Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology

1999 anthology edited by Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson

Contents

Author	Title	pg.	Originally published in
Alexander Alberro	Reconsidering Conceptual Art, 1966–1977	xvi
Blake Stimson	The Promise of Conceptual Art	xxxviii
I. 1966-1967
Eduardo Costa, Raúl Escari, Roberto Jacoby	A Media Art (Manifesto)	2	Happenings (ed. Oscar Masotta, 1967)
Christine Kozlov	Compositions for Audio Structures	6	Nonanthropomorphic Art by Four Young Artists (1967)
Hélio Oiticica	Position and Program	8	Aspiro ao Grande Labirinto (1986) Hélio Oiticica (ed. Guy Brett, 1992)
Sol LeWitt	Paragraphs on Conceptual Art	12	Artforum (Summer 1967)
Sigmund Bode	Excerpt from Placement as Language (1928)	18	Aspen, 5–6 (Fall-Winter 1967)
Mel Bochner	The Serial Attitude	22	Artforum (December 1967)
Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, Michel Parmentier, Niele Toroni	Statement	28	Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 (1973)
Michel Claura	Buren, Mosset, Toroni or Anybody	30
Michael Baldwin	Remarks on Air-Conditioning: An Extravaganza of Blandness	32	Arts Magazine (November 1967)
Adrian Piper	A Defense of the "Conceptual" Process in Art	36	Out of Order, Out of Sight. Volume II: Selected Writings in Art Criticism 1967–1992 (Adrian Piper, 1996)
Hélio Oiticica	General Scheme of the New Objectivity	40	Nova Objetividade Brasileira (1967) Hélio Oiticica (ed. Guy Brett, 1992)
II. 1968
Lucy R. Lippard and John Chandler	The Dematerialization of Art	46	Art International (February 1968)
Terry Atkinson	Concerning the Article "The Dematerialization of Art"	52	Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 (1973)
Yvonne Rainer	Statement	60	The Mind Is a Muscle Yvonne Rainer: Work 1961–73 (1974)
Hanne Darboven	Statement to Lucy Lippard	62
Georges Boudaille	Interview with Daniel Buren: Art Is No Longer Justifiable or Setting the Record Straight	66	Les Lettres Francaises (1968)
María Teresa Gramuglio and Nicolás Rosa	Tucumán Burns	76
III. 1969
Michel Claura	Paris Commentary	82	Studio International (January 1969)
Gregory Battcock	Painting Is Obsolete	88	New York Free Press (January 23, 1969)
Dan Graham	Art Workers’ Coalition Open Hearing Presentation	92	An Open Hearing on the Subject: What Should Be the Program of the Art Workers Regarding Museum Reform and to Establish the Program of an Open Art Workers’ Coalition (1969)
Editors of Art-Language	Introduction	98	Art-Language Vol. 1 No. 1 (May 1969)
Sol LeWitt	Sentences on Conceptual Art	106	0–9, no. 5 (January 1969) Art-Language Vol. 1 No. 1 (May 1969)
Ian Burn	Dialogue	110	Art Press (The Society for Theoretical Art & Analysis, July 1969)
Lee Lozano	Dialogue Piece	112
Mierle Laderman Ukeles	Maintenance Art Manifesto, Proposal for an Exhibition, "CARE"	122
John Murphy	Patron’s Statement for "When Attitudes Become Form"	126
Piero Gilardi	Politics and the Avant-Garde	128	Op Losse Schroeven: situaties en cryptostructuren (1969)
Jean Clay	Art Tamed and Wild	136	Studio International (June 1969)
Rolf Wedewer	Introduction to Konzeption/Conception	142	Konzeption/Conception (1969)
Daniel Buren	Beware	144	Konzeption/Conception (1969) VH101, no. 1 (Spring 1970) Studio International (March 1970)
Joseph Kosuth	Art After Philosophy	158	Studio International (October, November 1969)
Lucy R. Lippard	Introduction to 557,087	178	557,087 (1969) 955,000 (1970)
IV. 1970
Ian Burn	Conceptual Art as Art	188	Art and Australia (September 1970)
