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 | |
| Christine Kozlov | Compositions for Audio Structures | 6 | |
| Hélio Oiticica | Position and Program | 8 | |
| Sol LeWitt | Paragraphs on Conceptual Art | 12 | |
| Sigmund Bode | Excerpt from Placement as Language (1928) | 18 | |
| Mel Bochner | The Serial Attitude | 22 | |
| Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, Michel Parmentier, Niele Toroni | Statement | 28 | |
| Michel Claura | Buren, Mosset, Toroni or Anybody | 30 | |
| Michael Baldwin | Remarks on Air-Conditioning: An Extravaganza of Blandness | 32 | |
| Adrian Piper | A Defense of the "Conceptual" Process in Art | 36 | |
| Hélio Oiticica | General Scheme of the New Objectivity | 40 | |
| II. 1968 | |||
| Lucy R. Lippard and John Chandler | The Dematerialization of Art | 46 | |
| Terry Atkinson | Concerning the Article "The Dematerialization of Art" | 52 | |
| Yvonne Rainer | Statement | 60 | |
| Hanne Darboven | Statement to Lucy Lippard | 62 | |
| Georges Boudaille | Interview with Daniel Buren: Art Is No Longer Justifiable or Setting the Record Straight | 66 | |
| María Teresa Gramuglio and Nicolás Rosa | Tucumán Burns | 76 | |
| III. 1969 | |||
| Michel Claura | Paris Commentary | 82 | |
| Gregory Battcock | Painting Is Obsolete | 88 | |
| Dan Graham | Art Workers’ Coalition Open Hearing Presentation | 92 | |
| Editors of Art-Language | Introduction | 98 | |
| Sol LeWitt | Sentences on Conceptual Art | 106 | |
| Ian Burn | Dialogue | 110 | |
| 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 | |
| Jean Clay | Art Tamed and Wild | 136 | |
| Rolf Wedewer | Introduction to Konzeption/Conception | 142 | |
| Daniel Buren | Beware | 144 | |
| Joseph Kosuth | Art After Philosophy | 158 | |
| Lucy R. Lippard | Introduction to 557,087 | 178 | |
| IV. 1970 | |||
| Ian Burn | Conceptual Art as Art | 188 | |
| Mel Bochner | Excerpts from Speculation (1967–1970) | 192 | |
| Charles Harrison and Seth Siegelaub | On Exhibitions and the World at Large | 198 | |
| Charles Harrison | Notes Towards Art Work | 204 | |
| Athena Tacha Spear | Introduction to Art in the Mind | 210 | |
| Kynaston McShine | Introduction to Information | 212 | |
| Jack Burnham | Alice’s Head: Reflections on Conceptual Art | 216 | |
| Harold Rosenberg | De-aestheticization | 220 | |
| Luis Camnitzer | Contemporary Colonial Art | 224 | |
| Cildo Meireles | Insertions in Ideological Circuits | 232 | |
| V. 1971-1974 | |||
| Michel Claura | Interview with Lawrence Weiner | 236 | |
| 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 | |