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kristine stiles  General Introduction to the Second Edition 1. GESTURAL ABSTRACTION peter selz and kristine stiles  Introduction jackson pollock  Guggenheim Application Interview with William Wright barnett newman  The Plasmic Image mark rothko  I Paint Very Large Pictures robert motherwell  Beyond the Aesthetic helen frankenthaler  Interview with Henry Geldzahler joan mitchell  Interview with Yves Michaud cy twombly  Comments by Heiner Bastian david smith  Statements, Writings louise bourgeois  Interview with Donald Kuspit alfred h. barr  The New American Painting michel tapié  An Other Art Observations of Michel Tapié wols  Aphorisms henri michaux  Movements lucio fontana  Manifesto blanco emilio vedova  It’s Not So Easy to Paint a Nose alberto burri  Words Are No Help willi baumeister  The Unknown in Art antoni tàpies  I Am a Catalan Painting and the Void tadeusz kantor  Representation Loses More and More Its Charm per kirkeby  Bravura pat steir  Interview with Barbara Weidle joan snyder  Statements elizabeth murray  Statement anselm kiefer  Structures Are No Longer Valid david reed  Statement fiona rae  Interview with Simon Wallis julie mehretu  Interview with Lawrence Chua

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2. GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION kristine stiles  Introduction boris mikhailov  From the Series “On the Color Backgrounds” max bill  Concrete Art The Mathematical Approach in Contemporary Art richard paul lohse  Lines of Development gyula košice  Madí Manifesto grupo ruptura  The Ruptura Manifesto ferreira gullar et al.  Neo-Concrete Manifesto lygia clark  The Death of the Plane hélio oiticica  Colour, Time and Structure charles biederman  The Real and the Mystic in Art and Science ad dekkers  Statement piero manzoni  For the Discovery of a Zone of Images yves klein  Ritual for the Relinquishment of the Immaterial Pictorial Sensitivity Zones yayoi kusama  Interview by Grady Turner ad reinhardt  Twelve Rules for a New Academy 25 Lines of Words on Art: Statement The Black-Square Paintings ellsworth kelly  Notes of 1969 kenneth noland  Color, Format, and Abstract Art: Interview by Diane Waldman anne truitt  Daybook: The Journal of an Artist anthony caro  A Discussion with Peter Fuller josef albers  The Origin of Art On My Homage to the Square The Color in My Paintings victor vasarely  Notes for a Manifesto bridget riley  Statement frank stella  The Pratt Lecture donald judd  Specific Objects frank stella and donald judd  Questions to Stella and Judd by Bruce Glaser carl andre  Preface to Stripe Painting Poem dan flavin  Some Remarks . . . Excerpts from a Spleenish Journal tony smith  Conversations with Samuel Wagstaff Jr. agnes martin  The Untroubled Mind brice marden  Statements, Notes, and Interviews daniel buren  Beware! dorothea rockburne  Statement alfred jensen  Statement sean scully  Statement miriam schapiro and melissa meyer  Waste Not/Want Not: An Inquiry into What Women Saved and Assembled—Femmage valerie jaudon and joyce kozloff  Art Hysterial Notions of Progress and Culture peter halley  Notes on the Paintings Deployment of the Geometric vi     contents

