Theories and documents of contemporary art : a sourcebook of artists' writings / edited by Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz.
Author(s): Selz, Peter | Stiles, Kristine
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Theories and documents of contemporary art : a sourcebook of artists' writings
- Author(s)
- Stiles, Kristine
Selz, Peter - Publisher
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 1996.
- Collation
- xxii, 1003 p. : ill.
27 cm. - Series Title
- California studies in the history of art
- ISBN
- 0520202538
- Dewey Class
- 709.04
- Contents
- General Introduction / Kristine Stiles -- 1. GESTURAL ABSTRACTION. Introduction / Peter Selz -- Guggenheim Application / Jackson Pollock -- Interview With William Wright / Jackson Pollock -- The Plasmic Image / Barnett Newman -- I Paint Very Large Pictures / Mark Rothko -- Beyond The Aesthetic / Robert Motherwell -- Interview With Henry Geldzahler / Helen Frankenthaler -- Interview With Yves Michaud / Joan Mitchell -- Comments By Heiner Bastian / Cy Twombly -- Statements, Writings / David Smith -- Interview With Donald Kuspit / Louise Bourgeois -- The New American Painting / Alfred H. Barr -- An Unknown Art / Michel Tapie -- Observations / Michel Tapie -- Aphorisms / Wols -- Movements / Henri Michaux -- Manifesto Blanco / Lucio Fontana -- It's Not So Easy To Paint A Nose / Emilio Vedova -- Words Are No Help / Alberto Burri -- The Unknown In Art / Willi Baumeister -- I Am A Catalan / Antoni Tapies -- Painting And The Void / Antoni Tapies -- Representation Loses More And More Its Charm / Tadeusz Kantor -- Bravura / Per Kirkeby -- Structures Are No Longer Valid / Anselm Kiefer --
2. GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION. Introduction / Kristine Stiles -- Concrete Art / Max Bill -- The Mathematical Approach In Contemporary Art / Max Bill -- Lines Of Development / Richard Paul Lohse -- For The Discovery Of A Zone Of Images / Piero Manzoni -- Ritual For The Relinquishment Of The Immaterial Pictorial Sensitivity Zones / Yves Klein -- The Real And The Mystic In Art And Science / Charles Biederman -- Untitled Statement / Ad Dekkers -- Twelve Rules For A New Academy / Ad Reinhardt -- 25 Lines Of Words On Art: Statement / Ad Reinhardt -- The Black-Square Paintings / Ad Reinhardt -- Notes Of 1969 / Ellsworth Kelly -- Color, Format, And Abstract Art: Interview By Diane Waldman / Kenneth Noland -- Daybook: The Journal Of An Artist / Anne Truitt -- A Discussion With Peter Fuller / Anthony Caro -- The Origin Of Art / Josef Albers -- On My Homage To The Square / Josef Albers -- The Color In My Paintings / Josef Albers -- Notes For A Manifesto / Victor Vasarely -- Untitled Statement / Bridget Riley -- The Pratt Lecture / Frank Stella -- Specific Objects / Donald Judd -- Questions To Stella And Judd By Bruce Glaser / Frank Stella and Donald Judd -- Preface To Stripe Painting / Carl Andre -- Some Remarks...Excerpts From A Spleenish Journal / Dan Flavin -- Talking With Tony Smith: Conversations With Samuel Wagstaff Jr. / Tony Smith -- The Untroubled Mind / Agnes Martin -- Statements, Notes, And Interviews / Brice Marden -- Beware! / Daniel Buren -- Untitled Statement / Alfred Jensen -- Waste Not/want Not: An Inquiry Into What Women Saved And Assembled-FEMMAGE / Miriam Schapiro and Melissa Meyer -- Art Hysterial Notions Of Progress And Culture / Valerie Jaudon and Joyce Kozloff -- Notes On The Paintings / Peter Halley -- Deployment Of The Geometric / Peter Halley --
