Wednesday, January 18, 2006

You don't say? Reviewing "557,087" in Artforum, Peter Plagens suggested that "There is a total style to the show, a style so pervasive as to suggest that Lucy Lippard is in fact the artist and that her medium is other artists." Of course a critic's medium is always artists; critics are the original appropriators.

Fra bogen med titlen Six Years: The dematerialization of the audun object from 1966 to 1972: a cross-reference book of information on some esthetic boundaries: consisting of a bibliography into which are inserted a fragmented text, art works, documents, interviews, and symposia, arranged cronologically and focused on so-called conceptual or information or idea art with mentions of such vaguely desig- nated areas as minimal, antiform, systems, earth, or process art, occuring now in the Americas, Europe, England, Australia, and Asia (with occasional political overtones), edited and annotated by Lucy R. Lippard, 1973.