Art by Telephone. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1969
33-1/3 RPM vinyl LP record housed in offset-printed black-and-white gatefold album cover. Issued as the catalogue for the highly influential exhibition, Art by Telephone, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, November 1 - December 14, 1969.
Curated by David H. Katzive who took Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's “telephone pictures” of 1922 as his starting point, Art by Telephone was a group exhibition in which artists were invited to communicate their proposed work to Katzive by telephone. Katzive conducted each telephone conversation then implemented the works based on the artists' verbal instructions. Highlights of the exhibition included: Sol LeWitt’s Variation on Wall Drawing #26; William Wegman's Third Day; a version of Robert Smithson’s “non-site”and Arman's trashcans.
The LP records the interviews with each artist: Siah Armajani, Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Iain Baxter, Mel Bochner, George Brecht, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Robert H. Cumming, Francoise Dallegret, Jan Dibbets, John Giorno, Robert Grosvenor, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Dick Higgins, Davi Det Hompson, Robert Huot, Alani Jacquet, Ed Kienholz, Joseph Kosuth, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Guenther Uecker, Stan Van Der Beek, Bernar Venet, Frank Lincoln Viner, Wolf Vostell, William Wegman, and William T. Wiley.
In the accompanying essay printed on the inside front cover, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Jan van der Marck, writes:
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 on their behalf. The telephone was designated the most fitting means of communication in relaying instructions to those entrusted with fabrication of the artists' projects or enactment of their ideas. To heighten the challenge of a wholly verbal exchange, drawings, blueprints or written descriptions were avoided.
"Art by Telephone" admits an historic precedent. In 1922 Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, then newly appointed to the Weimar Bauhaus, set out to prove to his students and fellow teachers alike that the intellectual approach to the creation of a work of art is in no way inferior to the emotional approach. Bucking the expressionist mainstream and steeping himself in the revolutionary ideas of the Russian Constructivists Malevich and Lissitzky, the new head of the metal workshop ordered from a sign manufacturer three steel panels of diminishing size, covered with white porcelain enamel and bearing a simple geometric design in black, red and yellow. Rather than furnish sketches and personally supervise the execution, Moholy asked that the manufacturer take a piece of graph paper and a color chart; he then dictated these works over the telephone.
Despite the fact that Moholy-Nagy's "telephone pictures" are widely discussed in art literature, no museum until now has been prompted by this historic act to test the potential of remote control creation on the sale of a group exhibition. Making the telephone ancillary to creation and employing it as a link between mina dna hand has never been attempted in any fashion.
- Jan van der Marck from the exhibition catalogue / LP jacket
Author: David H. Katzive, Jan van der Marck
Title: Art by Telephone
Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Publication date: 1969
Format: 33-1/3 RPM vinyl LP record housed in offset-printed black-and-white gatefold album cover. Height: 12 in. (30.5 cm). [4] pp.; 30 x 30 cm.; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered.
Condition: Good. Mild bumps to corner of jacket and light surface wear to album covers and spine.
Provenance: Peter Townsend
Stock Number: RB04432
33-1/3 RPM vinyl LP record housed in offset-printed black-and-white gatefold album cover. Issued as the catalogue for the highly influential exhibition, Art by Telephone, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, November 1 - December 14, 1969.
Curated by David H. Katzive who took Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's “telephone pictures” of 1922 as his starting point, Art by Telephone was a group exhibition in which artists were invited to communicate their proposed work to Katzive by telephone. Katzive conducted each telephone conversation then implemented the works based on the artists' verbal instructions. Highlights of the exhibition included: Sol LeWitt’s Variation on Wall Drawing #26; William Wegman's Third Day; a version of Robert Smithson’s “non-site”and Arman's trashcans.
The LP records the interviews with each artist: Siah Armajani, Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Iain Baxter, Mel Bochner, George Brecht, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Robert H. Cumming, Francoise Dallegret, Jan Dibbets, John Giorno, Robert Grosvenor, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Dick Higgins, Davi Det Hompson, Robert Huot, Alani Jacquet, Ed Kienholz, Joseph Kosuth, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Guenther Uecker, Stan Van Der Beek, Bernar Venet, Frank Lincoln Viner, Wolf Vostell, William Wegman, and William T. Wiley.
In the accompanying essay printed on the inside front cover, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Jan van der Marck, writes:
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 on their behalf. The telephone was designated the most fitting means of communication in relaying instructions to those entrusted with fabrication of the artists' projects or enactment of their ideas. To heighten the challenge of a wholly verbal exchange, drawings, blueprints or written descriptions were avoided.