3. FIGURATION. Introduction / Peter Selz -- The Human Body Considered As An Object / Fernand Leger -- On Realism, The Present, And Other Things / Renato Guttuso -- Letters To A Woman Painter / Max Beckmann -- Each Period Has Its Peculiar Image Of Man / Paul Tillich -- The Search For The Absolute / Jean-Paul Sartre -- What Interests Me About The Head: Interview With Ernst Scheidegger, Peter Munger, and Jacques Dupin / Alberto Giacometti -- Preface To The Fautrier Exhibition Catalogue By André Malraux / Jean Fautrier -- Anticultural Positions / Jean Dubuffet -- Content Is A Glimpse: Interview With David Sylvester / Willem de Kooning -- Interviews With David Sylvester / Francis Bacon -- Manifesto / Constant Niewenhuys -- My Paint Is Like A Rocket / Karel Appel -- The Condemned / Karel Appel -- When Young / Willem Sandberg -- Art Is A Form Of History: Interview With Patricia Hills / Alice Neel -- Interview With Henri Ghent / Romare Bearden -- Some Thoughts On Painting / Lucian Freud -- Pearldiving / R.B. Kitaj -- Beautiful Or Interesting / David Hockney and Larry Rivers -- Plexiglass / Michelangelo Pistoletto -- Figure Paintings Today Are Not Made In Heaven / Philip Pearlstein -- Interview With Cindy Nemser / Chuck Close -- Interview With Herbert Raymond / Richard Estes -- The Mercenaries: Interview With Matthew Baigell / Leon Golub -- Woman As Protagonist: Interview With Jeanne Siegel / Nancy Spero -- Face Farces / Arnulf Rainer -- Philip Guston Talking / Philip Guston -- Pandemonic Manifesto I, 2d Version / Georg Baselitz -- Interview With Jörg Huber: Situation-Position / Jorg Immendorff -- Statements / Magdalena Abakanowicz -- Interview With Robin White / Francesco Clemente -- When Asked If I'm An Expressionist : An Artist's Symposium / Susan Rothenberg -- I Don't Think Expressionism Is The Issue / Eric Frischl -- Statements / Julian Schnabel -- Murals As People's Art / John Pitnam Weber -- Senator Helms Objects To Taxpayers' Funding For Sacrilegious Art / Jesse Helms -- Interview With Janet Kardon / Robert Mapplethorpe -- Letter To The National Endowment For The Arts / Andres Serrano --
4. MATERIAL CULTURE AND EVERYDAY LIFE. Introduction / Kristine Stiles -- Letter To Peter And Alison Smithson / Richard Hamilton -- Popular Culture And Personal Responsibility / Richard Hamilton -- Propositions / Richard Hamilton -- Untitled Statement / Dieter Roth -- I Only Extract The Square Root: Interview With Ingolfur Margeirsson / Dieter Roth -- Offhand Design / Dieter Roth -- Take Care Of The World / Oyvind Fahlstrom -- The Nouveaux Réalistes' Declaration Of Intention / Pierre Restany -- Forty Degrees Above Dada / Pierre Restany -- Trap Pictures / Daniel Spoerri -- Spoerri's Autotheater / Daniel Spoerri -- Dear Mr. Iolas / Niki de Saint-Phalle -- Untitled Statements / Pino Pascali -- Interview With Rolf-Gunter Dienst / Gerhard Richter -- Interview With Rolf Schön / Gerhard Richter -- Politics, Religion, And Art Facing Crime / Ion Grigorescu -- Untitled Statement / Tony Cragg -- Untitled Statement / Robert Rauschenberg -- Note On Painting / Robert Rauschenberg -- Interview With Barbaralee Diamonstein / Robert Rauschenberg -- Untitled Statement / Jasper Johns -- Interview With G. R. Swenson / Jasper Johns -- Sketchbook Notes / Jasper Johns -- Interview With Mia Culpa / Bruce Conner -- Project In Multiple