Collection of essays published in Flash Art Magazine from it's inception in 1969 to 1989. Edited by Giancarlo Politi and Helena Kontova. Essays by Giancarlo Politi, Helena Kontova, Germano Celant, Piero Gilardi, Robert Smithson, Jean Baudrillard , Donald Karshan, Charles Harrison, Agnes Martin, Ann Wilson, Rosetta Brooks, Barbara Radice, François Pluchart, Charles Dreyfus, Peter Gorsen, Douglas Crimp, Thomas Lawson, David Salle, Carrie Rickey, Achille Bonito Oliva, Jeffrey Deitch, Annelie Pohlen, Ernst Busche, Sherrie Levine, Paul Groot, Nicolas A. Moufarrege, Gilles Deleuze, Michael Newman, Nena Dimitrijevic, Klaus Ottmann, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Peter Halley, Jutta Koether, Felix Guattari, Peter Nagy, Dan Cameron, Christoph Schenker, Fred Fehlau, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Valentine Tatransky, Valerie Smith, Carlo McCormick, Philip Taaffe, Michele Cone, Gary Indiana, Robert Nickas, Daniela Salvioni, Jack Bankowsky. Also includes conversations between Ed Ruscha and Barbara Radice, Jean Clair and Bernard Blistene, Phillipe Sollers and Bernard Blistene, Enzo Cucchi and Giancarlo Politi and Helena Kontova, Rainer Fetting and Helena Kontova, Francesco Clemente and Giancarlo Politi, Jean-François Lyotard and Bernard Blistene, Andy Warhol and Paul Taylor, Julia Kristeva and Catherine Francblin, Julian Schnabel and Giancarlo Politi, Jean Baudrillard and Catherine Francblin, Fredric Jameson and Anders Stephanson, Jeff Koons and Giancarlo Politi, and Georg Dokoupil and Paul Maenze. Cover design by Jean Anderson. Includes a chronology of Flash Art and an index.