Art as Art: The Selected Writings of Ad ReinhardtAd Reinhardt is probably best known for his black paintings, which aroused as much controversy as admiration in the American art world when they were first exhibited in the 1950s. Although his ideas about art and life were often at odds with those of his contemporaries, they prefigured the ascendance of minimalism. Reinhardt's interest in the Orient and in religion, his strong convictions about the value of abstraction, and his disgust with the commercialism of the art world are as fresh and valid today as they were when he first expressed them. |
Contents
Editors Note | 3 |
A Contribution to a Journal of Some Future Art Historian 1958 | 9 |
Monologue 1970 | 23 |
Editors Note | 45 |
Statement 1958 | 51 |
ArtasArt 196263 | 57 |
Art in Art is ArtasArt 1966 | 63 |
Programs for Program Painting 1963 | 69 |
Worldliness undated | 129 |
The Artist is Responsible | 136 |
An Artist a FineArtist or FreeArtist undated | 142 |
On Standards in Art 1953 | 148 |
Editors Note | 171 |
What are Artists Crimes as Artists? 1963 | 178 |
Editors Note | 185 |
Creation as Content undated | 191 |
Editors Note | 81 |
Dark undated | 90 |
Black undated | 97 |
Notes on the Black Paintings undated | 103 |
The First Paintings | 110 |
Editors Note | 117 |
To Be Part of Things | 123 |
Editors Note | 197 |
Twelve Rules for a New Academy 1957 | 203 |
Editors Note | 211 |
Angkor and Art 1961 | 218 |
Art vs History 1966 | 224 |
Bibliography | 228 |
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