Scott Burton. Collected Writings on Art & Performance, Edited by David J. Getsy. Chicago

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1 Scott Burton Collected Writings on Art & Performance, Edited by David J. Getsy Soberscove Press Chicago

2 Soberscove Press 1055 N Wolcott, 2F Chicago, IL USA All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form, except for the inclusion of brief quotations and images in review, without prior permission from the publisher or copyright holders. Introduction, transcriptions/annotations, and the selection of texts in Scott Burton: Collected Writings on Art and Performance, David J. Getsy. Library of Congress Control Number: Burton, Scott, Scott Burton: collected writings on art and performance, / edited by David J. Getsy. First Printing, 2012 Design by Rita Lascaro ISBN-13:

3 Contents Introduction: The Primacy of Sensibility: Scott Burton writing on art and performance, by David J. Getsy 1 I. Beyond Minimalism 33 Tony Smith: Old Master at the New Frontier (1966) 35 Tony Smith and Minimalist Sculpture (1967) 45 Ronald Bladen (1967) 69 When Attitudes Become Form: Notes on the New (1969) 71 Time on Their Hands (1969) 79 II. Abstraction and Allusion 87 David Weinrib: See-Through Sculpture (1967) 89 Ralph Humphrey: A Different Stripe (1968) 94 Al Held: Big H (1968) 103 Adja Yunkers: The Eye s Edge (1968) 112 Doug Ohlson: In The Wind (1968) 115 Leon Berkowitz: Color It Berkowitz (1969) 121 Willem de Kooning s Gotham News (1969) 125 Generation of Light, (1971) 128 Plates 141 III. Figurative and Realist Commitments 153 Anne Arnold s Animals (1965) 155 John Button (1967) 162 Robert Beauchamp: Paint the Devil (1966) 171

4 American Realism: Letter to the Editors of Artforum (1967) 176 Herman Rose: Telling and Showing (1967) 178 George McNeil and the Figure (1967) 185 Alex Katz (1968) 189 Direct Representation: Five Younger Realists (1969) 195 The Realist Revival (1972) 200 IV. Sculpture as Theater: Performance Art Statements 213 Three Street Works (1969) 215 Literalist Theater (1970) 217 From Literature to Performances (1970) 222 The Group Behavior Tableaux, early texts ( ) 225 Sculpture as Theater: The Lecture on Self (1973) 227 A Political Statement (1974) 244 Odd Years (1975) 246 Acknowledgements 248 Index 250

5 Index 0 to 9 (magazine), 215 Abstract Expressionism, 6, 46 47, 75, 80, 91, , 121, 128, 165, 167, , 189, 204, 210 Acconci, Vito, 215, 227, 234; see also Learning Piece The Actor, Leslie Barrett (Rose), Addams Family, 245 Aegean Series (Yunkers) 112 Agostini, Peter, 36, 46 Albee, Edward, 5 Albers, Josef, 100 Alloway, Lawrence 23 Amaryllis (Smith), 40, American Federation of Arts (AFA), 18 American Theater Lab, 225 Anderson, Lennart, 176 Andre, Carl, 9, 10, 12, 14, 45, 57, 61, 64, 71 73, 96 Angela (McNeil), 188 Anthology (Perrault), 224 Anti-Illusion: Procedures/Materials (exhibition), 16, 79 Apollinaire, Guillame, 59 Archipenko, Alexander Porfyrovych, 37 Architectural League (New York), 18 Arnold, Anne, Arp, Jean (Hans), 76, 90, 156 Art and Objecthood (Fried), 13 14, 45, 59, 60 Art-Rite (magazine), 244 Ashton, Dore, 174 Art and Literature, 6 Art in America, 1, 7 Art in the Urban Environment: Theory and Practice of Post- Studio Art (course), 217 Art Students League (New York), 36 Artaud, Antonin, 245 Artforum, 13, 45, 176 Artists Space, 30 ARTnews, 1, 7 8, 29 30, 45, 128 Artschwager, Richard, Asher, Michael, 83 Autumn Rhythm (Pollock), 136 Bailey, William, 206 Bacon, Francis, 160 Baker, Elizabeth, 27 Balanchine, George, 69 Balthus, 207 Barry, Robert, 80, 83 Baskin, Leonard, 160 Bathers (Burton), 238 Baudelaire, Charles, 101 Beal, Gifford, 206 Beauchamp, Robert, 7, ; 185 Bechtle, Robert, 196, 199, 208 Beckett, Samuel; see Happy Days, Molloy, Waiting for Godot Behavior Tableaux (Burton), 1, 20, 25, 217, Bell, Larry, 45, Bell, Leland, 176 Berkowitz, Leon, 4, ; see also 250 Scott Burton

