Art by Telephone.
Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1969.
Vinyl LP in gatefold jacket.
LP: VG+.
Jacket: VG.
Gatefold jacket has wear, mostly to edges.
Back cover has stain to bottom left and writing in black marker.
Inside gatefold has toning at edges.
Vinyl record has a couple light surface marks that do not affect play.
Overall, a handsome copy of this scarce record with its scarce gatefold jacket.
Vinyl LP record issued as the exhibition catalogue for show held November 1 - December 14, 1969. Artist notes and texts on gatefold interior.
"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." - Jan van der Marck.
Artists on LP include 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, William T. Wiley.