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3. FIGURATION peter selz and kristine stiles  Introduction fernand léger  The Human Body Considered as an Object renato guttuso  On Realism, the Present, and Other Things max beckmann  Letters to a Woman Painter paul tillich  Each Period Has Its Peculiar Image of Man alberto giacometti  What Interests Me about the Head: Interview with Jacques Dupin jean-paul sartre  The Search for the Absolute jean fautrier  Preface to Exhibition Catalogue Jean Fautrier— by André Malraux jean dubuffet  Anticultural Positions willem de kooning  Content Is a Glimpse: Interview with David Sylvester francis bacon  Interviews with David Sylvester constant nieuwenhuys  Manifesto karel appel  My Paint Is Like a Rocket The Condemned willem sandberg  When Young georg baselitz  Pandemonic Manifesto I, 2d Version michelangelo pistoletto  Plexiglass r. b. kitaj  Pearldiving david hockney and larry rivers  Beautiful or Interesting lucian freud  Some Thoughts on Painting romare bearden  Interview with Henri Ghent alice neel  Art Is a Form of History: Interview with Patricia Hills philip pearlstein  Figure Paintings Today Are Not Made in Heaven chuck close  Interview with Cindy Nemser richard estes  Interview with Herbert Raymond barkley l. hendricks  Palette Scrapings mark tansey  Notes and Comments leon golub  The Mercenaries: Interview with Matthew Baigell nancy spero  Woman as Protagonist: Interview with Jeanne Siegel arnulf rainer  Face Farces magdalena abakanowicz  Statements francesco clemente  Interview with Robin White susan rothenberg  When Asked If I’m an Expressionist julian schnabel  Statements jean-michel basquiat  From the Subways to SoHo: Interview with Henry Geldzahler philip guston  Philip Guston Talking eric fischl  I Don’t Think Expressionism Is the Issue jörg immendorff  Interview with Jörg Huber: Situation—Position john pitman weber  Murals as People’s Art

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jesse helms  Senator Helms Objects to Taxpayers’ Funding for Sacrilegious Art andres serrano  Letter to the National Endowment for the Arts robert mapplethorpe  Interview with Janet Kardon sherman fleming  Living in a City of Monuments, Or Why I No Longer Walk with an Erection Nigger as Anti-Body marlene dumas  Unsatisfied Desire and the untrustworthy Language of Art Selling one’s Soul to the Devil Waiting Rooms (need TV) william kentridge  Art in a State of Grace, Art in a State of Hope, Art in a State of Siege luc tuymans  Disenchantment shahzia sikander  Nemesis: A Dialogue with Ian Berry jenny saville  Interview with Simon Schama catherine opie  Self-Portrait Statement wangechi mutu  Magnificent Monkey Ass Lies My Darling Little Mother takashi murakami  The Super Flat Manifesto Earth in My Window m. f. husain  Portrait of the 20th Century 4. MATERIAL CULTURE AND EVERYDAY LIFE kristine stiles  Introduction richard hamilton  Letter to Peter and Alison Smithson Popular Culture and Personal Responsibility Propositions dieter roth  Statement I Only Extract the Square Root: Interview with Ingolfur Margeirsson Off hand Design öyvind fahlström  Take Care of the World pierre restany  The Nouveaux Réalistes’ Declaration of Intention Forty Degrees above Dada daniel spoerri  Trap Pictures Spoerri’s Autotheater niki de saint phalle  Dear Mr. Iolas pino pascali  Statements gerhard richter  Interview with Rolf-Gunter Dienst Interview with Rolf Schön ion grigorescu  Politics, Religion, and Art Facing Crime vitaly komar and alexander melamid  Blue Landscapes, Bewitching Numbers, and the Double Life of Jokes: An Interview with JoAnn Wypijewski annette messager  Le Repos des Pensionnaires charlemagne palestine  self-defending the toyboyman pianist palestine mike kelley  Dirty Toys: Interview with Ralph Rugoff