6 Cathedrals, Chasubles, Coronas, Obliques, Verticals Berkson, Bill, 7 Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 62, 69 Bernstein, Richard, 209 Berrigan, Ted, 7 Beuys, Joseph, 226, 233, 244 The Big D (Held), 106 The Big N (Held), 109 The Black Box (Smith), 38, 79 Black, White and Grey (exhibition), 35 Bladen, Ronald, 12, 45, 51, Blaine, Nell, 164, 176 Blake, William, 124, 160 Blue and White (Yunkers), 114 Blue Windows (Button), 163 Bollinger, Bill, 75, 80, Bosch, Hieronymus, 171 Brancusi, Constantin, 63, 91, 156 Brooks, James, 135, 187 Breughel, Pieter the Elder, 171 Bronze Chair (Burton), 24 25, 30, 32, 149 (image) Bruder, Harold, 206 Burroughs, William, 63 Burton, Scott; see individual lectures, works, & publications Behavior Tableaux, Bronze Chair, Compositions, Direct Representation, Disguise Piece, Dream Sex, Ear-Piece, Generation of Light, Group Behavior Tableaux, Lecture on Self, Literalist Theater, Low Piece (Bench), Make a Political Statement, Notes on New, Odd Years, The Realist Revival, Seating for Eight, Self-Work: Dream, Self-Works, Ten Tableaux: Theater as Sculpture, Three Street Works, Time on Their Hands, Tony Smith and Minimalist Sculpture, et al. Button, John, 5, 6, 15, 18, 31, 121, , , 176; see also Coney Island, Summer, Downtown Street, Garage Space, Grand Central, Grand Tetons, Great Salt Lake (Self Portrait), Blue Windows, Three Serious Ladies Cajori, Charles, 185 Calder, Alexander, 54 55, 90, 160 Cage, John, 75 California School, 164 Canaletto, 166 Cathedral (Pollock), 137 Cathedrals (Berkowitz), Caucasian Dance (McNeil), 188 Cézanne, Paul, 62 Cézanne s Doubt (Merleau-Ponty), 6 7 Chasubles (Berkowitz), 122 Cigarette (Smith), 39, 52, 58, 63, 65 Circle and the Triangle (Held), 108 Civitico, Bruno, , 206 Clarke, John Clem, 210 Close, Chuck, 210 Collage: Blue, White, Yellow (Yunkers), 114 Columbia University, 5 Compositions (Burton), 223 Coney Island (Button), 168 Copland, Aaron, 6 Corcoran Gallery, 121 Coronas (Berkowitz), 122 Cornell, Joseph, 193 Costa, Eduardo, 18; see also You See a Dress Courbet, Gustave, 155 Cummings, E[dward] E[stlin], 59 Cunningham, Merce, 75 Cythera (Ohlson), , 144 (image) INDEX 251

