Through the open source library and reading recommendations, the ONBETON editorial team compiles an online archive of texts that we feel are relevant to the discourse of contemporary art. There are also just documents that we like very much. This list is organic, so it will grow and also be pruned from time to time.
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Ball, Hugo: Dada Manifesto (14th July 1916). [HTML]
Barry, Robert: Interview (October 12, 1969). Interviewed by Ursula Meyer, in: Ursula Meyer (ed.): Conceptual Art, New York 1972, pp. 35-41. [HTML]
Bishop, Claire: ‘Palace in Plunderland.’ Claire Bishop on the Shed, in: Artforum Vol. 57, No. 1, September 2018, pp. 93-97. [PDF]
Bishop, Claire: ‘History Depletes Itself.’ Claire Bishop on Danh Vo at the Danish Pavilion and Punta Della Dogana at the Venice Biennale 2015, in: Artforum Vol. 54, No. 1, September 2015, pp. 324-330. [PDF]
Bishop, Claire: The Social Turn. Collaboration and its Discontents, in: Artforum Vol. 44, No. 6, February 2006, pp. 178-183. [PDF]
Breton, André: Drop Everything (1922), originally published in Littérature, new series no. 2, Paris, April 1922. [HTML]
Fahlström, Öyvind: Manifesto for Concrete Poetry (1952-55), in: Öyvind Fahlström: Bord-dikter 1952-55, Stockholm 1966. [HTML]
Filliou, Robert: A Filliou Sampler, ubuclassics 2004. Originally published in 1967 as A Great Bear Pamphlet by Something Else Press, NY. [PDF]
Debord, Guy-Ernest (ed.): Internationale situationniste, Paris 1958-1969. 12 Numbers. [PDFs]
Kolbowski, Silvia: An Inadequate History of Conceptual Art, in: October, Vol. 92, Spring 2000, pp. 53-70. [PDF]
Krauss, Rosalind E.: The Originality of the Avant Garde, in: Rosalind E. Krauss: The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths, Cambridge, MA./London 1986, pp. 1-41. [PDF]
Krauss, Rosalind: Grids, in: October, Vol. 9, Summer 1979, pp. 50-64. [HTML]
Krauss, Rosalind: Sculpture in the Expanded Field, in: October, Vol. 8, Spring 1979, pp. 30-44. [PDF]
Lippard, Lucy R.: Eccentric Abstraction, in: Lucy R. Lippard: Changing. Essays in Art Criticism, New York 1971, pp. 98-111. [PDF]
Metzger, Gustav: Auto-Destructive Art Manifesto (1960). [HTML]
Picabia, Francis: Thank you, Francis! (January 1923), originally published in Littérature, new series no. 8, Paris, January 1923 as Francis Merci!. [HTML]
Picabia, Francis: Dada Manifesto (March 1920), originally published in 391, No. 12, Paris, March 1920. [HTML]
Piper, Adrian: Three Models of Art. Production System (1970). [HTML]
Schneemann, Carolee: Divisions and Rubble (1967). Notes for a performance at Judson Gallery, NY, in: Aspen, no. 6A – Manipulations, It.10. [HTML]