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robert rauschenberg  Statement Note on Painting Interview with Barbaralee Diamonstein jasper johns  Statement Interview with G. R. Swenson Sketchbook Notes bruce conner  Interview with Mia Culpa george brecht  Project in Multiple Dimensions claes oldenburg  I Am for an Art . . . roy lichtenstein  Interview with G. R. Swenson andy warhol  Warhol in His Own Words: Statements james rosenquist  The F-111: An Interview with G. R. Swenson lucas samaras  Another Autointerview ray johnson  What Is a Moticos? edward ruscha  Concerning Various Small Fires judy chicago  The Dinner Party: A Symbol of Our Heritage faith ringgold  Interview with Eleanor Munro jeff donaldson  Ten in Search of a Nation david hammons  Interview with Kellie Jones kara walker  What Obama Means to Me kim jones  Rat Piece dinh q. lê  Cuoc Trao Doi Giua/Of Memory and History: An Exchange with Moira Roth enrique chagoya  Their Freedom of Expression . . . The Recovery of Their Economy chéri samba  Statements keith haring  Statement kenny scharf  Jetsonism blek le rat  A Graffiti Icon on His First Solo Show in America: Interview with Samantha Gilewicz banksy  Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall david wojnarowicz  Post Cards from America: X-Rays from Hell barbara kruger  Pictures and Words: Interview with Jeanne Siegel sherrie levine  Five Comments jeff koons  From Full Fathom Five maurizio cattelan  Interview with Michele Robecchi tony cragg  Statement damien hirst  On the Way to Work: Discussion with Gordon Burn 5. ART AND TECHNOLOGY kristine stiles  Introduction nicolas schöffer  The Three Stages of Dynamic Sculpture gustav metzger  Auto-Destructive Art Manifesto Auto-Destructive Art Auto-Destructive Art, Machine Art, Auto-Creative Art manifesto world On Random Activity in Material/Transforming Works of Art

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jean tinguely  Statement takis  Statement otto piene  Paths to Paradise heinz mack  Resting Restlessness groupe de recherche d’art visuel (grav)  Manifestos billy klüver  Theater and Engineering—An Experiment: Notes by an Engineer mark pauline/survival research laboratories  Letter to Dennis Oppenheim More Dead Animal Jokes: Interview with Bill Edmondson Technology and the Irrational laurie anderson  Interview with Charles Amirkhanian krzysztof wodiczko  Memorial Projection The Homeless Projection: A Proposal for the City of New York nam june paik  Afterlude to the Exposition of Experimental Television Cybernated Art Art and Satellite gerry schum  Introduction to TV Exhibition II: Identifications frank gillette  Masque in Real Time shigeko kubota  Video Poem Notes for Three Mountains woody vasulka  Notes on Installations douglas davis  Manifesto peter d’agostino  Proposal for QUBE martha rosler  Video: Shedding the Utopian Moment gary hill  Inter-View bill viola  Video Black—The Mortality of the Image william wegman  Interview with David Ross lynn hershman  Video 1980–Present: Videotape as Alternative Space tony oursler  sketches at twilight eija-liisa ahtila  Interview with Doug Aitken pipilotti rist  Interview with Rochelle Steiner gillian wearing  Interview with Grady Turner anri sala  Unfinished Histories: Interview with Massimiliano Gioni and Michele Robecchi shirin neshat  Interview with Arthur C. Danto stan douglas  Evening maurice benayoun  So.So.So. (Somebody, Somewhere, Some Time) jordan crandall  Armed Vision myron w. krueger  Responsive Environments peter weibel  Project and Film Concept jeffrey shaw  The Legible City roy ascott  Behaviourables and Futuribles Is There Love in the Telematic Embrace? stelarc  Beyond the Body: Amplified Body, Laser Eyes, and Third Hand eduardo kac  GFP Bunny orlan  This Is My Body . . . This Is My Software