7 Da Bologna, Giovanni, 63, 65, 69 Dalí, Salvador, 211, 241 Dancer, 6 (McNeil), 188 Davis, Stuart, 166 Day, Francis, 206 De Andrea, John, 211 De Chirico, Giorgio, 207 De Kooning, Elaine, 185 De Kooning, Willem, 21, 81, 101, 104, , 129, 175, , 192; see also Elegy, Gotham News, Night Square, Pink Angels, Rosy- Fingered Dawn at Louse Point, Woman as Landscape, One Flight Up De Niro, Robert, 176 De Rivera, José, 46 Deitch, Jeffrey, 246; see also Lives (exhibition) Delacroix, Eugene, 155 Denby, Edwin, 5, 120 Descartes, René, 75 Di Suvero, Marco Polo ( Mark ), 36 Diane: Sitting (Miller), 211 Die (Smith), 8-9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 27, 42, 57, 68 Direct Representation (exhibition), 22, Disguise Piece (Burton), 18 19, 236, 242 Documenta VI, 1 Dodd, Louis, 156, 176 The Dowager Empress (Held), 108, 110 Downtown Street (Button), 167 Dream Sex (Burton), 18 19, 242, 246 Droll, Donald, 32 Drummond, Sally Hazelet, 135 Dubuffet, Jean, 171 Duchamp, Marcel, 19, 21, 76, 78, 83, , 241 Duchamp-Villon, Raymond, 89 Eakins, Thomas, 131, 176 Ear-Piece (Burton), 18 19, 242 Eddy, Don, 208 Egan, Charles, 186 Elegy (de Kooning), 131 The Elevens Are Up (Smith), 35, 38, 66 Eliot, T[homas] S[tearns], 165 Elmslie, Kenward, 7 Endicott (Humphrey), 95 Ensor, James, 171 Estes, Richard, 140, 209 Femme Egorgée (Giacometti), 90, 155 Ferber, Herbert, 46 Ferrer, Rafael, 82 File, Arthur, 38 Finch College, 226 Fine Arts Building (New York), 246 Finnegans Wake (Joyce), 40 Fiore, Joseph, 176 Fischbach Gallery, 35, 115 Fish, Janet, 203, 206 Fitzgerald, F[rancis] Scott [Key], 105 Flack, Audrey, 210 Flannagan, John B[ernard], 160 Flavin, Dan, 45, 47 Fluxus, 233 Fox, Ida, 4, 121 Frankenstein (Warhol), 245 Free Ride (Smith), 38, 41, 52, 66 Freilicher, Jane, 164, 176 Fried, Michael; see Art and Objecthood Friedrich, Caspar David, 74, 83 Furniture Landscape (Burton), 236 Furniture Pieces (Burton), 236 Gabo, Naum (Naum Neemia Pevsner), 89 Garage Space (Button), 165 The Gates (Ohlson), Gauguin, Paul, 109, Scott Burton

8 Gaurdi, Francesco, 166 Generation of Light (Burton), 15, 21 Genesis (Held), 106 George Washington University, 5 Georges, Paul, 16, 176 Gianakos, Steve, 18 Giacometti, Alberto; see Femme Egorgée Gilbert & George, 227, 234; see also Singing Sculpture Godard, Jean-Luc, 64 Goddard College, 5 Goings, Ralph, 208 Gorky, Arshile, 90, 135 Gotham News (de Kooning), Grace Hoper (Smith), 39 Grand Central (Button), Grand Tetons (Button), 169 Great Salt Lake (Self Portrait) (Button), 144 (image) Greek Garden (Held), 103, 105 Green, Eleanor, 103 Green Gallery, 99 Greenberg, Clement, 58 59, 229; see also Modernist Painting Grippe, Peter, 46 Grosz, George, 36 Group Behavior Tableaux (Burton), 26, 147 (image), Guerlin (perfume), 215 Guest, Barbara, 7 Guston, Philip, 128, , 139 Gutter Corner Splash: Night Shift (Serra), 142 (image) Hague, Raoul, 36, 46, 159 Hanson, Duane, 211 Happy Days (Beckett), 39 Hart, Gordon, 138 Hartigan, Grace, 185 Harvard University, 3, 5 Heizer, Michael, 71, 82 Held, Al, 12, 101, 103, 174; see also The Big D, The Big N, Circle and the Triangle, The Dowager Empress, Genesis, Greek Garden, I-Beam, Ivan the Terrible, Mao, The Red Gall, Siegfried Henry, Gerrit, 7 Hess, Thomas B., 7, 35, 126 Hesse, Eva, 11, 71, 73 Hofmann, Hans, 4, 135, , 186 Homer, Winslow, 131 Hopper, Edward, 15, 21, 100, , , 201, 210; see also House by the Railroad, Seven A.M. Hornak, Ian, 209 House by the Railroad (Hopper), 209 Huebler, Douglas, Humphrey, Ralph, 16, , 132; see also Endicott, Warner I-Beam (Held), 108 Institut Valencià d Art Modern, 31 Institute of Contemporary Art (University of Pennsylvania), 35 Ivan the Terrible (Held), Jacquette, Yvonne, 22, 197, 199, 206 Jenney, Neil, 71, 82 Jewish Museum (New York), 8 Johns, Jasper, Johnson, Lester, 174, 185 Johnson, Ray, 244 Johnston, Jill, 7 Joyce, James; see Finnegans Wake, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses Judd, Donald, 2, 9 14, 36, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51 52, 57, 60 61, 64 65, 96, 101 Kacare, John, 209 Kachur, Lewis, 28 Kaltenbach, Stephen, 71 INDEX 253

