Lothar Baumgarten began in the 1960s to develop a critique of the system of naming. The works in this artists book are all wall drawings displayed on the walls of the interior or facade of the museum, the placement of which force the viewer to reflect critically on the historically constructed meanings of words. This copy is one of 350 copies that were unnumbered and unsugned, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The curator of the exhibition, Kynaston McShine, writes that this exhibition "surveys the ways in which artists, mostly of hte present century, have addressed the museum, commented on its nature, confronted its concepts and functions, drawn from its methods, and examined its relationship to the art it contains...It illuminates the approaches taken by artists and discusses the aspects of the museum's life on which they have chosen to settle." The Sackners attended this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.