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6. INSTALLATIONS, ENVIRONMENTS, AND SITES peter selz and kristine stiles  Introduction joseph cornell  Objects and Apparitions—by Octavio Paz frederick kiesler  Second Manifesto of Correalism louise nevelson  Dawns and Dusks isamu noguchi  A Sculptor’s World edward kienholz  The Beanery The State Hospital The Portable War Memorial eduardo chillida  The Comb of the Wind: Conversation with Luis Peña Ganchegui christian boltanski  Interview with Démosthènes Davvetas christo  Fact Sheet: Running Fence Wrapping Up Germany: Interview with Sylvère Lotringer maya lin  Interview with Elizabeth Hess Interview with Sarah J. Rogers Lecture alan sonfist  Natural Phenomena as Public Monuments richard long  Five, Six, Pick Up Sticks / Seven, Eight, Lay Them Straight walter de maria  Meaningless Work On the Importance of Natural Disasters The Lightning Field: Some Facts, Notes, Data, Information, Statistics, and Statements robert smithson  The Spiral Jetty michael heizer, dennis oppenheim, and robert smithson Discussions with Willoughby Sharp and Liza Bear of Avalanche nancy holt  Sun Tunnels agnes denes  Rice/Tree/Burial Wheatfield—A Confrontation robert irwin  Being and Circumstance: Notes toward a Conditional Art james turrell  Mapping Spaces helen mayer harrison and newton harrison  Nobody Told Us When to Stop Thinking: Interview with Thomas Sokolowski gordon matta-clark  Building Dissections: Interview with Donald Wall charles simonds  Microcosm to Macrocosm / Fantasy World to Real World: Interview with Lucy R. Lippard alice aycock  Work ilya kabakov  Installations dan perjovschi  No Visa? Better Have American Express alfredo jaar  Conversation with Anne-Marie Ninacs doris salcedo  Shibboleth yinka shonibare  Interview with Anthony Downey nicholas hlobo  Interview with Sophie Perryer mona hatoum  Interview with John Tusa gabriel orozco  The Power to Transform: Interview with Robert Storr fred wilson  No Noa Noa: History of Tahiti

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rachel whiteread  If Walls Could Talk: Interview with Craig Houser andrea zittel  A–Z Management and Maintenance Unit: Model 003 pierre huyghe  Interview with George Baker 7. PROCESS kristine stiles  Introduction robert morris  Notes on Sculpture Part III: Notes and Nonsequiturs eva hesse  Letter to Ethelyn Honig Statements martin puryear  Conversations with Hugh M. Davies and Helaine Posner nancy graves  Conversation with Emily Wasserman richard serra  Rigging bruce nauman  Notes and Projects robert ryman  Statements richard tuttle  Work Is Justification for the Excuse barry le va  “ . . . a continuous flow of fairly aimless movement”: Interview with Liza Bear of Avalanche sam gilliam  The Transformation of Nature through Nature lynda benglis  Conversation with France Morin mierle laderman ukeles  Maintenance Art Manifesto Sanitation Manifesto! bonnie ora sherk  Crossroads Community (The Farm) ann hamilton and kathryn clark  View mark thompson  A House Divided pinchas cohen gan  Introduction to Dictionary of Semantic Painting and Sculpture joseph beuys  Statement Appeal for an Alternative franz erhard walther  Contrasting Pairs and Distinctions in the Work rebecca horn  The Concert in Reverse: Description of an Installation The Keep: History of a Building jan dibbets  Statements Interview with Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp of Avalanche barry flanagan  Statement Sculpture Made Visible: Discussion with Gene Baro germano celant  Introduction to Arte Povera jannis kounellis  Structure and Sensibility: Interview with Willoughby Sharp of Avalanche mario merz  Statements Differences between Consciousness and Wisdom giuseppe penone  Statements teresa murak  The Seed patrick dougherty  Statement olafur eliasson  Interview with Jessica Morgan cai guo-qiang  Foolish Man and His Mountain jeff wall  Gestus jolene rickard  Frozen in the White Light

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8. PERFORMANCE ART kristine stiles  Introduction jiro- yoshihara  The Gutai Manifesto georges mathieu  Towards a New Convergence of Art, Thought and Science situationist international  Definitions guy debord  Report on the Construction of Situations and on the International Situationist Tendency’s Conditions of Organization and Action john cage  Composition as Process, Part II: Indeterminacy allan kaprow  Guidelines for Happenings yvonne rainer  Statements carolee schneemann  From the Notebooks Woman in the Year 2000 jean-jacques lebel  On the Necessity of Violation wolf vostell  Manifesto dé-coll/age george maciunas  Letter to Tomas Schmit dick higgins  Statement on Intermedia A Something Else Manifesto ben vautier  The Happening of ben robert filliou  good-for-nothing-good-at-everything Letters to Allan Kaprow yoko ono  To the Wesleyan People raphael montañez ortiz  Destructivism: A Manifesto hermann nitsch  The O. M. Theatre The Lamb Manifesto otto muehl  Materialaktion: Manifesto otto muehl and the aa commune  Commune Manifesto günter brus  Notes on the Action: Zerreissprobe Statements valie export  Women’s Art: A Manifesto milan knížák  Aktual Univerzity: Ten Lessons jerzy berés  Statement miklós erdély  The Features of the Post-New-Avant-Garde Attitude györgy galántai and júlia klaniczay  Pool Window #1 raša todosijevig  the edinburgh statement marina abramovig and ulay  Dialogue with Heidi Grundmann ulricke rosenbach  Statement Venusdepression rasheed araeen  Cultural Imperialism: Some Observations on Cultural Situation in the Third World mike parr  Notes on My Performance Art, 1971–1998 eleanor antin  Notes on Transformation joan jonas  Closing Statement