9 Kaprow, Allan, 227, Katz, Alex, 2, 6, 22, 23, 139, 164, 176, 189, 210; see also The Lawn Party, Red Smile, Smile Again, Swamp Maple, 4:30, Vincent and Sunny, Violet Daisies #2, White Petunia Kaufman, Jane, 18 Kelly, Ellsworth, 94, 98, 137 The Keys to. Given! (Smith), 40, 64 Kepes, György, 37 Kienholz, Edward, 71, 211, 241 Kirstein, Lincoln, 5 Klein, Yves, 74, 98 Kline, Franz, 102, 104, 129, 131 Kosuth, Joseph, 71, 215 Kunsthalle Bern; see Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (exhibition) Lachaise, Gaston, 156 Laderman, Gabriel, 203 Lassaw, Ibram, 46 Lavender Mist (Pollock), 136 The Lawn Party (Katz), 190 Learning Piece (Acconci), 223 Lecture on Self (Burton), 25, 26, 31, 148 (image), 217, , 246 Lehmbruck, Wilhelm, 156 Leslie, Alfred, 210 LeWitt, Sol, 45, 52, 71 73, 81 Lichtenstein, Roy, 167 Lippard, Lucy, 101 Lippold, Richard, 46 Lipton, Seymour, 46 Literalist Theater (Burton), 18, 20, 217 Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (exhibition), 17, 143 (images) Lives (exhibition), 246 Living Tableau (Burton), 237 Long, Richard, 71, 82 Louis, Morris, 124, 136, 138 Low Piece (Bench) (Burton), 150 (image) Lubbock, Percy, 184 Magritte, René, 162, 207 Mahaffey, Noel, 209 Malevich, Kazimir, 48 Mallarmé, Stéphane, 59, 101 Mallary, Robert, 46 Make a Political Statement (Burton), 30 Marlboro (cigarette), 169 Manet, Édouard, 63 Mangold, Sylvia Plimack, 22, , 203; see also Untitled Mao (Held), 104, 107 Marin, John, 166 Marini, Marino, 155 Marquise (McNeil), 188 Marriage (Smith), 39, 40, 58, 64, 66, 68, 141 (image) Marsicano, Nicholas, 185 Martin, Agnes, 12, 101, 133 Mâtho (Ohlson), 116 Mayer, Bernadette, 215 McGinnes, Mac, 18 McCracken, John, 45, 47, 51, 54, 57, 64 McLean, Richard, 210 McLuhan, Marshall, 49 McNally, Terrence, 5 McNeil, George, ; see also Angela, Caucasian Dance; Dancer, 6; Marquise McShine, Kynaston; see Primary Structures Merleau-Ponty, Maurice; see Cézanne s Doubt Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), 181 Michelangelo, 59 Miller, Richard, 211; see also Diane: Sitting 254 Scott Burton

