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Artists and Christo 3
Douglas Huebler
Packed Tower—Spoleto 1968
Statement from Location Piece No. 2
Reinforced nylon woven fibre and rope New York City—Seattle, Washington July 1969
Photographs in binder (18 photographs,
photographs 1486 ft each 7 x 77 in.)
2
Dennis Oppenheim 4
Flower Arrangement for Bruce Nauman 1969 Robert Rauschenberg
Lawrence Alloway Mounted photographs Revolver 1967
c. 7 X 80 in. Mixed media 78 x 77 x 244 in.
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
At least since Delacroix, when the camera camera's autonomous pictorial values. In the Bern, last year, 'Plans and projects as art', a
provided a modern technique for getting 20s, collages and photo-montage, new works of survey of diagrams, proposals, propositions,
direct images of the world (Journal, May 21, art produced by photography, were abundant. programmes, and signs of signs. Bernar
1853), photographs have been in the hands of The recent Multiples Inc. exhibition/catalogue Venet's book, which is a profile of his 'ex-
artists. They were, as Delacroix saw, images clarifies with a new intensity the uses of photo- ploited' documents since 1966, demonstrates
of the world unmediated by the conventions graphy, in a spectrum that ranges from docu- this possibility. The different usages are
of painting; these were followed, later in the mentation to newly-minted works. Some photo- immense: for example, Douglas Huebler
nineteenth century, by the wide distribution graphs are the evidence of absent works of documents place not duration, whereas
of works of art by photographic reproductions. art, other photographs constitute themselves Dennis Oppenheim's piece is sequential, a
This was defined by Walter Benjamin in works of art, and still others serve as docu- chart of time-changes. One thing everybody
Marxist terms in the twenties and celebrated ments of documents. This last area was the has in common should be noted : there is an
later by André Malraux in terms of the subject of an exhibition at the Kunsthalle, anti-expertise, anti-glamorous quality about