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INVENTORY OF THE MINIMAL AND CONCEPTUAL ART DOCUMENTS,
1969-1989
920025
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Title: Minimal and Conceptual Art Documents
Date (inclusive): 1969-1989
Collection number: 920025
Extent:
ca. 1.5 linear ft.
(3
boxes)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Abstract: An assembled collection of visual and written documentation, including correspondence and artists' statements, and photographs
and drawings relating to gallery installations, sculptural pieces, conceptual pieces, land art, and performances. Includes
artists' letters to German critic and editor Werner Lippert and Galleria Toselli in Milan, and materials pertaining to the
exhibition Prospect 69 (Dusseldorf, 1969). Includes letters from artists and gallery owners to Konrad Fischer, and some Fluxus
printed ephemera.
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Language: Collection material in English
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Minimal and Conceptual Art
Documents,1969-1989, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no.
920025.
Acquired by the repository in 1992.
Scope and Content of Collection
Visual and written documentation of Minimal and Conceptual art,
including miscellaneous correspondence and artists' statements, photographs and
drawings relating to gallery installations, sculptural pieces, conceptual
pieces, land art and performances. Highlights are: artists' correspondence to
German critic and editor Werner Lippert and Milanese gallery owner Franco
Toselli, and materials collected regarding the exhibition "Prospect 69"
(Düsseldorf, 1969), which includes letters from artists and gallery owners
to Konrad Fischer and some Fluxus printed ephemera. The collection also
contains miscellaneous drawings, typescripts and photographs of Minimal and
Conceptual works, and performances.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into five series:
Series I.
Letters to Werner Lippert
Series
II. Letters to Franco Toselli (Galleria Toselli),
Series
III. "Prospect 69"
Series
IV. Miscellaneous Drawings and Typescripts
Series V.
Miscellaneous Photographs
Art, Modern—20th century
Conceptual art
Earthworks (Art)
Fluxus (Group of artists)
Minimal art
Performance art
Extra (Cologne, Germany)
Drawings
Photographic prints
Photographs, Original
Askevold, David, 1940-
Fischer, Konrad
Graham, Dan, 1942-
Lippert, Werner, 1950-
Salvo, 1947-
Wilson, Ian
Galleria Toselli (Mila, Italy)
Prospect 69 (Exhibition (1969: Düsseldorf, Germany)