Dimensions / George Brecht -- I Am For An Art / Claes Oldenburg -- Interview With G. R. Swenson / Roy Lichtenstein -- Warhol In His Own Words: Untitled Statements / Andy Warhol -- The F-III: An Interview With James Rosenquist By G. R. Swenson / James Rosenquist -- Another Autointerview / Lucas Samaras -- What Is A Moticos? / Ray Johnson -- Concerning Various Small Fires / Edward Ruscha -- His Perplexing Publications / Edward Ruscha -- The Dinner Party: A Symbol Of Our Heritage / Judy Chicago -- Interview With Eleanor Munro / Faith Ringgold -- Ten In Search Of A Nation / Jeff Donaldson -- Untitled Statement / Keith Haring -- Jetsonism / Kenny Scharf -- Post Cards From America: X-Rays From Hell / David Wojnarowicz -- Pictures And Words: Interview With Jeanne Siegel / Barbara Kruger -- Five Comments / Sherrie Levine -- From Full Fathom Five / Jeff Koons --
5. ART AND TECHNOLOGY. Introduction / Kristine Stiles -- The Three Stages Of Dynamic Sculpture / Nicholas Schoffer -- Auto-Destructive Art / Gustav Metzger -- Manifesto Auto-Destructive Art / Gustav Metzger -- Auto-Destructive Art, Machine Art, Auto-Creative Art / Gustav Metzger -- Manifesto World / Gustav Metzger -- On Random Activity In Material/Transforming Works Of Art / Gustav Metzger -- Untitled Statement / Jean Tinguely -- Untitled Statement / Takis -- Paths To Paradise / Otto Piene -- Resting Restlessness / Heinz Mack -- Manifestos / Groupe De Recherche D'art Visuel (GRAV) -- Theater And Engineering-An Experiment: Notes By An Engineer / Billy Kluver -- Letter To Dennis Oppenheim / Mark Pauline -- More Dead Animal Jokes: Interview With Bill Edmondson / Survival Research Laboratories -- Technology And The Irrational / Survival Research Laboratories -- Interview With Charles Amirkhanian / Laurie Anderson -- Memorial Projection / Krzysztof Wodiczko -- The Homeless Projection: A Proposal For The City Of New York / Krzyszstof Wodiczko -- Beyond The Body: Amplified Body, Laser Eyes, And Third Hand / Stelarc -- Afterlude To The Exposition Of Experimental Television / Nam June Paik -- Cybernated Art / Nam June Paik -- Art And Satellite / Nam June Paik -- Manifesto / Douglas Davis -- Introduction To TV Exhibition II: Identifications / Gerry Schum -- Masque In Real Time / Frank Gillette -- Video Poem / Shigeko Kubota -- Notes For Three Mountains / Shigeko Kubota -- Video Black-The Mortality Of The Image/ Bill Viola -- Interview With David Ross / William Wegman -- Proposal For QUBE / Peter D'Agostino -- Video 1980-present: Videotape As Alternative Space / Lynn Hershman -- Video: Shedding The Utopian Moment / Martha Rosler -- Responsive Environments / Myron W. Krueger -- Project And Film Concept / Peter Weibel -- The Legible City / Jeffrey Shaw -- Behaviourables And Futuribles / Roy Ascott -- Is There Love In The Telematic Embrace? / Roy Ascott --
6. INSTALLATIONS, ENVIRONMENTS, AND SITES. Introduction / Peter Selz -- Objects And Apparitions: By Octavio Paz / Joseph Cornell -- Second Manifesto Of Correalism / Frederick Kiesler -- Dawns And Dusks / Louise Nevelson -- The Portable War Memorial / Edward Kienholz -- The Beanery / Edward Kienholz -- The State Hospital / Edward Kienholz -- Interview With Demosthenes Davvetas / Christian Boltanski -- A Sculptor's World / Isamu Noguchi -- The Comb Of The Wind: Conversation With Luis Peña / Eduardo Chillida -- Untitled Statements / Maya Lin -- Meaningless Work / Walter De Maria -- On The