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suzanne lacy  The Name of the Game chris burden  Statements Border Crossing: Interview with Jim Moisan tom marioni  Out Front Real Social Realism Hard Bop Statement linda montano and tehching hsieh  One Year Art/Life Performance: Interview with Alex and Allyson Grey theresa hak kyung cha  Markings vito acconci  Steps into Performance (And Out) Biography of Work 1969–1981 adrian piper  Ideology, Confrontation and Political Self-Awareness martha wilson  Performances and Photographs guillermo gómez-peña  The Loneliness of the Immigrant cindy sherman  Statement Interview with Els Barents yasumasa morimura  Season of Passion: Interview with Kay Itoi karen finley  I Was Not Expected to Be Talented Letter to the Washington Post coco fusco  The Other History of Intercultural Performance katarzyna kozyra  Artist’s Response jimmie durham  I Think We Will Have to Break Out Tarascan Guitars james luna  Interview with Julia Barnes Mandle william pope.l  One Thing After Another ron athey  Deliverance: Introduction regina josé galindo  I am a common place First it was writing Argument Multiply White Sheet zhang huan  Interview with Michele Robecchi matthew barney  Notes on Hypertrophy oleg kulik  Why Have I Bitten a Man? 9. LANGUAGE AND CONCEPTS kristine stiles  Introduction marcel duchamp  The Richard Mutt Case The Creative Act Apropos of “Readymades” henry flynt  Concept Art joseph kosuth  Statement Art After Philosophy art & language  Letter to Lucy R. Lippard and John Chandler Concerning the Article “The Dematerialization of Art” Introduction to Art-Language xiv     contents

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zoran popovig  For Self-Management Art sol lewitt  Paragraphs on Conceptual Art Sentences on Conceptual Art mel bochner  Book Review Walls dan graham  Three Projects for Architecture and Video / Notes seth siegelaub  The Artist’s Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement robert barry  Statement douglas huebler  Statements lawrence weiner  Statement victor burgin  Looking at Photographs mary kelly  Preface to Post-Partum Document stanley brouwn  A Short Manifesto vincenzo agnetti  Statements bernd and hilla becher  Blast Furnace in Siegen, Germany john latham  Statement Report of a Surveyor marcel broodthaers  Ten Thousand Francs Reward: Interview with Irmeline Lebeer hans haacke  Statements Museums, Managers of Consciousness klaus staeck  Interview with Georg Jappe cildo meireles  Insertions into Ideological Circuits jenny holzer  Language Games: Interview with Jeanne Siegel john baldessari  What Thinks Me Now Recalling Ideas: Interview with Jeanne Siegel carrie mae weems  Interview with Susan Canning francis alÿs  Interview with Gianni Romano xu bing  An Artist’s View aa bronson  Copyright, Cash, and Crowd Control: Art and Economy in the Work of General Idea hervé fischer  Theory of Sociological Art group material  Caution! Alternative Space! Statement felix gonzalez-torres  Being a Spy: Interview with Robert Storr neue slowenische kunst  Laibach: Ten Items of the Covenant The Program of Irwin Group walid raad  Interview with Alan Gilbert critical art ensemble  When Thought Becomes Crime arakawa and madeline gins  Preface to The Mechanism of Meaning ai weiwei  Making Choices

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