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contents ILLUSTRATIONS xii PREFACE xiv Alexander Alberro, Reconsidering Conceptual Art, 1966-1977 xvi Blake Stimson, The Promise of Conceptual Art 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Gramuglio and Nicolas Rosa, Tucuman Burns 76 III 1969 Michel Claura, Paris Commentary 82 Gregory Battcock, Painting Is Obsolete 88 Dan Graham, Art Workers' Coalition Open Hearing Presentation 92 Editors of Art-Language, Introduction 98 Sol LeWitt, Sentences on Conceptual Art 106 Ian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 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-ldea 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-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 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 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.