10 Minimalism; and group identity, 13; and heterosexual artists, 6; and impersonality, 24 25, 49; as Primary Structurists, 8, 32, 36, 42, 45, 47, 51, 56, 60, 64 65; and resemblance, 55; and theatricality, 24; and traditional sculpture, 62; as a dominant form of postwar sculpture, 22, 45, 52; Burton s critical relationship to, 2, 3, 10, 239; common themes of, 11, 195 Miró, Joan, 90 Modernist Painting (Greenberg), 6 Moholy-Nagy, László, 37 Molloy (Beckett), 71 Mondrian, Piet, 48, 50 Monet, Claude, 129, 167 Moore, Henry, 155 Moore, John, , 206 Moreau, Gustave, 171 Morley, Malcolm, 210 Morris, Robert, 9, 13, 36, 45, 50 51, 54, 57 58, 60, 71, 74, 80, 84, 91 Muller, Otto, 173 Munch, Edvard, 171 Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), 226 Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), 29, Nakian, Reuben, 36, 46, 50, 58, 155 Nadelman, Elie, Nauman, Bruce, 73 74, 80, 83 Nevelson, Louise, 46 New Bauhaus, 37 New Decade (catalog), 187 New Piece (Smith), 63 New York City Ballet, 6 New York University, 5 Newman, Barnett, 43, 44, ; see also Vir Heroicus Sublimis Night Square (de Kooning), 130 Nine Young Americans (exhibition), 16, 79, 81, 83 No. 8, 1952 (Rothko), 132 Nochlin, Linda, 201 Noguchi, Isamu, 46 Noland, Kenneth, 2, 94, 101, 124, Notes on New (Burton), 17, 21 Novalis, 84 Nude (Burton), 243 O Brown, Norman, 174 O Hara, Frank, 5, 6 O Neill, Eugene, 14, 67, 68 Oberlin College, 27, 226 Obliques (Berkowitz), 122 Odd Years (Burton), 27, 30, 246 Ohlson, Doug, 12, 16, 101, ; see also Cythera, The Gates, Mâtho, Sterne Oldenburg, Claes, 71, 167 Olitski, Jules, 135 One Flight Up (de Kooning), 193 Oppenheim, Dennis, 71, 76, 82 P-1 (Weinrib), 90 Parker, Ray, 133 Parrish, Maxfield, 208 Pavia, Philip, 46 Pearlstein, Philip, 5 6, 22 23, 139, 163, 176, 203 Perlis, Don, 203 Perreault, John, 18, 215, 218; see also Anthology Philip Golub Reclining (Sleigh), 203 Picasso, Pablo, 207 Pincus-Witten, Robert, 2 Pindell, Howardena, 244 Pink Angels (de Kooning), 131 Pink Center (Weinrib), 90 Piper, Adrian, 244 Playground (Smith), 41 Pollock, Jackson, 43, 66, 81, 98, 102, 104, 135, 175, 185, 192; see INDEX 255

11 also Autumn Rhythm, Cathedral, Lavender Mist, White Light Polychrome, 1 (Weinrib), 90 Poons, Larry, 101, 133, 187 Porter, Fairfield, 5, 162, 164, 174, 176, 204 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce), 84 Poses (Burton), 239 Pratt Institute, 37 Primary Structures (exhibition), 35, 69 Primary Structurists, see Minimalism Provincetown (Massachusetts), 4 Ratcliff, Carter, 7; see also The Turkish Bath Rauschenberg, Robert, 210 Realist Revival, The (exhibition), 22, The Red Gall (Held), 107 Red Smile (Katz), Redon, Odilon, 100, 171 Reinhardt, Ad, 56, 80, , 134 Richier, Germaine, 160 Rivers, Larry, 155, 164, 185 Robbins, Jerome 5 Robinson, Boardman, 172 Rodin, Auguste, 59, 241 Rose, Barbara, 43, Rose, Herman, 176, ; see also The Actor, Leslie Barrett Rosenblum, Robert, 23, 89 Rosenquist, James, 210 Rosy-Fingered Dawn at Louse Point (de Kooning), 131 Roszak, Theodore, 46, 102 Rothko, Mark, 43, 102, 127, 134; see also No. 8, 1952 Royal Marks Gallery (New York), 89 Ruscha, Edward, 205 Ryman, Robert, 71, 76, 128, 139 Salt, John, 208 San Francisco Museum, 103 Sandbeck, Fred, 71, 74 Satie, Erik, 65 Schjeldahl, Peter, 7 School of Visual Arts (New York), 7 Schuyler, James, 7, Schapiro, Meyer, 48 Schwitters, Kurt, 215 Sculpture/Theater (Burton), 235 Seating for Eight (Burton), 150 (image) Self-Work: Dream (Burton), 146 (image), 221 Self-Works (Burton), 18 19, 24, 27, 242, 246 Segal, George, 185, 211, 241 Serra, Richard, 15, 20, 71 73, 76, 80 81; see also Splashing, Gutter Corner Splash: Night Shift Seven A.M. (Hopper), 129 Shakespeare Memorial Theater, 5 Sheeler, Charles, 166, 211 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 73, 84 Siegfried (Held), 104 Singing Sculpture (Gilbert & George), 234 Sleigh, Sylvia, 5, 23, 203; see also Philip Golub Reclining Slide Novella (Burton), 237 Smile Again (Katz), 190 Smith, Anthony Peter, 36 Smith, David, 36, 42, 46, 48 49, 58, 159 Smith, Tony, 2, 7, 37 44, 45 68, 94, 98, 101; see also Amaryllis, The Black Box, Cigarette, Die, The Elevens Are Up, Free Ride, Grace Hoper, The Keys to. Given!, Marriage, New Piece, Playground, Snake, Spitball, Throne, The Wall, We Lost, Willy Smithson, Robert, 45, Scott Burton

