Anthology of writing by American artists edited by Ellen H. Johnson. Includes contributions (interviews and statements, primarily) by Ellen H. Johnson, Jackson Pollock, William Wright, Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, David Sylvester, Clement Greenberg, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt, Cleve Gray, David Smith, Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Cindy Nemser, Allan Kaprow, Michael Kirby, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Whitman, John Cage, Jasper Johns, G.R. Swenson, Roy Lichtenstein, Donald Judd, Bruce Glaser, Phyllis Tuchman, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Mel Bochner, Joseph Kosuth, Agnes Denes, Robert Irwin, Linda Chase, Ted McBurnett, Brian O'Doherty, Audrey Flack, Linda Chase, Robert Feldman, Ted McBurnett, Duane Hanson, Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Morris, Eva Hesse, Christo, Ching-Yu Chang, Richard Serra, Athena Tacha, Alice Aycock, Willoughby Sharp, Bruce Nauman, Liza Bear, Vito Acconci, Chris Burden, Laurie Anderson, Miriam Schapiro, Cynthia Carlson, Robert Kushner, Neil Jenney, Nicholas Africano, Jonathan Borofsky, and Judy Pfaff. Includes index and list of illustrations.