Mel Bochner	Excerpts from Speculation (1967–1970)	192	Artforum (May 1970)
Charles Harrison and Seth Siegelaub	On Exhibitions and the World at Large	198	Studio International (December 1969)
Charles Harrison	Notes Towards Art Work	204	Studio International (February 1970)
Athena Tacha Spear	Introduction to Art in the Mind	210
Kynaston McShine	Introduction to Information	212	Information (1970)
Jack Burnham	Alice’s Head: Reflections on Conceptual Art	216	Artforum (February 1970)
Harold Rosenberg	De-aestheticization	220	The New Yorker (January 24, 1970)
Luis Camnitzer	Contemporary Colonial Art	224	Marcha (1970)
Cildo Meireles	Insertions in Ideological Circuits	232	Malasartes, no. 1 (September-November 1975) Cildo Meireles: IVAM Centre del Carme, 2 Febrero/23 abril 1995 (1995)
V. 1971-1974
Michel Claura	Interview with Lawrence Weiner	236	VH-101, 5 (Spring 1971)
Jeanne Siegel	An Interview with Hans Haacke	242
Victor Burgin	Rules of Thumb	248
Terry Smith	Propositions	258
Catherine Millet	Interview with Art-Language	262
Max Kozloff	The Trouble with Art-as-Idea	268
Robert Smithson	Cultural Confinement	280
Robert Smithson	Production for Production’s Sake	284
Michel Claura and Seth Siegelaub	L’art conceptuel	286
Lucy R. Lippard	Postface, in Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object, 1966 to 1972	294
Adrian Piper	In Support of Meta-Art	298
Hans Haacke	All the "Art" That’s Fit to Show	302
VI. 1975-1977
Sarah Charlesworth	A Declaration of Dependence	308
Ian Burn	The Art Market: Affluence and Degradation	320
Joseph Kosuth	1975	334
Art & Language, UK	Having-Your-Heart-in-the-Right-Place-Is-Not-Making-History	350
Art & Language, UK	The Timeless Lumpenness of Radical Cultural Life	354
Marcel Broodthaers	To Be bien pensant... or Not to Be. To Be Blind	358
Allan Sekula	Documentary and Corporate Violence	360
Martha Rosler	To Argue for a Video of Representation. To Argue for a Video Against the Mythology of Everyday Life	366
Mary Kelly	Notes on Reading the Post-Partum Document	370
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh	Moments of History in the Work of Dan Graham	376
VII. Memoirs of Conceptual Art
Ian Burn	The ’Sixties: Crisis and Aftermath (or the Memoirs of an Ex-Conceptual Artist)	392
Cildo Meireles	Statements	410
Ian Wilson	Conceptual Art	414
Dan Graham	My Works for Magazine Pages: "A History of Conceptual Art"	418
Adrian Piper	On Conceptual Art	424
Robert Barry	Statement	426
Victor Burgin	Yes, Difference Again: What History Plays the First Time Around as Tragedy, It Repeats as Farce	428
Deke Dusinberre, Seth Siegelaub, Daniel Buren, and Michel Claura	Working with Shadows, Working with Words	432
Art & Language	We Aimed to Be Amateurs	442
Mary Kelly and Terry Smith	A Conversation About Conceptual Art, Subjectivity and the Post-Partum Document	450
Joseph Kosuth	Intention(s)	460
Michael Corris	Inside a New York Art Gang: Selected Documents of Art & Language, New York	470
Martha Rosler	Statement	486
Blake Stimson	"Dada—Situationism/Tupamaros—Conceptualism": An Interview with Luis Camnitzer	492
VIII. Critical Histories of Conceptual Art
Jeff Wall	Dan Graham’s Kammerspiel	504
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh	Conceptual Art 1962–1969: From the Aesthetic of Administration to the Critique of Institutions	514
Charles Harrison	Conceptual Art and Critical Judgement	538
Adrian Piper	The Logic of Modernism	546
Mari Carmen Ramírez	Blueprint Circuits: Conceptual Art and Politics in Latin America	550
Thomas Crow	Unwritten Histories of Conceptual Art	564