12 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1; see also Nine Young Americans (exhibition) Sonnier, Keith, 71 Snake (Smith), 41 Spencer, Niles, 166 Spitball (Smith), 41, 64 Splashing (Serra), 16, 142 (image) Stankiewicz, Richard, 46 Statium (Weinrib), 90 Stella, Frank, 94, 101, 124, 137 Sterling Lord Literary Agency, 5 Sterne (Ohlson), 117 Stevens, May, 244 Still, Clyfford, 43, 134 Stravinsky, Igor, 63 Street Works, Street Works II, Street Works IV, 220 Strider, Marjorie, 18, Sugarman, George, 36 Summer (Button), 168 Swain, Robert, 138 Swamp Maple, 4:30 (Katz), 191 Tanager Gallery, 172 Tatlin, Vladimir, 244 Ten Tableaux: Theater as Sculpture (Burton), 20, 147 (image), 238 Theatre Project for Whitney Museum/Application to Jerome Robbins Fund (Burton), 226 Thirty Compositions (Burton), 238 Three Serious Ladies (Button), 165 Three Street Works (Burton), , 218, 220 Three-Minute Sculpture (Burton), 235 Throne (Smith), 51 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 98, 164 Tillim, Sidney, 174, 206 Time on Their Hands (Burton), 15 Tinguely, Jean, 80 Tony Smith and Minimalist Sculpture (Burton), 27 Tragic Priapic Modern American Artist, 226 Turner, J[oseph] M[allard] W[illiam], 83, 100 The Turkish Bath (Ratcliff), 23 Tuttle, Richard, 71, 76, 80, 84 85, 128, 138 Tworkov, Jack, 185 Ulysses (Joyce), 63 University of Iowa, 18 Untitled (Mangold), 145 (image) Verticals (Berkowitz), 122 Village Voice, 215 Vincent and Sunny (Katz), 190 Viner, Frank, 71 Violet Daisies, #2 (Katz), 192 Vir Heroicus Sublimis (Newman), 133 Vytlacil, Edward, 36 Wagstaff, Samuel J.; see Black, White and Grey Waiting for Godot (Beckett), 14, 60 Walker Art Center, 10, 12, 45 The Wall (Smith), 55 Warhol, Andy, 234, 245; see also Frankenstein Warner (Humphrey), 97 Washington Workshop Center of the Arts, 121 We Lost (Smith), 41 Weiner, Hannah, 18, 218 Weiner, Lawrence, 71, 244 Weinrib, David, 89 93; see also P-1; Pink Center; Polychrome, 1; Statium White Light (Pollock), 137 White Petunia (Katz), 192 Willy (Smith), 39 INDEX 257

13 Wilson, Jane, 164, 176 Winnie the Pooh, 160 Whitney Museum of American Art, 1, 69, 81 84, , 187, 225; see also Anti-Illusion: Procedures/ Materials (exhibition) Winsor, Jackie, 11 Woman as Landscape (de Kooning), 125 Wynn, Donald, 203 You See a Dress (Costa), 223 Yunkers, Adja, ; see also Aegean Series ; Blue and White; Collage: Blue, White, Yellow Zabriskie Gallery, Scott Burton