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ILLUSTRATIONS xii

PREFACE xiv

Alexander Alberro, Reconsidering Conceptual , 1966-1977 xvi

Blake Stimson, The Promise of xxxviii

I 1966-1967

Eduardo Costa, Raul Escari, Roberto Jacoby, A Media Art (Manifesto) 2

Christine Kozlov, Compositions for Audio Structures 6

Helio 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

Helio 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

Marfa Teresa Gramuglio and Nicolas Rosa, Tucuman 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Gregory Battcock, Painting Is Obsolete 88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 236

Jeanne Siegel, An Interview with 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-ldea 268

Robert Smithson, Cultural Confinement 280 , 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-ls-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 Rosier, 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 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 Rosier, 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 Ramfrez, Blueprint Circuits: Conceptual Art and Politics in Latin America 550

Thomas Crow, Unwritten Histories of Conceptual Art 564