"Art by Telephone" admits an historic precedent. In 1922 Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, then newly appointed to the Weimar Bauhaus, set out to prove to his students and fellow teachers alike that the intellectual approach to the creation of a work of art is in no way inferior to the emotional approach. Bucking the expressionist mainstream and steeping himself in the revolutionary ideas of the Russian Constructivists Malevich and Lissitzky, the new head of the metal workshop ordered from a sign manufacturer three steel panels of diminishing size, covered with white porcelain enamel and bearing a simple geometric design in black, red and yellow. Rather than furnish sketches and personally supervise the execution, Moholy asked that the manufacturer take a piece of graph paper and a color chart; he then dictated these works over the telephone.
Despite the fact that Moholy-Nagy's "telephone pictures" are widely discussed in art literature, no museum until now has been prompted by this historic act to test the potential of remote control creation on the sale of a group exhibition. Making the telephone ancillary to creation and employing it as a link between mina dna hand has never been attempted in any fashion.
- Jan van der Marck from the exhibition catalogue / LP jacket
Author: David H. Katzive, Jan van der Marck
Title: Art by Telephone
Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Publication date: 1969
Format: 33-1/3 RPM vinyl LP record housed in offset-printed black-and-white gatefold album cover. Height: 12 in. (30.5 cm). [4] pp.; 30 x 30 cm.; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered.
Condition: Good. Mild bumps to corner of jacket and light surface wear to album covers and spine.
Provenance: Peter Townsend
Stock Number: RB04432
33-1/3 RPM vinyl LP record housed in offset-printed black-and-white gatefold album cover. Issued as the catalogue for the highly influential exhibition, Art by Telephone, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, November 1 - December 14, 1969.
Curated by David H. Katzive who took Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's “telephone pictures” of 1922 as his starting point, Art by Telephone was a group exhibition in which artists were invited to communicate their proposed work to Katzive by telephone. Katzive conducted each telephone conversation then implemented the works based on the artists' verbal instructions. Highlights of the exhibition included: Sol LeWitt’s Variation on Wall Drawing #26; William Wegman's Third Day; a version of Robert Smithson’s “non-site”and Arman's trashcans.
The LP records the interviews with each artist: Siah Armajani, Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Iain Baxter, Mel Bochner, George Brecht, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Robert H. Cumming, Francoise Dallegret, Jan Dibbets, John Giorno, Robert Grosvenor, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Dick Higgins, Davi Det Hompson, Robert Huot, Alani Jacquet, Ed Kienholz, Joseph Kosuth, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Guenther Uecker, Stan Van Der Beek, Bernar Venet, Frank Lincoln Viner, Wolf Vostell, William Wegman, and William T. Wiley.
In the accompanying essay printed on the inside front cover, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Jan van der Marck, writes:
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 on their behalf. The telephone was designated the most fitting means of communication in relaying instructions to those entrusted with fabrication of the artists' projects or enactment of their ideas. To heighten the challenge of a wholly verbal exchange, drawings, blueprints or written descriptions were avoided.
"Art by Telephone" admits an historic precedent. In 1922 Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, then newly appointed to the Weimar Bauhaus, set out to prove to his students and fellow teachers alike that the intellectual approach to the creation of a work of art is in no way inferior to the emotional approach. Bucking the expressionist mainstream and steeping himself in the revolutionary ideas of the Russian Constructivists Malevich and Lissitzky, the new head of the metal workshop ordered from a sign manufacturer three steel panels of diminishing size, covered with white porcelain enamel and bearing a simple geometric design in black, red and yellow. Rather than furnish sketches and personally supervise the execution, Moholy asked that the manufacturer take a piece of graph paper and a color chart; he then dictated these works over the telephone.
Despite the fact that Moholy-Nagy's "telephone pictures" are widely discussed in art literature, no museum until now has been prompted by this historic act to test the potential of remote control creation on the sale of a group exhibition. Making the telephone ancillary to creation and employing it as a link between mina dna hand has never been attempted in any fashion.
- Jan van der Marck from the exhibition catalogue / LP jacket
Author: David H. Katzive, Jan van der Marck
Title: Art by Telephone
Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Publication date: 1969
Format: 33-1/3 RPM vinyl LP record housed in offset-printed black-and-white gatefold album cover. Height: 12 in. (30.5 cm). [4] pp.; 30 x 30 cm.; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered.
Condition: Good. Mild bumps to corner of jacket and light surface wear to album covers and spine.
Provenance: Peter Townsend
Stock Number: RB04432