Importance Of Natural Disasters / Walter De Maria -- The Lightning Field / Walter De Maria -- The Spiral Jetty / Robert Smithson -- Discussion / Michael Heizer, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson -- Sun Tunnels / Nancy Holt -- Rice/Tree/Burial / Agnes Denes -- Wheatfield-A Confrontation / Agnes Denes -- Natural Phenomena As Public Monuments / Alan Sonfist -- Fact Sheet: Running Fence / Christo -- Wrapping Up Germany: Interview With Sylvère Lotringer / Christo -- Remembrance By Susan Rothenberg / Gordon Matta-Clark -- Work / Alice Aycock -- Maze / Alice Aycock -- Microcosm To Macrocosm/Fantasy World To Real World: Interview With Lucy Lippard / Charles Simonds -- Five Six Pick Up Sticks / Richard Long -- Nobody Told Us When To Stop Thinking / Helen Meyer Harrison and Newton Harrison -- Being And Circumstance: Notes Toward A Conditional Art / Robert Irwin -- Mapping Spaces / James Turrell --
7. PROCESS. Introduction / Kristine Stiles -- Notes On Sculpture Part III: Notes And Nonsequiturs / Robert Morris -- Letter To Ethelyn Honig / Eva Hesse -- Untitled Statements / Eva Hesse -- Conversation With Emily Wasserman / Nancy Graves -- Rigging / Richard Serra -- Notes And Projects / Bruce Nauman -- Untitled Statements / Robert Ryman -- Work Is Justification For The Excuse / Richard Tuttle -- "...A Continuous Flow Of Fairly Aimless Movement" / Barry Le Va -- The Transformation Of Nature Through Nature / Sam Gilliam, Jr. -- Conversation With France Morin / Lynda Benglis -- Maintenance Art Manifesto / Mierle Laderman Ukeles -- Sanitation Manifesto! / Mierle Lademan Ukeles -- View / Ann Hamilton and Kathryn Clark -- Conversations With Hugh M. Davies And Helaine Posner / Martin Puryear -- A House Divided / Mark Thompson -- Untitled Statement / Joseph Beuys -- Appeal For An Alternative / Joseph Beuys -- Contrasting Pairs And Distinctions In The Work / Franz Erhard Walther -- The Countermoving Concert: Description Of An Installation / Rebecca Horn -- The Keep: History Of A Building / Rebecca Horn -- Untitled Statement / Barry Flanagan -- Sculpture Made Visible: Discussion With Gene Baro / Barry Flanagan -- Untitled Statements / Jan Dibbets -- "Dibbits": Interview With Liza Bear And Willoughby Sharp / Jan Dibbets -- Introduction To Arte Povera / Germano Celant -- Structure And Sensibility: Interview With Willoughby Sharp / Jannis Kounellis -- Untitled Statements / Mario Merz -- Differences Between Consciousness And Wisdom / Mario Merz -- Untitled Statements / Giuseppe Penone -- Introduction / Pinchas Cohen Gan --
8. PERFORMANCE ART. Introduction / Kristine Stiles -- The Gutai Manifesto / Jiro Yoshihara -- Towards A New Convergence Of Art, Thought And Science / Georges Mathieu -- Definitions / Situationist International -- Report On The Construction Of Situations And On The International Situationist Tendency's Conditions Of Organization And Action / Guy Debord -- Composition As Process Part II: Indeterminacy / John Cage -- Untitled Guidelines For Happenings / Allan Kaprow -- From The Notebooks / Carolee Schneemann -- Woman In The Year 2000 / Carolee Schneemann -- On The Necessity Of Violation / Jean-Jacques Lebel -- Destructivism: A Manifesto / Raphael Montanez Ortiz -- Manifesto / Wolf Vostell -- é-Coll/age / Wolf Vostell -- Letter To Tomas Schmit / George Maciunas -- Statement On Intermedia / Dick Higgins -- A Something Else Manifesto / Dick Higgins -- The Happening