INFORMATION
The Museum of Modern Art Summer 1970
Yoko Ono, John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Jeff Wall,
Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman
Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Richard
Artschwager, Robert Barry, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, George Brecht, Stanley Brouwn,
Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, Hanne Darboven, Jan Dibbets, Barry Flanagan,
Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Michael Heizer,
Hans Hollein, Douglas Huebler, Robert Huot, Peter Hutchinson, On Kawara, Joseph
Kosuth, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Lucy Lippard, Richard Long, Walter de Maria,
Bruce McLean, Robert Morris, Dennis Oppenheim, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini,
Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Markus Raetz, Klaus Rinke, Robert
Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Bernar Venet, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 1970. First edition. Only edition. Softcover. Rare publication. 4to. 207 pages. With an essay by Kynaston L. McShine in English. Numerous image and text contributors. Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Art & Language, Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner , George Brecht, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, Darboven, Jan Dibbet, Barry Flanagan, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Michael Heizer, Hans Hollein, Douglas Huebler, Robert Huot, Peter Hutchinson , On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol Lewitt, Lucy Lippard, Richard Long, Walter de Maria, Bruce McLean, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Markus Raetz, Klaus Rinke, Edward Ruscha, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Bernar Venet, Jeff Wall, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson. Good plus.
This seminal catalogue of Conceptual Art,
from a 1970 MoMA exhibition that was eons ahead of its time, is itself a
brilliant photobook. Among other things, it documents a key instance in
which 60s political ferment 'breached' the Establishment's wall's.
"'Information'
was a critical survey, and perhaps the first in America, of conceptual
art. Kynaston McShine, then associate curator in MoMA's painting and
sculpture department, framed 'Information' as an 'international report'
on the globalizing and democratizing power of new technologies (which,
at the time, meant photography, television, film, satellites, and jet
travel) that gave artists new avenues for making. Many of the works in
the show (by artists like Vito Acconci, Daniel Buren, Art &
Language, Jan Dibbets, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson, Jeff Wall, and Dennis
Oppenheim) required audience participation or activation, the most
notorious example being Hans Haacke's MoMA Poll, wherein museum visitors
were surveyed about then-governor Nelson Rockefeller's attitude towards
President Nixon's policies in Indochina. Rockefeller was on the
museum's board; Haacke got away with it by leaving the specific question
that the poll would ask out of his initial proposal to the museum. (It
might be the most famous example of so-called "institutional critique.")
For its political engagement, participatory engagement with its
audience, and support of media-based work, 'Information' was a
pioneering project."--"10 Exhibitions That Changed the Course of
Contemporary Art," Artspace
Light wear to the
edges. Moderate wear to the spine with two horizontal tears. Stain to the top fore edge. Prior owner name to front cover upper right hand corner. Internally, very clean and bright, the best seen to date. Binding solid.
Scarce.