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What John C. Welchman calls the "blazing network of focused conflations" from which Mike Kelley's styles are generated is on display in all its diversity in this second volume of the artist's writings. The first volume, Foul Perfection, contained thematic essays and writings about other artists; this collection concentrates on Kelley's own work, ranging from texts in "voices" that grew out of scripts for performance pieces to expository critical and autobiographical writings.Minor Histories organizes Kelley's writings into five sections. "Statements" consists of twenty pieces produced between 1984 and 2002 (most of which were written to accompany exhibitions), including "Ajax," which draws on Homer, Colgate- Palmolive, and Longinus to present its eponymous hero; "Some Aesthetic High Points," an exercise in autobiography that counters the standard artist bio included in catalogs and press releases; and a sequence of "creative writings" that use mass cultural tropes in concert with high art mannerisms--approximating in prose the visual styles that characterize Kelley's artwork. "Video Statements and Proposals" are introductions to videos made by Kelley and other artists, including Paul McCarthy and Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose. "Image-Texts" offers writings that accompany or are part of artworks and installations. This section includes "A Stopgap Measure," Kelley's zestful millennial essay in social satire, and "Meet John Doe," a collage of appropriated texts. "Architecture" features an discussion of Kelley's Educational Complex (1995) and an interview in which he reflects on the role of architecture in his work. Finally, "Ufology" considers the aesthetics and sexuality of space as manifested by UFO sightings and abduction scenarios.

Kelley, Mike --- Conceptual art --- Performance art --- History --- Kelley, Mike, --- art criticism --- Aesthetics of art --- kunstbeschouwing --- essays --- Art --- Conceptual art - United States - History - 20th century --- Performance art - United States - History - 20th century --- Kelley, Mike, - 1954-2012

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"Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) has never been an easy artist to categorize or to explain. Although trained as an architect, he has been described as a sculptor, a photographer, an organizer of performances, and a writer of manifestos, but he is best known for un-building abandoned structures. In the brief span of his career, from 1968 to his early death in 1978, he created an oeuvre that has made him an enduring cult figure. In 2002, when Gordon Matta-Clark's widow, Jane Crawford, put his archive on deposit at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, it revealed a new voice in the ongoing discussion of artist/architect Matta-Clark's work: his own. Gwendolyn Owens and Philip Ursprung's careful selection and ordering of letters, interviews, statements, and the now-famous art cards from the CCA as well as other sources deepens our understanding of one of the most original thinkers of his generation. Gordon Matta-Clark: An Archival Sourcebook creates a multidimensional portrait that provides an opportunity for readers to explore and enjoy the complexity and contradiction that was Gordon Matta-Clark"--

Matta-Clark, Gordon, --- Art and architecture --- Conceptual art --- Site-specific art --- Art --- Architecture --- fonds [collections] --- Matta-Clark, Gordon

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Conceptual art --- Art conceptuel --- Exhibitions. --- Expositions --- Merz, Mario --- conceptuele kunst --- installaties --- kunst ; 20e eeuw --- ruimtelijke kunst --- Exhibitions --- Merts, Maryo --- מרץ, מריו

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Conceptual art --- 7.071 WALTHER --- Duitsland --- installaties --- kunst --- performances --- tekenkunst --- twintigste eeuw --- Walther Franz Erhard --- Walther, Franz Erhard --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Ever innovative and predictably diverse in their physical formats, artists' books occupy a creative space between the familiar four-cornered object and challenging works of art that effectively question every preconception of what a book can be. Many artists specialize in producing self-contained art projects in the form of books, like Ken Campbell and Susan King, or they establish small presses, like Simon Cutts and Erica Van Horn's Coracle Press or Harry and Sandra Reese's Turkey Press. Countless others who are primarily known as sculptors, painters, or performance artists carry on a parallel practice in artists' books, including Anselm Kiefer, Annette Messager, Ed Ruscha, and Richard Tuttle. Artists and Their Books / Books and Their Artists includes eighty important examples selected from the Getty Research Institute's Special Collections of more than six thousand editions and unique artists' books. This elegant catalogue also presents precursors to the artist's book, such as Joris Hoefnagel's sixteenth-century calligraphy masterpiece; single-sheet episodes from Albrecht DuIA rer's Life of Mary, designed to be either broadsides or a book; early illustrated scientific works; and avant-garde publications. Twentieth-century works reveal the impact of artists' books on Pop art, Fluxus, Conceptual, feminist art, and postmodernism. The selection of books by an international range of artists who have chosen to work with texts and images on paper provokes new inquiry into the nature of art and books in contemporary culture.

Artists' books --- Conceptual art --- Book history --- conceptuele kunst --- artists' books [books] --- book objects --- bookworks --- Boekgeschiedenis --- kunstenaarsboeken --- boekwerken --- boekobjecten --- Artists' books. --- Conceptual art. --- Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles) --- Antin, David --- 19de eeuw --- 20ste eeuw --- 21ste eeuw --- Kunstenaars --- Boek --- Vormgeving --- Kunstenaar --- Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles). --- kunstenaarsboeken. --- Antin, David. --- 19de eeuw. --- 20ste eeuw. --- 21ste eeuw.