Record as exhibition catalogue ø
30cm, 33 RPM, 1969,
Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago
b/w, gatefold, documentation-photo,
texts about the artists and an
introduction by Jan van der Marck,
design: Sherman Mutchnick
Participating Artists:
Siah Armajanì,
Arman,
Richard Artschwager,
John Baldessari,
lain Baxter,
Mel Bochner,
George Brecht,
Jack Burnham,
James Lee Byars,
Robert H. Cumming,
Francois Dallegret,
Jan Díbbets,
John Giorno,
Robert Grosvenor,
Hans Haacke,
Richard Hamilton,
Dick Higgins,
Robert Huot,
Alain Jacquet,
Ed Kienholz,
Joseph Kosuth,
Les Levine,
Sol LeWitt,
Robert Morris,
Bruce Nauman,
Claes Oldenburg,
Dennis Oppenheìm,
Richard Serra,
Robert Smithson,
David Lee Thompson,
Guenther Uecker,
Stan Vanderbeek,
Bernar Venet,
Frank Lincoln Viner,
Wolf Vostell,
William Wegman,
William T. Wiley
Shortly after its opening, the Museum of Contemporary Art planned an exhibition
to record the trend, incipient then and pervasive today, toward conceptualization of
art. This exhibition, scheduled for the spring of 1968 and abandoned because of
technical difficulties, consisted of works in different media, conceived by artists in
this country and Europe and executed in Chicago an their behalf- The telephone
was designated the most fitting means of communication in relaying instructions
to those entrusted with tabrication of the artists' projects or enactment of their
ideal. To heighten the challenge of a wholly verbal exchange, drawings, blueprints
or written descriptions were avoided.
Jan van der Marck (Covertext)