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 349 | 3 |
Reinhardt Paints a Picture 1965 II | 11 |
Monologue 1970 | 23 |
Illustrations | 29 |
Editors Note | 81 |
On Negation undated | 102 |
Imageless Icons undated | 108 |
Editors Note | 117 |
Editors Note | 171 |
What are Artists Crimes as Artists? 1963 | 178 |
Editors Note | 185 |
Creation as Content undated | 191 |
Editors Note | 197 |
Twelve Rules for a New Academy 1957 | 203 |
Editors Note | 211 |
Angkor and Art 1961 | 218 |
To Be Part of Things undated | 123 |
Worldliness undated | 129 |
The Artist is Responsible | 135 |
Editors Note | 147 |
Art vs History 1966 | 224 |
Bibliography | 228 |
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