupka," by Bruce Boice; "European Painting in LA: A Grab Bag of Well-worn Issues," by Peter Plagens; "Alex Katz's Development," by Lawrence Alloway; "Super Realism: A Critical Anthology, Book Review," by Phil Patton; "Milestones, Film Review," by Steven Simmons. ... [details]
Issue edited by John Coplans. Essays "Nature as Artifact: Alan Sonfist," by Robert Joseph Horvitz; "Residual Sign Systems in Abstract Expressionism," by Lawrence Alloway; "Sense and Sensibility," by Rosalind Krauss; "Ellsworth Kelly at the Modern," by Joseph Masheck; "The Rivera Frescoes of Modern Industry at The Detroit Institute of Arts: Proletarian Art Under Capitalist Patronage," by Max Kozloff; "Mary Miss," by Laurie Anderson; "Michael Snow's 'La Région Centrale'," by John W. ... [details]
Issue edited by John Coplans. Essays "Robert Witz: Selections from the Tomah Letters," by Robert Witz; "Before What Flowering? Thoughts on West Coast Art," by Peter Plagens; "Sound-Script Relations and the New Notation," by Annson Kenney; "Private Objects: The Sculpture of Kurt Schwitters," by John Elderfield; "Murals in New Mexico," by Eric Kroll; "The Jules Olitski Retrospective," by Joseph Masheck; "Biography of a Teaching Machine," by Craig Hodgetts; "On Daniel Buren," by Roberta Smith; "Function of the Museum," by Daniel Buren; "A Retrospective of Anthropological Film," by Paul S. ... [details]
Issue edited by John Coplans. Essays "Things and Theories," by James Collins; "Max Ernst: Speculations Provoked by an Exhibition," by Rosalind Krauss; "Gerald Hayes: The Creativity of the Psychological Eye," by Virginia Gunter; "American Painting During the Cold War," by Max Kozloff; "No/Yes on the West Coast," by Peter Plagens; Meredith Monk: "An Introduction," by Angela Westwater; "A Metamorphic Theater," by Mark Berger; "Love and Death in Picasso's Early Work," by Theodore Reff; "Book Review," by Carol Duncan. ... [details]
Issue edited by John Coplans. Essays "Institution: Whitney Annual," by Lawrence Alloway; "16 Whitney Museum Annuals of American Painting, Percentages 1950-72," by Leon Golub; "Yes! Says Arakawa," by Joseph Masheck; "Eadweard Muybridge: Fragments of a Tesseract," by Hollis Frampton; "Ferdinand Hodler: Expressionism Versus Symbolism," by Robert Pincus-Witten; "Roughly Ordered Thoughs on the Occasion of the Bruce Nauman Retrospective in Los Angeles," by Peter Plagens; "2D/3D," by Leon Golub; "Women Choose Women," by April Kingsley; "Unconscious Formalism, A Response to Andre's Note on the Bechers," by Joe Masheck; "Kandinsky: 'On the Artist'," by Wassily Kandinsky; "An Interview with Emile de Antonio," by Tanya Neufeld; "Joseph Kosuth: 2 Shows," by Bruce Boice. ... [details]
Issue edited by John Coplans. Essays "Agnes Martin," by Lawrence Alloway; "Reflections," by Agnes Martin; "Early Work," by Lizzie Borden; "Jan Dibbets; The Photograph and the Photographed," by Bruce Boice; "The Birth of de Stijl, Part I: Piet Mondrian, The Subject Matter of Abstraction," by Robert P. ... [details]