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Conceptual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Art is Life/Life is Art / Roth, Dieter ; Spector B ; Edwards K ; Williams E ; Mayer HJ ; Higgins D ; Drucker J ; Phillpot C., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33498-35147
Scope and Contents

In her essay "The Myth and the Mythmaker," curator Kathleen Edwards wrote that Roth was influenced by Dadaism, Surrealism, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, Fluxus and Conceptual Art. Buzz Spector contributed an essay "The Artist as Archivist, The Book as Body: Dieter Roth's Gesammelte Werke." He defined an Archive as a "repository of texts and/or images organized around a given subject. It provides for a relation of general equivalence between its components, and for a means of sorting through their accumulation. Unlike dictionaries or encyclopedias, which define words or ideas in relation to general linguistic or cultural models, and whose cognitive "force" is directed centrifugally, toward the margins of a discursive terrain, the force of the archive is centipetal, drawing in traces of its concern that coalesce to form clearer - which is to say, denser, more focused - insights into the meaning of its subject." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Artists Books: Schutzengel Aktro-Passiv. No.20 / Emmett Williams., 1985

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Identifier: CC-24910-25363
Scope and Contents

Stored on shelf with Hundertmark material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

[Card To Emmett Williams] / Nannucci, Maurizio; Williams E., 1978

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Identifier: CC-40474-42446
Scope and Contents

The card is written on the verso of "sixty natural greens," a conceptual art piece. Nannucci asks Williams to make a contribution to his magazine, Mela. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978