Of BEN / Ben Vautier -- Good-For-Nothing-Good-At-Everything / Robert Filliou -- Letters To Allan Kaprow / Robert Filliou -- To The Wesleyan People / Yoko Ono -- Aktual Univerzity: Ten Lessons / Milan Knizak -- Untitled Statement / Jerzy Beres -- The O.M. Theatre / Hermann Nitsch -- The Lamb Manifesto / Hermann Nitsch -- Materialaktion: Manifesto / Otto Mühl -- Commune Manifesto / Otto Mühl and the AA Commune -- Notes On The Action: Zerreissprobe / Günter Brus -- Untitled Statements / Gunter Brus -- Women's Art: A Manifesto / Valie Export -- Untitled Statement / Ulricke Rosenbach -- Venusdepression / Ulkricke Rosenbach -- Dialogue With Heidi Grundmann / Marina Ambramovic and Ulay -- Steps Into Performance (And Out) / Vito Acconci -- Biography Of Work / Vito Acconci -- Untitled Statement / Chris Burden -- Border Crossing: Interview With Jim Moisan / Chris Burden -- Notes On Transformation / Eleanor Antin -- Out Front / Tom Marioni -- Real Social Realism / Tom Marioni -- Hard Bop / Tom Marioni -- Untitled Statement / Tom Marioni -- One Year Art/life Performance: Interview With Alex And Allyson Grey / Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh -- The Name Of The Game / Suzanne Lacy -- Ideology, Confrontation And Political Self-Awareness / Adrian Piper -- Untitled Statement / Cindy Sherman -- Interview With Els Barents / Cindy Sherman -- I Was Not Expected To Be Talented / Karen Finley -- Letter To The Washington Post / Karen Finely -- Interview With Julia Barnes Mandle / James Luna --
9. 9. LANGUAGE AND CONCEPTS. Introduction / Kristine Stiles -- The Richard Mutt Case / Marcel Duchamp -- The Creative Act / Marcel Duchamp -- Apropos Of "Readymades" / Marcel Duchamp -- Concept Art / Henry Flynt -- Paragraphs On Conceptual Art / Sol Lewitt -- Sentences On Conceptual Art / Sol Lewitt -- Book Review / Mel Bochner -- Walls / Mel Bochner -- Three Projects For Architecture And Video/Notes / Dan Graham -- The Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer And Sale Agreement / Seth Siegelaub -- Untitled Statement / Robert Barry -- Untitled Statement / Lawrence Weiner -- Untitled Statements / Douglas Huebler -- Untitled Statement / Joseph Kosuth -- Art After Philosophy / Joseph Kosuth -- For Self-Management Art / Zoran Popovic -- Letter To Lucy R. Lippard And John Chandler Concerning The Article "The Dematerialization Of Art" / Art & Language -- Introduction To Art-Language / Art & Language -- Looking At Photographs / Victor Burgin -- Preface To Post-Partum Document / Mary Kelly -- A Short Manifesto / Stanley Brouwn -- Statements / Vincenzo Agnetti -- Untitled Statement / John Latham -- Report Of A Surveyor / John Latham -- Ten Thousand Francs Reward / Marcel Broodthaers -- Untitled Statements / Hans Haacke -- Museums, Managers Of Consciousness / Hans Haacke -- Interview With Georg Jappe / Klaus Staeck -- Theory Of Sociological Art / Herve Fischer -- Language Games: Interview With Jeanne Siegel / Jenny Holzer -- What Thinks Me Now / John Baldessari -- Recalling Ideas: Interview With Jeanne Siegel / John Baldessari -- Caution! Alternative Space! / Group Material -- Statement / Group Material. - Language
- English
- Subject
- Art, Modern -- 20th century.
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Sources. - BRN
- 5730
Notes
- Thomas Freitag Collection.
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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